2027 Tour de France doesn’t come past my house thread
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T4tomo
Legendary Member
I think your sarcasm or humour has been lost in translation.
Looks an awesome route, stage 1 maybe a bit standard but given the constraints of starring in Leeds and finishing in Manc, 3 climbs and a sprint finish expected, Give a sprinter chance for yellow for day which they surely wont retain on ...
Stage 2 is a cracking / brutal day with whatever group that has stayed at the front exploding on Jenkin road
and a rarely seen TTT round London for Stage 3.
TakeTheHighRoad
Well-Known Member
Stage 2 is what I wish the TDF did, so I'm beaming
Winnat's Pass is a brutal climb, but then the ride across the plateau to Chapel en le Frith will look stunning from a helicopter.
Snake Pass is my all time favourite climb to ride, and is a wonderful road to drive, so the fact the Tour de France is going over it is a dream come true.
Again, Ladybower Reservoir from a helicopter will look stunning, and then they take a left and go across Strines Moor to Bradfield.
Then it's the same last 20 km or so that the men did in 2014, and we all know how good that was from a sporting perspective.
Winnat's Pass is a brutal climb, but then the ride across the plateau to Chapel en le Frith will look stunning from a helicopter.
Snake Pass is my all time favourite climb to ride, and is a wonderful road to drive, so the fact the Tour de France is going over it is a dream come true.
Again, Ladybower Reservoir from a helicopter will look stunning, and then they take a left and go across Strines Moor to Bradfield.
Then it's the same last 20 km or so that the men did in 2014, and we all know how good that was from a sporting perspective.
Pross
Guru
I think your sarcasm or humour has been lost in translation.
Looks an awesome route, stage 1 maybe a bit standard but given the constraints of starring in Leeds and finishing in Manc, 3 climbs and a sprint finish expected, Give a sprinter chance for yellow for day which they surely wont retain on ...
Stage 2 is a cracking / brutal day with whatever group that has stayed at the front exploding on Jenkin road
and a rarely seen TTT round London for Stage 3.
More me completely misreading the map and thinking they were doing Leeds to Sheffield via Manchester on day then doing the same in reverse the next. Serves me right for trying to read detail on my phone before my eyes have started working for the day
In the absence of a proper detailed route I've been trying to plot the route for the first section of Stage 1 out of Leeds.
This is my best guess so far based on the description and dragging via points around in Cycle.travel to make it match the shape of the roads on the not very detailed map. So it may well be inaccurate, but is probably better than Gemini AI's effort which had them going via Ulaanbataar! (maybe a slight exaggeration)
For the parade bit it says they'll start on the Headrow and do a partial loop of the city centre, so I guess they'll start in front of the Town Hall then heading east, and south on either Briggate or Vicar Lane. Probably then head west on Boar Lane and Wellington St. Not clear from the map but looks like they might get onto Burley Road and then turn north on Hyde Park Road past Woodhouse Moor to Headingley. Then the riders take a left down the hill past Headingley Stadium and to the river at Kirkstall. Looks like they'll start the race proper round here, maybe on Kirkstall Bridge.
From here the shape suggests they'll head up the hill toward Bramley, then turn left along Town St and Henconner Lane. It seems then the route will be along Tong Road past the Beulah, then joining Whitehall Road and passing through Drig. Left at Birkenshaw then a dogleg from Birstall to Gomersal. The route around Liversedge, Heckmondwike and down to Mirfield is a bit of guesswork. The so-called Côte de Kirkheaton is most likely from Lower Hopton heading west.
This is my best guess so far based on the description and dragging via points around in Cycle.travel to make it match the shape of the roads on the not very detailed map. So it may well be inaccurate, but is probably better than Gemini AI's effort which had them going via Ulaanbataar! (maybe a slight exaggeration)
For the parade bit it says they'll start on the Headrow and do a partial loop of the city centre, so I guess they'll start in front of the Town Hall then heading east, and south on either Briggate or Vicar Lane. Probably then head west on Boar Lane and Wellington St. Not clear from the map but looks like they might get onto Burley Road and then turn north on Hyde Park Road past Woodhouse Moor to Headingley. Then the riders take a left down the hill past Headingley Stadium and to the river at Kirkstall. Looks like they'll start the race proper round here, maybe on Kirkstall Bridge.
From here the shape suggests they'll head up the hill toward Bramley, then turn left along Town St and Henconner Lane. It seems then the route will be along Tong Road past the Beulah, then joining Whitehall Road and passing through Drig. Left at Birkenshaw then a dogleg from Birstall to Gomersal. The route around Liversedge, Heckmondwike and down to Mirfield is a bit of guesswork. The so-called Côte de Kirkheaton is most likely from Lower Hopton heading west.
MadMalx
Senior Member
- Location
- Settle, Yorkshire Dales
TakeTheHighRoad
Well-Known Member
Can we not ask Christian Prudhomme and Marion Rousse to pay for it?
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
It seems like it's Derbyshire that doesn't want to get the chequebook out, and I can understand them a bit - I mean the road is Manchester to Sheffield and doesn't really serve Derbyshire at all, just slices the top off. I'd have thought this would have been a Highways Authority road
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Looks like the Femmes Day 1 route comes uphill on my club's slightly hillier Saturday morning ride (Cote de Kirkheaton which is basically just up Hollin Hall Lane, possibly via Wood Lane) before a less lumpy way to Manchester.
Day 2 looks vicious imo, particularly if it's wet and/or windy. And yes, I'm aware it's at the end of July: son no. 2 and myself test-ride Winnat's in August in pouring rain and a gale. He nearly got blown off uphill.
Day 2 looks vicious imo, particularly if it's wet and/or windy. And yes, I'm aware it's at the end of July: son no. 2 and myself test-ride Winnat's in August in pouring rain and a gale. He nearly got blown off uphill.
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misforturob
Senior Member
Less "doesn't want to" and more "even if we wanted to we don't have the money" I think
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
Lot of it about (not having money)
Only motorways and trunk roads are managed by National Highways. All others are the local council that has highway responsibilities.
MadMalx
Senior Member
- Location
- Settle, Yorkshire Dales
That was the popular theory at our cafe stop
No Ta Doctor
Über Member
Yes, I'm just not sure why it isn't classified as a trunk road
