Tour of Britain 2018 (*Spoilers*)

[Deleted member 26715]

Think I'll need to join twitter so I can seewhats happening

Don't do it think of the children, it's worse that FB for morons

 

[mjr]

Read-only but http://thesocialpeloton.com but it'll spoil all other races on now.

 

[gasinayr]

Should be renamed Tour Of England

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Should be renamed Tour Of England

Why It started in Wales, it's going to Scotland, granted NI misses out, but when they get unified they won't be part of the uK anyway

 

[youngoldbloke]

I err can't err watch it err for more err than err a err couple of err minutes. The commentary is absolute dire. Rob Hayles is just about OK but the other bloke ........
I suppose I could turn the sound off.

 

[gasinayr]

Why It started in Wales, it's going to Scotland, granted NI misses out, but when they get unified they won't be part of the uK anyway

When is it going to Scotland ?

 

[brommers]

When is it going to Scotland ?

Well, last year it started in Edinburgh. It's only an 8 day race, not a 21 stage race like the Tour de France.

 

[mjr]

8 days, 100 miles a day... JOGLE is not much over 900, is it? It could cover much more of Britain without transfers if they didn't spend so long going round in circles, but it would need more councils and police involved, so there's pressure against it.

Really, if you want it sooner, ask your politicians responsible for tourism to bid www.writeToThem.com

It's been a pretty good race so far, with a bit of everything in just two stages. Even with only 1km to go, it looked like yesterday's break shouldn't survive but there were no longer enough domestiques in the peloton to bring it back for their teammates and the chase had been hard enough I guess no alliances had been discussed.

 

[nickyboy]

8 days, 100 miles a day... JOGLE is not much over 900, is it? It could cover much more of Britain without transfers if they didn't spend so long going round in circles, but it would need more councils and police involved, so there's pressure against it.

Really, if you want it sooner, ask your politicians responsible for tourism to bid www.writeToThem.com

It's been a pretty good race so far, with a bit of everything in just two stages. Even with only 1km to go, it looked like yesterday's break shouldn't survive but there were no longer enough domestiques in the peloton to bring it back for their teammates and the chase had been hard enough I guess no alliances had been discussed.

The race (like all bike tour races) has a route partially determined by which towns are willing to pay for starting rights, finishing rights.

If Scottish town councils, for example, put up the money, the race would be there in a flash

 

[Deleted member 26715]

When is it going to Scotland ?

When I made the comment I actually thought there was 2 days, but looking again at the route it's only up as far as Cockermouth

 

[Adam4868]

Good day up at Whinlatter,lovely part of the country.We parked in Buttermere and walked up.Great spot and just seen myself on TV...I think the camera got my bad side and aged me !

 

[mjr]

TTT sets the green jersey. Is it all over bar some shouting or can the Quicksteppers find 6 or 16 seconds?

Nightmare for EF getting both sprinters time cut!

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Are Sky taking this event seriously or is it just a publicity outing, I was very surprised to see Froome swing off at the 7-8K point, he hadn't seemed to do that much on the front.

 

[Adam4868]

Its more a PR for sky I think.Pouls would be the chosen one for the win but Froome and Thomas are far from race fit.

 

[mjr]

How often has Froome raced in Britain? TdF when it started in Yorkshire. 2012 Olympics. I think he rode in the national championships in about 2010 or something when he was first recruited by British Cycling. Any others?

Tour of Britain 2009 for Barloworld-Bianchi. 50th on GC.