World Championships 2023: Men's Road Race (August 6)

[iBanesto]

Where is Bernard Hinault when we need him?

 

[Tim Cahill]

'Just Stop Oil'

 

[Red Rick]

Interrupting a bike race in the name of protesting oil seems slightly redundant. In terms of optics definitely.

F1 at Silverstone is one thing, but a bike race... is just wtf considering the push towards promoting bicycles as a clean energy alternative method of transportation anyway.

Fairly sure the carbon footprint of WT cycling is terrible.

 

[T-Nielsen]

They probably don't want to chop the hands off people.
Bring in the local fire department? The pressure from those hoses might help. SPLOOOOOOOOOOSH!

How do they know if they haven't tried?

I say start with the most annoying one and see how they feel.

 

[Netserk]

Wasn't in @Netserk who's always argued road blocking is a perfectly acceptable tactic

You’re supposed to ease up and ride slowly, never to brake. If the protesters walked slowly in front of the peloton, it’d have been by the book.

 

[Rackham]

Fairly sure the carbon footprint of WT cycling is terrible.

Maybe, but the optics are what they are. And considering Scottish road traffic is just normally going about its daily business then we're left with oil protestors protesting bikes whilst cars, trucks & whatever trundle around as per usual. It looks comical.

And this is starting to have an actual impact on this WC the longer it goes on. The whole point is it's a 270km endurance slog without a break.

 

[RedheadDane]

How do they know if they haven't tried?

I'm not saying it won't work. Just that it might be morally questionable...
And do we even know they're glued to the road by their hands?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Fairly sure the carbon footprint of WT cycling is terrible.

The easily avoidable part of that carbon footprint is mostly transfers that require airplanes and publicity caravans, though. Neither of those apply to the WC.

 

[roundabout]

I suppose at least it's not raining, but I'll be starting to get annoyed if I had to stand and wait in the middle of Scotland without even a bus to go back to.

 

[MartinGT]

It’s about the worst possible way to protest, because whatever the message they are trying to spread, it won’t b

Maybe, but the optics are what they are. And considering Scottish road traffic is just normally going about its daily business then we're left with oil protestors protesting bikes whilst cars, trucks & whatever trundle around as per usual. It looks comical.

And this is starting to have an actual impact on this WC the longer it goes on. The whole point is it's a 270km endurance slog without a break.

So you're saying they should stop the motorway, nowhere near a global event and that would be a lot better?

 

[magliaroz]

Something tells me we are not going to see scenes like this in Abu Dhabi.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Its Daily Mail readers I feel sorry. Imagine their dilemma - do we support the cyclists or the people stopping the cyclists?

 

[T-Nielsen]

I'm not saying it won't work. Just that it might be morally questionable...
And do we even know they're glued to the road by their hands?

I don't want to think about what else they might have glued to the road.

 

[Netserk]

Fairly sure the carbon footprint of WT cycling is terrible.

It really isn’t. Most economic activity of that size pollute more.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Yes they usually cement themselves

I imagine it will be the GB sponsors that will have triggered them, at least the countryside looks really nice.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Its Daily Mail readers I feel sorry. Imagine their dilemma - do we support the cyclists or the people stopping the cyclists?

They would probably support the cyclists riding over the protesters for some good old-fashioned corporal punishment, then the cyclists being thrown in jail for that.

 

[T-Nielsen]

Its Daily Mail readers I feel sorry. Imagine their dilemma - do we support the cyclists or the people stopping the cyclists?

I will bet a penny to the pound that the real culprit are the small boats.

 

[MartinGT]

Surely they should have prepared for something like this?

 

[RedheadDane]

I don't want to think about what else they might have glued to the road.

I was just imagining that they'd poured some glue on the road, and lied down.

 

[Ricco']

The Vatican guy should go ahead and perform the miracle of unglue the protesters hands.

 

[meat puppet]

And yet Rick's point stands, WT cycling's carbon footprint is probably quite bad. No point shifting the goalposts to optics or whatever, IMHO. Most activities we love have contradictory effects in the current institutional setups, after all. And no, this is not saying that the protesters tactics are, erm, very good.

Also, as the Punch was invoked, Chuck D* put it best: Hinault was a hero to most / But he never meant sith to me.

* Quote may have been doctored

 

[Rackham]

So you're saying they should stop the motorway, nowhere near a global event and that would be a lot better?

Personally speaking I'm saying they should f-off.

It's a pointless protest carried out by self-aggrandising attention seekers role playing at protesting. 'Stop Oil' is just the latest craze to afflict the minds of gullible middle-class university goers with too much spare time on their hands.

This is just my opinion of course.

 

[T-Nielsen]

I was just imagining that they'd poured some glue on the road, and lied down.

That could be funny it it was face down

 

[topcat]

Its Daily Mail readers I feel sorry. Imagine their dilemma - do we support the cyclists or the people stopping the cyclists?

The Daily Mail-arguably the world’s greatest newspaper. What time do they hit the circuit? I have to burn some plastic and waste engine oil first.

 

[MartinGT]

Personally speaking I'm saying they should f-off.

It's a pointless protest carried out by self-aggrandising attention seekers role playing at protesting. 'Stop Oil' is just the latest craze to afflict the minds of gullible middle-class university goers with too much spare time on their hands.

This is just my opinion of course.

And it's pony too.