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Great Manchester Cycle JubileeGreat Manchester Cycle set to be Britain's biggest Diamond Jubilee street party
Organisers of the Daily Mirror Great Manchester Ride are calling on more cyclists to sign up for what they promise will be Britain’s biggest street party over the forthcoming Diamond Jubilee bank holiday weekend, stretching from Salford to Eastlands.
There are more than 200 events planned for Manchester alone over the four-day break, with the closed-roads bike ride taking place on Monday 4 June on a 13-mile circuit being far and away the largest. It’s also officially the biggest street closure in the UK for a street party over that weekend.
Three routes are available to appeal to different ages and abilities – Get Out and Pedal over 13 miles, Rule the Roads over 26 miles, and Test Yourself over 52 miles – with full details, including timings and how to enter, available on the event website.
Councillor Mike Amesbury, Manchester City Council’s executive member for culture and leisure commented: “The Daily Mirror Great Manchester Cycle is sure to be a highlight of Manchester’s Jubilee weekend.”
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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There's no longer an average speed requirement for the 52 mile version. But the organisers are advising to take the 18mph figure into consideration, just to ensure people doing it are confident with the speed/challenge.
It's for road closure purposes more than anything.
Minimum speeds are there due to the schedule and timings of re-opening the roads. I think they're put there more to remind people that they can't just stop in a pub en route cos frankly, especially to leisure cyclists, average speeds don't mean much, they're difficult to translate into how much effort the rider has to put in.
18mph on flat roads like that shouldn't be a problem. Unless there's so many riders that it becomes like the London Brighton where you're sometimes lucky to reach more than 8mph through town...
The majority of it is on the Mancunian Way which although isnt completely flat, does open up to being a four lane motorway at points so I cant see congestion being a huge problem, I'd imagine it would certainly be quicker than Manchester - Blackpool, which is of a similar distance and number of participants.
I had thought about doing this but find the minimum speeds expected: 18mph for the longer distance and 13mph for the 26 miler, wrong in principle and indeed, difficult for the majority of non serious cyclists to achieve: although most of us on here could achieve it no doubt.
Any idea why they have these minimum speeds?
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