http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/traffic-havoc-impacts-overall-missouri-fight
Somehow, this makes me think "Typical, this WOULD happen in America". How come this sort of crap doesn't seem to happen in other countries? (Except maybe Australia where bike riders seem to get hit all the time by driver (and I use the term "drivers" loosly! But over there it's rarly in a race situation). Why is it that the US manages to put on great events, get great teams over there for races, American organisers pay so much more attention to organizational detail than the
European.. the Americans actually give you much better info on the race, the course, how to get there, they bring in portable toilets etc... and then sadly some incident inveriably happens where you think some part of the organization has no idea about the sport. Such as putting cones in the middle of the road, or having a center line rule, or having some motorbike stop in a croner (twice). It's a real shame! Personally, I put it down to an obsetion with too many so called "rules", and not enough everyday people with knowledge (not that you can do anything about that, cycling just isn't a historic and well known sport over there).
Hopefully the amount and the qualityh of events over there will keep increasing as it has been... but in the words of Monica Galler "Think people, think!"
Somehow, this makes me think "Typical, this WOULD happen in America". How come this sort of crap doesn't seem to happen in other countries? (Except maybe Australia where bike riders seem to get hit all the time by driver (and I use the term "drivers" loosly! But over there it's rarly in a race situation). Why is it that the US manages to put on great events, get great teams over there for races, American organisers pay so much more attention to organizational detail than the
European.. the Americans actually give you much better info on the race, the course, how to get there, they bring in portable toilets etc... and then sadly some incident inveriably happens where you think some part of the organization has no idea about the sport. Such as putting cones in the middle of the road, or having a center line rule, or having some motorbike stop in a croner (twice). It's a real shame! Personally, I put it down to an obsetion with too many so called "rules", and not enough everyday people with knowledge (not that you can do anything about that, cycling just isn't a historic and well known sport over there).Hopefully the amount and the qualityh of events over there will keep increasing as it has been... but in the words of Monica Galler "Think people, think!"
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