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Apologies if this is not news:

http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/scotland/article/sc-scottish-cycling-cycle-trails-stornoway


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 3:31 pm
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Presumably somebody is working on the St Kilda downhill course .....


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 3:59 pm
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There won't be any uphill or downhill.

Just upwind and downwind ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 4:07 pm
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the guy on Eigg has a bid in for funding too


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 4:27 pm
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I suppose it will maybe give the sheep a bit of a rest.

Will it be open on Sundays?


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 4:41 pm
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>There won't be any uphill or downhill.<

Very little - the highest point is 66m ASL

Eigg - tell me you're kidding?


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 4:47 pm
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>I suppose it will maybe give the sheep a bit of a rest<

Be a brave man that cracked that joke in any of the Stornoway pubs ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 4:48 pm
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>There won't be any uphill or downhill.<
Very little - the highest point is 66m ASL

That's why Lord Coe was there - he's an expert on flat mountainbike courses.


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 7:18 pm
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So we haven't seen the swing to building trails near large centres of population yet.......


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 8:52 pm
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I truly wonder if it will be open on a Sunday ...


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 8:58 pm
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>So we haven't seen the swing to building trails near large centres of population yet....... <

Hell no - that would really shaft the tourism model...


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 10:33 pm
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I truly wonder if it will be open on a Sunday ...

Wouldn't have thought so.

Andy


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 10:37 pm
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I truly wonder if it will be open on a Sunday ...

Probably. They've long since given up locking up the swings in the park on a Sunday too.


 
Posted : 07/07/2010 11:22 pm