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May 2014
11:30am, 1 May 2014
17,613 posts
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JohnnyO
I am cycling on day 1, unless the nipper is in a good mood and wants to come to Harrogate too. I imagine that there will be a lot of cyclists going up the Harrogate road that day!
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May 2014
11:39am, 1 May 2014
11,945 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
I am visualising a traffic jam all the way from Leeds to Harrogate. I guess the team buses will be going that way too as well as all the spectators.
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May 2014
11:43am, 1 May 2014
1,313 posts
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MudMeanderer
If the road is closed and the crowds are out it's definitely worth rolling along the route. We had great fun on the way into San Quentin a couple of years ago blasting along as a mini bunch, sprinting over crests or for banners, cheered on by merry Belgians and Dutch in their motor homes.
I wonder where will become the local Dutch corner? Maybe they'll start arriving on Holme Moss a week before!
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May 2014
12:11pm, 1 May 2014
5,650 posts
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*Anj*
We are up in Yarkshire the week before for a holiday then staying at friends house in leeds on Friday night. A friend of theirs has the tour going past their front door so we will be cycling over there to watch and then BBQ in the evening 
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May 2014
12:46pm, 1 May 2014
840 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Will anyone be following the Tour of Britain Women's Tour next week? 5 stages running Wed to Sun. Just realised that the 2nd stage passes within 1.5 miles of where I work, so hope to negotiate an hour out to go and see it through the village.
One of the GB riders (Lucy Garner) lives in the village I will be watching from - wonder if they'll adopt the tradition of allowing the home rider to lead the peloton through...
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May 2014
12:53pm, 1 May 2014
11,946 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
We would have been but it clashes with the giro so we'll be in Ireland. Would have been good if they hadn't clashed!
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May 2014
12:55pm, 1 May 2014
29,634 posts
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Velociraptor
We can't physically follow the women's Tour because I have to go to work sometimes, but I'll be keeping a close eye on it. Would have loved to have been there
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May 2014
12:57pm, 1 May 2014
1,314 posts
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MudMeanderer
I would have loved to, but we'll be in Ireland turning it pink!
I've said it before, but I think they've dropped a clanger scheduling at the same time as a grand tour visits the UK for the first time in quite a few years. I expect there are a not unreasonable number of big cycling fans who would have happily traveled to see them race, but who will already have decided to head to Ireland before the women's tour dates were announced.
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May 2014
1:01pm, 1 May 2014
1,315 posts
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MudMeanderer
Though that's reminded me - we must book for the exciting venue that is Milton Keynes in November, where we'll hopefully get to see one or two elite British women right at the sharp end!
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May 2014
2:44pm, 1 May 2014
11,037 posts
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The Teaboy
Going to be out on the route in Cambs somewhere. No doubt it will be 6 deep the whole way to London!
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