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You show all the videos of things going wrong, but forget to explain how a cycling crowd SHOULD behave. It's important to get a few rules out there similar to the "unwritten" rules of the peloton.
Organizers, security and other fans can correct eachother on these things, but we need them pointed out. In no particular order:
– The riders own the road. If any part of you is on the road or hovers above it, you are too close. Do not stand near the apex of a turn.
– If you are in a crowd, do not take pictures. You will end up extending the camera around the other spectators, and downing riders. If you want pictures. take them in a calm place, where you have time to set up and consider your position
– ALWAYS face in the direction of the oncoming riders
– Make sure you have no loose clothing, straps or accessories about you that can snag a passing handlebar.
– Flags go in the second row, and NEVER extend above the road
– Do not use flares. The smoke fills the lungs of the riders, and they need all the air they can get
– do not bring pets to the race. They get spooked, and will try to cross the road.
When on a mountain:
– The front of the race is holy. The first 20-50 guys are in a heated battle, and are not to be interfered with. Riders in later, smaller groups can be interacted with sometimes.
– If you want to run beside the riders, find a spot without a crowd and space to run that is not on the road itself. Other riders are coming from behind.
– seriously, stand back
When viewing from behind a barrier:
– do not hang coats or anything else over the barrier
– do not extend your arms or heads over the barrier. Riders WILL use every last inch
– for the love of pete, DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OVER THE BARRIER.
At all times:
correct eachother on the above. Make it a party, but be serious with those who ruin the party for everyone.
A lot of the mountain race circuits have had so many problems from amateur cyclists turning up before and after the races that the locals have had enough and are working with the local councils to have the races cancelled. Every year the amateur cyclists arrive and use the public roads as race circuits endangering the local public road users. I hope the roads are closed to amateur cyclists around the race dates.
Ha-ha. Said like Nelson.
if they dont want spectators , they could travel in smaller groups that the dont seek acknowledgment
duh
To blame ignorant public is just exactly what you would expect from a corrupt organization like the TdF. Because they don't have barriers for 3500km?? They are all ride in the same day?! BS! And all stages are even relevant or even have public in the majority of the trace? BS! Do teams have done anything to protect their riders and demand barriers? No, because they know that's one of the reasons people like the TdF. Why do photos of roads full of people and the riders in the middle in risk still used as "the spectacle" of the TdF?! Pfff, now it's people fault.
If they start jailing for 10 years minimum if on purpose. 1 million fine (regardless of they lose everything) if they cause accident. And fuck the human rights. Then you'll see people won't be stupid
There is no excuse for photographers to be in close range of the cyclists. Over 100 years ago, a tool was invented for this. It's called the telelens. Today's digital amateur cameras have a flabbergasting zoom range, often exceed the big 600 and 800mm telelenses of reflex cameras. Go early, find a spot that have a clear view in the road but does not attract a lot of spectators, a more remote location for example. Use tele settings or a telelens and your picture look like you was standing between them while you kept a more then safe distance. The riders will appreciate that very much.
about Froome in the Mont Ventoux climb : officially it's not allowed to run (the Tour rules state something like "the entirety of the stage distance must be covered riding a bicycle"), does anyone know why he wasn't disqualified, or at least received a fine ?
While you can't barricade an entire 150 km Tour de France stage, in an event which takes in $Billions in profit, surely the greed of the organizers and the French government are to blame for risking injury to both the athletes and fans by failing to properly barricade and supply adequate security for those few critical kilometers where rowdy fans gather. Can you walk onto the middle of a professional football pitch to take a close up photo of the athletes or hold a sign to the cameras? Of course not! Is the French army too busy doing something else, that they can't line a mountain climb with a few thousand soldiers and barricades, and while they're at it, limit the number of fans allowed? Football stadiums have a maximum capacity for a reason… safety.
Assaulting people in the process of your job is unacceptable this is bullshit and inflammatory at least
lot of the 'fans' have mental health issues it seems..
Do they have brakes it seems like then the bike stalled they should have stopped
Finally someone speaking to this insanity, a gauntlet of the criminally disturbed and inept. It speaks to the far too inadequate penalties imposed on offenses within the sport. Consequentially, this problem only gets worse as the people get worse. You would think that as the organizers, staff, athletes, enthusiasts, spectators, teams, officials, and aficionados, wage stronger push back against many penal injustices, more drastic countermeasures would be imposed in aftermath of this irreparably damaging insolence.
One word solution: JAIL
They should all be arrested and fined !
Interesting. I went to the tour de france in '04. It's the only sport that has the closeness of spectators. I agree that people should not be fools but without this interaction it wouldn't be as interesting.
The tour needs to introduce and inforce rules with massive fines to spectators not abiding by them. They simply need to ban them from standing on the road or with limbs hanging on the road.
people suck more and more each day
Just like group b of rally, the fans will become the reason of why the race stopped
Sadly to say, these kind of shits incidents will happen again & again, unless there’s tight security measurement from the organiser & local enforcer…
Froome running up the ventoux never gets old..😂