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Skyride Plymouth With Jonathan Tiernan-Locke

  Yet again we had a top professional cyclist grace our roller rigs, Jonathan Tiernan-Locke was our guest at the Plymouth Skyride, Jonathan was born in Plymouth and his first club was the Mid Devon Cycling Club so he learnt … Continue reading

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Spin London Urban Bike Show

  First impression of the Spin London Urban Bike Show was… Great venue much fresher than say the Excel Centre, we were placed upstairs next to the DJ and the bar, so felt right at home there. The show was … Continue reading

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Nino Schurter World Champion races Rollapaluza Germany

Swiss mountian bike star Nino Schurter hashad an incredible year, winning the world cup, silver medal at the Olympics and yesterday securing his second world champion title. Only ten days ago, no doubt as part of his World’s preparation, Nino … Continue reading

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Rollapaluza ‘The Cycle Show’ Finale.

As many of you may have seen, Rollapaluza has been a feature on ‘The Cycle Show’ (ITV4 8pm Mondays) for the last eight weeks.  Similar to Top Gears Hot Lap, each week Rollapaluza has had two guests from the show … Continue reading

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We ride Arenberg Cobbles.

Winston grabbed the opportunity to ride the famous section of cobbles from the upcoming Paris Roubaix. After a 9 hour drive en route for the first event of Rollapaluza France. Bored in my Etap Hotel Box room, after a cheap … Continue reading

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Steve Jackson : Rollapaluza Portraits

Some time ago pro photog Steve Jackson snapped some ace portraits of Rollapaluza racers at our National finals, within 30 seconds of completing a race. We’d nearly forgotten about them but stumbled across them here. Below is the winner that … Continue reading

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VIDEO: Ravito Rouleaux Sprint at Veloscope, Toulouse, France

Possibly the nicest video of a Rollpalauza event ever, big thanks to Ravito for inviting us and Veloscope for hosting us.   Share and Enjoy:

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Rollapaluza crew on minidrome in France

Our recent job in France meant we got to try this minidrome at Veloscope, near Toulouse in France…and were shown up by the well-practised locals!   Shows Jake of Rollapaluza UK’s first ever ride on any track, Winston’s first minidrome … Continue reading

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Geoff Waugh : Knog Muddy Hell Portraits

Although we didn’t realise it at the time we were lucky to have legendary sports and cycling photographer Geoff Waugh turn up at Knog Muddy Hell. We’ve only just seen this mazing image featuring Rollapaluza crew members and some of … Continue reading

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Dean and Russ Downing organise charity Rollapaluza and Sportive weekend

  The Downing brothers’ Out of the Saddle Club has teamed up with the Sheffield-based Claremont Sports Medicine Centre to organise a weekend of roller racing and sportive riding in support of the Danny Porter Foundation. Brothers Downing:   Rollapaluza … Continue reading

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Ed Clancy Races Rollapaluza

Olympic Gold Medallist and three-time World team-pursuit champion, sets fast time on the Rollapaluza rigs. Ed on a kid’s bike before his winning ride on the adult bikes. Ed was our guest coach at the EDF energy games, and even … Continue reading

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Rollapaluza Antwerp

What a weekend in Belgium! Rollapaluza Germany met Rollapaluza UK to jointly run Rollapaluza’s first ever event in a castle! Once again we were hosted by the great guys at Fixerati this time as part of a weekend “fixed festival” … Continue reading

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Page three Stunna vs How Clean is Your House on Rollapaluza

Unbelieveable but true, the UK’s most famous glamour model challenged TV’s Kim Woodburn to a Rollapaluza race, whilst visiting the Bridgestone Eco Rally. Despite Sam’s attempts at cheating she won the race on the kid’s bikes in a time that … Continue reading

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Velo Foto : Exhibition at Suka Sport in Soho

Rolla Buddy Chris Keller Jackson of Crank Photo has an exhbition of his fine cycling photos over the next couple of weeks (launch tonight) at Suka Sport in London’s Soho district. Chris has been a long time supporter of Rollapaluza … Continue reading

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Brompton Oratory : Jacket

Despite Caspar’s repuation as a hell-raising party animal, we do get the occasional invite to industry launches and tonight’s was somewhat special, under heavy skies (which don’t bode well for tomorrow’s Urban Hill Climb) London’s Brompton cycles held the launch … Continue reading

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