Tour De London Promotion

 

guest entry by Mr. Dave Grisby: The Bike Shop, in London, Kentucky

September 8th and 9th is the 2nd annual Tour De London road race and Criterium. This year we are also the official USA Cycling Kentucky State Championships for road and criterium.

I wanted to first invite all of you to come down. Come and race, or come and volunteer, or just come a watch. Its all good.
We need volunteers for the following positions:

Corner marshal - piece of cake job where you simple wave riders safely through the various corners along the course and hold up any oncoming traffic that might impede them. Hey, you get a free Volunteer t shirt too.

Motorcycle or vehicle lead- another really fun job. You basically stay about 50 to 100 yards in front of the peleton with your flashers on to keep any oncoming traffic aware that a group of crazy cyclists are about to come by. One of the most fun jobs in a race. Quiet motorcycles preferred as the Harley types can give the leaders a serious headache after a while. LOL.

Follow/wheel truck- Bring your pick up truck and we will fill it full of spare wheels. Follow the group around and if a rider has a flat, just stop. Its the riders responsibility to get his wheel and make any repairs. My mom can do this one.
But most of all we want you to come down. Even if you just want to watch. Its all good.

Here is the website: http://www.tourdelondonky.com

Notice that the winner of each main category who is a resident of Kentucky will win a Yellow State Champion Jersey.

As always we have lots of people jumping into the citizens’ category just to finish the event, another great way to do this beautiful course.

The course is all marked, so feel free to come down and pre-ride the thing. Huge Green arrows mark the first half, and huge red arrows mark the return trip. Huge White arrows marked 'HC' are for the 2 shortcuts used by the hand-cycle division and the 2 youngest Juniors categories for an 18-mile loop.

Anyway, please help me spread the word if you will. Feel free to paste this message on any other forum or message board you like so we can make this one of the premier cycling events in our state. Tour De London is all non-profit. If we ever see any returns it will be put right back into the race for prizes, signs, new categories, bigger payouts, you name it. Next year, we hope to add a Time Trial to make this race an Omnium.