I'm amazed no-one came off their bike - it's crazy the way they let people all over the course like that. Couldn't they have put barriers all the way up the climb?
That pales into insignificance when compared to the track invasions of the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle race where the crown pour onto the track in the final couple of minutes when there's motor cycles circuiting and stratospheric speeds. I don't know if this still goes on - one of the avoidance strategies in the past was to sneakily start the race five minutes early but the ruse was rumbled.
The insanity then contiues with the spectators taking their own motorcycles onto the circuit...it wouldn't be so bad if they all went round in the same direction.....
The Etape pales into insignifacance compared with the 'roll your own' Le Mans laps.
I saw a couple which read "rip their balls off, Lance" and "crush their balls", which were presumably attempts at sick humour. There was a also a "[censored] Lance" but the OLN camera panned away just in time to dodge the K being visible.
"taywood" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Richard Bates said:
Did I see what I thought I saw? "EPO Lance" painted on the Alp d'Huez road?
Commentator said there was one for Duffield. Anyone else hear that?
I'm amazed no-one came off their bike - it's crazy the way they let people all over the course like that. Couldn't they have put barriers all the way up the climb? Would be a logistical nightmare, perhaps, but this is the Tour de France we're talking about - it would be a drop in the organisational ocean.
"Fil" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Taywood? You don't by any chance work for Taylor Woodrow do you? Just curious as I have dealings with them!
Nope, its just a made up name.
OT. That firm built a lot of houses in the North of England in the 50's building boom when building materials were in short supply. Their gimmick was to top the cavity wall with concrete blocks with a gutter on the outside. The roof timbers rested on this.
Being concrete there was no need for lintels. But when double glazing came in the fitters took out the solid wooden load bearing window frames and put in upvc frames usually with a gap at the top covered by a long pvc strip. The result is a lot of houses with sagged gutters over bowing windows into which rain water pools, the gutter lining deteriorates, the gutter joints split and rain water runs down into the cavity walls or even waterfalls down the inside of the bedroom windows. My friend who owns one also had dealings with that firm!
