the best news i've heard all day - that's where I ride - brilliant!!!!!!!

Never having ridden Box Hill, it would be interesting to know what the gradient is, the maximum height reached on the route and the total height gained during the race (for both men and women).

Ian Metcalfe

This is a great route. For all of us who cycle Richmond Park and beyond every weekend it will be a chance to see and measure how good the top riders really are.

I'm a Surrey cyclist born and bred so I'm delighted. If there are any concerns about orchids, etc on Box Hill then Simply take the route through Betchworth and then up Pebble Hill, which is much, much steeper...

I used to ride regularly from Guildford to Box Hill as a teenager.....in my fifties now and this has brought back such great memories. Don't remember details but we used to turn right off the Epsom Road, then left up quite a climb (under a railway bridge I think) across the top of Ranmore Common then a brilliant descent to a village (name escapes me) before climbing Box Hill.

Happy times, I may have to come and watch in 2012.

Great route and Box Hill will be a walk in the park for the Pros, even after nine circuits.

It's a dead easy gradient and a dead easy climb. The big pull is the scenic situation, the large sweeping left hander going up and the view to the right at the top. Other than that it's a mere speed ramp for the Pros. A pimple of an incline.

It'll be a sprint finish for the bunch on the Mall.

"Never having ridden Box Hill,
it would be interesting to know what the gradient is,
the maximum height reached on the route
and the total height gained during the race
(for both men and women)."

Where is the route profile ?

Great news, I regularly cycle up The Zig Zag on my hand bike & they'll be cycling passed my front door.
I'll be popular with my mates!

Bringing the race to Box Hill is great. There's a lot of critics when it comes to the olympics -we've got the olympics now so lets just enjoy whats on offer. At least this will be a big FREE fanfair where ordinary people can turn up and see some racing. I agree that box hill might not be too challenging for the pro's but for mere mortals its still a toughie, and to see the pro's whizz up will be entertaining.
I might fool everyone and stand at the bottom next to Ryka's - not sure i'll see much but the chips will be close at hand!!!

So, Lord Coe of Ranmore is pleased to announce the route will pass near ... Ranmore. Surely just a coincidence.

Box Hill will be a test for the riders and great for the spectators. Once my friends and family have ssen how quickly the top riders can climb to the top I may have to keep quiet about how long I take!

I'm happy with this as where it passes through Surrey follows most of a section of a run I have organised since 1995. A beautiful route. It could be better as going along the north side of the Thames from Hampton Court is more scenic, you can see the river and across it to places like Hurst Park. It also brings in more history and can be rejoined by crossing Walton Bridge. If interested, the run I organise is 220 miles long and starts at Hampton Court. Website www.greenbeltrelay.org.uk I also have a long distance walk around the green belt, and hope to formulate a cycle route, but that depends on time and my finances.

Does anyone know a more detailed version of the route? Interested in taking a group out around it and all I can find is the official pdf which is pretty rough.

Many thanks

As a cyclist , nature lover , and also a regular visitor to Richmond Park , I would be interested to know what impact the race wil have on the wildlife there .Apart from the 20mph speed limit , which to all intents and purposes will be ignored , I wonder how the park wardens will keep the hundreds of fallow and red deer safe and away from the race . Buth species are more than capable of leaping the barriers generally used for cycle events , so it will be interesting to see how it pans out .

Boxhill in itself is not a difficult climb , but the fast start to the race plus nine laps should make things a lot more interesting . I wonder if Cycles Dauphin wil be open ? Tough one that !

can somebody explain why the route has to run via kingston.many people will not be able to get to town.
particularly elder people

This Sunday just gone 14/08/11 I was on my way to visit my son and had to go through Dorking Ha Ha what a complete and utter shamble you made of the practice race!!!!! Any visitors to this country would think we cannot organise anything properly. 48 roads were shut with no diversions in place no warden could tell you how to get back on to the A24 and I had to travel 20 miles out of my way just to get to Leatherhead. This was appauling organising and we would be the laughing stock of the world I do hope that other venues are treated better and organised better than this was. Remeber that we have to live here also.

What a dreadful map - the official Web site is a total mess - how can one find the exact roads that will be closed OFF??
Surely the date and the actual roads are the two most important factors.

I am appalled that the greedy bastards headed by Lord Coe are now having the brass neck to take more money from the British public to watch this event. Surely having taken £9 billion out of the public purse Coe and this entourage have had enough of our money. Do they ever know when to stop screwing us.

What needs to happen is for an organised protest to take place and for ordinary people to occupy the fenced off area in protest at this example of sheer greed.