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UCI Golden Bike and Cycling for All 2008
 The Golden Bike brand was created in 1999 to “encourage cyclists to live their passion outside of their country and enable them to discover new horizons, in terms of both sport and culture.”
Quite how successful branding existing events in this way has been is hard to assess - but my personal feeling is that it has added very little. Certainly if the UCI charged the event organisers for the Golden Bike tag then the organisers may feel that they should have got more than just a web site and a logo.
When I last checked the Golden Bike web site did not have any details for 2008 - even after the last 2007 event had been held. So this calendar was obtained from the main UCI site instead.
The 2008 Cycling for All calender with the UCI Golden Bike (GB) events highlighted -
9.3 Cape Argus Pick'n Pay Cycle Tour Cape Town RSA GB
30.3 Cheshire Cat Cyclosportive Knutsford, Cheshire GBR
5.4 Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres Bruges - Ninove BEL GB
6.4 Bilbao-Bilbao ESP
6.4 Marcha Cicloturista Internacional Sierra de la Pila Murcia ESP
19.4 Toerversie Amstel Gold Race Valkenburg NED GB
26.4 Marcha Cicloturista los Degollaos Gargallo ESP
1.5 La Roger Walkowiak Cusset FRA
3-4.5 Clássica Lisboa-Porto Lisboa - Porto POR
10.5 Ruta de los Faros de Menorca Mahon ESP
11.5 Marxa Cicloturista Terra de Remences St Esteve d'en Bas ESP
11.5 La Blé d'Or Lèves FRA
11.5 Gran Fondo Internazionale Felice Gimondi Bergamo ITA GB
17.5 Clasica Internacional Lagos de Covadonga Cangas de Onis - Lagos de Covadonga ESP
18.5 Brevet des Apennins Nove Colli - Marco Pantani Cesenatico ITA
24.5 Journée Lausannoise du Vélo Chalet à Gobet SUI
24.5 Marcha Cicloturista Puertos de la Ribagorza - Pirineos 200 Graus ESP
24-26.5 Tour of Wessex Hadspen House, Somerset GBR
24.5-1.6 Mini Volta a Portugal Portugal POR
25.5 Giro delle Valli Monregalesi Mondovi ITA
25.5 Ruta Cicloturista Batalla de Alarcos Ciudad Real ESP
31.5 Gran Fondo Serrania de Ronda - La Sufrida Ronda ESP
31.5 - 2.6 Gran Fondo del Friuli Buttrio - Crikvenica ITA
7.6 Marxa la Bonaigua La Pobla de Segur ESP
8.6 Highclere Castle Victor Ludorum Highclere Castle GBR
8.6 Gran Fondo Internazionale Vittorio Adorni Parma ITA
14 - 15.6 Maraton Franja Barcaffe - Festival kolesarstva Ljubljana SLO
15.6 Gran Fondo Internazionale Campagnolo Feltre ITA
15.6 Dragon Ride Wales Bridgend GBR
15.6 Kappa Marathon Rivoli ITA
21.6 Quebrantahuesos Sabiñanigo ESP GB
22.6 Gran Fondo Marco Pantani Aprica ITA
28.6 L'Ariégeoise Tarascon-sur-Ariège FRA GB
29.6 Maratona dles Dolomites Alta Badia ITA
5-6.7 Ediçao da Rota do Vinho do Porto Vila Real POR
20.7 La Jean de Gribaldy Montbéliard FRA
20.7 Gran Fondo Pinarello e della Marca Trevigiana Treviso ITA
20.7 La Fabio Casartelli Albese con Cassano ITA
27.7-2.8 Giro delle Dolomiti Bolzano ITA
9.8 Alpenbrevet Andermatt SUI
16.8 Kolesarski Skok na Roglo Zrece - Rogla SLO
30-31.8 Gruyère Cycling Tour Bulle SUI GB
6.9 Poli Maraton Ptuj SLO
7.9 La Lapébie Luchon FRA
13.9 Internationaler Radmarathon Rund um den Bodensee Altenrhein SUI
19-21.9 Rothaus Riderman Bad Dürrheim GER GB
21.9 Clásica los Puertos Esmeralda Nava ESP
21.10 Portfolio Partners Around the Bay in a Day Melbourne AUS
24-26.10 Volta Cicloturista Internacional a Menorca Mahon ESP
22.11 Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge Taupo NZL GB
The UCI Masters Championships are included in this category and their 2008 calendar is -
19.1 UCI World Master Cyclocross Championships Zilvermeer Mol, BEL
26-29.6 European Road Masters Championships Zdar nad Sazavou CZE
27-31.8 UCI World Masters Road Championships St Johann in Tirol AUT
5.10 Copa de Europa Masters Track Championships Palma de Mallorca ESP
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