2014 TdF
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Surely Côte de Buttertubs and Côte de Blubberhouses are better.No tA Doctor wrote:FJS wrote:The route timings for stage 1 and 2, plus climb categories and sprint points
http://letour.yorkshire.com/documents/t ... Stage1.pdf
http://letour.yorkshire.com/documents/t ... Stage2.pdf
Stage 2 has 3 4th cat climbs, 5 3rd cat, and Holme Moss 2nd cat. Not bad.
Côte de Ripponden
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RichN95 wrote:
Surely Côte de Buttertubs and Côte de Blubberhouses are better.No tA Doctor wrote:FJS wrote:The route timings for stage 1 and 2, plus climb categories and sprint points
http://letour.yorkshire.com/documents/t ... Stage1.pdf
http://letour.yorkshire.com/documents/t ... Stage2.pdf
Stage 2 has 3 4th cat climbs, 5 3rd cat, and Holme Moss 2nd cat. Not bad.
Côte de Ripponden That's just beautiful.
Nah. Buttertubs and Blubberhouses don't need tarting up with a Côte to be amusing. Over-egging the gateaux.
Côte de Jenkin Road is pretty good though.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
I can't wait, going to try and camp if the weather is good, I imagine there will be a few folk doing that.0
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We were studying the route layout in the office today and Buttertubs was definitely house favourite.RichN95 wrote:
Surely Côte de Buttertubs and Côte de Blubberhouses are better.No tA Doctor wrote:FJS wrote:The route timings for stage 1 and 2, plus climb categories and sprint points
http://letour.yorkshire.com/documents/t ... Stage1.pdf
http://letour.yorkshire.com/documents/t ... Stage2.pdf
Stage 2 has 3 4th cat climbs, 5 3rd cat, and Holme Moss 2nd cat. Not bad.
Côte de Ripponden That's just beautiful.Follow me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/scalesjason - All posts are strictly my personal view.0 -
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom0
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Jenkin Road 11.2% average and 33.3% maximum according to this http://blog.veloviewer.com/the-climbs-o ... ce-part-2/. It is a real pig of a hill.0
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Some great shots by Andy Jones of st 1 and 2 routes, up on the Comic's website
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/racing/t ... res-116067
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/racing/t ... res-1161180 -
BBC Tandem tackles Holme Moss!
Could we have some of that weather on the MSR route on Sunday please?0 -
Let's save it for Roubaix, shall we.0
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Fair enough, maybe a few "race-faces" like Harry's then.0
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Big sporting event in going over budget shocker...0
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...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.0
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Kittel, Degenkolb and co seemed to have underestimated Sheffield a bit.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYF5DnPpJQ4
Yesterday on stage 2 recce0 -
That's a brilliant video. It makes pro cyclists look as ungainly as me going up a hill.0
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OCDuPalais wrote:Well we've got 18 months to organise a revolution, then!
Right, I'll get cracking on the catering - stock-piling salty snacks and pop. Alun; you look like a big lad who likes his food - any special requests?
Come on, it'll be the ultimate compliment to the French and the Tour: us becoming a Republic...
How goes this? Salty snacks still in date?0 -
Lancew wrote:Mooro wrote:That's a brilliant video. It makes pro cyclists look as ungainly as me going up a hill.
I'm wondering if it was some crazy training idea? Ride up in the highest gear you can?
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Nice video. Proper bruiser that hill. Look forward to it.Contador is the Greatest0
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Dont think so; it really is very steep. I reckon they just rode with their standard gearing for flat stagesLancew wrote:Mooro wrote:That's a brilliant video. It makes pro cyclists look as ungainly as me going up a hill.
I'm wondering if it was some crazy training idea? Ride up in the highest gear you can?0 -
Jenkin Road is steep, I recall the sign at the top saying 14%. The stretch shown in the YouTube link is very very steep, certainly steeper than 14%.0
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Its about 25% where the handrail for the pedestrians is. (if not more)
On a different subject, I know that I am now living in the Yorkshire TDF bubble but its been mental over the last few days.
I did wonder if we were going to have some sort of "Pro Team spotted training for the TDF" thread but there is no need.
