Tour de Yorkshire 2016 - Where you watching from?

[Foghat]

And fishing bollocks. Why?

 

[Poacher]

ITV4 have stuck on football from the 1970s. Old film of male footballers seems a strange substitute for live women's cycling!

Yebbut now it's The Big F*** Off!

(***=ish)

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Football, Fishing...they're working their way back through the alphabet till they get to cycling....

 

[Sea of vapours]

Looks as if they've scrapped the whole of the coverage

Very much not pleasing

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Looks as if they've scrapped the whole of the coverage
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Very much not pleasing

Just read that the relay plane has had to make an emergency landing

 

[Kestevan]

Bet Asda will not be best pleased. £50k of sponsorship and no TV coverage.

Lets just hope it doesn't have a detrimental effect on future sponsorship/races.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Who at ITV4 thought that a good replacement for women in lycra, riding bikes fast, would be men in waxed jackets waving sticks at fish? Surely they have some recorded footage of a women's bike race!

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Update from ITV: The problem is with the aircraft that relays all the pictures back from the Motos and heli. It was forced to land due to loss of power

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Pontefract, with Rebecca, one of my (running) club buddies, who also rode down

Sorry for slight blurriness

Hell of a split in the field, at this stage

 

[The Bear]

Major disappointment. I've no idea what their protocols are, but surely they could have got another plane off the ground - I guess not.
Not good for ASDA..... not good for Women's cycling.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Major disappointment. I've no idea what their protocols are, but surely they could have got another plane off the ground - I guess not.
Not good for ASDA..... not good for Women's cycling.

One of those things, just glad the plane made it down ok and no one was hurt

 

[The Bear]

Well that's true.

 

[Joffey]

You didn't visit the Ice-Cream shop, did you?
What was the special flavour, if you did, I like the Turkish Delight, & the Chocolate Orange


When I saw the name, I thought you might be the (ex?) Bradford Olympic CX rider, who was also called by that name (real name; Jough Watson)

I wish I was that good but alas I am a slow fat man!

 

[NorthernDave]

According to the ITV Twitter feed there is a replacement plane on the way that will arrive in time for the mens race and they intend to show "whatever we can get" from the womens race during coverage of the mens race from 2.15pm.
Major disappointment for all involved and I'm sure questions will be asked, but if the plane has to land, it has to land...

Some quickly edited / uploaded photos from Station Road, Scholes here:

Some more at my Flick feed here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8964340@N05/albums/72157667166703190
No time to sort any more now as I'm going back out for the mens race in a little while, but I'll get the rest (plus the mens race) uploaded as and when.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

It's alright Joffey, many people used to confuse me with the other Richard T, who was a (junior, then Senior) member of the GB Cyclo-Cross team

It was even worse at MTB races, in the early 90's, as I rode a Pace Research RC100, & he rode for the factory
I did get to know him & still see him at fell-races, all round nice guy, as is his brother (Robert, who was also a GB CX rider)