Lance Watch 12. More Lance + paint this painting that Shepard Fairey Trek Madone

@RayG In my experience many of the people who attend overpriced events like these aren't genuine fans but people with high disposable incomes who like to go "for the experience" and to say that they were there. In any case, even if every ticket was sold to a dyed-in-the-wool cycling fan who was prepared to pay silly money because it's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the Depart in their home town/country, why would that make charging exploitative prices excusable?

The title of the review sounds almost as if it was the "tier number" you pay for, not the actual performance. I thought bikes were about riding, not bragging about them? If the bike is so great, what is the problem really?

@Rendel Harris I see the average cycling fan protested by snapping up the available tickets immediately.

@RayG Even if the ticket revenues for this event were all going straight into rider safety, which I'll wager they're not, there would still be perfectly relevant questions to be asked as to why the ordinary cycling fan was being stung for the cost rather than it coming out of ASO's €30M profit from the Tour alone and the €130M it makes annually from its race portfolio.

@Daclu Trelub I'm also wondering if they're putting matting down over the setts leading up to the esplanade - imagine the number of potential pre-race retirements if they try to ride slowly over them uphill if it's bucketing down that night! 🫣

@HoarseMann I considered that probability - Just expecting the prime 'mid-priced' seats to have already gone. Not to mention there'll likely be an even bigger strain on the terrible ticketing platform...

@wtjs I went to Clitheroe to watch them freezing their tits off in the rain after weeks of glorious weather. The crash on the lower slopes of Pendle was actually one of the police motorcycle marshals who slid out on the cattle grid on the bend at the foot of the straight climb to the Well Springs.

@saffronsimian dumbest comment of the century.

“They added that the teams will ride from Holyrood Palace up the Royal Mile before reaching Edinburgh Castle, and that the road will be “completely unticketed”.” Only because they can’t close the road and rob peds. Greedy, greedy bastards with their snouts in the trough.

Motornormativity is fuelled by ignorant journalists writing lies for click bait revenue. There is zero redress for this, they just publish any garbage. This is par for the course for antisocial media and the rot it spreads. Complicit are the police, CPS and judges who all drive and read the same garbage. They are not independent thinkers, and have almost zero moral compass where people who use a bicycle are injured by dangerous arrogant drivers. A broad powerful media campaign from the government could address this, but they don't have the courage to do what is morally correct.