Tour de Yorkshire **Spoiler Version**

[Toemul]

Talented and I hope he wins but that motorbike was too close in the last 15k.

 

[NorthernDave]

Ooops, glad I wasn't driving the lead car in Thorner...

 

[mjr]

Ooops, glad I wasn't driving the lead car in Thorner...

The sat nav said Continue into Thorner, not That Corner!

 

[roadrash]

magnus cort Nielsen pips G.V.A on the line

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I still can't get even mildly excited about TdY I have watched a lot of the past 2 stages and it was "ok" but that's about as far as I can go. I have also watched other incarnations but it's a bit meh; maybe I'm just a nobber

 

[brommers]

I still can't get even mildly excited about TdY I have watched a lot of the past 2 stages and it was "ok" but that's about as far as I can go. I have also watched other incarnations but it's a bit meh; maybe I'm just a nobber

I think it's a great route with a fantastic turnout which deserves 2HC status. If that happened, you would get more of the top teams entering with their 'A' squads. By the way, stage 4 looks really tough with 3400 metres of climbing with hardly any flat sections at all - I can see a lot of riders not finishing.

 

[User169]

Just watched the highlights of stage 2 on Eurosport. The Dutch commentators at one point started listing famous Yorkshireman. The list finished with Jeremy Clarkson and Jimmy Savile...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Just watched the highlights of stage 2 on Eurosport. The Dutch commentators at one point started listing famous Yorkshireman. The list finished with Jeremy Clarkson and Jimmy Savile...

What, no Michael Parkinson?

 

[Venod]

and Jimmy Savile.

They forgot

Peter Sutcliffe, Arthur Sutcliffe, Anthony Arkwright, Stephen Griffiths, Bruce Lee, Donald Neilson.

http://www.lifedeathprizes.com/real-life-crime/notorious-serial-killers-from-yorkshire-60045

 

[brommers]

What, no Michael Parkinson?

Dickie Bird & Sir Geoffrey Boycott

 

[NorthernDave]

I think it's a great route with a fantastic turnout which deserves 2HC status. If that happened, you would get more of the top teams entering with their 'A' squads. By the way, stage 4 looks really tough with 3400 metres of climbing with hardly any flat sections at all - I can see a lot of riders not finishing.

I'd fully agree about Stage 2 - so good in fact that I've ridden a couple of bits of it today and arranged to ride a big chunk of it in the coming weeks.
I thought that the turnout was generally excellent too, considering most of it took place during a 'normal' working day - if that stage had been run today (in this weather!) the crowds would have probably doubled, if not more.

As for Stage 4, the final sprint (Black Hill Road) is up a swine of a hill. It'll be interesting (and possibly soul destroying) to see how fast they are up there.

 

[ColinJ]

As for Stage 4, the final sprint (Black Hill Road) is up a swine of a hill. It'll be interesting (and possibly soul destroying) to see how fast they are up there.

My cousin is tackling it on the sportive tomorrow. He wasn't aware that there was a tough climb up to the sprint point because it hasn't been classified as one. I plotted a profile of all the major climbs for him to prepare him for them. That climb would have caught him out for sure. I assume that the pros will be well aware of it though. The sprint points won't be taken by a typical sprinter, that's for sure!

 

[roadrash]

off to leeds in a bit , looks like a lovely day for it , crowds should be big today