Glasgow Worlds 2023 *spoiler thread*
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The peloton off like a rocket. Passed a parked car at the point of the protest and stretched out.
Going to be a hard ride to Glasgow“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Gap at 6.26
What had previously been chasing groups are now in the peloton. Presumably they declined the opportunity to start chasing again with the original gaps on the road“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Firstly, they've attacked anything that's on TV. What's carbon footprint of snooker. There's nothing focussed against cycling here.No_Ta_Doctor said:
Firstly, outside of motor sports there are few less environmentally friendly sports than professional bike racing. You'll have noticed the motos, team cars, team buses, helicopters and TV relay planes?
Secondly, various groups have protested everywhere already - banks, oil companies, parliaments etc, and we're still up the proverbial creek
Thirdly, the strategy isn't to "win hearts and minds" it's to make climate change a topic, to actually get it on the agenda. They've been very successful at that.
Secondly, those groups messages are drowned out by these Tok Tokers, who, if you ever hear them interviewed they are terrible communicators.
Thirdly, the topic they have been successful at getting on the agenda is the nature and rights of protesters. Laws have been introduced to curb protesting, and when 100 new North Sea drilling licences were announced a lot of the reaction was schadenfraude towards this group.Twitter: @RichN950 -
Gap to the Dutch team“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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Peleton split up Crow Road, three Dutch at front of trailing group, thought not to include MvdP.================
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Weren't paying attention
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I never said it was a particular protest about bike racing, just that bike racing in now way has a let-off from protest because it involves bicycles, which seemed to be part of the original claim.RichN95. said:
Firstly, they've attacked anything that's on TV. What's carbon footprint of snooker. There's nothing focussed against cycling here.No_Ta_Doctor said:
Firstly, outside of motor sports there are few less environmentally friendly sports than professional bike racing. You'll have noticed the motos, team cars, team buses, helicopters and TV relay planes?
Secondly, various groups have protested everywhere already - banks, oil companies, parliaments etc, and we're still up the proverbial creek
Thirdly, the strategy isn't to "win hearts and minds" it's to make climate change a topic, to actually get it on the agenda. They've been very successful at that.
Secondly, those groups messages are drowned out by these Tok Tokers, who, if you ever hear them interviewed they are terrible communicators.
Thirdly, the topic they have been successful at getting on the agenda is the nature and rights of protesters. Laws have been introduced to curb protesting, and when 100 new North Sea drilling licences were announced a lot of the reaction was schadenfraude towards this group.
When the gov announced hundreds of new drilling licenses it was front page news, rather than the usual business as usual two paragraphs on page 7.
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Belgian team need better mussettes!The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I'm now wondering if I cement myself to some of the roads around here, whether they'll be repaired as fast?
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Gaviria out.
Looks like a busted nose in a crash“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
5 arrested from some protest group called “This is Rigged”.
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3 Irish at the front and 1 in the break.
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Gaviria chute, looks quite nasty, blood on both arms, might have hit his head (he's sitting up) Won't be continuing
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Let’s protest and stop a sporting event that has managed to shut down the centre of a major city to traffic for several days.RichN95. said:It looks like they may have cleared the road
Nothing says 'fight climate change' quite like stopping people riding bicycles. Their messaging is so terrible.
Greenpeace showed how it should be done last week.
Yup
Makes perfect sense.
I did what they should be doing to promote their case: went for a walk."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Every time they go for a walk people keep assaulting them to get them out of the road.....blazing_saddles said:
Let’s protest and stop a sporting event that has managed to shut down the centre of a major city to traffic for several days.RichN95. said:It looks like they may have cleared the road
Nothing says 'fight climate change' quite like stopping people riding bicycles. Their messaging is so terrible.
Greenpeace showed how it should be done last week.
Yup
Makes perfect sense.
I did what they should be doing to promote their case: went for a walk.
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Fighting for position as they come into town is looking quite heavy now, but I wouldn't have wanted to give the break 5 minutes at the first circuit if I was chasing, much harder to pull back thereWarning No formatter is installed for the format0
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Do they know there's 147k to go?“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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Denmark on the front, stringing the peleton out on the first Glasgow circuit.================
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One long line back through 4 or 5 corners“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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Mads wants a hard race, Mørkøv blasted up Montrose street there, almost got three of them off the front for a TTTN0bodyOfTheGoat said:Denmark on the front, stringing the peleton out on the first Glasgow circuit.
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Underrated city Glasgow"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm1
