Despite the fear of rain, the weather on Friday turned out to be just perfect: warm and sunny. All the bad stories of police making a mass crack down on anyone ridding bikes under the influence seemed to be quite an exaggeration too. Unfortunately there were some genuinely bad news, mostly about the Dublin lad who is in the hospital and has yet to regain his consciousness after a Wednesday night collision with a car.
The racecourse is located on the river, not too far from the town centre, right under the major highwayish looking bridge. In many ways it reminded me of the sports complex where the ECMC 2004 racecourse was. A perfect place to chill out with a beer surrounded by a lot of not cycling cyclists.
Most of the people were indulging in a bottle related activities, be it downing lager, or as some of the Londoners did, using empty beer bottles as a football substitute.
As the day progressed the mosquitoes descended on the racecourse biting anyone indiscriminately. Because the whole event is actually called championships, some sporting activities occurred. Along-the-river sprints did not seem to distract people too much from the bar duties. Before the sprints through, the wing mirror smashing competition proved to be a very popular spectacle, turning eventually into an impromptu car-overturning riot. The London crew played rather major part in the car smashing but everyone else joined happily in tire slashing, kryptonite-ing the windows or trying to rip off car doors.
Happy drinking and mosquito assault continued through the evening…
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A part of the racecourse
Norf London vs Sarf London Empty Beer Bottle Derby
Londoners sight seeing
Anyone remembers those mugs?
Should we have a riot?
