Le Tour 2014

[carlosthejack...]

Coming to Yorkshire. Bring it on. Promises to be an immense weekend.
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Ends in London.

Long way off, but will make the effort to wash through my mankini in readiness.
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Great turnout.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Brs-Mp8CAAE7zzB.jpg:large

I'll be going tomorrow for Stage 2.
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/zuvvi/media/bc_files/road/TDF14_ET02_cartetape.jpg

Proper looking forward to it.
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Posted: 21:43 - 14 Dec 2012 Rating: Good Post subject: Le Tour 2014

wot?

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Don't like wasting paper so found an old piece and scribbled on it.
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[BumpingUglys]

York's currently full of yellow bikes nailed to everything, bunting and placards everywhere, big signs up all over the place.

I love it! My ride to work is like being in the middle of a carnival!

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

I'll have to see if it come past my way.
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[Raffles]

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/zuvvi/media/bc_files/road/TDF14_ET02_cartetape.jpg

IMO that route hasn't been thought through very well at all. Surely it would be much quicker using A64-A1(M)-M1 to get from York to Sheffield.
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Glad I'm not around - would have been most irksome I expect, with it passing pretty close to my place.
Hopefully all the 'cycling fever' will have died down by the time I'm next up there properly - even a few months ago there was significantly higher numbers of lycra clad wannabes (maybe some even in the real deal) doing the route 'over the tops' - sure, I've cycled the same route in the past myself, but not in a group of 10 people with no kind of road positioning discipline!

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[AlanC]

I'm not going anywhere today thanks to the main road that's my only way out being closed...

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

4 million people happy.
1 not.

Loser.
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[AlanC]

A friend of mine would have been in the same situation, so he decided to have a long weekend in Amsterdam instead.

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Amsterdam?...loads of stoned people...... on bikes.
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[AlanC]

I don't think it was the stoned people or the bikes he was going for...

[Boris the spider]

Did Cav try and lean too much on him and cause it ?
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

He was the catalyst and reaped it big time.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BryqU_rIYAER4Qr.jpg
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[Boris the spider]

I thought that.
From all the footage , it does look like he was doing his usual.
Shame if he is seriously hurt though

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[The Shaggy D.A.]

"Cote de Blubberhouses".

Comment très Français.
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[carlosthejack...]

Just dragging on my lycra now to ride in a big group all the way to Sheffield, irritating other road users and doing Jenkin Road when we get there. I'm frightened already. Although after yesterday's spill I'm wondering if my leathers might be a safer option...
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Responsibility. It's a difficult reality for some. I'm running the 2014 Sheffield Half Marathon on behalf of Bluebell Wood Childrens Hospice. Please sponsor me, even if it's just a quid.
DonnyBrago: "I think you may be confusing rain and napalm..." Paulington: "It's not what you ride, it's how you ride it."
Current rides: '05 VFR800 VTEC, '57 Mondeo 1.8 TDCi #58LEGEND

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

1st the good.

The ride to High Bradfield was good and watching the race go by was superb.

The bad.

Humans in general are spasticated mongtards who thought nothing of barging past, knocking my bike with their overpriced pushbikes. Abandoned vehicles on narrow backlanes causing blockages... General wanky parking...the highest order of wankness.

The ugly.
The gross hoofer who had the nerve to tell me not to smoke whilst we're stood in a field on a windy hilltop. I wanted to make her cry.

For the amount of cars that went past you would think that there are 1000 riders in the race.
https://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/howlingterror_2006/170CABE0-BE5F-461D-88D1-9C4C887B0A76_zpsuwqac26w.jpg
https://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/howlingterror_2006/A183B9FE-3E93-432D-91F8-03B41BC4BA89_zpsjbinbjve.jpg

Would I go again?
No.
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[carlosthejack...]

I did Jenkin Road 4 times. Twice up the front, twice up the back. Each one equally brutal. Fucking loved it.

Quite a few folk I knew on the hill, one of whom was smart enough to catch me! This is just after the 33% bit and I was breathing out my arse...

https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/10527541_10152126306037511_3780776524376679932_n.jpg

100m from the finish...

https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/10463771_10152126408577511_6773228965065294181_o.jpg
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Responsibility. It's a difficult reality for some. I'm running the 2014 Sheffield Half Marathon on behalf of Bluebell Wood Childrens Hospice. Please sponsor me, even if it's just a quid.
DonnyBrago: "I think you may be confusing rain and napalm..." Paulington: "It's not what you ride, it's how you ride it."
Current rides: '05 VFR800 VTEC, '57 Mondeo 1.8 TDCi #58LEGEND

[Llama-Farmer]

Was a little sceptical, as I was with London 2012.
I feared it would just rain all the time and the British public would not be particularly bothered and rather annoyed at the inconvenience.

But as with the Olympics I found some (a lot of) very last minute interest, really rather enjoyed watching Le Tour de Yorkshire from the comfort of my sofa.


Although I felt severely uncomfortable hearing it being called Out-ee-bridge multiple times. Almost got there in the end... not quite a locals pronunciation of Oooot-a-bridge, but close enough.
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