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Category: News
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Cobble Wobble – Stewards Enquiry
With a cobble wobble time of 23.54 seconds Neil Cousins obliterated the entire field, but many people have raised serious concerns over the feasibility of such a blisteringly fast time…
…so in the interest of fair play the BCC cobble wobble stewards have launched an enquiry:
Initial findings do suggest that an unfair advantage may have been gained by the addition of a 850W McKeller angle grinder.
It’s believed that the modified power tool was used to accelerate the rear wheel of the bike, providing a massive advantage for the start, middle and end of the race run.
If you look closely you can see how Neil carefully strapped the grinder to his bike, a mod that went unnoticed at the start of the event.
Neil has refused to comment at this stage, sighting a recent diet of home made cakes and local ale as valid explanations for his superhuman performance.
Despite many attempts we’ve been unable to start the power tool in question, so have closed the enquiry. However, should any further evidence of foul play come to light we will re-launch the investigation.
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Cobble Wobble – An Annual Event
The town is still buzzing, and it seems that the Mayor is already thinking about next year. Great News!
The Mayor of Frome, Councillor Damon Hooton, who flagged the riders off in Frome and travelled to Bideford to see them race across the finish line, said: “There are real benefits to the economy and regeneration in having a race of this stature coming to a small market town. Last night in Frome we had 3,000 to 5,000 people out on the streets enjoying the Velo Jam, and no trouble – the police joined in the Cobble Wobble. We will go ahead with the Velo Jam and the Cobble Wobble again next year; we can build a whole weekend of events, and if the race wants to come back to Frome, too, we’ll welcome it.”
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Cobble Wobble – Full Results
We’ll be publishing the results with category breakdown over the weekend.
Prizes will be awarded on Saturday 26/09/09 to the King of the Cobbles, and the winner and runner up in each class.
Red cells mean that we have no category info for that rider, so if your category info is missing, send us an e-mail by Friday 25th and we’ll update the results.
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Cobble Wobble – Rave Reviews
It seems that our little cobbled hill climb has been very well received:
Hugh Roberts, Chief Executive of The Tour of Britain, said: “Last night in Frome was something special, especially the cobble wobble, and today the crowds are impressive. The best thing about it is the amount of school kids out there in every town and village really getting behind the race. It’s heartening to see and this is exactly what The Tour is all about..”
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Cobble Wobble – Media
Video’s and stills are already popping up online…. we’ll post up everything we find here so check back frequently over the next few days. We’ll also be posting the full listing of times here later tonight so watch this space.
Here’s the first video (Mike Smith www.4444Stargate.com) and set of photos (Ed Thomas):
If you’ve got and comments or suggestions about the event then please send us an e-mail to suggestion.box@blackcanoncollective.co.uk , we’re already talking about next year so would love to hear from you, thanks!
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All hail the king of the Cobbles!
(Our very own) Neil Cousins 23.54seconds. Amazing!
Congratulations to everybody who took part, you all did brilliantly.
A massive thanks to the hundreds and hundreds of people who clapped, cheered and egged on every one of the 89 competitors. The atmosphere was awesome.
And finally, a special thanks to all the people who volunteered to marshal the event; it wouldn’t have happened with out you.
Decent photos to follow soon….
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Benchmark
Marjory set a benhmark on the wobbling cobbles earlier this evening. I can’t tell you the time, but I can say that she had a basket on her bike.
