Roads Are Not For Racing On

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But my home town is awash with boy racers.
I should coco.
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No they're not - with some exceptions, often involving closing said roads to general traffic.

But that applies equally to all road users.
A shortcut has to be a challenge, otherwise it would just be the way. No situation is so dire that panic cannot make it worse.
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Any group of club cyclists constitutes a race in some people's eyes.
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So any group of cars - like the piles that are together behind every traffic light - are a race group?
A shortcut has to be a challenge, otherwise it would just be the way. No situation is so dire that panic cannot make it worse.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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Oh well, that's the London Marathon finished then.
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MartinC wrote:Oh well, that's the London Marathon finished then.

Nah, brings in too much money.

Now, local road (running) races set by local clubs, that's a different matter. Councils have been making increasing demands on local clubs whose expenses have spiraled to the point a number have been cancelled.
That's a real problem for our athletes who rely on a large number of fast, cheap road races rather than a small number of expensive mass participation events.
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A funny article. I thought at first it was serious, then felt a bit stupid when I realised it was a joke.
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pwa wrote:A funny article. I thought at first it was serious, then felt a bit stupid when I realised it was a joke.


I'm glad someone got it.
I wonder about this forum at times.
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Vantage wrote:I'm glad someone got it.
I wonder about this forum at times.

It was obvious it was a joke from the way it was written (and the site that hosted it) although I have to admit to not really 'getting' it. After all, roads really are for transport and not for racing - so where's the joke?
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kwackers wrote:
Vantage wrote:I'm glad someone got it.
I wonder about this forum at times.

It was obvious it was a joke from the way it was written (and the site that hosted it) although I have to admit to not really 'getting' it. After all, roads really are for transport and not for racing - so where's the joke?

Same.
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I recognised it as a joje (just look at the web site banner).

But then it make me start to think that if a group of motor vehicles (e.g. cars or motorbikes) did the same, would people start to object (i.e. car racing on normal transport roads in amongst the other users (including cyclists,, etc.).

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Psamathe wrote:I recognised it as a joje (just look at the web site banner).

But then it make me start to think that if a group of motor vehicles (e.g. cars or motorbikes) did the same, would people start to object (i.e. car racing on normal transport roads in amongst the other users (including cyclists,, etc.).

Yes. But it wouldn't be "doing the same" would it? It would endanger lots of other people. It's "doing the same thing" in the same way as somebody shooting a person with a water pistol is "doing the same thing" as somebody shooting someone with a shotgun.The regulation should be proportional to the danger of the activity. I'm confident that actual cycle racing is well enough regulated in the UK. I suspect the article wasn't actually thinking of cycle races, merely groups of cyclists in lycra (which obviously means they are racing :roll: ).
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I give up.
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