Velo South – Cancelled

Sorry, but you’re wrong.  [

Sorry, but you’re wrong.  [/quote] Technically, I’m not wrong – the BBC weatherforecast may have been, but i just read it.  Reading your post it seems to me that you’re saying that it rained heavily the night before.   Many cyclists brave rain all the time: myself included. Tell me about the 40mph winds on Sunday.  

Daveyraveygravey wrote:

Why not join in?  Or why not get a chair out and enjoy the sights and sounds of people enjoying themselves, instead of being a negative, moaning misery guts.  Your attitude and the handful of people opposing it are typical of why this country is going down the pan.

When you dig a bit deeper, you usually find that the thing people like Cumrew are _actually_ pissed off about is how shit their own lives turned out. They then become fixated on preventing other people having fun, particularly the sort of fun they don’t understand, and especially when it’s the sort of thing they wish they were fit/clever/rich/whatever enough to do themselves.

Daveyraveygravey wrote:

Cumrew wrote:

Vox populi – the company that organises this says it’s been cancelled because of the weather but I suspect they have succumbed to the amount of protest from local residents in the South Downs.  The sun is shining and the forecast looks great.  There are a lot of people very motivated to stop this with a lot of resources and a lot of QCs to represent them.  The South Downs is where people live – horses, businesses, farmers, church-goers and a 140,000 people – all marooned in their houses while 30,000 cyclists treat the place like Disneyworld.  The way the private company went about organising this event was a disgrace.  No wonder opposition increased the more people heard about it.  I very much doubt this velo will ever see the light of day again.

I thought the organisers were CSM?

You are a gullible fool, you have been taken in by the lies and propaganda put out by one person and 3 or 4 mugs that joined in.  “Marooned in your houses” – really?

It was 15,000 cyclists max too.  So you can’t even get simple facts right.

Why not join in?  Or why not get a chair out and enjoy the sights and sounds of people enjoying themselves, instead of being a negative, moaning misery guts.  Your attitude and the handful of people opposing it are typical of why this country is going down the pan.

I’d thought they were trying to imply that the cancellation due to bad weather was down to the number of protests made by the local gammons (“voice of the people”).

(Sorry if I missed the whooshing sound…  )

Cumrew wrote:

Vox populi – the company that organises this says it’s been cancelled because of the weather but I suspect they have succumbed to the amount of protest from local residents in the South Downs.  The sun is shining and the forecast looks great.  There are a lot of people very motivated to stop this with a lot of resources and a lot of QCs to represent them.  The South Downs is where people live – horses, businesses, farmers, church-goers and a 140,000 people – all marooned in their houses while 30,000 cyclists treat the place like Disneyworld.  The way the private company went about organising this event was a disgrace.  No wonder opposition increased the more people heard about it.  I very much doubt this velo will ever see the light of day again.

I thought the organisers were CSM?

You are a gullible fool, you have been taken in by the lies and propaganda put out by one person and 3 or 4 mugs that joined in.  “Marooned in your houses” – really?

It was 15,000 cyclists max too.  So you can’t even get simple facts right.

Why not join in?  Or why not get a chair out and enjoy the sights and sounds of people enjoying themselves, instead of being a negative, moaning misery guts.  Your attitude and the handful of people opposing it are typical of why this country is going down the pan.

No way could the setup have
No way could the setup have been done in that weather nor would it have been reasonable to ask the volunteers to get soaked. Right call made at right time, and the three refund options are excellent

Your one and only post was

Your one and only post was the best laugh I have had for a long time, Cumrew. I heard that you clowns are claiming victory, but it was the threat of seriously bad weather that did it. Not even your money and a whole slither of QC’s (if that’s not the collective noun it should be) could control the weather. And even if you prayed to your imaginary god, she would probably send down a thunderbolt or two to teach you selfish leeches a lesson. As I couldn’t cancel my hotel, I used the opportunity to visit friends. The hotel management were very upset at losing the majority of their cancellable bookings for the weekend. I spent a lot of money, but I spent it in Portsmouth, to ensure that your miserable community got nothing out of me.

Chris Hayes wrote:

15mph winds and heavy rain showing on the BBC weatherforecast for tomorrow.  Cancelled too early, in my opinion. Perhaps rolling road closures coupled with fewer riders might have been a better approach. I’m pretty sure that this is how the other sportives I’ve done (except for RideLondon) are done without any catasptrophes

Yeah, hindsight is great isn’t it, IF the weather was going to continue and they left it until the day before to cancel people would be kicking off big time. You have no idea frankly, cancelling when they did was the best decision all round all things considered and with due respect to the safety of those participating which is paramount.