On your bikes as we’re already fed up of UCI World Championships and cycle races in Harrogate – Yorkshire Post Letters
HARROGATE has gone crazy for cycling and this latest jamboree – the UCI World Championships – is the ultimate inconvenience.
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We ratepayers don’t want to see is the town full of strangers, with all their accompanying litter and noise.
Let the UCI go elsewhere for their so-called sport, where participants – who pay no road-fund tax or compulsory insurance – can breathe in carbon monoxide to the detriment of their lungs and hearts.
From: Neil Noble, Harrogate.
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Hide AdIN a recent letter, the writer(s) indicated that they were going well away from Harrogate to avoid the “chaos” of the cycle racing.
Not a bad idea, particularly if you can rent your house out, but not one to be advertised. Not every burglar takes a holiday in September.
From: Thomas Reed, Knaresborough.
AT least our roads are being resurfaced for the second time in five years because of the cycling – let’s look for positives.