Track Racing from now to the end of 2016

[Firestorm]

Off to the six day tomorrow and the London Champions league in december
really looking forward to it

 

[brommers]

Are they making these races up in London as they go along?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Looks like they have tapped someone's leccy and running the lights on council estate mode

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Good to see derny racing

 

[Firestorm]

Great nights entertainment
But a lot of very confused punters appeared to leave with three races to go in the belief that Cav and wiggins had finished for the night

 

[Vapin' Joe]

What a pile of poo. As a spectator from the old Skol sixes from the late sixties and the seventies I could not believe how dumbed down the whole thing has become, it's more like Dancing on Ice than a professional sport. A DJ belting out crap music and a laser light show, plus a load of disjointed events on the track. WTF? It's supposed to be a bike race, you don't need all the lightweight froth.

The old sixes used to start with a 45 minute Madison, then the various points races, the Derny which used to have riders racing as teams with a hand sling change over at half way, the Elimination race and several other events and finish with a one hour Madison. It was absorbing stuff, but I couldn't stick this.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The old sixes used to start with a 45 minute Madison

Tonight's coverage has started with a Madison, aka 45 minutes of listening to Carlton waffling pish

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Great effort by Wiggins and Cav to gain the lap

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Great effort by Wiggins and Cav to gain the lap

I'm going mad, I think. I could have sworn I saw this race yesterday.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm going mad, I think. I could have sworn I saw this race yesterday.

I am imagining that getting pissed up at a 6 Day event might result in "Did we not just watch this" thoughts every night.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I am imagining that getting pissed up at a 6 Day event might result in "Did we not just watch this" thoughts every night.

It wasn't until Cav's mechanical that I actually believed that it was live.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Decent race that

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Yet more evidence that on bike cameras are totally fecking pointless.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Sprinting in threes is much more fun.

Yet more evidence that on bike cameras are totally fecking pointless.

That's partly the editor's fault. I'd have like to watch Rotherham catching the 2 riders ahead but they switched to another camera.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Sprinting in threes is much more fun.

That's partly the editor's fault. I'd have like to watch Rotherham catching the 2 riders ahead but they switched to another camera.

Sprinting in 3s is more fun, it was the only time I ever won races as I was always the 3rd best rider in a race so the other 2 riders sometimes didn't pay proper attention and I fecked off as they looked at each other

No matter what the edit, on bike cameras are pointless. The only way they could make it interesting is if they got Ronnie Pickering to ride a derny.