Originally Posted by
JonnyHK
Course is not fully closed - it covers way too much of the city. Mostly there are special lanes marked of and more control at intersections.
But yes - there should be enough volunteers to monitor a few km of road for cleaning purposes. Unless the culprit is very quick to drop the tacks between the sweeps and in a gap between riders (ie someone to raise a 'hue and cry') it should be possible to make it too difficult to get away with.
Not to sound paranoid, but it is possible that the person putting the tacks in the road has some connection to the race? I'm not saying that they are one of the organizers, but someone who has a "wild hair" up their "fourth point of contact" about bicycles and is using being a volunteer as a cover to sabotage the race.