Any event producers winners and losers among local businesses.
@Julia9054 played at this year's Durham Miners' Gala.
A lot of traders in Durham City tolerate the gala because all it means to them is a Saturday without their usual Saturday custom.
Some used to shut, and when the gala had stronger working class routes, the posh estate agents would board up their fronts to prevent drunken miners, impelled by a crushing sense of social injustice, putting a brick through their window.
A sportive passing through Barnard Castle in County Durham was stopped, partly through local kick back from traders, and farmers who couldn't possibly accept not being able to trunk around on their tractors for an hour or two once a year.
Hopefully, most of the Harrogate traders who might have been inclined to moan will not do so when they realise the cycling is not going to be an annual event.