What a joke! Yorkshire? They've only given that sordid grief-hole the 'glory' leg because they know the world ends next week so they've chucked the yorkists a bone to give them one last moment of joy. Well flush that happiness down the toilet my one-eyed, six-fingered cousins; the day will never arrive!!! Never, you hear me????
2014 Tour de France to start in Leeds!
- Thread starter vernon
- Start date
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pally83
Über Member
You're just saying what all us Lanky Lads are thinking. Who won the bloody war (of the roses) anyway?
We did. We got the best weather, the best football teams, the best beer (well, JOINT best beer), the prettiest women, the best scenery, the highest mountains ('till they took Furness off us), and when there was that 'war of the hoses' due to the drought of a few years ago, the yorkies used to say the water they were robbing off us with those long pipe things tasted funny; well it would 'cos me and my mates were pissing in it!
Dangermouse
MousePower
The Leeds stage is supposedly to end in Hull after taking in the bridge so thats me sorted 
Peteaud
Veteran
- Location
- South Somerset
My regular training route is the Dales via Skipton, once, feeling jaunty, I turned left and entered Lancashire. Colne, Nelson, Burnley, bloody hell! By the time I got to Accrington I wanted to die, it's a few year ago now but, occasionally, the trip still haunts me and I wake up, bolt upright, scared.........Tour T'France, bang on!
pally83
Über Member
Tour T'France, bang on!
The towns have to be a bit grim to make up for the stunning scenery we have elsewhere. Some reet good sights there are.
Dangermouse
MousePower
I certainly am up for that, and I only live 15 mile away from the finish and have a spare room if anyone is interested
That's how we like it. We sense your yorkshireness and cold-shoulder you. I can't knock your training route though; living so close to the blessed border, I often find myself evading the controls and riding the Dales above Skipton, Grassington, Appletreewick, Barden et al and have brought myself to like it. Well, I say 'like', I mean 'tolerate'. Well, when I say 'tolerate', I mean medicate myself so much I can believe that God created the scenery as compensation for having to populate it with yorkshiremen.
Tour T'France, bang on!
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Descriptions of the riders like "He's built like a whippet" will take on a whole new resonance in Yorkshire..
That rings very true. A few years ago I was pedalling my cheery Tyke way up Wharfedale when I came upon some scrawny under-fed legs poking out of ten sets of Lancastrian strip - Rawtenstall Wheelers or somesuch.That's how we like it. We sense your yorkshireness and cold-shoulder you. I can't knock your training route though; living so close to the blessed border, I often find myself evading the controls and riding the Dales above Skipton, Grassington, Appletreewick, Barden et al and have brought myself to like it. Well, I say 'like', I mean 'tolerate'. Well, when I say 'tolerate', I mean medicate myself so much I can believe that God created the scenery as compensation for having to populate it with yorkshiremen.
"Morning lads. Where are you headed for today?"
"What the fcuk has it got to do with you?"
Yep, men of few words and most of them surly.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
A quick look at an OS map would have revealed the splendours of the 'Forest of Pendle' just a couple of miles to the north, or go the other side of Pendle Hill and you have the lovely Ribble valley. It was a big mistake to take the easy option and just bomb along the main road!
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Great news!!
It'll bring back memories of the old days of the 'Leeds Classic' starting & finishing outside the Town Hall
The last time it was run (or was it 'Tour of Britain'?) it went up past the 'Cow & Calf'
HolmeMoss also featured quite strongly in both races ('LC' once ascended twice from the Derbyshire side)
It'll bring back memories of the old days of the 'Leeds Classic' starting & finishing outside the Town Hall
The last time it was run (or was it 'Tour of Britain'?) it went up past the 'Cow & Calf'
HolmeMoss also featured quite strongly in both races ('LC' once ascended twice from the Derbyshire side)
I think it was Max Sciandri I saw winning on The Headrow
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Yes, I believe he did win one year
Plus, don't forget Leeds hosted the World Cyclo-Cross Championships (at Roundhay Park) in 1992, when Roger Hammond won the Junior title
