Tour O' The Borders riders attacked with sticks
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
[QUOTE 4947371, member: 9609"]Stuff like this doesn't happen round here
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Because all the farmers up your way were killed by werewolves!
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Because all the farmers up your way were killed by werewolves!
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Angry Morris dancers?
GlasgowFinn
Veteran
- Location
- The People's Republic of Cumbernauld
I rode the Tour O' The Borders on Sunday. It was a fab ride but unfortunately auld Farmer Giles seems to have taken exception to the closed roads and attacked the first cyclists through.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Tour O' The Borders is one of few events that requires riders to affirm that they are "in good health" thereby excluding capable cyclists with certain health conditions, so I find it difficult to summon much sympathy for the organiser. Calling the protestors idiots isn't exactly going to smooth things over for next time, either.
It's still a shame for the attacked riders, though.
It's still a shame for the attacked riders, though.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Same discussion here: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/b...-farmers-attack-cyclists.223444/#post-4947485
Maybe the mods can merge them.
Maybe the mods can merge them.
- Location
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Done.
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
"If anyone knows who is responsible" Are they joking? They would be laid in the hedge with those sticks shoved where the sun doesnt shine.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
The Marie Curie Pennines Etape was cancelled partly through local opposition, but also declining interest.
The powerful farming lobby in County Durham was at the forefront of the protest, although I could never understand how closing a few roads for a few hours adversely impacted farming.
Traders in Barnard Castle were also not particularly keen.
The sportive was a nett loss to some of them, the cycling spend being less than the amount they lost from regulars who avoided the town on that day.
The powerful farming lobby in County Durham was at the forefront of the protest, although I could never understand how closing a few roads for a few hours adversely impacted farming.
Traders in Barnard Castle were also not particularly keen.
The sportive was a nett loss to some of them, the cycling spend being less than the amount they lost from regulars who avoided the town on that day.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Not sure I really support closing the public highway just so people can pay a fee to a private company to ride round. Fair enough maybe for a proper race, or a mass participation thing like marathon, but for a commercially organised leasure ride, not so much.
This doesn't in anyway absolve the twats attacking cyclists
This doesn't in anyway absolve the twats attacking cyclists
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Yes, I think you're soon going to need to be bringing tens of thousands of riders into an area to get road closures.
Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Edinburgh
Yes this predilection with closed roads is just a nonsense. Fair enough if there's a specific need on specific stretches of the route but even then there will doubtless be other options such as one way diversions, e.g. So traffic is only coming towards the riders and not having to overtake. Road closures antagonise residents and are just a sop to the lycra clad, middle aged overweight phoneys who think that sportives are races. The sooner they disappear from our roads the better.
Mr Celine
Discordian
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- Waxing my moustache
Two men have at last been charged. Peeblesshire News.
