Mass arrests 'Critical Mass' cycle ride during Olympics opening

[dellzeqq]

Imagine my surprise, when invited to go for a car journey armed with a balaclava and a sawn off shot gun, we actually robbed a bank! I was only there to express a vague notion of solidarity or community, perhaps just hoping to get off with someone. D'oh! My bad!

well, if you read the accounts of people who went on the ride you will see that there were all kinds of reasons for not going. And, again, you're exhibiting the nervous tic of the 'no-mates' tendency. Comparing a bike ride to an armed robbery would be more amusing if it didn't betray your own concerns

 

[MissTillyFlop]

to go back a way.....I'm struck by the sheer terror in the 'no-mates' tendency. Some cyclists really do fear groups, thinking that they can be transformed in to ravening mobs by skilled subversives. Writing as someone with more experience of organising group rides than most of you (well, allright then, all of you) I can tell you that it's a bit like herding cats. If somebody doesn't want to go somewhere they'll do something different. Indeed it's tough enough to get people who all want to go to the same place to go to the same place.

If this cadre of manipulative undercover organising geniuses does exist anywhere outside of the heads of people contributing to this thread, and does ever start a bike club, it'll be a great club!

It won't be much fun - I can't think that they'd be cool with stopping for a bacon sarnie.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I can only repeat DZ's appeal for everyone to chillax...

Chillaxers - bunch of nobbers






or was that Audaxers?

 

[MissTillyFlop]

The Law of CycleChat:-

Trouble Causers Bad: Skin head, tattoos

Trouble Causers Good. Dreadlocks, lentils

Dreadlocks on white people should be a criminal offence. Although they do save you time by giving you an early indicator of a poor little rich kid.

 

[ComedyPilot]

[Wonders if FNRTTC'ers now stand a greater risk of kettling]

 

[theclaud]

So on one hand, they all had individual, completely separate, innocent (MY ARSE), agendas and on the other were not in any organised by any central "committee".... Yet, like flies drawn towards a particulary expensive poo. They ended up being kettled in Stratford. Remarkable.

See my post above. Why have you turned into Patrick Stevens?

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Remarkable.

I said that in the Spitting Image David Coleman Voice in my head.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

If this cadre of manipulative undercover organising geniuses does exist anywhere outside of the heads of people contributing to this thread, and does ever start a bike club, it'll be a great club!

You exist Oh Great Knee Bandaged Catherder. The Club exists, of a Friday. All else is dross.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Dreadlocks on white people should be a criminal offence. Although they do save you time by giving you an early indicator of a poor little rich kid.

My mate had them down to the middle of his back. He was always skint, but could ride a mean MTB, and was very handy on a windsurfer.










His mum and dad are loaded though.......

 

[dellzeqq]

So on one hand, they all had individual, completely separate, innocent (MY ARSE), agendas and on the other were not in any organised by any central "committee".... Yet, like flies drawn towards a particulary expensive poo. They ended up being kettled in Stratford. Remarkable.

they had a variety of intentions, and there is no central committee other than the one in your head....(they're called the velominati, by the way, and they are the ones that let your tyres down at night to make you slower)

 

[CopperBrompton]

Disingenuous as ever.

Oh good grief. I replied to a post. I used the term the person I was replying to used. I didn't conduct a linguistic audit of the the thread to see whether anyone else had used it first. There was nothing remotely disingenuous about it.

The rapid descent into personal attack is the reason I rarely enter into these debates. Eventually it'll just be you and Del agreeing with each other and no dissenting views to cause you discomfort.

 

[middleagecyclist]

No, you didn't. Someone did, but it wasn't you.

But I think was the first to use 'nefarious' on this thread. I may be wrong though!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[Wonders if FNRTTC'ers now stand a greater risk of kettling]

Only in order to make tea.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

But I think was the first to use 'nefarious' on this thread.I may be wrong though!

I love that word, nefarious. Sounds like a baddie from Thundercats.

 

[dellzeqq]

[Wonders if FNRTTC'ers now stand a greater risk of kettling]

well it happened to the LFGSS crowd when they nicked our route and tried to enter the Gatwick Surprise at three in the morning. And we did get banned from Gatwick because they thought we were terrorists (Stu A remembers the name of the official who wrote to us, but it escapes me). And we do now ignore the ban, and have been welcomed back, albeit we get asked which flight we're taking!