There was a bike race or fundraiser bike thing through my small town in Ga that shut down the only main road for almost an entire day several times a year . They didn’t buy gas, food, any taxes on goods or stay in the local hotel. We had to plan ahead and stay home or stay out. Almost the entire town was inconvenienced but whatever. The bikers had their beautiful open bike lanes to themselves and that was what mattered.
One sheriff blocked traffic by slowly tailing this obese biker who was walking her bike for an hour down the center of the lane and traffic was stopped in both directions to accommodate her. I was right behind the sheriff and was FUMING.
We can say the same thing about football stadiums. We voted down a new stadium in SD. The biggest lie is the financial impact of the Super Bowl. What a joke!
I got roped into being a tail car for a bike race several years ago. My sister-in-law was on the bike club board and volunteered me and my wife. My wife ended up being the tail car for the true racers and I got stuck bringing up the rear with the fun riders. As we passed each other going opposite direction my wife and rolled down the window and she said this was great. I yelled back at her if she wanted to trade places and follow a bunch of fat assed people!. The lead racers finished in about 3 hours and it took my last group 6!
I told my sister-in-law to never pull that $#!+ again!
Just to make matters worse it was on our anniversary so that was pretty much shot to hell as well!