Tour *of* Yorkshire - **spoiler**

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  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    The gb team mechanics better be versatile there’s a lot of different bikes to support
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    keef66 wrote:
    Our first house was a Bloor home.

    Upstairs walls made out of weetabix as I discovered when I tried to hand a radiator I'd just moved...

    I wonder what the return on investment is for a building company sponsoring a cycling team... I guess I wouldn't have heard of them if they hadn't have sponsored Canyon this year. But at the same time I wouldn't have found out about the Weetabix issue
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Alejandrosdog wrote:
    The gb team mechanics better be versatile there’s a lot of different bikes to support

    There's a great video that GCN did where they spend a day with Mavic Neutral Service at the tour, now they have to be versatile! Sounds like a logistical nightmare
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Bigham, Nally, Asselman and Vermaerke now driving it to the finish. 2:15 with 25km to go, gap dropping quickly though!

    RIders just passed through Wheldrake which is home to literally the Worst Road Race Circuit in the World - 11 flat, sheltered miles, used in the North Yorks Road Race League and amateur tarmac inspectors convention

    Also some very brightly painted yellow cows which looks like a bit of a rush job to be honest, 3/10 for effort
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Ooh van Avermaet with a bit of a scrappy wheel change. CCC weren't driving the pace before so I'm not convinced it will change much, Millar seems to think that the riders are heading towards a tailwind section which would benefit the break. Bunch looking lined out now
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Oooo dodgy bridge v narrow have the pictures gone so we don’t see the impending carnage?
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    TV coverage drops out with 10km to go. Reduced to Tour de San Luis levels of coverage - showing a very wet finish line, albeit with more fans
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    They could at least get some girls in T-shirt’s to make the finish line more interesting
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    No time gaps available at all - including what gets relayed to the breakaway and the bunch. That should spice things up a touch! And we're back with a moto at the back of the bunch.

    Some dodgy cornering going on on the run in
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    By ek it weren’t like that when Gary Verity was in charge.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    I grew up cycling around the Selby / Cawood flatlands. Whoever said it looks like Holland was right; it's low and flat and occasionally underwater. Be interesting to catch the highlights on telly tonight
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    keef66 wrote:
    I grew up cycling around the Selby / Cawood flatlands. Whoever said it looks like Holland was right; it's low and flat and occasionally underwater. Be interesting to catch the highlights on telly tonight

    I’ve seen more interesting races in the desert....
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    keef66 wrote:
    I grew up cycling around the Selby / Cawood flatlands. Whoever said it looks like Holland was right; it's low and flat and occasionally underwater. Be interesting to catch the highlights on telly tonight

    Yeah I thought that York/Selby/Tadcaster to an extent reminded me of riding in the Netherlands. Lovely long, flat roads, especially when you get on the proper bike paths on the outskirts of York. Wonderful part of the world
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Stannard brings his Omloop face to the fore. Surely that's curtains for the break. 3.9km 30 seconds
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    ShutupJens wrote:
    Stannard brings his Omloop face to the fore. Surely that's curtains for the break. 3.9km 30 seconds
    He’s the man for that job for sure
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Mind you it’s getting close I reckon they’ll get pipped before the post
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    He swung off remarkably quickly. SOme job of work needs to be done by the break still, only 3 of them working as Vermaerke skips turns. Millar thinks it's cos he's strong, I think he looks rubbered
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    2k and 20 seconds wt teams moving to the front #nochance
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Dan Bigham deserves something from this, he's doing some right work there
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    1.6k and 19 seconds they might make it
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Flyer from the front of the bunch - not the sign of a concerted chase effort
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Nah not working together properly it’s doomed
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Ooooft! Rompoot romper stomper!
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Fantastic finish! Asselman holds off the bunch, rest of the bunch in the top 10. What a race, really tense finale
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    I bloody love everything about this race
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Has cav finished yet?
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Alejandrosdog wrote:
    Has cav finished yet?

    I understand that he finished in 2012 if some areas of the internet are to be believed
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Vermaerke coming across quite well in his little post race interview, he was completely blown in the finale as I thought
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
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    Shot taken by @swpixtweets
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    FocusZing wrote:
    D5kVOfjWwAAAspk?format=jpg&name=large

    Shot taken by @swpixtweets

    That's a belting pic

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