this is insanity!
Watching the Tour de Suisse this morning on Cycling.TV you can see the differences between the different countries attitudes towards cycle racing. France, Italy, and Spain close the roads during tour stages, while the Swiss allow ROLLING STOPS! That right, there are moving cars on the course! Are you kidding me? It's almost alien to see them driving as the peleton is racing towards them at 30 miles an hour.
The other crap they have to endure is all the traffic "furniture" the Swiss use. There are splits all over the place as they enter towns and cities. And so far, it looks as though there hasn't been anyone warning them like the French Gendarmes do w/ the yellow warning flags. You can be riding along when suddenly the peleton starts to split and there's traffic pylons blowing their way through w/no warning!
I know it takes a lot to organize the closure of roads, but it's a MAJOR TOUR! It's been considered 4th in line behind the big three. You think they'd give a little more effort.
T-tags:cycling, Tour de Suisse, Cycling.TV
The other crap they have to endure is all the traffic "furniture" the Swiss use. There are splits all over the place as they enter towns and cities. And so far, it looks as though there hasn't been anyone warning them like the French Gendarmes do w/ the yellow warning flags. You can be riding along when suddenly the peleton starts to split and there's traffic pylons blowing their way through w/no warning!
I know it takes a lot to organize the closure of roads, but it's a MAJOR TOUR! It's been considered 4th in line behind the big three. You think they'd give a little more effort.
T-tags:cycling, Tour de Suisse, Cycling.TV
posted by Chris Huller at 10:14 AM
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