picture in the paper - grrr

Today in one of the area papers there was coverage of GOBA - (a multi-day supported tour around the state). The story is very positive.

Trouble is, the first picture (the one that was picked up by other regional papers who ran the story) shows one rider well left of center and two others hugging the center line.

Whether or not that was safe at the time and place (impossible to tell from the picture and I don't know the road well), can't they even behave when there's a photographer present? This is just going to do wonders with the bike-hating motorists out there. I can't wait for the comments forum to get fired up.

Grrrrrrr.

Well......to the untrained eye.....maybe readers will think it was a closed course.

Speaking of pictures in papers, me and a bunch of other cyclists from Hudson/Marlborough, MA, doing the local MS Bike Ride got an article about us in the local paper. That's me on the far right.

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Originally Posted by kfergos

That's me on the far right.

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And apparently the more intelligent one. You have your helmet on. ;) :D

So I can wear my helmet and look intelligent?
Even when I'm driving a car?

Helmets are the new eyeglasses ;)

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Originally Posted by kfergos

Speaking of pictures in papers, me and a bunch of other cyclists from Hudson/Marlborough, MA, doing the local MS Bike Ride got an article about us in the local paper. That's me on the far right.

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More hijack....
I used to do this ride all the time when it was the Great Mass Getaway (didn't know they changed the name). I rode with the Wolf Pack - great team, often in the top 3 or so fundraisers. Fun ride.

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Originally Posted by zencentury

So I can wear my helmet and look intelligent?
Even when I'm driving a car?

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Uh no, you'd look like you have your seizure helmet on. ;) :p

I wore my 2001 Great Mass Getaway jersey on my ride to work this morning. :D DH and I did that ride every year from 1999-2002. Its a great ride!

It appears to me that the two people in the front of the picture are preparing for the next curve to their right. The photog is standing in the curve. The cyclists are swinging wide. There's no good reason to be out there to the left of the yellow, but it could be that she (looks like a she) came down the hill fast, and is compensating for the speed and the curve. She can probably see far enough ahead to be out there.

I wouldn't notice a photographer standing out there. I'd be concentrating on the road.

Still, it does look bad on its face.

Karen