"Tour of Britain - Stage 1 (12/9/09)Exciting meet up ride"

[Soltydog]

Sounds like you all had a good day in Pock, wish I could have made it. Got to see the race pass at Howden & the leaders get stuck at the level crossing B)

Police riders at the level crossing

Race leaders stopping to pose for photos

Peleton arriving

 

[HelenD123]

Sounds like you all had a good day in Pock, wish I could have made it. Got to see the race pass at Howden & the leaders get stuck at the level crossing

Exactly as you predicted!

At least you got to see the riders close up rather than pass in a blur like we did (see below).

 

[HelenD123]

About the best photo I have of the day:

And the worst:

You can see by the clapping and photographers that I'd just failed to capture something!

Spot the leaders!

 

[craigwend]

Craig suggested we should have a 'best and worst' picture competition. So, from Pocklington, my best:

....

I nominate my photo's 2&3 as my best,

worst - photo1 (missed the broom of the broomwagon!) & 6 for the insert of the scary silit-bang man center photo

photo 5 is my entry for best & worst as it was a (very) close up of the breakaway two, just obviously got carried away with the zoom lense!

Ps yes I had lots of empty roundabout shots as well

 

[Arch]

How did that taste???

I didn't drink it! It had started to curdle...

Local press report on the day here - I've watched the video, but don't have sound, so I've no idea what they say.

http://www.thepress.co.uk/news/4626780.Cycling_fans_turn_out_for_racing_spectacle/

 

[HelenD123]

The guy at the start of the video is the one who on the highlights programme claimed that Scunthorpe was in Yorkshire.

 

[willhub]

The guy at the start of the video is the one who on the highlights programme claimed that Scunthorpe was in Yorkshire.

No I don't think he did, it could sound like that though.

 

[AndrewLincs]

Just wanted to thank everyone for their input regarding our trip to stage one.

It was a great success, we went to the climb just beyond Poklington and then skipped across to a section of road about 17 km from the end!

Got some great photos and managed to pick up a bottle.

Does anybody know what team would be using white Elite bottles? It had some sort of glucose drink in it and the letter M written in marker on the lid. Cannot decide if this would indicate the initials of the rider or simply the content.

Any ideas?

Regards

Andrew

 

[zacklaws]

I picked up quite a few bottles last year and all the ones that were marked also had a "m" wrote on them or a "x", and I never figured it out.

You could always tell everyone it belonged to Malcolm Elliot, Tony Martin or one of the other few with a M in there name. Better still though it might be a "W" and it was Wiggo's but their bottles were marked up in the Garmin team colours, I know cos one landed near me but someone else got it first.

 

[AndrewLincs]

Maybe its M for glucose drink and X for plain water?

I'm sure they wouldn't want to tip the glucose drink over their heads for a sticky cool down!

Regards

Andrew