Tour of Britain 2012

[Speicher]

HP said - 'Marc de Maar, the national champion from Carousel'

Me to Mrs Scoosh - 'Carousel ? Did he say Carousel ? Where's that ?'
Mrs S - 'Yes, that's what he said. No idea ...'

Later, Ned Boulting says : 'Marc de Maar, from Curacao'

All is revealed !
Clearly, geography is not HP's strong point ... along with name pronunciation etc etc . Can't fault his passion for cycling, though.

[I've been to Curacao - it's in the Netherlands Antilles, West Indies]

More usually called the Dutch Antilles?

 

[Scoosh]

just his optician

He should have gone to .....

 

[Hacienda71]

A couple I took on Gun Hill.

 

[doctornige]

Wiggo a couple of hours ago.....

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Oooh. I can see me in that photo! In the left-most group high on the bank on the left of the pic, there is a dude with a long lens and grey/orange arms. That's me. Regarding the gap, those around me thought that Cav must have had a mech and that Wiggo had waited for him. Turns out we were wrong.

 

[doctornige]

Some more Gun Hill pics

 

[Muguruki]

Is Curacao still in the Dutch Antilles? I don't mean it has moved but now that it is an autonomous country.

Do you think that Alan Partridge was based on Hugh Porter?
"and there is a lovely aerial shot..........of a field"

 

[jdtate101]

A few of mine, from just north of Cannock Chase:

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Garmin are having a decent race, and it is nice to see them giving a couple of the development guys (Morton, Von Hoff) some bigger race experience, and gain valuable UCI points too.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Not great shots - taken somewhere around Rudyard - Biddulph Moor area after whatever had happened had happened.

EDIT: spelling mistake

 

[tigger]

Yes disappointing to see Sky weren't up the front at Gun Hill. Sounds like a mistake for Wiggo to drop back. I don't know where the lead group got split up - assuming it was on the Staffs Moorlands? - very tricky in the wind there. Great crowds in Gun Hill which was really good to see. Absolute nightmare getting off the hill though - too many damn bikes, cars and people!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I know that at KOM 2 everything was still OK - 2 came through, then the one that had been dropped and then the entire peloton. By Rudyard area/Biddulph Moor area, it had broken up, the 2 in front had been caught, there was a larger breakaway group (maybe 15-20 riders at a guess), couple of loan rides/pairs and then the main body of the peloton. about 10 minutes later Wiggins & Cavendish, plus another (I didn't see clearly) came through.

 

[doctornige]

A few of mine, from just north of Cannock Chase:

Very well taken.

 

[jdtate101]

Very well taken.

Why thank you sir! Unfortunately I didn't get a good shot of Wiggo, as they went by so fast, I had trouble picking him out, but Cav in the yellow was easy to spot.

 

[iLB]

Lets hope Brad is going to use his new found GC "freedom" to take a stage win.

 

[iLB]

Scrap that, he's dropping out apparently.