Evil_Breakfast
Well-Known Member
Is it?
A genuine question because I've never had any involvement with cycling sport. I mean I know there are clubs that run time trials, and there are crits and so on but they've never crossed my path. I know they existed when I was a youth, but I was (and still am) highly unathletic and not a clubby person so they never interested me. I know they exist now because I see club trains out and about. But the only competitive athletes I know are triathletes and runners so I've genuinely got no idea if it's thriving or, as you say, dying on its arse.
(But to stay on topic - loss of free to air competitive cycling will only harm it, however its doing)
Ned alluded to it during the stage 21 YT episode.
On a practical, and personal, level; Somerset Road Club organised the annual (summer) 'Pete Sandy Memorial Road Race' until 2019 (IIRC).
COVID, then, kicked in; and it hasn't been held since.
Local CC's time trials have also (as I keep a eye on it) reported a down-turn in attendance.
Everything in life is subject to peaks and troughs; so this is the situation that UK cycling, now, find's itself in.