Tour of Britain 2025 - spoilers

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Oof, few down inside 3Km.

 

[mididoctors]

Kooij went through them all like a door

 

[mididoctors]

Meanwhile in Spain

 

[Alex321]

Olaf Kooij loves the ToB, doesn't he

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Like taking candy from a baby.

 

[wakemalcolm]

Who was 'The rider' in 2nd place?

 

[mjr]

Someone needs to cut a few hedges down with 70kph gusts about.

Send them across the fens on the proper straight roads. No hedges to hide in there!

Might struggle for a KoM even more, though.

 

[katiewlx]

Not too bad then 🤣

I watched most of the last 30k - from Halesworth to Bungay, Beccles, Ellough and into Southwold on my phone. It was good weather here in Lowestoft at that time and looked ok: with (by then ?) dry roads for the Tour guys…..

Maybe I should have ignored the forecasters skills (again), got off my butt and gone watched !

well considering the forecast no absolutely not bad at all 😎. Even this morning it was saying rain from midday onwards for the rest of the day , but I mean the race itself I think missed the worst parts,they did get wet at some stage I havent watched the whole thing yet, but like they passed Snape in bright sunshine, and literally by the time the broom wagon had passed, Id packed up ready to go to the next point, we got caught in like a 20min intense deluge.

Same heading back down the route after the race, they finished in bright conditions, and yet immediately the clouds came in and then I was soaked again around Snape, but even as I rode out of Southwold, roads that had been dry when I rode in, were soaking wet when I rode out.

looks like wind will be the biggest problem on stage 2, with occasional showers

So we're left with the Mortirolo of Hadleigh... It least it goes up all the way today

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I saw someone in the local newspaper claim theyd be doing 60mph down the other side of it ...Ive ridden that hill and I didnt even know it was a hill (I always thought Semer Hill meant Watsons Hill but its not), and I dont like hills much

 

[katiewlx]

Someone needs to cut a few hedges down with 70kph gusts about.

no they just need to pick better routes, there are plenty of exposed hedgeless bits of Suffolk to visit where the wind is relentless,and as I said yesterday there are steep hills too, there are rolling bits which really test your stamina as its up down up down for miles, and the roads get grindy too, all surface dressing style, no smooth tarmac anywhere.

but they never pick those routes. its all about delivering a sprint finish, so mission accomplished.

 

[katiewlx]

Might struggle for a KoM even more, though.

tbf even Im embarrassed as a Suffolkian about them claiming those climbs were KoM level worthy.

 

[wakemalcolm]

Just tried to listen to Ned's NSF pod about yesterday's stage. He needs to employ a proof listener: the start is unlistenable.

I take it all back having listened to TCP offering. Neither of the reporters were on the race and one conceded that he might have had a nap during it.

 

[mididoctors]

Stage 3
View: https://www.youtube.com/live/8uD3Vx91wuQ

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Stage 3
View: https://www.youtube.com/live/8uD3Vx91wuQ

What on earth is that commentary on the beginning of the countdown video? It's been lodged in my head for three days now (it's on each day). It sounds like "It's da FUNK and he will not be stopped!" and makes me think George Clinton is riding the ToB for Team Parliament - Funkadelic

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Two (2) cat3 climbs on a double circuit?!?!?!😱

 

[mididoctors]

Tao and G having a secret chat