the flow blog

It seems the UCI have come to the conclusion that Essex is not a great place to host the XC Olympic mountain biking event in 2012.  The course couldn’t be made challenging enough apparently.  I have to say that it did seem a pretty odd choice of venue in the first place, there’s plenty of proper hills around London that could host the event: The North Downs being my old spot - that’d be a great place to hold it I say.   - take a look at the BBC article.I think there are laws about that prohibit races from taking place on public bridleways, but this could be a great chance to plough some cash into the Redlands trails for instance…Still a shame they had to flatten the beastway circuit though - many a tiring Wedensday night spent there!