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BUT.... there were hundreds, maybe over a thousand students - all Chinese - at the start who just crowded round the riders in one big circle (6 or 7 rows deep) and hemmed them all in without any consideration of the riders - all with smartphones and getting in each others way to make sure they were at the front!
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Talk about "culture shock" !!!
After looking at some Manchester pictures on Flickr, it dawned that many, or most, of these Chinese students come from the country of the Tiananmen Square massacre, where hundreds of students were gunned down in a demonstration.
And on the 25th anniversary this week, nobody in China was supposed to talk about it. I even saw them cut a BBC report feed from Beijing on the subject.
So, freedom loving Brits can ride their bikes totally nude through the center of a big city demonstrating for their cause, without fear of government thugs gunning them down or locking them up.
When the memories and all those pictures get back to China, they may send a powerful message.
Now let's hope the WNBR riders get great weather in Brighton later today, and London next weekend.
