Spectators on the Tour - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

07-07-2004, 01:36 PM

I'm watching some excerpts from the 1988 tour and on one stage I was amazed
(if naive) to see on one mountain stage (Alpe d' Huez?) where the road was
so crowded with people that the motorcycles couldn't even stay ahead of the
bikers, and in trying to part the crowd, a group of four riders actually
had to slow and coast. One of the officials(?) on the back of one of the
motorcycles had to signal something to the riders, can't tell what, but it
appears to slow down (!). (The vid was from Netherlands and thus not in
English).

That's gotta be majorly frustrating - or is it not uncommon?

In an adjacent clip one guy goes out and slaps a rider in the butt. Amazing
how the riders don't seem distracted by this ****e; pardon my french. ;-p

-B