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General Category => Audax => PBP => Topic started by: Exit Stage Left on 27 September, 2019, 05:23:18 pm

Title: Jacques Chirac.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 27 September, 2019, 05:23:18 pm

In memory of the former President of France, and Mayor of Paris.

https://youtu.be/GOnf1ksMKZ0?t=94

Title: Re: Jacques Chirac.
Post by: Ajax Bay on 27 September, 2019, 08:43:29 pm

Thank you, ESL. Short speech from Chirac (good innings)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49838146
and then good coverage of the centenary ride.

Title: Re: Jacques Chirac.
Post by: T42 on 28 September, 2019, 08:15:26 am

Thanks from me too, ESL.  PBP for once starting where it always should.

Title: Re: Jacques Chirac.
Post by: Ajax Bay on 28 September, 2019, 06:00:02 pm

Quote from: T42 on 28 September, 2019, 08:15:26 am

PBP for once starting where it always should.

The increased value to foreigners of a 'prologue', so they can start in the named city centre (in this case Paris; but in LEL's case London town/The Guidhall) is worth recognising. In 2017 this was stymied by Ride London, but in two years time Danial has it sorted:

Quote from: john jackson on 28 August, 2019, 12:35:34 pm

From LEL Facebook
We've secured Guildhall Yard in the City of London, for a central London start . . for our earliest time slots,
The City is eerily quiet on Sunday mornings, so you should be able to ride out of town on empty roads,
. . . so some of this might change, but . . . we'll have some sort of central London start.

And the transit through Edinburgh to the Forth Road Bridge will tick the box the other end.

Title: Re: Jacques Chirac.
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 01 October, 2019, 08:54:12 am

I don't think that PBP will ever have that level of patronage again. It's interesting to examine the factors that gave it that level of media interest, and to compare to it to the status it now has.

Title: Re: Jacques Chirac.
Post by: T42 on 01 October, 2019, 09:15:36 am

Yeah. 2023 in Étampes, anyone?