Tour of Britain 2014...on my doorstep (may contain SPOILERS)

[400bhp]

but wiggins is the biggest marketable star in British cycling, knowing that sky is a machine and doesn't really carry anyone im sure they are very happy with what they get from him or they wouldnt keep paying him or give him a new contract

You might be right. Or they may feel trapped by the potential backlash if they "sacked" him.

Now, if only they could let him go to another team for next season that might play to the crowd better.

 

[Bollo]

Setting off to Camberley in about half an hour. It's still bloody dark! This is not how a gentleman rises.

 

[MisterStan]

Haters gotta hate and knockers gonna knock, but it is not a minor achievement to be the first Brit to win the Tour de France and that WHY Sky bother with him.

No one is saying that is a minor achievement, is just that he's achieved bugger all since 2012, last years ToB wasn't even classified as high as this years and the Tour of California?

 

[HF2300]

I've written two replies about Wiggins this morning and to be honest I can't be bothered with it.

Great work by Dowsett, Brandle and Stewart yesterday, should set up some serious competition today. It'd be good to see Dowsett win GC but Kwiatkowski's got to put in a serious attack today, surely?

 

[smutchin]

Oh great, I'm so pleased this is turning into yet another Wiggins/Sky thread.

 

[HF2300]

I've written two replies about Wiggins this morning and to be honest I can't be bothered with it.

Oh great, I'm so pleased this is turning into yet another Wiggins/Sky thread.

'Nuff said.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I'm of on a ride and will end it on top of ditchling beacon with any luck about 1pm in good time for the tour to show me how i should have done it

 

[rich p]

I've just been up the Beacon and someone has repainted the Pantani road graffiti that had been there since the 1994 TDF.
I know he was a drug cheat but I missed the nostalgic reminder when they re-tarmaced it a couple of years ago.

 

[400bhp]

What a thoroughly nice chap Dowsett is - thanking the other two breakway "companions"by saying he couldn't have done it without them.

Really like the Austrian fella.Looks the biz.

 

[tug benson]

Offt young GB rider took that corner to fast

 

[smutchin]

Offt young GB rider took that corner to fast

What a plonker! Everyone else was easing up for the bend and he decides that's a good time to go on the attack.

 

[Hacienda71]

Offt young GB rider took that corner to fast

Can't believe the commentary team missed that. He seemed to roll over the line though so no too badly injured.

 

[tug benson]

Sebastian Henao done the same the other day

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiLx4nYr7j4

 

[smutchin]

Can't believe the commentary team missed that.

You watching on ITV? When the commentary team is Hugh Porter and Brian Smith, I can easily believe they missed it. The Eurosport commentators didn't.

 

[Hacienda71]

You watching on ITV? When the commentary team is Hugh Porter and Brian Smith, I can easily believe they missed it. The Eurosport commentators didn't.

Yep. They just clocked it now reviewing the finish. They did see him try to sprint away but missed him go into the barrier two seconds later.