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[ZootHornRollo]

Shouldn't that be right up to the present. As far as I'm aware from my father, who's organised a lot of road races it's just got worse and worse.

yeah, wouldn't surprise me. Just like the traffic...

But there was a point (until 1950s?) when there was no road-racing at all in this country, just time trials, and it took decades after that for the sport to catch on here. It might sound like a long time ago but it's hard for a sport to make good that sort of arrested development - we're effectively 50 years behind the rest of Europe.

[Edited because I originally quoted LFF by mistake - which made my post make not much sense - not for the first time I expect]