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mbr IPC MEDIA LTD, Leon House, 233 High Street, Croydon CR9 1HZ Tel: 020 8726 8463 / Fax: 020 8726 8499 www.mbr.co.uk EDITORIAL Editor: Johnny Kitch Deputy editor: Donny Milner Technical editor: Pauline Burwell Bike test editor: Pikey Muldoon Production assistant: Andy Waterstones Chief photographer: Guffy Waugh Other photography: Andy McTennants Routes: Tommy Hutton & Stephanie Powers PAGE FACTORY Production chief: Dan Thomas Chief sub editor: James Shrubsall Sub editors: Matt Lamy, Jonathan Emery, Derri Dunn Group art editor: Dan Baines Deputy group art editor: Ben Smith Designers: Sarah Auld, Steph Tebboth, Kevin Sharpe & Hannah Holden Picture research: Jason Hardy Editorial assistant: Feargal Sharkey ADVERTISING 020 8726 (then four-digit extension) Group advertising manager: Kevin Attridge (x8409) Deputy ad manager: Paula Harrison (x8407) Senior sales executive: Amy Braid (x8410) Telephone sales executives: Amy Reeves (x8413); Jason Dilworth (x8414) Advertising fax: (020) 8726 8294 Advertising e-mail: [email protected] Classified e-mail: [email protected] Ad production: Bob Budd, Andy Perry PUBLISHING Publishing director: Keith Foster (020 8726 8402) PA to Publishing director: Joanna Griffin (020 8726 8405) Marketing manager: Adrian Vaughan (020 8726 8401) Marketing executive: Natalie Hicks (020 8726 8406) MD (Inspire): Paul Williams GM (Focus): Niall Clarkson Group Mag Editor: Garry Coward-Williams Production: Tony Bateman Outworking: Becky Goode Distribution: 020 3148 3333 BACK ISSUES Hotline: 01733 370800 Fax: 01733 239356 Web: www.mags-uk.com/ipc © IPC Media Ltd 2008. This periodical must not, without written consent of the publishers first being given, be lent, sold, hired out or otherwise disposed of in mutilated condition or, in any unauthorised cover by way of trade, or annexed to as part of any publication or advertising literary or pictorial matter whatsoever. ©ipcmedia 2008 ISSN 1367 0824. Printed by Polestar. Covers printed by CSM Impact Ltd. Registered at the Post Office as a newspaper. mbr is published on the first Wednesday of each month. If you have trouble finding an issue at your newsagents, please call Distribution on 020 3148 3333. mbr, incorporating Mountain Biker International, Bicycle Magazine, Performance Cyclist and The Bike Mag, a part of IPC Media Ltd, is published on the first Wednesday of each month by IPC Media Ltd, Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Street, London SE1 0SU. 8 mbr.co.uk 35,586 AUDITED CIRCULATION FIGURE FROM JAN-DEC 2006 P erhaps the biggest story this month — certainly the one that’s captured the most local and national column inches — is the decision by Locog, the London 2012 organising committee, to scrap plans to hold the mountain bike events at Weald Park in Essex. The decision followed a visit by the UCI (cycling’s governing body) inspectors who ruled that the venue simply wasn’t hilly enough and wouldn’t challenge the world’s best. While I welcome that decision as a victory for common sense, it was still one tinged with concern as apparently the inspectors were due back here as we went to press, with the express intention of finding another Essex venue to fill the void. As someone who’s ridden on just about every patch of green belt in the East London/Essex region over the last 30 years, I can only predict the search will prove fruitless. Especially as the UCI team has decreed a height difference of around 300 metres from the lowest to the highest point of the course is a minimum requirement, plus any venue must have seating capacity for 3,000 spectators. I put all these points to Peter King, chief exec of British Cycling. He said: “There’s always been an obvious conflict between the desire of the IOC and Locog to have as many events as possible within a few minutes of the main Olympic Village and the fact that there are no really good sites for world class mtb competition within that parameter. The choice of the Weald was based upon a plan to create a challenging circuit in terms of the terrain to make up for the lack of height variation but the UCI has finally decided that such a plan will not provide an acceptable course.” And of the plan for another Essex venue? King continued: “The time that it has taken to come to this conclusion and the extent to which Essex and Brentwood have, in the meantime, relied upon it in planning for the Olympic legacy phase has now brought a political dimension to the debate. That’s why the next stage is to scour the entire county of Essex to establish if there is another site which can be turned into a course worthy of the Olympic Games before, possibly, casting the net wider. We want the 2012 mtb event to go into the history books for all the right reasons and the course used must be the best it can reasonably be.” Obvious favourites Epping Forest and the