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@julianemre
Hi guys, hopefully some of you have already heard about Tour de Hackney, coming up on Sunday August 17.
The event's being organised as part of Shoreditch festival, and London Cycling Campaign (or, if you prefer to think of it this way, the entire city of London) needs anyone with a fleeting fancy in seeing lots of people, from all ages and abilities, out and about on bicycles, enjoying themselves, and generally showing any and all passing bystanders what a good idea it would be to either reclaim their bicycle from the garage, or start nagging mummy and daddy to get them one.
So yeah... basically, we need a group of 40 (currently on 22) more experienced riders to ride around with the bunch for the Tour circuit, and we need 10 (currently on 1) noble souls to stand with dignity at fixed points, marshalling riders in the correct direction. Needless to say we're going to make sure that everyone gets to move around a bit, and that nobody has to spend all day getting to know a lampost on London Fields.
It should be a good day out regardless, but volunteers would REALLY be helping LCC because the event was contracted on the basis of 50 marshalls, and if we can't get 50 marshals then we may have to return some of the funding received as part of the event. Overall this will mean less money to campaign for cycle paths (even if you yourself don't use them), less resources to hassle Boris when he does his next backtrack on cycling policy, and many more things to the good of the cycling community having to compete for fewer resources.
Hope that some of you ladies and gentlemen can lend your wheels to the cause, I know that many of you have ties with other organisations, and support various other causes to promote cycling, but we're all after the same things really, and a Sunday on a bicycle is never a bad idea.
If interested folks could, by Thursday, contact hello@lcc.org.uk then you'll be sleeping with a warm,moral glow inside you next Sunday.
cheers
julian