[crispus]

As to:

Other rides - yes, there are some available, but, e.g. these first two from Caracas, the pickings are slimmer, and size/quality often lesser; NOLA, despite some promise from the previously-cited videos, has yet to appear (and at least one flickr source from last year is now watermarking); Chicago, even with the same video promise, is in the same situation (the annual photobooth from GlitterGuts is up, but pretty phallocentric: glitterguts.com/wordpress/wp-content/photos/wnbr-15/wnbr15-885.jpg , -878, -866, and -863 about summed it up); Toronto is pretty well represented already (and here's one plus a zip of others from the news presenter - 9); SF seems to have been all-male.
When compared to what's still coming in from the UK biggies, as in this nice London (5) and these latest Brightons from flickr.com/photos/dariusz69/ (6-8), it's pretty simple arithmetic.

However, at least one mystery - why would somebody with a flickr stream we've noted/sampled with approval, flickr.com/photos/75937304@N03/ , post the two much smaller (but to my mind, equal if not better) Brightons below (3-4) to Instagram, where they're limited in size/quality?