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Three rounds left to claim place in Rollapaluza National Series finale in London on Good Friday (+ video)

Some impressive times being set in annual hunt for fastest men and women on the rollers

There are just three qualifying rounds in what Rollapaluza terms its “annual hunt for the King of Spin and Queen of Cadence,” and if a video released of the recent heat in Birmingham is anything to go by, the action on the rollers in the 2012 editiof the National Series is as frantic and hard fought as ever.

The rounds in Birmingham, Eastbourne, Leeds and London have been and gone, but with rounds remaining in Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow, it’s not too late to try for a place in the season’s Grand Finale at the Half Moon Pub in London’s Herne Hill on Good Friday, 6 April – the same day, of course, that the venue hosts its traditional Easter track meet.

Setting the pace at the moment among the men is BMX rider Rob Reed (pictured), who it’s fair to say worked up a fair old sweat on his way to setting a time of 19.63 seconds for 500 metres in London. The women’s leaderboard, meanwhile, is led by Rachel Bamford, who clocked 23.9 seconds in the Leeds round.

Full details of the remaining rounds plus qualifiers to date – including those from Birmingham, shown in the video below – can be found on the Rollapaluza website.

Rollapaluza Birmingham 2012 from Matthew Cox FUAE on Vimeo.

 

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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