Chilterns seem off the cards though; the former because of rights of way issues, and the latter because of distance. So for now the discussion continues and we’ll keep you updated. PS — Details of our 2008 reader holiday to the Alps have now been confirmed. To sign up, go to mbr.co.uk. mbr www.mbr.co.uk Sign up online for our free email newsletter One year subscription rates (13 issues, priority mail) UK £48; Europe €105.80; Rest of the World £74.30 PHONE ENQUIRIES +44 (0)1444 475675 POSTAL ENQUIRIES & ORDERS TO: mbr Subscriptions, Rockwood House, 9-17 Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH16 3DH (cheques payable to IPC Media Ltd) SUBSCRIPTIONS ONLINE www.mbr.co.uk E-MAIL ENQUIRIES [email protected] KILLER LOOP WINNERS! 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mbrIPC MEDIA LTD, Leon House, 233 High Street, Croydon CR9 1HZTel: 020 8726 8463 / Fax: 020 8726 8499 www.mbr.co.uk
EDITORIAL Editor: Johnny KitchDeputy editor: Donny MilnerTechnical editor: Pauline BurwellBike test editor: Pikey MuldoonProduction assistant: Andy WaterstonesChief photographer: Guffy WaughOther photography: Andy McTennantsRoutes: Tommy Hutton & Stephanie Powers
PAGE FACTORYProduction chief: Dan ThomasChief sub editor: James ShrubsallSub editors: Matt Lamy, Jonathan Emery, Derri DunnGroup art editor: Dan BainesDeputy group art editor: Ben SmithDesigners: Sarah Auld, Steph Tebboth, Kevin Sharpe & Hannah Holden Picture research: Jason HardyEditorial assistant: Feargal Sharkey
ADVERTISING 020 8726 (then four-digit extension)Group advertising manager:Kevin Attridge (x8409)Deputy ad manager: Paula Harrison (x8407)Senior sales executive:Amy Braid (x8410)Telephone sales executives: Amy Reeves (x8413); Jason Dilworth (x8414)Advertising fax: (020) 8726 8294Advertising e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] production: Bob Budd, Andy Perry
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Printed by Polestar. Covers printed by CSM Impact Ltd. Registered at the Post Office as a newspaper.
mbr is published on the first Wednesday of each month. If you have trouble finding an issue at your newsagents, please call Distribution on 020 3148 3333.
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Perhaps the biggest story this month — certainly the one that’s captured the most local and national column inches — is the decision by Locog, the London 2012 organising committee, to scrap plans to hold the mountain bike events at Weald Park in Essex. The decision followed a visit by the UCI (cycling’s governing body) inspectors who ruled that the venue simply wasn’t hilly enough and wouldn’t challenge the world’s best.
While I welcome that decision as a victory for common sense, it was still one tinged with concern as apparently the inspectors were due back here as we went to press, with the express intention of fi nding another Essex venue to fi ll the void. As someone who’s ridden on just about every patch of green belt in the East London/Essex region over the last 30 years, I can only predict the search will prove fruitless. Especially as the UCI team has decreed a height difference of around 300 metres from the lowest to the highest point of the course is a minimum requirement, plus any venue must have seating capacity for 3,000 spectators.
I put all these points to Peter King, chief exec of British Cycling. He said: “There’s always been an obvious confl ict between the desire of the IOC and Locog to have as many events as possible within a few minutes of the main Olympic Village and the fact that there are no really good sites for world class mtb competition within that parameter. The choice of the Weald was based upon a plan to create a challenging circuit in terms of the terrain to make up for the lack of height variation but the UCI has fi nally decided that such a plan will not provide an acceptable course.”
And of the plan for another Essex venue? King continued: “The time that it has taken to come to this conclusion and the extent to which Essex and Brentwood have, in the meantime, relied upon it in planning for the Olympic legacy phase has now brought a political dimension to the debate. That’s why the next stage is to scour the entire county of Essex to establish if there is another site which can be turned into a course worthy of the Olympic Games before, possibly, casting the net wider. We want the 2012 mtb event to go into the history books for all the right reasons and the course used must be the best it can reasonably be.”
Obvious favourites Epping Forest and the Chilterns seem off the cards though; the former because of rights of way issues, and the latter because of distance. So for now the discussion continues and we’ll keep you updated.
PS — Details of our 2008 reader holiday to the Alps have now been confi rmed. To sign up, go to mbr.co.uk.
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