Author Topic: High bicycle race at the 2011 Smithfield Nocturne (Read 13736 times)

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #50 on:** 11 June, 2011, 11:08:19 pm »

That was excellent! I was astonished at how fast the ordinarys can go at - watching it makes me want to have a go on one. Well done Charlotte - I presume the race I saw at 8.30 was the second race?
Good to see Tim, Jurek, Martin and assorted yACFers.
If I'd taken a hint from Jurek I'd have gone in by train and had more of a wander around - as it was, it was a bit too crowded to freely wander around wheeling a bike. Great to see such a cross-section of people out to see the racing

Edit: I was also astonished to see how fast a Brommie can go.

Jurek · « **Reply #51 on:** 11 June, 2011, 11:16:57 pm »

A fine evening out

StuAff · « **Reply #52 on:** 12 June, 2011, 10:09:58 am »

Quote from: Jurek on 11 June, 2011, 11:16:57 pm

A fine evening out

+1. Lovely to see you all, cracking racing.

TimO · « **Reply #53 on:** 12 June, 2011, 10:43:53 am »

So, the races managed to go ahead with no significant rain then. That's good.

Zipperhead's final photograph (the one he replaced) now shows a very yellow Ordinary. It occurs to me, that in the few Ordinaries I've ever seen, I've never seen bright colours, although to be fair, a bike as yellow as that is rare amongst more conventional safety bikes as well!

Zipperhead · « **Reply #54 on:** 12 June, 2011, 11:17:04 am »

More later, but I liked this one, Joff has the speed

TimO · « **Reply #55 on:** 12 June, 2011, 11:23:02 am »

Yes, you panned that picture just right to catch the speed.

rt · « **Reply #56 on:** 12 June, 2011, 05:24:13 pm »

I was hot on Joff's heels heading into the first downhill corner in the first race, as if it wasn't scary enough revving out he then took both feet of the peddles to get max speed, I didn't think he was going to get round it in one piece

very exciting stuff

JT · « **Reply #57 on:** 12 June, 2011, 07:17:45 pm »

Had a great evening at the Nocturne and really enjoyed the Ordinary race. Took lots of photos of Charlotte...

Untitled by Tompy, on Flickr

More here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tompy/sets/72157626944760630/

clarion · « **Reply #58 on:** 12 June, 2011, 09:55:02 pm »

Great photos! Any results?

Zipperhead · « **Reply #59 on:** 13 June, 2011, 01:21:27 am »

Joff

Darkpoint

darkpoint · « **Reply #60 on:** 13 June, 2011, 09:50:05 am »

Thanks Zipperhead, do you have a higher res one of me, as that is the best photo of me so far..

Charlotte · « **Reply #61 on:** 13 June, 2011, 02:54:57 pm »

Seen on the Metro coverage of the event:

Zipperhead · « **Reply #62 on:** 13 June, 2011, 03:24:56 pm »

Quote from: darkpoint on 13 June, 2011, 09:50:05 am

Thanks Zipperhead, do you have a higher res one of me, as that is the best photo of me so far..

If you go to the picasa album it's there as a higher res. I'll have a check for other pictures of you tonight and PM you (although I think that one was the best)

clarion · « **Reply #63 on:** 13 June, 2011, 03:42:36 pm »

Media tart again!

TimO · « **Reply #64 on:** 13 June, 2011, 04:19:38 pm »

Quote from: Metro

A competitor (name not known) lifts her bike above her head before taking part in the Brooks Penny Farthing Sprint, during the IG Markets Nocturne night time inner city cycling event, at Smithfield Market in London.

What, do these people not watch The One Show?

clarion · « **Reply #65 on:** 13 June, 2011, 04:24:32 pm »

Who is she again?

btw, is that darkpoint leading the group through the turn in the Metro's first pic?

clarion · « **Reply #66 on:** 13 June, 2011, 04:44:29 pm »

Also report & pics at this blog

Charlotte · « **Reply #67 on:** 13 June, 2011, 04:46:07 pm »

I blogged it all up, too.

clarion · « **Reply #68 on:** 13 June, 2011, 04:54:02 pm »

Well, that's the best one, natch

darkpoint · « **Reply #69 on:** 17 June, 2011, 03:52:14 pm »

The race made it onto BBCs OddBox..
BBC - Newsbeat - Radio 1's Dominic Byrne from the Chris Moyles Show with the week's weird videos

zigzag · « **Reply #70 on:** 17 June, 2011, 06:52:52 pm »

can anyone with access to sky sports 3 record the programme about smithfield nocturne?

"The event will be screened at 19:00 on Friday 17 June on Sky Sports 3, and repeated Saturday 18th June, 01:30 on Sky Sports 2."

i'd be very interested to watch it..

rt · « **Reply #71 on:** 19 June, 2011, 09:33:05 pm »

did anybody catch the sky coverage? was the high wheel race featured?

Tim Hall · « **Reply #72 on:** 26 June, 2011, 10:32:54 pm »

Somewhat belatedly, I've put a few pics up here

Equipment problems (flash not flashing, numpty operator) meant not much in the way of action shots. Can you all race again, now I've fixed the flash?

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #73 on:** 31 December, 2011, 11:59:24 pm »

Just saw a clip of the penny farthings from this event on BBC news 24's rolling round-up of the year