Thousands join Lance on his Twitter ride
16/01/2010

Last year Lance Armstrong twice tweeted that he was going for a ride in a foreign city and invited others to come join him. With only a few hours notice several hundred people joined him in both Glasgow and Dublin. He had then indicated that he would do a similar thing in Adelaide, and this time he gave 2 days notice.

The result was the incredible site of approximately 5,000 people showing up at a park in the beach side Adelaide suburb of Glenelg to join Lance and Australian cyclist Robbie McEwen for a casual ride.

Aware that this may happen, local police had been planning for several weeks and escorted the ride with a dozen police on motorbikes, operating rolling road closures as the ride headed north to Semaphore, then turned and headed back to Glenelg.

There was even a sausage sizzle and a festival type atmosphere at the park.

You can see news reports of the event with photos and video from Adelaide Now and Cycling Central.

Were you there? Head to our blog and leave a comment with your story from the ride, and why you made the effort to be there.

Photo courtesy Adelaide Now.