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Tour of Britain 2008

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:34 pm

[url]http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/therace_stage_pages/2008_route.asp[/url]

Sat 6 presidents 10
Sun 7 September Start in London. NOTE: SCCU 25
Mon 8 September - SOUTH EAST???????? :roll:
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby Elliot M » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:24 pm

MK and Newbury are in the North aren't they? or Midlands at least.
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby Sarah_M » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:38 pm

Great :D Can't wait to watch this!
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby Jon H » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:23 pm

[quote="mrP(Boonen)VT"]Sat 6 presidents 10


Sat 6th is our Open 10, not the President's 10, I wonder if any ToB contenders need a warm-up? Cancellara at Holmwood would draw a crowd. :D
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby adrian » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:51 pm

[quote="Elliot M"]MK and Newbury are in the North aren't they? or Midlands at least.

Not exactly. MK is in Bucks, and Newbury is in Berks - both are therefore in the Home Counties, but wouldn't be anyone's idea of south-east England. Newbury in particular is borderline West Country.
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby Andrew G » Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:59 pm

[quote="Jon Hemming"][quote="mrP(Boonen)VT"]Sat 6 presidents 10


Sat 6th is our Open 10, not the President's 10, I wonder if any ToB contenders need a warm-up? Cancellara at Holmwood would draw a crowd. :D

Good thinking.

An idea has formulated, wait until the full team list is out then write to the teams and see if any of the riders would make an appearance. A bit of PR for the team, one of the Brits maybe to ride the 10 - just ride around it and they'd not harm themselves before the start in London.

Ask them to ride in Addiscombe colours :D (well jersey they can keep their team shorts for the sponsors), but let them use a following car from their team. Not legal but I'm sure they won't mind a ban from riding CTT events for a while :lol: . Not exactly going to impact their life and that way they'd have protection from other traffic.

Plenty of pictures in the press, online, and possibly a spot on the TV with the BBC coverage. Publicity for the team involved as the goodest of good eggs, and for the mighty Addiscombe with the rider in ACC kit. 8)

Okay there's no chance of it happening but it was a nice little dream to tide me over 'til hometime.
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby adrian » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:35 pm

It's crazy, but it might just work.

Would it help if we wrote in the language of each team, where possible? I could do Spanish and Dutch; elsewhere in the club I'm sure we've got French and Italian covered.
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby Dominic » Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:22 pm

Be interesting to see how many people would volunteer to marshal :D
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby MJ_1993 » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:26 pm

Okay, who I could contact to race at the presidents 10:

Dean Downing (seems well allright)
Russell Downing
Chris Newton
Possibly persuade Peter Luttenburger to get Riis to send a rider
I cant remember all off the top of my head.
On Barloworld's website they have the addresses of their riders, so Geraint Thomas?
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby Elliot M » Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:07 pm

[quote="adrian"][quote="Elliot M"]MK and Newbury are in the North aren't they? or Midlands at least.

Not exactly. MK is in Bucks, and Newbury is in Berks - both are therefore in the Home Counties, but wouldn't be anyone's idea of south-east England. Newbury in particular is borderline West Country.


i was joking!
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby adrian » Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:38 pm

[quote="Elliot M"][quote="adrian"][quote="Elliot M"]MK and Newbury are in the North aren't they? or Midlands at least.

Not exactly. MK is in Bucks, and Newbury is in Berks - both are therefore in the Home Counties, but wouldn't be anyone's idea of south-east England. Newbury in particular is borderline West Country.


i was joking!

Sorry. Could you label them more clearly in future? :wink:
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:41 pm

So are the TOB organisers if they think that is South East England :roll:
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby Snoop Doug » Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:30 pm

[quote="Dominic"]Be interesting to see how many people would volunteer to marshal :D


Gawd Bless Ya Dominic - I love it 8) 8) 8)
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Re: Tour of Britain 2008

Postby MJ_1993 » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:08 pm

Peter Luttenburger, said he'll try and he gave the contact details of the CSC person who is in charge of activites and things of this sort. But he did say that CSC is quite disciplined and these sort of things arent greeted with open arms.

I'll pass them on to whoever wants to invite a CSC rider to the presidents 10.
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