Tour of Britain 4-11 September 2016 *spoilers*

[brommers]

Strong team from Sky:
Viviani
Stannnard
Poels
Roche
Swift
Van Poppel

 

[MikeW-71]

Typically, I'm working monday, so I'll head up to the top of the last climb on sunday near Newton Stewart instead. Anyone else going up there?

 

[brommers]

Typically, I'm working monday, so I'll head up to the top of the last climb on sunday near Newton Stewart instead. Anyone else going up there?

Tour of Britain 2016 thread is the better place to be for talking about going to the race
This thread is more about the cyclists and the racing

 

[coffeejo]

Cheerful post on FB from Cav. It may just be spin but it's part of the reason I like the guy: he enjoys cycling, not just the winning.

 

[brommers]

Blythe and McLay in GB squad. Loads of sprinters in the race.

 

[brommers]

Only Dimension Data and Team Wiggins to confirm their line-ups. Great field of riders across sprints, TTs and KoM.

 

[smutchin]

Only Dimension Data and Team Wiggins to confirm their line-ups. Great field of riders across sprints, TTs and KoM.

Wiggo, Doull and Dibben have been confirmed. Should be Christian, Latham and Pearson making up the numbers.

Don't know if it's confirmed, but the PCS startlist has the DD line-up as Cav, Cummings, Eisel, Renshaw, Thomson, Van Zyl.

 

[brommers]

Eisel, Renshaw, Thomson, Van Zyl.

Thanks. When I looked earlier those 4 hadn't been added

 

[Barlowben16]

Wiggo , Doull, Dibben, Latham, Christian and Pearson so pretty much what @smutchin announced.

 

[brommers]

I will be running a punditry competition for the Tour of Britain
Please see details on the ProTour Pundit 2016 thread
Everyone welcome

 

[subaqua]

oooh the North Wales bits goes over routes I used to do as a kid . (teenager) pity I cant gt up there to watch

maybe i can swing going to work in Bristol for those stages .

 

[Hacienda71]

Blythe and McLay in GB squad. Loads of sprinters in the race.

Sorry for my ignorance, but if Blythe is contracted to Tinkoff this year is he allowed to ride for the GB squad as it is non pro, presumably the same with Sky and Hart?

 

[smutchin]

Sorry for my ignorance, but if Blythe is contracted to Tinkoff this year is he allowed to ride for the GB squad as it is non pro, presumably the same with Sky and Hart?

It's normal for races at this level to invite national teams made up of riders from various trade teams. I don't really know how it works, but iirc Blythe was able to ride for GB at the RideLondon because Tinkoff didn't send a team. Tinkoff won't be at the ToB either.

I suppose the rules are much the same as when pros ride for national teams at the Worlds, except that in this case they're racing against trade teams rather than other national teams.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I've just had a look at the parcours, and think this could be the best ToB route yet. I love the split stage on stage 7 as well - TT followed by a crit, genius.

I'll be cheering on @rich p's favourite rider, Mark Stewart, who he's been following since his youth days. I've even tipped him to win KOM in punditry.

 

[lyn1]

I've just had a look at the parcours, and think this could be the best ToB route yet. I love the split stage on stage 7 as well - TT followed by a crit, genius.

The riders and staff will be using a very different word. Split stages tend to be very unpopular