TdB comes to Nottingham

Joeblack
Joeblack Posts: 829
edited September 2012 in Road general
Well Monday can't come quick enough for me!!! Iv even got the boy out of school to watch wiggo and Cav ride by :)
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  • metronome
    metronome Posts: 670
    Yup! Going to Ashford - or close by - to see them through. Weather looks okay. Nice.
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  • Kingy 123
    Kingy 123 Posts: 41
    Riding from nottingham to the first Kotm climb.
  • macleod113
    macleod113 Posts: 560
    Cant wait either. volunteered to help marshall (well, tell folk where the loos are anyway). hope i get a good vantage point. its been a good year and a great way to see Cav and Wiggo before the year is out.
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  • ALaPlage
    ALaPlage Posts: 732
    MacLeod113 wrote:
    Cant wait either. volunteered to help marshall (well, tell folk where the loos are anyway). hope i get a good vantage point. its been a good year and a great way to see Cav and Wiggo before the year is out.

    Same for me. Marshall at finish on Monday in Knowesley Safari Park. Looking forward to it.
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  • mouth
    mouth Posts: 1,195
    ALaPlage wrote:
    MacLeod113 wrote:
    Cant wait either. volunteered to help marshall (well, tell folk where the loos are anyway). hope i get a good vantage point. its been a good year and a great way to see Cav and Wiggo before the year is out.

    Same for me. Marshall at finish on Monday in Knowesley Safari Park. Looking forward to it.

    Doing the start in Nottingham. Unless the boss has better ideas for ways I can spend my day. Unfortunately with a wedding to pay for can't really turn the overtime down. I hope I am off work though. Apart from anything I'm a bus driver in Nottingham and the road closures are gonna be an absolute nightmare.
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  • Laird_Attwood
    Laird_Attwood Posts: 66
    Live a little further across in Newcastle-under-Lyme, so will be at the Stoke-on-Trent stage. Not sure where to go yet (off work all day) either start in Trentham or some where along the way. Sadly my son has just gone to his mothers for a week, he wanted to come after watching some of the vuelta/olympics with me.

    I have never been to a tour yet. Any advice?
  • xscreamsuk
    xscreamsuk Posts: 318
    Will be riding out with club to a hill to watch. Shame they aren't going over anything really lumpy, but will be interesting to see my first proper bike race.
  • DerbyshirePoolie
    DerbyshirePoolie Posts: 16
    We are going to ride down to the Sprint point at Duffield hopefully the bunch might still be together at that point.
  • Joeblack
    Joeblack Posts: 829
    Does anyone know where I can view the exact route I need to find a place to stand
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    go here

    http://www.tourofbritain.com/_ns_race/d ... age2_route

    and click 'view stage map'
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Laird_Attwood wrote:
    Live a little further across in Newcastle-under-Lyme, so will be at the Stoke-on-Trent stage. Not sure where to go yet (off work all day) either start in Trentham or some where along the way. Sadly my son has just gone to his mothers for a week, he wanted to come after watching some of the vuelta/olympics with me.

    I have never been to a tour yet. Any advice?
    The finish in Stoke should be good if recent years repeat themselves. Or if you fancy a bit of a ride, just near Stone they will go up Sandon Bank towards Stafford, pretty much the first climb of the day. I would recommend Cannock Chase but I think it will be swamped by people who speak funny :wink:
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  • Joeblack
    Joeblack Posts: 829
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    go here

    http://www.tourofbritain.com/_ns_race/d ... age2_route

    and click 'view stage map'


    Thank you :lol:
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  • Laird_Attwood
    Laird_Attwood Posts: 66
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Laird_Attwood wrote:
    Live a little further across in Newcastle-under-Lyme, so will be at the Stoke-on-Trent stage. Not sure where to go yet (off work all day) either start in Trentham or some where along the way. Sadly my son has just gone to his mothers for a week, he wanted to come after watching some of the vuelta/olympics with me.

    I have never been to a tour yet. Any advice?
    The finish in Stoke should be good if recent years repeat themselves. Or if you fancy a bit of a ride, just near Stone they will go up Sandon Bank towards Stafford, pretty much the first climb of the day. I would recommend Cannock Chase but I think it will be swamped by people who speak funny :wink:

    Will probably get around Trentham in the morning to see them off and make way to Hanley later in the day.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Sounds good. Staffordshire lad living on south coast, so goin' Guildford to see th' end.
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  • seige
    seige Posts: 18
    coming past my workplace!what a flippin treat!ron brooks toyota ilkeston,any roadies are always welcome. :D
  • Flexisurfer
    Flexisurfer Posts: 249
    Just seen the Grand Depart in Ipswich, I hope you get the weather we had.
  • StJon
    StJon Posts: 10
    Marshall at the finish in Dumfries tomorow, there's a loop for the finish so will pass more than once but remember marshall are to watch the crowd, not the race...;-) We do get a goodie bag though.

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