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IVCA race canceled this Sunday

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    #2
    J Madone
    Registered Users Posts: 623 ✭✭✭J Madone


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Just heard this and thought of this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c5fts7bj-so

    Hope its not true!


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    lennymc
    Registered Users Posts: 6,458 ✭✭✭lennymc


    thats a pity.


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    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Where was it be be held, and why is it being cancelled?


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    #5
    lennymc
    Registered Users Posts: 6,458 ✭✭✭lennymc


    up around summerhill


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    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    Where was it be be held, and why is it being cancelled?

    Batterstown/green sheds and email didn't say but have my suspicions ....


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    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,212 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Run a "training Spin" instead?


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    #8
    Inquitus
    Registered Users Posts: 13,729 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Are the problems spreading from Fingal to Meath?


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    #9
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    I'm done with road cycling. I'm now a mountainbiker. F&*% you all roadies, I'm hitting the trails.


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    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    This isn't good. Good few club leagues use various circuits out around that general area :(


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    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    wirelessdude01 wrote: »
    This isn't good. Good few club leagues use various circuits out around that general area :(

    Not any more they don't !


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    brasshead
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭brasshead


    very depressing. Sounds like things are going to get worse before they get better in respect to racing on open roads.

    Here's hoping a solution can be found.


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    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,212 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    brasshead wrote: »
    very depressing. Sounds like things are going to get worse before they get better in respect to racing on open roads.

    I'm not as optimistic as you!


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    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    Velodrome ... the garda are just making it easier for their riders to become trackies ;)


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    lennymc
    Registered Users Posts: 6,458 ✭✭✭lennymc


    Caroline_ie wrote: »
    Velodrome ... the garda are just making it easier for their riders to become trackies ;)

    sssssshhhhhhh. Dont tell them!


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    wirelessdude01
    Registered Users Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭wirelessdude01


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Not any more they don't !

    Think we still are, well we were still last I heard a few weeks ago.


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    brasshead
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭brasshead


    Maybe IVCA should book Mondello for a few races


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    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Well, at least, Cycling Ireland can't be blamed for this.


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    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Caroline_ie wrote: »
    I'm done with road cycling. I'm now a mountainbiker. F&*% you all roadies, I'm hitting the trails.

    Now you'll just have to deal with Coillte. Best of luck with that.


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    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,212 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    brasshead wrote: »
    Maybe IVCA should book Mondello for a few races

    Of Maybe the Phoenix Park?


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    QueensGael
    Registered Users Posts: 694 ✭✭✭QueensGael


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Of Maybe the Phoenix Park?

    Unlikely, the OPW hasn't been too keen on bike racing in the park for some years now. Duathlons are allowed, but not road racing.


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    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,212 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    QueensGael wrote: »
    Unlikely, the OPW hasn't been too keen on bike racing in the park for some years now. Duathlons are allowed, but not road racing.

    Why? Health and Safety?

    This Health and Safety S**te is getting out of hand! :mad:


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    QueensGael
    Registered Users Posts: 694 ✭✭✭QueensGael


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Why? Health and Safety?

    This Health and Safety S**te is getting out of hand! :mad:

    They're concerned about overuse of the park, from what I heard


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    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    QueensGael wrote: »
    Unlikely, the OPW hasn't been too keen on bike racing in the park for some years now. Duathlons are allowed, but not road racing.

    Duathlons but only on poxy sh1tty new courses that do not require any real road closuures.


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    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    QueensGael wrote: »
    They're concerned about overuse of the park, from what I heard

    More the road closures and "what about the poor people that have to drive through the park"


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    Leroy42
    Registered Users Posts: 15,480 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Ireland is going the way of the UK, in that the move is towards getting rid of Open road racing altogether. Racing will only take place on closed roads (so only the top events) or in Mondello etc.

    It seems that running events are welcomed but cyclists are to be shunned and moved off the roads.

    Part of the blame for this has to lie in the fact that in many races the participants act as if they are on closed roads. CI/Race comms should have been stricter-sooner and handed out bans.

    The recent reaction to having in race videos posted on youtube was to ensure that no videos were allowed, rather than dealing with the issue of racers breaking the rules.

    In saying that, I don't believe that anything would have really helped, but might have delayed the inevitable. There is clearly an anti-cycling movement amongst many motorist, fuelled by the massive increase in the levels over the last few years and this is an area over which they can exert control.


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    Diarmuid
    Registered Users Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    Leroy42 wrote: »
    Part of the blame for this has to lie in the fact that in many races the participants act as if they are on closed roads. CI/Race comms should have been stricter-sooner and handed out bans.

    The recent reaction to having in race videos posted on youtube was to ensure that no videos were allowed, rather than dealing with the issue of racers breaking the rules.

    Anything to back up that claim or are you speculating?

    I doubt the recent issues in Finglas which seem to be spreading are related to either of those claims. That's not to say they may contribute in the future but claiming the current situation is even partly due to these issues, is wrong, IMHO.


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    morana
    Registered Users Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭morana


    Leroy42 wrote: »

    The recent reaction to having in race videos posted on youtube was to ensure that no videos were allowed, rather than dealing with the issue of racers breaking the rules.
    Diarmuid wrote: »
    Anything to back up that claim or are you speculating?

    I would back that up as I highlighted to CI, as others did and they had seen it but it wasnt a great reply I got.

    anyway the situation in Fingal isn't associated to this its something that just mushroomed from an incident, there will be dark days ahead for RR if the vets are off.

    Who will be cancelled next.......?


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    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,212 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    QueensGael wrote: »
    They're concerned about overuse of the park, from what I heard

    IMO a bike race in the park would result in less disruption then the current events that are run there.


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    QueensGael
    Registered Users Posts: 694 ✭✭✭QueensGael


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    IMO a bike race in the park would result in less disruption then the current events that are run there.

    I don't disagree - I avoid the PP during events like Bloom where people will take you out in order to get at a bit of car parking


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    07Lapierre
    Registered Users Posts: 8,212 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Swordscc considered this as a possible circuit in the PP.

    No diversions needed on Chesterfield ave. and both entrances to the park on the Chapelizod Rd are easily diverted....some day maybe..

    https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/53.3561132,-6.3246672/53.3488476,-6.3129871/53.3470346,-6.3295696/53.349289,-6.3338612/53.3558537,-6.3248339/@53.351966,-6.3348053,15z/am=t/data=!4m2!4m1!3e1


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