You looked so pretty

A funny thing happens in Adelaide this time every year when the Jacobs Creek Tour Down Under comes to town. The first funny thing is that every second person who owns a bike starts prancing round in their advertising-adorned leotards; riding to work, riding around town, having coffee at the east end cafés. The other funny thing has to do with the race itself, or more precisely, the spectators of the race itself. Because on some parts of the circuit, the cyclists only go past once. Yet people get out in their cars, find a spot by the side of the road in some remote rural environment, pop the bubbly, get out the Ritz crackers and smoked salmon dip, and cheer madly when the riders go past. And that's it.