2011 Handbook & Calendar of Events - LVRC

International Racing 2011
ICF Road Race Championships
Sunday 7th August 2011 - Hoofdplaat, Holland
On the coast due North of Eeklo, Belgium
From Calais/Dunkerque follow E 40 to Aaalter
Then North on N44, N58
60+ start 9am; 50+ 10.30; 40+ 12.30
Entries on the line will be accepted.
Peter Ryalls will do a block entry
Entries on LVRC form (by 5 July please)
with sae and £8.00 to: 11 Devonshire Close,
Dronfield, Derbyshire S18 1QY
Tel: 01246 413515 Email: ryalco@btinternet.com
Date of birth required as condition of entry
UCI Masters Championships, St Johann Austria
World Cup Races:
World Masters Races:
20-24 August
25-27 August
Information from the website: www.masterswm.org
or from: Harald Bauman, A-6380 St Johann in Tirol, Postfach 77, Austria.
Entries on the line accepted.
UCI abandons Masters Racing
Following 2010 events at St Johaan it was announced that in future the races would no longer be UCI Masters Championships. The
statement from St Johaan was that UCI had abandoned Masters racing, UCI have continued to deny that this is the case.
The facts are that UCI have made changes and Masters Racing no longer features on their web site and is now subsumed in “cycling for
All” This follows from a meeting held in Birmingham England in June 2010.
“The UCI Management Committee approved a new concept in the development of cycling for all. Cycling for all, fully in line with
the philosophy of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), aims to encourage as many people as possible to take part in cycling,
whether as a competitive sport, for leisure or as a healthy and environmentally- friendly means of transport. The new concept mainly
concerns establishing a series of mass-participation events allowing qualification for a final round, both on road (UCI Gran Fondo and
UCI Masters Road World Championships) as well as mountain biking”
Since this announcement there has been no evidence that any National Organisation has volunteered to promote any of the events
which would make this concept a reality. You would have to stretch the imagination to believe that it will ever happen.
St Johaan has always been a major European event and ran successfully before UCI involvement.. Bob Maitland and Dave Orford
were both World Champions in the days prior to 1992. All that happened with UCI involvement was an increase in prices, a change
of Championship Jersey from the traditional hoops on white background to hoops on blue background and finally insistence on
membership of national UCI body (BCF) )
Previously for world cup races any licence was accepted (LVRC TLI), for the masters world championship a UCI licence was required but
this could be purchased as a “Day Licence”
Arrangements at St Johaan for 2011 are still unclear, particularly the licence issue. The web site indicates that they are forming there
own “World Masters Cycling Federation”
Announcements will be made on www.masterswm.org
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