Wightlink-Wight Mountain Cycle Race Team have announced that the Isle of Wight has been awarded a Road Race as part of the South District calendar to be held on Sunday, 21st May 2023.
Organisers, Jerry and Julie Cooper, say:
‘This is fantastic news for the Isle of Wight, especially following the disappointment of the final stage of the Tour of Britain being cancelled in September and will give the Islands’ cycling community the opportunity to race against some of the UK’s top riders on their local roads.”
Article continues below this advertisement “We’re really excited about bringing road racing back to the Island after a 20-year absence and hope that this Wightlink-Wight Mountain IOW Road Race, with the support of our sponsors, will become an established annual event on the National cycling calendar.”
Organisers, Jerry and Julie Cooper, say….‘This is fantastic news for the Isle of Wight – (in their opinion – not mine)
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no it isn’t – all it means is that those of us who use the roads will be inconvenienced and denied the ability to go about our business just to make way for a pointless group of lycra clad idiots to peddle their bikes in their usual smug, arrogant manner, as they will have the roads to themselves.
I trust the organisers will be compensating the rest of us for the inconvenience and having to endure the insult of being forced off the road to allow this waste of time to take place. They can find a track to cycle around, rather than inconvenience the rest of us, that aren’t interested and don’t want this.
Do you have nothing better to worry about lol ,I guess there might be people who enjoy it, you might do if you get out
Unfortunately this publication is stuffed full of miserable old grunters who moan and complain about anything and everything that isn’t centred around what little remains of their sad and wasted existences.
Spot on man !
Gives me time to book ferry tickets off, they bring no business to the Island even get free ferry for there bikes.
I can assure the organisers, the vast majority of us were not at all disappointed when the tour of Britain was cancelled!
But at least it gives those with a stock tacks a good opportunity to use them at last.
Reported for inciting a criminal act likely to cause serious injury or death,
And I mean to the police, not the waste-of-space IE moderators.
Well done, I hope that brings some joy into your dull unfulfilled life.
Sorry, you dont have a life, humourless fool.
Cycling Mikey is alive and on the island…..
I’m sure the police will have a good laugh
Bloody free loaders, pay for what you use.
It’s not just the excise duty on vehicles that pays for road maintenance.It comes out of a central pot of tax payers money.
You poor deluded and ignorant fool.
Looks like one of the idiots who nearly ended up over my bonnet racing round a bend on my side of the road
More like an annual event of chaos, arrogance and road closures for those people who have to work here. I propose a “lycra tax” after all they don’t pay any other kind of tax to take those bikes on the road, strange how such a small narrow thing can cause such a menace on the road. (I’m talking about the bikes.)
If you are going to comment on a forum that is open for everybody to read. Please can you at least use the correct term for the propulsion of a bicycle?
Also; do not beilttle the name of ” stalwarts” who actually do something for the community and young people.
Let’s be honest there’s a lot of events that inconvenience islanders one way or another and truthfully have no financial gain to the residents. If the council make money somehow from these events, which I’m not sure how they do, it would be nice if islanders returned back to free parking at the sea front after the holiday season as compensation for for the inconvenience we have all endured. Fat chance of that though.
Cyclists, especially male lycra clad ones are so offensive to the eye that I rate them right up there with mumps, flu, chilli in the eyes, paper cuts, wasp stings and rat bites. The vast majority of us find them a major impedance. If you want to prance around on a enhanced penny farthing looking like you’ve been gift-wrapped in plastic by a satanic entity, bog off to the mainland and do it.