I'm sorry to do this but I felt a need to get this off my chest!
As some of you may recall (in SA) there was a race called the Riebies. As you also might remember the reviews of this race was not to great.
A friend of mine and his girlfriend did the mix tandems in that race. They had a mechanical breakdown about 10 km's into the race and could not continue. At this stage they have also seen that the race is not going to well (i.e. No Marshalls at busy intersections, cyclists getting lost etc), so they took it upon themselves to SAFELY GUIDE the cyclist through a busy intersection.
They were still dressed in their cycling clothes. As they were doing this they took a heluva lot of abuse from the cyclist crapping them out over the poor race conditions.
I can understand the cyclist point of view but these people were dressed as cyclists and were trying to help. I seriously think that "some" cyclist need to have a look at their attitudes. We do not need these people in our sport. Everyone could see that they were not marshalls but a fellow cyclist trying to help!!!
I apologise to anyone if I might have offended you in any way but I needed to get this matter off my chest.
As some of you may recall (in SA) there was a race called the Riebies. As you also might remember the reviews of this race was not to great.
A friend of mine and his girlfriend did the mix tandems in that race. They had a mechanical breakdown about 10 km's into the race and could not continue. At this stage they have also seen that the race is not going to well (i.e. No Marshalls at busy intersections, cyclists getting lost etc), so they took it upon themselves to SAFELY GUIDE the cyclist through a busy intersection.
They were still dressed in their cycling clothes. As they were doing this they took a heluva lot of abuse from the cyclist crapping them out over the poor race conditions.
I can understand the cyclist point of view but these people were dressed as cyclists and were trying to help. I seriously think that "some" cyclist need to have a look at their attitudes. We do not need these people in our sport. Everyone could see that they were not marshalls but a fellow cyclist trying to help!!!
I apologise to anyone if I might have offended you in any way but I needed to get this matter off my chest.