I was out with a friend on Monday doing stage 1 from Leeds to Harrogate. Up at Kettlewell we were overtaken by a Giant Shimano car, with bikes on. We got a friendly toot and a wave from the driver and passenger. We were so excited by this, thinking we had discovered secret recce-ing by the squad.
Not a chance... Twitter went mad. Facebook went mad. It was all over the local news. It was on the front page of the local paper... The squad came over for a few days to check out the routes and the whole of Yorkshire has gone crazy.
Its going to be a brilliant couple of months.Top Ten finisher - PTP Tour of Britain 20160 -
Lucky you - enjoy it while it lasts!!Contador is the Greatest0
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Thanks.
Forgot to say, we think the passenger in the car was Kittel.Top Ten finisher - PTP Tour of Britain 20160 -
Mooro wrote:OCDuPalais wrote:Well we've got 18 months to organise a revolution, then!
Right, I'll get cracking on the catering - stock-piling salty snacks and pop. Alun; you look like a big lad who likes his food - any special requests?
Come on, it'll be the ultimate compliment to the French and the Tour: us becoming a Republic...
How goes this? Salty snacks still in date?
Not great, to be honest.
As Treasurer to The Revolution, I was over-joyed to discover that Aldi do the best peanuts of any of the main supermarkets - and they're about the cheapest. The Comrade In Charge of Logistics (a wooly title if ever there was one) - who has always had it in for me - accused me of somehow simultaneously being a pretentious middle-class toss-pot for worrying about the quality of the salty-snacks as well as being a skin-flint for short-changing everyone with the cheap option - You couldn't make it up! We then had a major discussion on dialectics, Trotsky and whether Stalin would've made a good Directeur Sportif, before deciding to call the whole thing off until next time...
Also, booking Tony Benn and Bob Crowe as speakers unfortunately proved untimely...0 -
OCDuPalais wrote:Mooro wrote:OCDuPalais wrote:Well we've got 18 months to organise a revolution, then!
Right, I'll get cracking on the catering - stock-piling salty snacks and pop. Alun; you look like a big lad who likes his food - any special requests?
Come on, it'll be the ultimate compliment to the French and the Tour: us becoming a Republic...
How goes this? Salty snacks still in date?
Not great, to be honest.
As Treasurer to The Revolution, I was over-joyed to discover that Aldi do the best peanuts of any of the main supermarkets - and they're about the cheapest. The Comrade In Charge of Logistics (a wooly title if ever there was one) - who has always had it in for me - accused me of somehow simultaneously being a pretentious middle-class toss-pot for worrying about the quality of the salty-snacks as well as being a skin-flint for short-changing everyone with the cheap option - You couldn't make it up! We then had a major discussion on dialectics, Trotsky and whether Stalin would've made a good Directeur Sportif, before deciding to call the whole thing off until next time...
Also, booking Tony Benn and Bob Crowe as speakers unfortunately proved untimely...
Ahem.... 5 year plan. British winner of the TdF.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
£45 to £85 is the cost for the team presentation.
This is normally a free event for the public.
Trust the UK to milk as much money as they can from us.Contador is the Greatest0 -
frenchfighter wrote:£45 to £85 is the cost for the team presentation.
This is normally a free event for the public.
Trust the UK to milk as much money as they can from us.
Yorkshire Tourist Board, I think you mean.
As for the 'us'...I thought you never went to races, preferring to watch cycling via a screen?0 -
What do you know about me? I have been to a a lot of races in France. I take maybe 15days off a year and work bank holidays which doesnt leave much time to go to bike races. In any case, major reasons I havent been to more is because I hate the cars and motos that come through before hand and think that watching them for a short while when they come past is a waste of time. I'd rather follow the race properly. I can sit by the roadside when I am retired.
Regardless, what they are doing is wrong, but not a surprise.Contador is the Greatest0 -
frenchfighter wrote:What do you know about me? I have been to a a lot of races in France. I take maybe 15days off a year and work bank holidays which doesnt leave much time to go to bike races. In any case, major reasons I havent been to more is because I hate the cars and motos that come through before hand and think that watching them for a short while when they come past is a waste of time. I'd rather follow the race properly. I can sit by the roadside when I am retired.
Regardless, what they are doing is wrong, but not a surprise.
Via the power of telepathy?
Because you've previously posted that you prefer to watch live tv coverage rather than go to races.0
