Cycling Festival and Racing in Finsbury Park tomorrow

mikep · June 2013

From around noon there's going to be a cycling festival featuring local shops, cycling clubs & groups and a full set of races. Apparently the racing is going to be marshalled with motorbike outriders, and will be conducted on the inner loop road of the park.<div><br></div><div>The weather was looking ropey for tomorrow, but it appears to have arrived today, and actually tomorrow is looking to be coolish, but not windy and no rain. Fingers crossed.</div><div><br></div><div>Apparently there used to be bike racing in the park, so it's good to see it back. South London has a great racing scene based around Crystal Palace and Herne Hill, it's nice to see N4 representing for the North.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=2678&pictureid=15652"></div>

ChangN4N6 · June 2013

Not heard about this. Jonty Joyce n me will be there in our best lycra Chang

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mikep · June 2013

There was a British Cycling Commissaire there who cancelled the races due to "safety concerns" apparently a cyclist who had nothing whatsoever to do with the races hit a bollard and needed medical attention. There are people saying that the individual had been drinking.<div><br>Captain Clipboard decided that was sufficient reason to cancel the races. I'll be writing to British Cycling (I'm a member) to complain. If they weren't happy about the safety situation then why wasn't it addressed in advance?</div>

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krappyrubsnif · June 2013

Nothing like Elf n Safety to make you lose the will to live.<br><br>I was on the South Downs yesterday (a tad blowy) and when I arrived at the car park at Ditchling Beacon I did briefly consider getting a bus back to Brighton. I talked to a bloke sitting in a Brighton Council car reading the paper. It turned out he was a bus driver and his sole task on a Saturday was to sit up there all day waiting for the hourly bus, then spend 30 seconds helping it reverse into the bus bay. (Hardly a manoeuvre worthy of Top Gear.) Elf n Safety. Then back to the paper for an hour.<br><br>So that's where Brighton ratepayers money goes. I began to wonder if someone out there would prevent me walking further just in case I might get blown over by the wind and stub my toe.<br><br>Who makes these rules up? What ludicrous Elf n Safety malarkey do they get up to in Haringay?<br>

Stella · June 2013

'Twasn't me. The drunkert, that is. :-)<br><br>Didn't even know about this all. Tut tut. Me, who's constantly going on about how much I love riding my racer. <br>

Mirandola · June 2013

Wasn't me either. Might not be health and safety at all: http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/myth-busting.htm

ActionVerb · June 2013

<a href="http://ukcyclesport.com/results/road-racing/item/8830-finsbury-pk-crits-festival-of-cycling-2013">http://ukcyclesport.com/results/road-racing/item/8830-finsbury-pk-crits-festival-of-cycling-2013</a><div><br></div><div>The U12s race went ahead.</div>

mikep · June 2013

This wasn't anything to do with the local councils. <div><br></div><div>It was cancelled by the representative of British Cycling, the governing body that UK race organisers belong too.</div>

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