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Phoenix Park Race on Tuesday?

  • 07-08-2010 4:29pm
    #1
    zzzzzzzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know if this race is going ahead?


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  • #2
    zzzzzzzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz


    To answer my own question - it's not going ahead


  • #3
    niceonetom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


    Hopes raised and dashed. You bastard.


  • #4
    emtroche
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭emtroche


    aidan.offbeat wrote: »
    To answer my own question - it's not going ahead

    Anybody know why?

    To be losing races in the park is an absolute disaster.


  • #5
    SubLuminal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭SubLuminal


    Probably because there are too many fat stupid annoying pedestrians in the cycle lanes!


  • #6
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    They don't race in the cycle lanes


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  • #7
    Gavin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭Gavin


    It's a bit odd, there are regular duathalons held there


  • #8
    levitronix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭levitronix


    If they just called it a "fred-athon race" there would be no problems

    I dont get why the park officals dont like bike racing, im wondering is there some pay off .. becasue i think the duathlons cost around 20 euro and they attract well more people than the bike race at 10 euro a head ?


  • #9
    emtroche
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭emtroche


    levitronix wrote: »
    I dont get why the park officals dont like bike racing, im wondering is there some pay off .. becasue i think the duathlons cost around 20 euro and they attract well more people than the bike race at 10 euro a head ?

    I dont know what the craic is but its not good.

    When i was marshaliing at one of the races last year i ended up talking to a guy who actually lives in a house towards the bottom of the military road. Didnt even know it existed. And he started banging on to me about all the events that are held in the park and how inconvenient it is for him!! I was gobsmacked to be honest! I dont know who he was or how he ended up living there but i thought he was showing some serious neck to be complaining like that!

    At the end of the day it's a park for the people. Thats what it was designed for and thats what it should be used for. In my mind it's 1 of the foundation stones of irish cycling along with the Ras and to lose it would be tragedy.


  • #10
    funkyjebus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭funkyjebus


    There was something cycling races held there last wednesday, saw them walking the dog. or was it these dualathons gavin is talking about. What are these, how do get involved, looks fun.


  • #11
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Maybe they don't like bunch cycling?


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  • #12
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    We has permission almost sorted for a Cross race there last winter but permission was refused. There are people or persons in power who want no bike race's at all in the park :mad:


  • #13
    GlennaMaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭GlennaMaddy


    Might be cancelled for the same reason as the Andy Mc Mahon Memorial ( more and more requirements from the park authorities -marshals, portaloos and so on).


  • #14
    emtroche
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭emtroche


    I think it's something that cycling ireland should make a stand on.

    Not fair to be leaving everything to the same people all the time.


  • #15
    Diarmuid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    I think a concerted effort to raise this issue might be in order, I'll do some homework on it tomorrow , names of decision makers esp


  • #16
    emtroche
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭emtroche


    Diarmuid wrote: »
    I think a concerted effort to raise this issue might be in order, I'll do some homework on it tomorrow , names of decision makers esp

    Well you have my backing anyway.


  • #17
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    emtroche wrote: »
    Well you have my backing anyway.

    +1


  • #18
    100Suns
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 415 ✭✭100Suns


    I blame Lance Armstrong. He even painted his name on the road. Gurrier.


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