Plenty of motoring connections - did you see that rain and crashing, a deserved and momentous win in atrocious road conditions - can;t believe they were mixing it with traffic at times.
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By traffic, I take it you are referring to the following convoy of team and official cars? The roads were closed to non-race traffic.
The Tour de France carries a convoy of 2,400 vehicles with it, two mechanics cars for each of the eighteen teams, official vehicles, press vehicles, TV & police motorcycles, and a massive publicity caravan of customised vehicles preceeding the race.
A lot of motor vehicles for 180 or so riders.
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Yes - there seemed to be a "reasonably priced car" doing a particularly silly overtake at one point.
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Accidents with race vehicles are fairly rare, considering that the mechanics often lean out of the rear window and adjust things like brakes and gears while the riders are on the move. Press motorcycles are often the biggest bone of contention to the riders when they try and get too close for a photograph. I've seen more than one pillion camera man get a riders drinks bottle bounced off his head when he overstepped the mark.
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I've always admired the rear seated cameramen or women seemingly precariously balanced on the back of motorcycles following the action, whether it's a cycle race or marathon.
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I know a rider who used to do the milk-race...
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This morning's news is................
Well done, another girl, also in the wet!
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Yes, some of the puddles were very deep, one was 50m long :D
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ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ !!!
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Quite right, Malteser.
This is going to be a long fortnight.
On the subject of 'followers', even local cycle races in France seem to have a retinue of sponsors' vehicles, service crews, camera motorbikes from the local papers, etc, etc, all covered in official stickers and making a pink fluffy dice nuisance of themselves.
It's pathetic.
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This is going to be a long fortnight. On the subject of 'followers' even local cycle races in France seem to have a retinue>>
And Italy. What scared me was the local road racers individually training on twisty mountain single track roads, high speed downhill on blind bends. You very quickly adopt the local "beep at every bend" habit. The local olive farmers also decend in their 50cc three wheel pickups at high speed with their engines off (they go faster)!
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Well done team GB, but why do the commentators keep bleating on about the fact she is Welsh. I got nothing against them but when she entered the competition she did so knowing she was representing Great Britain. It's a national team for goodness sake, not England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland!!
Either we are united nationally or we're not. This sort of commentary only serves to divide nations not unite them.
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>> On the subject of 'followers' even local cycle races in France seem to have a retinue of sponsors' vehicles service crews camera motorbikes from the local papers etc etc all covered in official stickers and making a pink fluffy dice nuisance of themselves. It's pathetic.
The mark of a civilised country, where everyone isn't rushing round bursting a blood vessel because some lesser beings have "Got in the way" of their vital journey where they dare not be five minutes late.
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my first thought ,on reading the good news was OH NO now we will have all the kids thinking yer thats what i want to do . be a road racer
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my first thought on reading the good news was OH NO now we will have all the kids thinking yer thats what i want to do . be a road racer
As opposed to hanging round street corners throwing stones at passing cars?
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perhaps now she will get the BBC sportswoman of the year award
last time she was up for , it went to Zara Phillips and the gormless BBC interveiwer kept asking Nicole silly questions (Miss your frt wls going round!)which showed two things
No knowledge of cyclesport
Plus the BBC trait to ignore it
though when the medals tally comes in the BBC wont be able to ignore it.
Why are so many folk paranoid about a cyclist on a road, afterall roadtax funds only A roads and motorways the rest of the roads funded out of council tax.
As for expense i did see a bike at an event in Cumbria two years ago that costs just over £9K to put together and the owner would pay a tax if he had to .
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