Tour of Britain (Women and men)

[Cathryn]

Great news today. Looks like Rod Ellingworth has pulled it off.

Manchester, here we come! Gonna book my Premier Inn

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/r...nounced-as-countdown-to-Grand-Depart-begins-0

 

[Paulus]

Great to see the makings of a British tour back on the road.
Four stages only, but in the time frame to actually get any sort of race organized it's a great start.
May it grow into something bigger in the following years. 😁

 

[cougie uk]

I'll go see it in Wrexham.

Tour of Britain Women 2024:​

• Stage 1 – Thursday 6 June 2024: Welshpool to Llandudno
• Stage 2 – Friday 7 June 2024: Wrexham
• Stage 3 – Saturday 8 June 2024: Warrington
• Stage 4 – Sunday 9 June 2024: Greater Manchester

 

[Cathryn]

Great to see the makings of a British tour back on the road.
Four stages only, but in the time frame to actually get any sort of race organized it's a great start.
May it grow into something bigger in the following years. 😁

Exactly. Given that it was cancelled last year and looked pretty unlikely only a few weeks ago, this is fantastic news.

 

[Alex321]

Just been looking at the website for the Men's tour, and I have to say, if the race organisation is as bad as the website, then they'll be lucky to get it started at all.

It is completely full of inaccuracies and mistakes.
Just a look at the route page shows a complete disconnect between the maps and the route list (I think the maps are more accurate). And also spends a lot of time talking about it as the 2021 race, but also mentioning that the 2021 race was cancelled due to the death of eth Queen (no, that was 2022).

Elsewhere on the site, they seem to think the last running was in 2015 (so the one I saw last year was a mirage??)

 

[13 rider]

Good to see back up and running ,to turn it round it that time frame needs to be applauded , hopefully it will go from strength to strength from previous interviews it does appear the pros enjoy riding in Britain due to the support they get which shows there's a demand for the race from the general public

 

[Paulus]

Just been looking at the website for the Men's tour, and I have to say, if the race organisation is as bad as the website, then they'll be lucky to get it started at all.

It is completely full of inaccuracies and mistakes.
Just a look at the route page shows a complete disconnect between the maps and the route list (I think the maps are more accurate). And also spends a lot of time talking about it as the 2021 race, but also mentioning that the 2021 race was cancelled due to the death of eth Queen (no, that was 2022).

Elsewhere on the site, they seem to think the last running was in 2015 (so the one I saw last year was a mirage??)

It does look like someone has copied and pasted the '21 race route and either has little knowledge about the race or has been given duff information.

 

[cougie uk]

Just been looking at the website for the Men's tour, and I have to say, if the race organisation is as bad as the website, then they'll be lucky to get it started at all.

It is completely full of inaccuracies and mistakes.
Just a look at the route page shows a complete disconnect between the maps and the route list (I think the maps are more accurate). And also spends a lot of time talking about it as the 2021 race, but also mentioning that the 2021 race was cancelled due to the death of eth Queen (no, that was 2022).

Elsewhere on the site, they seem to think the last running was in 2015 (so the one I saw last year was a mirage??)

Almost looks like its a site that's in progress and shouldn't have gone live ?

 

[Alex321]

Almost looks like its a site that's in progress and shouldn't have gone live ?

It does rather.

 

[albion]

Will there be more of this type of soggy wit?
I guess, from Sundays opening round of the national road series Saltburn.

 

[T4tomo]

Will there be more of this type of soggy wit?
I guess, from Sundays opening round of the national road series Saltburn.

Ironically placed on some freshly cut grass? FFS Mind you that is near Charltons, very odd folk.

 

[albion]

Cutting the grass of recent will simply have churned mud.
I never went up (heading via Boosbeck for Staithes) but it did look like they had cleared the safer option footpath going up Birk Brow.
A couple of years back the weeds were pesky on one of the first short wearing days of the year.

 

[GuyBoden]

Women's Tour of Britain 2024, Stage 3, Warrington.

I got out on my bike to see them pass down Lumbrook Road.

I was caught on TV sitting on my bike. (Pic below).

 

[Cathryn]

Left home at 6 and I was in Warrington for the team presentations at 10am! Watched the departure, had lunch and coffee with my friend and then we were there for the sprint finish and the victory presentation!

Had a cracking day! Can’t quite get over how close we are able to get to our sporting heroes in cycling! Just brilliant! Off to Manchester tomorrow!

 

[fossyant]

Went out on the CX bike to watch it near Potts Shrigley QOM. Was good TBH, flash and gone. Police motorbikers were doing a well drilled job, had to shout at a stupid driver, but hey ho. Bike got filthy on the trails (it's no dry out there).