IThe questions still remain unanswered: why was the usual CM attendance swelled from the usual 100 to 500, and why were they so insistent on riding to Stratford when that location had never been visited (or even contemplated) before in the whole 15 year CM London history?
that's a really good question, and, like all good questions, there seems to be a lot of different answers
some people wanted to protest the Zil lanes
some people wanted to go and watch the fireworks
some people (one presumes, indeed one hopes only a few)
didn't even know they were going anywhere near the Olympics. Like I said, CMers are not generally speaking intellectuals
and here's a funny thing. The Southend FNRttC goes over the Bow Flyover - and, over the last year or two it's been fascinating to watch the Park come in to being. I've also gone to the Viewtube with the CC sunday ride, just to see what's happening, but the Flyover gives you the best view of the Park you could possibly wish for. So....I'd been saying to Susie 'we should go to the Flyover to watch the opening ceremony'. Which, in the event we didn't because I've sort of got tired of the thing, and we wanted to ride to Brighton early on Saturday morning. But there is an irony here. Had we whizzed, in our genteel, middleaged fashion, over the flyover to watch the fireworks I'd be penning this contribution from some gulag of Buckfast Boy's devising.
