ToB route announced

rjeffroy
rjeffroy Posts: 638
edited April 2008 in Pro race
http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/si ... _Route.asp

The London stage goes over my daily commute! Lets hope they run an amateur crit over the stage and that I can get to 2nd cat in time!
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    How's that the Tour of Britain? More like "The Tour of England and Scotland"
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  • squired
    squired Posts: 1,153
    Each year I hope to see the race route dipping into the Welsh mountains, but each year I'm left disappointed. The London stage will hopefully be an improvement on the dull and poorly supported Crystal Palace Prologue of last year, but will be pretty meaningless. I'd just like to see daily coverage on tv somewhere this year.
  • GroupOfOne MkII
    GroupOfOne MkII Posts: 1,289
    squired wrote:
    I'd just like to see daily coverage on tv somewhere this year.

    There is daily coverage this year 8) An hour a day on ITV4, 7pm - 8pm.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Typcially, IIRC, each stage will be paid for/sponsored by a regional development agency - hence 1 stage per Eng region (& Scotland) & the rather dispersed parcours. I suspect the Welsh Assembly has spent wasy too much on the 2010 Ryder Cup to sponsor a stage of ToB. More's the pity :roll:
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  • scwxx77
    scwxx77 Posts: 1,469
    Glasgow - Dumfries looks a bit like last years final stage in reverse.
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    happy days! I work in MK and we have a start. I may well have a half day off work that day!!
  • Salsiccia
    Salsiccia Posts: 405
    Look at all those transfers... the riders will love it.
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    by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Salsiccia wrote:
    Look at all those transfers... the riders will love it.

    I was thinking that there's not one transfer less than a couple of hours drive.

    Could do with helicopters taking the riders, and the rest of the teams crew following on...... doubt the budgets will stretch that far though!
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Every year we see people complaining that the tour doesnt get to them - well its never gonna please all the people. And with authorities and Police getting less and less keen on racing on the roads - its amazing we get anything at all.

    Add on that we have no big bucks sponsor and the tour has to go to cycling friendly councils - its a triumph against the odds. I'll go and check out the finish in Liverpool. Boost the numbers of spectators a bit. Just hope they finish the roadworks in time.
  • leguape
    leguape Posts: 986
    Re: Big bucks sponsor. I thought EON were pretty plugged in as a sponsor, likewise TFL and regional development agencies. But wasn't part of the point of not having a headline sponsor that it avoided it being subject to the whims of sponsors which was what did for the last incarnation of the TOB?
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Looks like i'm in a good position to se 2 stages :D

    Shame they haven't made them go up the chimney after about 100 miles though :twisted:
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  • oldwelshman
    oldwelshman Posts: 4,733
    calvjones wrote:
    Typcially, IIRC, each stage will be paid for/sponsored by a regional development agency - hence 1 stage per Eng region (& Scotland) & the rather dispersed parcours. I suspect the Welsh Assembly has spent wasy too much on the 2010 Ryder Cup to sponsor a stage of ToB. More's the pity :roll:

    Terry Mathews has funded most of the Ryder cup, its a wonder no one has tried to get money off hom for cycling, very supportive bloke.
    Guess the TOB won't go to Wales due to lack of money.
    The route does not look exciting really with lots of tranfers for riders.
    Unless they get big sponsorship and a decent route sorted it will never be a top class race.
    Maybe it did not go to Wales becuase of lack of hotels :D
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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Didnt they have a couple of stages in wales a couple of years back- i forget the name of the place but its a big golf course/hotel thing. Maybe they dont need to spend the money on bikes now ?
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    The route suggests the organisers are trying to do too much. The problem is that in trying to visit everywhere (except Wales, but remember Wales is a principality of England, so technically it's part of England), you end up with long transfers.

    With two hours of driving after every stage, more as it's during the rush hour, the race risks scaring many of the big names who can pick their calendar of races, they'll take one look at the map and say no way. So if the race isn't the finished article, lets hope the organisers can get the other things right, like closed roads for the finish - no traffic cones please - and to hire some good PR so the race features in the media.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Can I just announce that I wil be putting in an appearance at this years race in London?

    No, the fact Rock Racing have been invited and I'm hoping they'll bring the Rock Racing girls with them has nothing to do with it :P
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Ha ha, form an orderly queue behind me! I'm looking out my "Believe Tyler" T-shirt already...
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