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One slightly over zealous marshal up ahead stopped shouting at me to get into the bike lane when I got a bit closer to him and he realised I wasn't on the ride itself. Not sure why, I wasn't dressed for the occasion!
Probably me 😁 was he in a vest?
Also, probably just asking everyone to be curtious to the other lane.
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I passed by this the other day. Didn't realise it still existed. I never went but my partner went years ago, like more than ten years ago, possibly with @Wicksie, and some other older LFGSS ladies heads.
I passed by the ride on the embankment. The ride was pretty big - enormous I would say, in fact. But it was hard to get a sense of the true scale of it, because everyone was crammed into the bike lanes and the ride was strung out a very, very long distance, while the main road was relatively free of traffic. One slightly over zealous marshal up ahead stopped shouting at me to get into the bike lane when I got a bit closer to him and he realised I wasn't on the ride itself. Not sure why, I wasn't dressed for the occasion!
It looked a bit unpleasant being crammed in like that into the bike lanes and then being stuck at the hot and crowded junction at Westminster bridge, with the marshals only letting two or three dozen riders through at a time.
Is the ride not able to ride on the road?
I was on another ride recently (kidical mass) where the leader decided to bring the ride into the separated bike lanes instead of going on the road, which actually ends up causing more disruption as it strings the ride out far longer, blocking cross junctions. It slowed the ride down to an unbearable crawl and made for a pretty miserable, isolating, deflating part of the day.