Tour of Britain 2022

[DCLane]

And yet, according to the FA, the cancellation of this weekend's footy games, 'policing was not a factor'.
Mixed messages to these tired eyes.

Police on the ground is much easier to organise than motorbike police. Far fewer motorbikes.

The country's going to have dignitaries and many others needing police motorbike cover for the next 10 days, which includes the last three days of the Tour of Britain. A plan to pull the resource back will have been in place for many years.

A sad end to the race, but an inevitable one imo.

Add to that councils closing facilities for this weekend, causing the cancellation of other events, and it wasn't going to be able to continue.

 

[Alex321]

Have you seen the race ? The rolling closed road needs highly trained officers.

You can't just rustle them up from anywhere. One mistake and people can die.

Indeed. And that has happened.

A few years back, I was going to watch the stage that included Caerphilly "mountain", but it got neutralised before they reached us due to the death of a police outrider earlier in the stage.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I know absolutely damn all about how pro races are organised so I'm prepared to take their word for it that there were operational problems.

I think it's been put out of its misery this year.

 

[rualexander]

Have you seen the race ? The rolling closed road needs highly trained officers.

You can't just rustle them up from anywhere. One mistake and people can die.

I doubt there's anyone qualified to do it who's not actually on the race already.

I've seen it several times, including stage 2 on Monday.
You've misunderstood my post.
I wasn't suggesting replacing the police who were on the race, I was suggesting that the officers required in London could be found without taking the ones on the race away from it, there were after all only about 20 police motos on the race

 

[Alex321]

I've seen it several times, including stage 2 on Monday.
You've misunderstood my post.
I wasn't suggesting replacing the police who were on the race, I was suggesting that the officers required in London could be found without taking the ones on the race away from it, there were after all only about 20 police motos on the race

If the numbers are still similar, it is actually more than twice that number, according to this article from 2012, with 56 police motorbikes involved on each stage.
https://road.cc/content/feature/67388-riding-outriders-policing-tour-britain

28 'motos', but a similar number of other bikes.

 

[suzeworld]

Today's stage finished a short distance from my house. I didn't go.

This was your post.
It’s written to sound like a choice. A word or two extra could have communicated more subtle points, like you were actually disappointed / unable to go.

If you meant to communicate something different about disability then your OP
failed. You DID just seem like a miserable knobber. That wasn’t an assumption on my part. That was an analysis of your message.

Though of course you might be both a miserable knobber and disabled. They’re not mutually exclusive. You certainly can’t guilt-trip me for reading your communication style.

 

[Mike_P]

At least the cancellation had detracted attention from the crazy finish in Mansfield where half the peleton went down the wrong road due to the lack of any barrier.

 

[Dogtrousers]

28 'motos', but a similar number of other bikes.

What's the difference between a 'moto' and a motorbike that isn't a 'moto'?

Genuine question. I thought Moto was just French slang for motorbike

 

[rualexander]

If the numbers are still similar, it is actually more than twice that number, according to this article from 2012, with 56 police motorbikes involved on each stage.
https://road.cc/content/feature/67388-riding-outriders-policing-tour-britain

28 'motos', but a similar number of other bikes.

28 police motorbikes it says in that article with 22 of them being used to control traffic, so my estimate of around 20 was fairly close.
It doesn't say 56 police motorbikes as you suggest.

The other 28 motorbikes used to control traffic are from the National Escort Group, not police.

 

[rualexander]

What's the difference between a 'moto' and a motorbike that isn't a 'moto'?

Genuine question. I thought Moto was just French slang for motorbike

Correct, moto is the French word for motorbike

 

[Alex321]

28 police motorbikes it says in that article with 22 of them being used to control traffic, so my estimate of around 20 was fairly close.
It doesn't say 56 police motorbikes as you suggest.

The other 28 motorbikes used to control traffic are from the National Escort Group, not police.

Ah. I wrongly thought the National Escort Group was a police division. Having looked it up, as you say, they are not part of the police.

So yeah, 28 isn't that far different.

 

[Mike_P]

Q then is how many police motorbikes and riders there are in total.

 

[cougie uk]

I see Pidders used his free time off. He's done a low 18 minute parkrun from the looks of his Strava this morning.

Actually I take that back. Looks like he's just done a fast 5k in the park rather than waiting for parkrun at 9.

 

[mjr]

I know absolutely damn all about how pro races are organised so I'm prepared to take their word for it that there were operational problems.

I think it's been put out of its misery this year.

Or throttled before it got interesting? Let's face it, some editions have ended as a tussle over bonus seconds and been quite exciting for it. This year's didn't get to the end, but maybe some team was hoping to take advantage of the mazey course on the Isle of Wight?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Or throttled before it got interesting? Let's face it, some editions have ended as a tussle over bonus seconds and been quite exciting for it. This year's didn't get to the end, but maybe some team was hoping to take advantage of the mazey course on the Isle of Wight?

True, the IoW stage route did look promising.