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Spectators watch the action at a Tour Fan Park (©tourdefrancefanpark.co.uk)Tour de France Fan Parks want 7 cycling superfan ambassadors
Fancy helping out at the Tour de France Fan Parks this summer? They’re looking for seven cycling super fans to join their team of Fan Park Ambassadors and help people get into the spirit of the Tour de France.
We’ve mentioned Tour de France Fan Parks a couple of times; they’re free, open-air venues where you can get together with fellow bike fans and watch the Tour on a big screen and take part in a range of Tour-related activities.
To help rev up the Fan Park atmosphere, and spread the word the team behind the Fan Parks will create 21 ambassador roles, for cyclists drawn from all walks of life: cycling fans in the public eye, elite cyclists and members of the public.
Seven ambassadors will be chosen from members of the public who apply through an app on the Fan Parks’ Facebook page.
Fan Parks organisers say they’re looking for “cycling fans whose passion for the sport will come shining through, whose stories about their own cycling will resonate with every type of cycling fan and who will tell the story of the Fan Parks and the Tour itself through blog posts, social media updates and interviews.”
For your truble, you’ll get to be a VIP at the Fan Park of your choice, a pair of Oakley sunglasses, a 12-point fitness ‘MOT’ healthcheck at a Nuffield Health gym and a chance to tell Fan Park audiences your cycling stories through a blog on the Fan Park’s website.
If that sounds good to you, get yourself over to the Fan Parks Facebook page and fill in the form.
The Tour de France Fan Parks will be staged at the following venues:
- West Park Stray, Harrogate: July 3, 4, 5 and 6
- Green Park, London: July 4 (evening), 5, 6 and 7
- International Quarter, Olympic Park, London: July 5, 6, 7
- Trafalgar Square, London: July 5, 6, 7
- Canary Wharf, London: July 24, 25, 26 and 27
John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
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I dont get the logic for the location of some of these fan parks. There is a massive bowl that would be perfect for a fan park next to the finishing line in Sheffield. Yet where's our nearest fan park? Harrogate!!
People in sheffield hear about all the yellow marked routes around the area and here we have... nothing! All the yorkshire festival stuff celebrating the TdF coming to yorkshire and we have such a small involvement that there is no point at all! Pretty standard stuff to be honest.
Nice mix of locations there, accurately reflecting the fact that the race spends two days in Yorkshire and a few minutes in London...
Maybe a double act of Will.i.am and Lance - guaranteed 'dope' rhymes !