The best Mountain Bike series in the country is back
From http://www.beastway.com/series2007/index.html:
"Beastway will be held at Hainault Country Park, a move forced on us with the destruction of Eastway Cycle Circuit for the 2012 Olympics
It's all change for us at the Structureless Tyranny for starters where are we racing? Although we are heartbroken to lose Eastway we move on (hoping to return should the 'suits' start listening) with a new venue at Hainault Country Park.
We have been made very welcome at Hainault Country Park and we will offer as ever top racing held in a friendly spirit. The course will feature woodland (real trees!), grassland and hills, and you can rest assured that our team will be working to make the courses interesting to ride.
Numbers maybe down as the many, many London based riders may find it hard to get there after work - Transport for London have a Journey Planner which despite draconian restrictions on Bikes, show tube, bus and train information. We hope you can make it!
- There are showers, changing facilities, toilets and a canteen.
- The Hainault Forest Country Park makes a £2 pay & display charge for car parking.
Entry on the line only. Dates 2007: Every Wednesday at 7.30 from May 16 to July 25 with youth cats going at 8pm".
From Bill Wright:
"[color=blue]We'd be really grateful if the Agreeables could run one night of the series again. As before, we would need around 10 people - 3 or 4 for lapscoring and 6 or 7 for marshalling. It helps us if they can arrive by about 6.45pm so that we have time to get people in position before the race starts. If there is anyone who can be free during the afternoon to help mark out the course, that would help us even more. We start coursemarking at about 3pm.
The event we'd like you to cover, if possible is the one on July 18th (Wednesday) [/color]- ie week 8 of the series. This isn't set in stone, so if another date would be easier to get your members to, please say so and we'll try to move other clubs around if possible. If you think you may not be able to get all 10 people, then let us know - we could put you with another club if you like. As in previous years we will be happy to make a donation to your club for your efforts (nb £150 last year)".
The exact address for the venue is Hainault Forest Country Park, Romford Road, Hainault IG7 4QN if you want to check it out on a mapsite.
It is a further 10-odd miles from London than Eastway, and you can get there by bike. By car from Croydon via the M25, it is a 40-mile drive.
Grahame who is a member of the "Beastway Tyranny" and myself would most probably organise drives from the Croydon area leaving at around 5-5.30, so could take 3 to 4 volunteers each in our car. If you were driving yourself we'd be covering your parking and Dartford crossing costs, and like last year you'd be offered sandwiches.
I know it is still early and a bigger commitment to ask for than when the series was held at Eastway, but if you do intend to give a hand, even if you can't confirm until later in the year, please post here or contact me by PM so that I can have a feel for volunteership, and let Bill know if Addiscombe can pull it off (of course we can!
).
Thanks
Sylvain
(Beastway promotion coordinator)
If you want to read about last year's promotion:
http://www.addiscombe.org/members/phpBB ... t=beastway
Elliott's montage:
[img]http://www.hill193.co.uk/bikes/beastway_260706/masters_start_small.gif[/img]
