Cracking video (below) from French Prankster Remi Gaillard, this. The infamous joker set up a full size mountain finish on a French Col, complete with fans, film crews, a 2CV support car, motorbike outriders and a man in his underpants, then filmed the reactions of sunday cyclists as they were mobbed by the adoring crowd at the summit. Reactions were, shall we say, mixed. One guy gets right into the spirit of things, telling the interviewer that "the mountain was very steep" while holding the winner’s cup and wearing a viking helmet. Another chap is more bemused: "I’m not part of your race", he repeats to the oblivious crowd. Excellent stuff.
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“I’m not part of your race”
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"TfL has now suspended more than £2 million in funding towards the borough until it pays back the £234,917...." I wonder if Mayor Jason Perry will be making a video about him having a ceremonial handing over of a comedy cheque for £234,917 to TfL? That'll really impress the voters. Not to mention how much it cost to remove them, still, it's only taxpayers' money, not his. The tories seem intent on proving that they're even stupider than Refuk, and given the news yesterday, that's a pretty high bar.
Only one of which is relevant to that sentence, though. [If that's what happened - obviously this is all speculative, since where they entered isn't shown in the video.]
Three words: Rigid Single Speed. The ultimate in simplicity :-; Doesn't suit all of course
I think Mr Freeman urgently needs to get his car to a garage if it can only be driven at 20mph by applying the brakes. Also, only a small section of Roehampton Lane is dual carriageway; by halfway through his video he's past it already which makes his inane rant positively disingenuous.
@mdavidford In that case I make it three incidents, one of cars entering the race route and two of cars endangering a rider!

7 thoughts on ““I’m not part of your race””
Brilliant laughed my head
Brilliant laughed my head off.
Utter genius!
Utter genius! 🙂
Remi is a comic genius in the
Remi is a comic genius in the best traditions of Jacques Tati.
His football videos are well worth a look – you can find those, and much more, here:
Warning: Maybe not in work time if you have stuff to do this afternoon – you could spend ages on these 😉
The third guy is the funniest
The third guy is the funniest – he just goes along with it
Just watched all the way
Just watched all the way through – won’t spoil it, but almost fell off my chair laughing at Remi’s last line 😀
Funniest thing I’ve seen for
Funniest thing I’ve seen for ages…..
Brilliant!!!!
Brilliant!!!!