Olympic Road Race - Where Will You Be Watching?

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  • alwaystoohot
    alwaystoohot Posts: 252
    First week from Italy, second back in Singapore.
    'I started with nothing and still have most of it left.'
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    Bump.

    So will there be a posse of forrumites in Richmond Park/The Temperance?

    I think a relaxing view from London and a lot of time drinking is preferable to the inevitable chaos around Dorking, especially as I didn't cough up cash to LOCOG for what should be a free event.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    All this stress... i just don't know if i can really be bothered. I know its a huge event, but the ticket fiasco left a bad taste and i think i'll end up watching at home so i can actually enjoy it. Considering catching the train down to Hampton for the TT though...
  • oneof1982
    oneof1982 Posts: 703
    Group of 6 us coming down from the Midlands with 4 tickets for Box Hill. Will have to draw lots, but given that they say entry is restricted after 10.30, and our train doesn't get in until 10.30, may be a wash out anyway. Our collective fall back is this wineyard thing, (food, beer + wine) which looks too good to be true!
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Moomaloid wrote:
    All this stress... i just don't know if i can really be bothered. I know its a huge event, but the ticket fiasco left a bad taste and i think i'll end up watching at home so i can actually enjoy it. Considering catching the train down to Hampton for the TT though...

    See, if you just accepted the olympic road race is a pointless chipper and didn't worry about it, you'd be a lot happier.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Moomaloid
    Moomaloid Posts: 2,040
    oh i know that much Iain, was just wanting to at least taste a little of the Olympic spirit :shock: so its either the pub or the couch for me... after a quick ride in the morning of course... :D
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    So, anyone know if there's a big screen in Richmond Park?
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    FleshTuxedo wrote:
    So, anyone know if there's a big screen in Richmond Park?

    Have looked into this: no info anywhere to suggest that there will be one. Deal-breaker for me, that.
    Consequently, we'll be heading to the Denbies Vineyard thing for men's race.
    I'm hoping a GB win or loss will be better shared with drunk cycling fanatics, as opposed to just drunk fanatics.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Perhaps one of our local rorumites can ride over to the park and check? The structure for the big screen and PA system on Box Hill's Donkey Green (or whatever that space at the top near the cafe is called) is already up.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • ilovebigwig
    ilovebigwig Posts: 118
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Perhaps one of our local rorumites can ride over to the park and check? The structure for the big screen and PA system on Box Hill's Donkey Green (or whatever that space at the top near the cafe is called) is already up.

    Nothing in there yet.
  • phy2sll2
    phy2sll2 Posts: 680
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Turns out I won't be able to bring my QS top to support Boonen...

    What? Whyever not?
  • phy2sll2
    phy2sll2 Posts: 680
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Turns out I won't be able to bring my QS top to support Boonen...

    What? Whyever not?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    phy2sll2 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Turns out I won't be able to bring my QS top to support Boonen...

    What? Whyever not?

    No non-olympics brands allowed innit.
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  • phy2sll2
    phy2sll2 Posts: 680
    So I can't wear Levi's jeans then?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    phy2sll2 wrote:
    So I can't wear Levi's jeans then?

    Do your levis jeans have an enormous LEVIS JEANS logo on them?
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  • kanto
    kanto Posts: 112
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Turns out I won't be able to bring my QS top to support Boonen, nor can I bring some beers.

    Not cool.

    How many other Brits are hoping for Boonen to win? I would love to see a rider like Boonen win. Well anyway apart from a wheel-sucking sprinter like Cav would be great. Hopefully we get a true classics/one day racer winning this olympics!
  • phy2sll2
    phy2sll2 Posts: 680
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    phy2sll2 wrote:
    So I can't wear Levi's jeans then?

    Do your levis jeans have an enormous LEVIS JEANS logo on them?

    Unenforceable surely: what's the IOC regulation logo size above which a garment is no longer officially sanctioned? Just think that's such a ridiculous rule. I will be flouting it about a km up the road, sitting on my esky full of beer.
  • phy2sll2
    phy2sll2 Posts: 680
    kanto wrote:
    How many other Brits are hoping for Boonen to win? I would love to see a rider like Boonen win. Well anyway apart from a wheel-sucking sprinter like Cav would be great. Hopefully we get a true classics/one day racer winning this olympics!

    Well, we wouldn't have designed the course very well if that were to happen!
  • Two sheds
    Two sheds Posts: 446
    A couple of club mates and I will be watching on the A24 part of the Box Hill loop, somewhere near the King William IV pub in Mickleham. Although they'll be going past at speed, we will get 9 chances to see the riders.
    Put a hump in your back
    Shake your sacroiliac
    And ride on
  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    I shall be parking in the field below Box Hill and hopefully get a spot just after the food station ie; just outside the restricted area.

    Then it will be a quick run down the fields to the A25 and into Dorking to watch on the big screen at Meadowbank.
    http://www.stuartmole.co.uk/
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    For the other race on Sunday I have discovered the Cloggies have taken over Alexandra Palace and turned it into a kind of expo venue with a beer hall – Holland Heineken House – and will be showing the race on big screens. Hopefully won't be *quite* as rowdy as the Dutch Corner on Alpe d'Huez but should be a good atmosphere.

    http://www.hartvannederland.nl/nederlan ... he-spelen/

    http://www.alexandrapalace.com/whats-on ... ken-house/
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    phy2sll2 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Turns out I won't be able to bring my QS top to support Boonen...

    What? Whyever not?

    No non-olympics brands allowed innit.

    Wow, this is majorly ridiculous.

    I will be in my new QS jersey and cap watching on a big screen in Blackheath (last two hrs only).

    No one has mentioned it but LMNH is showing it in HD on a big screen.
    Contador is the Greatest

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