Road Cycling League Coatesville Classic July 4th Weekend

There is an article in today’s Daily Local News about the Coatesville City Council’s discussion of the National Velodrome Group’s offer to least 105 Harmony Street. 

The article is here:

Coatesville likely to lease property to velodrome group

Published: Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The discussion is here:

Velodrome 105 E Diamond discussion.mp3

The National Velodrome needs a place to store materials for bike races and the Harmony Street building is a natural site. Where the material for the races is stored is not that significant but the races are.

The Western Chester County Chamber of Commerce has been involved in the Ice Cream Festival in the past. I made a comment at the March 28, 2011 City Council Meeting that a friend who is a Chamber member said the Western Chester County Chamber wants to  have all hands on deck for the 4^th of July events. Because, the "Coatesville Classic" bike races are developing into a very big possibly national event.

I think it probably will be a larger event for Coatesville than the Steel Trees was and remember that event had international interest.
Although the events over the 4^th of July may involve a large number of spectators the people involved in the race are some of same people that do the Philadelphia Bike race and I think it will go smoothly.

The 12 mile road racing cycling event will involve a number of other
municipalities. It's going to be a very big Fourth of July weekend in
Coatesville. It's still in the planning stages.

Coatesville Classic                                            
 

 Date-07/03/2011

 Type-Bicycle Stage Race 2-days, 3-stages

 Location-Coatesville area, Chester County PACourse

 This race starts with a TT on Sunday morning, July 3, 2011, followed by a cool figure-8 Criterium on Sunday afternoon. The Road Race is on a gorgeous 11-mile circuit on Monday morning, July 4th!

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 From: Road Cycling League