Cycling's Twitter Angry Brigade mobilises against #TDFselfie craze

No mention of that publicity seeking husband and wife team and his ginger brother who actually stopped the race to have their photo taken?

Hey, Guys,
I travelled a long way today and waited hours at the roadside hours to watch the TdF come past.
And then, I turned my back on them as they came past, so I never actually saw them.

How cool is that eh?

Just don't get it....
"Oh, the world's largest bike race is coming past - I'd best turn around and face the other way!"
... and these people must have stood there for hours, in order to take a photo - of themselves.

Are we going to see some selfies from inside the peloton next?

I'm a bitter b*stard who looks down on those who only come out for the best days of a sport or activity. Whether it's sunbathers coming into the fields where I walk my dog so I have to put it on a lead, where were they on those rainy winter days? Or some teenage girl getting a selfie of the tour so she can show how interesting she is, blocking my view of action.

Luckily most of the crowds at the top of Holme moss were cyclists and there was a really good atmosphere beforehand, I imagine most who drove there had to park at the bottom of the hill and couldn't be bothered to walk to the top.

The bloke who Lopez nearly hit was not taking a selfie, as far as I could see, just a common or garden picture of the bunch. Amateur photographers are actually marginally less of a problem than they once were, since they are mostly looking at screens (which allows some peripheral vision of moving objects around you) rather than fixedly through viewfinders - and often through a lens that distorts distances and speeds of moving objects. The bloke in question was also a victim of a common crowd control problem on straight roads, where spectators tend to echelon into the road in order to look past the person "upstream" of them, and then step back at the last moment leaving the slow, dimwitted, distracted or wide-angle lensed a metre or two out in the road on their own. I've seen that happen in every country I've ever watched a bike race - it's certainly not a peculiarly British phenomenon.

Despite the hype, there did not seem to be an abnormal number of crashes for the opening days of the Tour. The main issue seems to have been purely one of numbers: Alpe d'Huez-sized crowds turning out on 4th-cat climbs, reducing the width of already narrow roads in places where a compact 200-rider bunch is likely to roll through together, leading to the back of the field grinding to a halt. The only way to deal with that is to restrict access in some way. The massive crowds in urban areas appeared to be no problem at all for the race.

Meh. A grown man using the word "s***ie" in public.

I was going to give her a nice reply, about the timing and how it looks like the Garmin rider is blowing her hair.

But I looked at her profile and it is all cars, clothes and Justin Bieber.....I'm not a hater, but she looks like a spoilt brat

This article seems rather churlish. Prudhomme and Verity weren't getting in the way of any riders or causing any danger. The majority of people would take the #TDFselfie idea in the spirit it was intended, but you will always get some people who can't help acting like fuckwits.

As we've just seen about 10 minutes ago, put a camera in the hands of some people and their brain seems to turn to mush.