Etwas später als gedacht, aber ab sofort habt ihr die Möglichkeit bis Freitag den 1.8.2014 das neue GoodTimesRoll Shortsleeve Jersey und wenn ihr wollt die dazu passende Bib Short zu bestellen. Die Sachen werden bei dem selben Anbieter produziert der auch unsere Team Jerseys gemacht hat und diese sind allererste Sahne. Die drei Rückentaschen werden durch eine Reißverschlusstasche ergänzt in der ihr eure Schlüssel oder andere wichtige Habseligkeiten sicher unterbringen könnt.

Die Preise sehen wie folgt aus:

Kurzarm Trikot Club Cut: 55 €
Kurzarm Trikot Race Cut: 70 €

Bib Short Club Cut: 55 €
Bib Short Race Cut:  70 €

Set Club Cut: 100 €
Set Race Cut: 130 €

Es wird nur eine Bestellung gemacht, soll heissen das ich keine Trikots zurücknehmen und umtauschen kann. Die genauen Angaben zu den Größen und Schnitten findet ihr hier (Club Cut) und hier (Race Cut). Die Zahlung muss vorab geleistet werden und bis Freitag den 01.08.2014 bei mir eingegangen sein. Die Produktionszeit beträgt 5-6 Wochen somit werden die Sachen voraussichtlich in der ersten oder zweiten September Woche ausgeliefert.

Bei Fragen oder Interesse schickt mir bitte eine Nachricht an chris@goodtimesroll.cc

Why you should ride Maxxis Radiale 23C on a Fixed Crit Bike?

I first used this model on the Last Man Standing in Berlin Fixed Days 2014. So, just two hours before the race I found myself changing my old tires to these just arrived Maxxis Radiale 23C.

I just did the warm-up with them and felt that there was something different. Similar to the first day you ride tubeless on your MTB, this sense of floating. But the best thing came later: the race started and with really little or none warming-up, after a couple of heavy hairpins I just learnt those tires had no limit. The only limit is the pedal touching ground!

The tires give you a lot of control, they are stiff and strong and allow you to do really smooth cornering and continuous direction changes. This is exactly what you need for fixed criteriums: quick accelerations, heavy braking and continuous cornering. To get the same amount of grip with other tires you would choose soft rubber compounds, usually built in high performance road tires (even tubulars) that tend to be light, a high bet that might lead you to a flat tire in the middle of that race you were just enjoying really much. On the other hand, you could choose a stiffer tire with harder compounds which will penalize your wheels too much in weight, grip, smoothness and control. The Radiales 23C is an all the best in one!

I used to ride a supermoto bike – saving all the obvious differences- the feeling that the Radiales 23C give you on a criterium race bicycle is quite similar, at the end they are using the same technology to build them, the radial construction. Moreover, they are dynamic and loose when you are rolling at high speed, the day before writing this review I found myself in a quick training session with a big group of cyclists and the low rolling resistance they offer at 40 km/h is pretty amazing.

The last thing to consider is their readiness for wet conditions – two of the last 3 Red Hooks happened with rainy weather- I would say they handle wet conditions pretty good, with their natural limitations, but still you can race confident.

To sum up, I think these tires are a must and make a real difference in this cycling discipline. They are hard racers and respond really good to aggressive styles, in my opinion they are the best fit for this racing style.

Es wurde von den Cykeln Jungs ja über längere Zeit angekündigt, aber seit dem Wochenende ist die neue Website endlich live. Vorerst müsst ihr euch allerdings mit der italienischen Version begnügen, ich denke dass aber bald eine englische Version der Seite verfügbar sein wird. Mit dem Launch der Seite sind auch die ersten Merchandise Artikel erhältlich, leider funktioniert die download Funktion der bereits veröffentlichten Ausgaben noch nicht. Dennoch darf man gespannt sein, wie sich das Cykeln Magazine weiterhin entwickeln wird!

Last weekend we went to take a look at 24Hours roadrace in the village of Kelheim in Bavaria. Some of the best German amateur teams started the race, but there was also much more than racing going on there.

We knew about that race because last year one of our riders took the start and experienced how hard it could be, so we were really looking forward to live the experience from an external point of view. It was also a party for us since our closest friends there happened to become the team winners for masculine and feminine categories, Merkur Team and Sparkasse Kelheim respectively.

The atmosphere in there is quite awesome: cyclists arrive – and leave- to the Change zone passing through a massive tent full of people drinking beer who are cheered up by a really good DJ, and he knows how to motivate also the people who either arrives exhausted from the bike or is getting ready to go. This party is extended until the 23:00 in the night and then the party starts some kilometers away in the middle of the track at the top of the main uphill. That is so cool, the riders are in the middle of their voluntary torture -around 12 hours- and all the people up there are making party and cheering up every single participant!

In the middle of the night we stayed with the girls of the Sparkasse Kelheim Team in their Headquarters, for some of them their first time in this race and of course having trouble with sleep and wondering why they were there!

But when the daylight came again, riders already now that the end is coming, we had another chance to get to know some different stories that where going on in that race – a 83 years old man doing the 24H alone, some guys which attend every single year dressed up, some other with old Miele bikes and outfit, some ONG fund raisers racing with tandem …

All in all, this is a really nice cycling event – and the organization is quite professional – in which everyone can take part, top racers, hobby riders, party makers or just whoever willing to challenge himself. We want to congratulate each of the participants, we know how hard this race and how satisfying the last hour until the end is!

Check the full picture album here or here

Nette 88 Seiten hat mein Kumpel Constantin Gerlach da zusammengebracht. In einer Art Fotobuch mit wenigen Texten, dafür um so schöneren Bildern lässt er euch an seinem 276Km langen Urlaub mit dem Rad teilhaben. Zu finden ist das ganze hier.

Das kleine Hamburger Brand “Ahrberg – Cycling Apparel” ruft am 19.7.2014 zu der “Im Zirkel” Tour. Gefahren werden 200KM rund um Hamburg mit anschließendem Treffen am Strand um den Tag entspannt ausklingen zu lassen. Hört sich auf jeden Fall mal interessant an, mal sehen ob es einen oder mehrere von uns zu der Tour verschlägt. Weitere Infos zu der Tour, dem Ablauf etc. findet ihr hier.