Goldsprint

A Goldsprint is a bicycle rollers racing and social event. Riders on stationary bikes compete against each other in front of a crowd of cheering friends.

While roller racing in general can use any type of bicycle and there are variations on the set-up depending on the type of rollers used and whether the front wheel is engaged or fixed, goldsprints generally use one form of setup. As with roller racing in general, the rollers are in turn attached to a device that measures distance and can display the progress of the riders. Goldsprints also feature modern 2D and 3D visualizations.

Roller racing has a long history going back to the beginning of cycling, however Goldsprints are closely related to bicycle messenger culture. It began in Zurich, Switzerland. The name and the event was founded in 1997 by Adrien Weber who is a passionate cyclist and owner of the only brewery Turbinenbräu in Zurich. The event is named after their Beer Brand "Gold-Sprint". The Idea was later adapted by People who were part of the 1999 Cycle Messanger World Championships. Mike Dee and Hodari De Palm debuted their current set up at 2005's Cycle Messenger World Championships in New York and expanded to six American cities: NYC, Philly, DC, Boston, Baltimore, and Las Vegas. They created the first GoldSprints Series, which was started Halloween 2006 in New York City.

[http://www.bikecult.com/works/rollers.html Gallery of various classic and modern roller racing machines] .

Cities

Other cities also have similar goldsprints set-ups:

* Seattle
* Houston
* Boston
* New York
* Toronto
* Salt Lake City
* Chicago
* Cincinnati
* Minneapolis
* London
* San Francisco
* Bozeman
* New Orleans

ee also

* Roller racing

External links

* [http://www.turbinenbraeu.ch Zurich
* http://www.velozueri.ch/goldsprint_06.htm Zurich
* [http://www.rollapaluza.com Rollapaluza] - Roller Racing in: London
* [http://www.avacbbracing.com/events.html Monday Night Gold Sprints] - Gold Sprints in Seattle
* [http://www.saltcitysprints.com Salt City Sprints] - Gold Sprints in: Salt Lake City
* [http://goldsprintsnyc.com/ NYC GoldSprints] - Gold Sprints in: New York City
* [http://www.myspace.com/coldsprints ColdSprints] - Gold Sprints in Minneapolis
* [http://www.opensprints.com/ OpenSprints] - Open Source software and hardware for Gold Sprints
* [http://thebozemanfix.blogspot.com/ RockySprints] - GoldSprints in Bozeman, Montana
* [http://www.nolabikerace.com/goldsprints/ N.O.Sprints] OpenSprints in New Orleans
* [http://www.rollerrace.com/ Southern California Roller Racing] Coming soon to San Diego and Los Angeles San Diego Los Angeles
* [http://thegearjunkie.com/feature-story-goldsprints Minneapolis Star Tribune article and video on Goldsprints at Grumpy's]