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I guess the blonde is saying 'just ONE more photo guys'.....NOT!
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It appears this photo was taken at the start in Hyde Park.
The sash girls are a curious pair. Obviously, they were hired, or volunteered, to do some promotion for a website that is named on the sashes, but they wore the sashes upside down, so in most photos you can't really read them, or tell what website it is. A good question is: Did they do that on purpose because they were mad about something?
The picture above is the first one where I have been able to read the entire website address and it is for a "naturist spa" a few miles outside of London.
www.elixir-of-life.com It looks like a legitimate business. But I wonder if commercial promotions are allowed in what is officially a non-profit protest ride?
In other pictures I have seen, that may not be on OCC, the sash girl with the curly hair appears to be crying rather strongly as they are rolling out of the park through the narrow spectator and camera filled passage. And in other shots the more straight haired of the two seems to be annoyed, and looking down in front of the bike rather than around at the crowd or the road. Unlike almost all the other riders, there are no pictures of either of them really smiling and enjoying themselves.
Something tells me there is an interesting story there, but, alas, we'll never know why they seemed unhappy about being in the ride. I had a feeling they had gotten themselves into something they really didn't want to do once it started.