Glasgow Worlds 2023 *spoiler thread*

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Wtf is going on just tuned in
    "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 pm
  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    Nice of the protesters to give the lead guys a coffee and cake stop. Could have chosen a nicer place for it though.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Just stop oil?
    "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 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Anyone know if there's a detour route?
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited August 2023
    Not enough cops ...?
    "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 pm
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    mididoctors said:

    Not enough cops ...?

    Too many loons.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    Police just arriving
    http://www.stuartmole.co.uk/
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,065
    Big police van moving through stopped peleton at snail pace.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Lappartient has arrived. This will make things worse.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    In a race context, this will help riders who struggle with longer races.
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,065
    Talk that bikes can pass protest spot, but not cars!
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Scottish Indy or Just Stop Oil?
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Apparently someone has cemented their hand to the floor.

    Just drive over it then?
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    gweeds said:

    Scottish Indy or Just Stop Oil?

    Take a guess. One group wouldn't want to make Scotland look bad, the other are attention seekers who want to turn people against their cause.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    edited August 2023
    gweeds said:

    Apparently someone has cemented their hand to the floor.

    Just drive over it then?

    Or get a chainsaw and saw it off, or take a sledgehammer to it.

    One good thing is that the tw@ts are getting no publicity.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    RichN95. said:

    gweeds said:

    Scottish Indy or Just Stop Oil?

    Take a guess. One group wouldn't want to make Scotland look bad, the other are attention seekers who want to turn people against their cause.
    I’m still struggling
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    RichN95. said:

    Anyone know if there's a detour route?

    Across the fields?
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    gweeds said:

    Just keep whacking it with the hammer FFS.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Good on all the coverage not to say who the protesters are.
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,610
    Suggesting 12:15 restart now
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    edited August 2023
    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.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Dorset_Boy said:

    They should just drive the lead vehicles straight over the tw@ts.

    Amazing how disrupting a sports event brings out the latent fascism
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    Looks like the road needed repaired.

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    Oh well, BMX instead...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    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.

    Incredible isn’t it. I have no idea what they think they’ll achieve in terms of change.

    Target the fucking politicians and policy makers.

    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    The BigMat logo all over quaint British* scenes is so jarring...

    (*so far)
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    gweeds said:

    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.

    Incredible isn’t it. I have no idea what they think they’ll achieve in terms of change.

    Target the censored politicians and policy makers.

    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.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    At the foot of Montrose Street - very lively, cheering random people on Bromptons and stuff going up

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