see the usual idiots are out in force on the Rio road race.

[Booyaa]

Not if you're Irish/Northern Irish

They usually don't wait for football to be fair.

 

[Crackle]

Sadly in this day and age, I worry a little about the security risk to the cyclists of allowing the fans to get so close.

It can only be a matter of time before some nutter looking for his 15 minutes of fame pulls out a knife and attacks one of the competitors, or even just a fan of rider A deciding to help his hero by pushing rider B off his bike.

I am all for tripping up the nobbers who get off on running alongside the riders. They should then be dragged off the road and into the crowd for a spot of attitude realignment.

I think the history of the sport might shock you. Roving gangs beating up rivals. Some of the riders carried guns.

Stephen Roche was spit on and punched on the Giro, if anything things have improved over recent years.

 

[Tanis8472]

So you expect the whole course to be cordoned off with fencing. 250km of it

 

[toffee]

So you expect the whole course to be cordoned off with fencing. 250km of it

Well some of it they went round three times

Derek

 

[Tanis8472]

Lol. I was also referring to giro, tdf, Vuelta etc

 

[Dayvo]

It's "one of those things", it might be annoying and it sometimes interferes with the riders. But it's all part of cycling.

So being spat at or having urine thrown at you whilst doing your job, is acceptable? I don't think so.

 

[Brandane]

So you expect the whole course to be cordoned off with fencing. 250km of it

I don't have the answer, but they will have to do something sooner or later, if the worst happens. Meantime, to save the sport from such measures, the nobbers should be discouraged. The best way to do that IMHO is for other spectators to make it clear that such behaviour will not be tolerated, and if that means the odd clown losing his front teeth after being tripped up - so be it.

 

[Tanis8472]

So like the video

 

[slowmotion]

So like the video

The comments after the Youtube clip were fun. Here's a put-down of the outraged presenter....



fishncapt262 years ago
Anyone else see the hysterical irony of a pillow biting vegan kiwi talkin tough bout "if was me id of done some nasty violent ruthless shoot!"... like WHAT? Interioraly redecorate his house? Or ornamentaly landscape his shrubbery in accordance with fung shuway ? Or given him a agressive massage in a turkish bath? Lol..yep this vegans a fruit nit just cause a kiwi either

 

[RoubaixCube]

The comments after the Youtube clip were fun. Here's a put-down of the outraged presenter....



fishncapt262 years ago
Anyone else see the hysterical irony of a pillow biting vegan kiwi talkin tough bout "if was me id of done some nasty violent ruthless shoot!"... like WHAT? Interioraly redecorate his house? Or ornamentaly landscape his shrubbery in accordance with fung shuway ? Or given him a agressive massage in a turkish bath? Lol..yep this vegans a fruit nit just cause a kiwi either

Hes a few kiwi's short of a fruit basket one might say.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

So being spat at or having urine thrown at you whilst doing your job, is acceptable? I don't think so.

What are you blabbering on about?

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'm surprised we don't see idiots riding bikes alongside the pros for a few seconds of fame. Why hasn't this happened? Haven't these idiots thought of doing this yet i wonder?

 

[mr_cellophane]

You hear of more riders taken down by the motorbikes than by spectators.

 

[Crackle]

I'm surprised we don't see idiots riding bikes alongside the pros for a few seconds of fame. Why hasn't this happened? Haven't these idiots thought of doing this yet i wonder?

If you followed pro racing you'd know the anwser to that.

 

[Globalti]

In his book Domestique, Charly Wegelius describes having his riding glasses snatched from his face during a climb in southern Italy, a place he hated.