I'm at Fort William for the downhill, should be fun as usual. So far not too much rain.
Also seemed to be too many vehicles in the entourage- some neutral service motorbikes were running in front of the first riders? Not sure how that works...
Also seemed to be too many vehicles in the entourage- some neutral service motorbikes were running in front of the first riders? Not sure how that works...
In general, it's not unusual to have neutral service and other vehicles (e.g. commissaries) ahead of the race. That way, when splits develope they can find a safe place to pull over and fall back into the gap, which is far safer than trying to get up past the peloton to do the same. If they were in front, then it was because the Comms didn't think there was enough of a gap, or thought there were already enough support vehicles in that gap. It's always a judgement call, especially when a break is developing, as it's harder to get a car out of the gap when they are caught in a way that doesn't affect the racing (bunch having to overtake a car that's not been able to overtake or find a safe spot to pull over due to narrow or twisty roads etc).
That's a obviously a general comment, without knowing the specifics of how the race was playing out on the ground and where all the vehicles were (which the race organisation should be keeping track of) when you saw them.
(I'm told that despite the commentary, Crow Road is the one in Glasgow, and the Crow Road is the hill in the Campsies. Although the Ian Banks story is called The Crow Road, but about the Glasgow one, for added confusion)
Referring to inanimate objects as "The ---" is a Scotticism that comes from The Gaelic, hence why we never go to hospital, always The Hospital.
Working out the rules for roads though...
Tends to be roads that go places or cross things such as The Lecht, The Cairnwell, The Perth Road but then there's also The High Street and Cairn O Mounth
Banks was a Fifer though.
Referring to inanimate objects as "The ---" is a Scotticism that comes from The Gaelic, hence why we never go to hospital, always The Hospital.
Working out the rules for roads though...
Tends to be roads that go places or cross things such as The Lecht, The Cairnwell, The Perth Road but then there's also The High Street and Cairn O Mounth
Banks was a Fifer though.
Here's a thing though: here in thon Forfar, some natives tell me they do their shopping at "the Asda". But others just go to "Tesco", nobody shops at "the Tesco". ???
I too was a Fifer though. ;)
Nonono have you not seen the OS policy of anglifying everything?I have always understood that that one was due Queen Victoria enquiring as to the translation... the one that annoys me is people referring to Sgor an Lochan Uaine as "Angel's Peak" (admittedly the OS map has both but it has the Gaelic in bigger letters).
Craw is too base and rough to be used in a official document like a map.
They even renamed Bod an Deamhain after anglifying it because it was too rude.
It's where Aunty Janice lives :DThank you.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/EPYGQj1BQAUJhTex5