On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 09:00:26PM +0000, Clank wrote:

I invite anyone who finds this all so life-changingly inconvenient *not* to
come to live on the Isle of Man, because by then end of TT an apoplexy
induced heart attack is guaranteed ;-).

At least with the TT and the Manx GP you know that it's going to happen
every year before you move to the island.

Or maybe people should just do what almost everyone
does here and realise that life is about more than the daily grind, and an
opportunity to stand outside in the sun, drink a cold beer, meet people
you'd never normally meet, and to cap it all get to watch some entertaining
sport is worth more for your longterm wellbeing than worrying about
ambulance response times*.

Unless you're the sort of anorak who cares passionately about lap times,
there's precious little entertaining sport at the TT. You see someone go
zoom past, then you wait a bit, then you see someone else go zoom past,
then you wait a bit, repeat for several hours. That's it. You're
extremely unlikely to see any overtaking as you can only see a tiny
fraction of the whole course. If you want to see entertaining sport,
you're better off watching the bike racing at Silverstone. But even that
is better seen on TV for the same reason.

* in fairness ambulance response times are actually rather important during
TT for spectators as well as riders, if you're standing in the wrong place
at the wrong time. But the TdF is a little less deadly on the whole.

But the surrounding houses and streets are just as perilous as normal.
And cutting a large densely populated area in half is obviously going to
cause more problems than cutting a sparsely populated area in half while
leaving all the surrounding more densely populated areas intact.

Perhaps if the mayor wants to show how cycling is normal and safe, the
race could be run in normal traffic. Loads of cycling clubs do this
already.

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David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing

More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than
by drinking alcohol. -- W C Fields