2018: Tour de Yorkshire (2.1) May3rd-6th. *Spoilers*
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Might as well get this one started, since ITV 4 have wall-to-wall live coverage of both the men's and women's races, starting breakfast time, tomorrow.
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The women's course.
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The women's course.
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"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
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You can literally see my tiny little village on the map (Glusburn, stage 4), the race comes within a mile or so every year and yet I'll be missing it again, always busy on this weekend it seems!
Looking forward to a cracking race though, some serious climbing to be done and proper grippy roads, not pleasant to race on0 -
ShutupJens wrote:You can literally see my tiny little village on the map (Glusburn, stage 4), the race comes within a mile or so every year and yet I'll be missing it again, always busy on this weekend it seems!
Looking forward to a cracking race though, some serious climbing to be done and proper grippy roads, not pleasant to race on
I know the road well, many years of riding the Keighley club run up to Gragrave. Looking forward to the Cow and Calf finish.0 -
Shame I'll be cycling on Barra and/or Uist on Sunday, or I'd go up to Hebden Bridge.
Also a shame they aren't going over Cragg Vale, interested to see just how much faster they do it than me
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My brother-in-law's family live in Hornsea, and my brother-in-law (and by association my sister) live in Leeds. Parents are in Sheffield too, but it's only gooing to Barnsley and Stocksbridge this year.
Oh, and I'm working. All weekend. Hrumph0 -
The award for the most Yorkshire sounding names...
1. Alfred Wright (b.1864)
2. Thomas Pidcock (b.1867)
3. Jake Womersley (b.1863)0 -
What about Gerty Berwick. She is immortalised in stone at the bottom of the Cow, she might not be riding this year though.0
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OCDuPalais wrote:The award for the most Yorkshire sounding names...
1. Alfred Wright (b.1864)
2. Thomas Pidcock (b.1867)
3. Jake Womersley (b.1863)
and those that dont
Perrig QUEMENEUR
Jonas VAN GENECHTEN
Robbert DE GREEF0 -
So this looks like a sprint fest aprt from stage 4 perhaps which looks good for a breakaway.
Edit just saw the end of stage 2. Uphill sprint Ouch 0 -
Stage 4 is brutal. Some really savage steep bits in there.0
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inseine wrote:ShutupJens wrote:You can literally see my tiny little village on the map (Glusburn, stage 4), the race comes within a mile or so every year and yet I'll be missing it again, always busy on this weekend it seems!
Looking forward to a cracking race though, some serious climbing to be done and proper grippy roads, not pleasant to race on
I know the road well, many years of riding the Keighley club run up to Gragrave. Looking forward to the Cow and Calf finish.
You were a bronte wheeler weren't you? I remember it coming up a while ago. Probably in a TdY thread
Stage 4 will be a great watch, up and down the cassette all day, will be really tough0 -
ShutupJens wrote:inseine wrote:ShutupJens wrote:
You were a bronte wheeler weren't you? I remember it coming up a while ago. Probably in a TdY thread
I was. Happy days!0 -
this event is growing on me."If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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insane cone road furniture on final roundabout!"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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Almost a decisive intervention from the traffic cones in the women’s race there. Might want to sort them out before the men get to Doncaster later on.0
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gregster04 wrote:Almost a decisive intervention from the traffic cones in the women’s race there. Might want to sort them out before the men get to Doncaster later on.
lucky they didn't stack there..though it always looks worse from above/behind"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
I like the unpatronising presentation itv4 do for women racing. feels positive."If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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Beautiful day in Yorkshire as Kirsten Wild wins first stage (again)
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mididoctors wrote:I like the unpatronising presentation itv4 do for women racing. feels positive.
I agree, although I couldn't pay too much attention as I'm at work. Lizzie Deignan added some useful insight about things like judging sprints etc, at least from the bits I heard.0 -
As it is me... odd feeling !mididoctors wrote:this event is growing on me.0 -
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yeah they didn't play up the race..it was a bit of a foregone snoozefest in many regards and said as much."If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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really?Rick Chasey wrote:Home office f*cks up again and denies 2 Kazak Astana riders visas."If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
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OCDuPalais wrote:The award for the most Yorkshire sounding names...
1. Alfred Wright (b.1864)
2. Thomas Pidcock (b.1867)
3. Jake Womersley (b.1863)
4. Cyril Heppleston (b. 1912)
Not quite peak Yorkshire but we're getting there0 -
For the women there is Emily Wadsworth leading the waykleinstroker wrote:OCDuPalais wrote:The award for the most Yorkshire sounding names...
1. Alfred Wright (b.1864)
2. Thomas Pidcock (b.1867)
3. Jake Womersley (b.1863)
4. Cyril Heppleston (b. 1912)
Not quite peak Yorkshire but we're getting thereTwitter: @RichN950 -
Denies? Really? Are we sure Astana didn't mess this up, possibly by thinking UK is in Schengen?Rick Chasey wrote:Home office f*cks up again and denies 2 Kazak Astana riders visas.Twitter: @RichN950 -
S'what Ned said on commentary. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Meanwhile, I return at 4pm and there's still 93km to go.
Sloooooooooooooooooooow0 -
tougher going than expected they are working into a head wind i think?"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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Nice to see they've fixed some of the pot-holes for them. Roads still look rough as f#ck though from viewing the moto footage. They'll need to be running 32's on their rims in a year or two.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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ShutupJens wrote:You can literally see my tiny little village on the map (Glusburn, stage 4), the race comes within a mile or so every year and yet I'll be missing it again, always busy on this weekend it seems!
Looking forward to a cracking race though, some serious climbing to be done and proper grippy roads, not pleasant to race on
Well we lived in Crosshills when I was tiny, and I was christened in Silsden parish church, but then grew up near Ferrybridge. Spent a lot of time cycling up and down Wharfedale though, and still have a lot of relatives up there, so I feel all nostalgic when I see it on the telly. I'm stuck in East Anglia.
Sister and brother-in-law are moaning about the road closures when it goes through Pontefract, the miserable sods.0
