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Originally Posted by fdooby
WNBR London this year can be summed up in one word - difficult. The Wellington Arch start went an almost totally different route. And when the various starts converged at Forum Magnum Square (Wellington riders arrived ages before the rest), most of the riders were so packed into a small area that getting shots was extremely difficult. If I'd been on foot instead of riding, I would almost certainly have got no more than a handful of shots. Even so, with the different route, the usual places for getting decent shots didn't happen.
And there was confusion at Lincoln's Inn Fields, with the first part of the ride (mostly comprising the Tower Hill start) being told that there was no stop this time round - and 200+ riders promptly carried on riding. The later arrivals all stopped and were there about 20 minutes. Tower Hill appeared to have far and away the highest number of female riders. The group that left Lincoln's Inn was overwhelmingly male. The ride as a whole didn't go over most of Waterloo Bridge, didn't go along by the Thames and didn't go over Westminster Bridge either. Really, the organisers should have put it back a week so as not to clash with the Palestinian protest. Most of the press snappers were completely lost and got next to no photos, meaning promotion and coverage of this one will be poor. And the sun was in and out like a fiddler's elbow too, as if there wasn't enough to contend with.
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I concur. This was reminiscent of the Tommy Robinson march fiasco, to be fair to the organisers these Central London protests are largely out of their control and virtually every week nowadays there is a Palestinian protest anyway, this week was a Trades Union one. You have actually made my decision to ditch Lincoln Inn Fields and just go direct to the finish seem to be a good one.
I have an unwritten rule that this thread should always have a photo attached to ensure it doesn't turn into a conversation thread, so here's a picture of a nice pair of behinds.