2022 UCI World Championship Road Race in Wollongong

[AUbicycles]

The course for the elite mens and women’s road race has been announced now. It includes a number of loops to make it pretty technical.

[foo on patrol]

There should be more courses that are technical, so that they bring out the best in the riders.

Foo

[MichaelB]

For those that are interested, here is a General Information Bulletin for the WRRC. Not a full Roadbook yet, but it shows the course maps and distances etc

https://downloads.ctfassets.net/761l7gh ... tin_GB.pdf

[fat and old]

So has anyone been appointed vaccination checker for this event?

[MichaelB]

Some route preview video, primarily the Cliff Bridge section from Ride Media

https://www.ridemedia.com.au/features/w ... ff-bridge/

About 6 weeks away !!

[familyguy]

I'll probably go and stay at a mates place for the weekend events, the elite road route almost goes past the door. Then ride into the city to catch the end.

The Illawarra Mercury is doing their best to stir sh*t up with almost daily FB posts about road closures and the like, none of which anyone can read as it's paywalled, but the locals don't let that stop them!

[DernyDriver]

I'll probably go and stay at a mates place for the weekend events, the elite road route almost goes past the door. Then ride into the city to catch the end.

The Illawarra Mercury is doing their best to stir sh*t up with almost daily FB posts about road closures and the like, none of which anyone can read as it's paywalled, but the locals don't let that stop them!

Yeah the dumb bogans down here have no idea what this "bike race" is.
They think its like the Sydney to Gong or LeTape.
Embarrassing.

[familyguy]

My favourite was the guy who said "protest against this or they'll come every year!". Yeah, 95 world champ events held and it's only been in Australia twice, let alone the same city more than once, suddenly they'll hold every event there, pal, sure.

[foo on patrol]

One of my mates is a moto marshal.

Foo

[familyguy]

I thought about volunteering, but can't afford the time off. Also, to be honest, I don't know that I could restrain myself with any locals expressing negative opinions about being inconvenienced for a handful of hours with 8 weeks notice and wanted to have a go...

[warthog1]

Good ol Bogan Australia
A world championship event that will bring in money and tourism to the area.
Is that good?
Nup, we can't have these bloody cyclists taking over our roads for a few hours.

[find_bruce]

Sadly Jonas Vingegard won't be here

[Thoglette]

Everything you need to know about UCI Wollongong 2022, one of the world's biggest cycling events (ABC news)

[AUbicycles]

Everything I need to know… like who the winners will be?

[DernyDriver]

Not long to go now.
Council is taking out speed humps and roundabouts and resurfacing some roads. A few internationals have arrived early and have been spotted.
Ive been asked to be Sports Director for the Tahitian team ....I have to work during the week but I'll do my best. Means I get an accreditation pass and can go wherever I want in the restricted team areas ... Im looking forward to getting close to the big names. Maybe a selfie with Wout Exciting.

[AndrewCowley]

Will be interesting to see how the locals react if there's any road closures or disruptions.

[trailgumby]

Will be interesting to see how the locals react if there's any road closures or disruptions.

I'm sure News Corp will be sure to let us know.

[Retrobyte]

Will be interesting to see how the locals react if there's any road closures or disruptions.

One of the headlines surely will be someone on ice walking in front of the peleton

[DernyDriver]

Will be interesting to see how the locals react if there's any road closures or disruptions.

The local rag, the Mercury has been posting negative click bait stories, with bogans joking about throwing tacks on the road.
I cant wait for the real world media to get here and make the local rag look like the bum wipe that it is.

[trailgumby]

Will be interesting to see how the locals react if there's any road closures or disruptions.

The local rag, the Mercury has been posting negative click bait stories, with bogans joking about throwing tacks on the road.
I cant wait for the real world media to get here and make the local rag look like the bum wipe that it is.

I prefer to use them as shoe inserts after wet riding. The Manly Daily was wonderful for wicking up all the moisture. Unfortunately, since they went exclusively on-line my supply has dried up.

[g-boaf]

A friend of mine is competing - I'm hoping to make it down there (to repay his support for my recovery this year) but I don't get around very easily so it's not looking so promising.

Will be interesting to see how the locals react if there's any road closures or disruptions.

The local rag, the Mercury has been posting negative click bait stories, with bogans joking about throwing tacks on the road.
I cant wait for the real world media to get here and make the local rag look like the bum wipe that it is.

I sure hope tacks don't happen.

[find_bruce]

I'd missed that Nine / Stan are the broadcasters for the race & the broadcast team will be

• Mike Tomalaris
• Scott McGrory
• Kate Bates &
• Sophie Smith

[familyguy]

Will be interesting to see how the locals react if there's any road closures or disruptions.

The local rag, the Mercury has been posting negative click bait stories, with bogans joking about throwing tacks on the road.
I cant wait for the real world media to get here and make the local rag look like the bum wipe that it is.

It's almost like they've been told to. To be fair, it looks like the same 25-30 outraged locals commenting, with the same 5-10 who bite back. A friend has a business that is impacted all week as they're inside the course for the TT and juniors races, but they're accepting it and moving on. You can always park outside that zone and walk in, it's really easy to do if you could be bothered.

I drove from Corrimal to the Helensburgh turn off yesterday and the clearway signs are up, so people have enough advance warning. Can't help but think there will be something go wrong on the LHD run. It's narrow, twisty and not a great surface in some places. I know they're fixing many parts of it starting now. I can't get down for both the Saturday and Sunday now, unless I go home that night, which might doable, need to check times.

[g-boaf]

Now SMH is sharing the outrage over this:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/tho ... 5bglg.html

Any chance of getting out of Wollongong after the TT event or just completely locked down? That will determine if I go down there or not. If you have to park outside then that stops me.

A friend is competing in the TT so I do want to get down there but my limited mobility makes walking longer distances difficult.

[Sharkey]

Here is the Roadbook

UCI ROAD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TECHNICAL GUIDE PDF