First glimpse of riders trying out the new track here
Impressive huh? Okay, there’s a bit of final spit ‘n’ polish but it makes you proud to be British doesn’t it.
Work on 2012 BMX track completed years ahead of schedule
Thu, Mar 26, 2009 23:44
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mark1a 4 minutes ago
@Ryan Mallon if it’s a link to road collision reporting guidelines, don’t bother, everyone’s seen it.
mitsky 1 hour ago
@Ryan Mallon Please can my pending comment be authorised.
ChrisA 3 hours ago
@imajez Not sure I follow your argument. My point was that I personally do not use dirt tracks, designated as a footpath, where I am going to rip up the surface. I am less concerned with riding on hard pack tracks and surfaced roads that are designated as footpaths. That said, I do ride sedately and for several years accompanied by my small children. The horse thing is a bit of a red herring. In the old days the rich landowners would have been among the few that rode. Most people would have walked.
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@chrisonabike You missed registering with DVLA. (Same paperwork as for a new car it appears. But looks like the importer selling them doesn't do said paperwork, so I expect a couple of weeks before you can buy a licence plate to make them road legal...)
JMcL_Ireland 4 hours ago
Wait til he hears about cars! What a surprise that from street view there's plenty of them spread across the streets he's banned bikes from. Plus there's a municipal bike station right outside the city hall (Commune?). But no, let's ban bikes because he was probably too busy yapping to somebody rather than using his eyes.
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Jimmy Ray Will 4 hours ago
@Rendel Harris Came here to say what ROOTminus1 already has. No, it's not the same, but that's only because a cyclist can effectively turn off the prejudice whenever they like. The cyclist chooses to be in the outgroup, so how can the impact ever be directly comparable. The mechanism of the prejudice and its potential impact, can be compared. Every little 'harmless' anti-cycling joke is another confirmation in someone elses mind that cyclists are subhuman and deserve what ever they get... on and on it goes, until one day, a 69 year old thinks he can plow into a group of cyclists with impunity. Worst of all though, it looks like they may be right.
3 thoughts on “Work on 2012 BMX track completed years ahead of schedule”
I remember when all this was,
I remember when all this was, er, a cycle track :O
On a slightly different
On a slightly different Olympic vibe I heard on the news today that the IoC are going to scrap the Olympic Torch relay after 2016. So that’ll be for the 2020 Olympics in 12 years time – on security grounds. And I thought the world of protest, espionage, terrorism and security must be fast paced. Obviously not if they need a 12 year run up.
Shame too cos the torch relay was my favourite event at the last Olympics – we won that didn’t we? 😕
Err, where’s the BMX track
Err, where’s the BMX track then? That looked remarkably like a few temporary ramps with a novice wobbling around and only one decent trick rider. If a temporary ramp is all we can put up for a track then we’ll look remarkably amateur as a nation.