The UCI Cycling Championships take place in Glasgow and across Scotland from 3-13 August 2023. The event brings together thirteen cycling championships including the road races.
The following two events affect Balfron:
There will be rolling road closures in each area from a few minutes before the front riders are due in the locality until just after the final riders have cleared the area.
Men’s U23 Road Race
Date: Saturday 12 August 2023
Starting in Balloch; Race start time is 11:30.
Women’s Elite Road Race
Sunday 13 August 20233
Race start time is 11:30.
Other events affecting the county
Stirling and its surrounding areas will host the Individual Time Trials for Elite Men, Elite Women, Men Under 23’s, and Men and Women Juniors, with competition beginning on Wednesday 9 August and racing ongoing across three days until Friday 11 August. Event routes will set off from the King’s and Queen’s Knott in the shadow of Stirling Castle on a course that takes them fast, through the flats of the River Forth and out in looping routes across the country, before looping back towards Stirling town centre, and finishing at Stirling Castle Esplanade.
The Men Elite will head towards Thornhill and then down to Kippen before looping back towards Stirling town centre. The Women Elite and Men Under 23 will also travel towards Thornhill but will turn left down the B8031 before looping back towards the town centre. The Junior Men and Junior Women will do a smaller loop, heading out on the same route along the A811 as the Elite and Under 23 race before turning back at Gargunnock to the finish. Once back in the city centre all the riders will make the turn on to the Corn Exchange Road before they make their final accent up a short sharp climb through centuries of Scottish history to a unique finish at Stirling Castle Esplanade.
Time: 9 August, 2.30pm (Men Under 23); 10 August, 11.15am (Women Junior); 10 August, 2pm (Women Elite); 11 August, 10am (Men Junior), 11 August, 2.35pm (Men Elite)
Some of the above events involve complete road closures
MEN ELITE ROAD RACE
6 August 2023
Estimated times through Stirlingshire 11:20 – 11:45