tour of britain route announced

[Slick]

Yeah but to us it was just like watching an episode of the Simpsons, naughty Bart is doing a thing but at the end of the episode everything is back the way it was.

Sorry, don't get the analogy. Is that one of your favourite programmes?

 

[themosquitoking]

Sorry, don't get the analogy. Is that one of your favourite programmes?

Are you saying you've never watched an episode? Or that the only ones you have watched were based on Lisa maybe? Would you look down on me if i said that one of the most consistently brilliant tv shows of the last 30 years, which it is by the way, tell me one that has been going as long and is better, if you can, was my favourite tv show?

 

[Adam4868]

Are you saying you've never watched an episode? Or that the only ones you have watched were based on Lisa maybe? Would you look down on me if i said that one of the most consistently brilliant tv shows of the last 30 years, which it is by the way, tell me one that has been going as long and is better, if you can, was my favourite tv show?

I like something with a bit more to it....South Park ?

 

[Bollo]

I like something with a bit more to it....South Park ?

Respect @Adam4868 ’s authoratah!

ToB route. Meh. London or Brizzle for me, so Eurosport.

 

[themosquitoking]

I like something with a bit more to it....South Park ?

Archer and Rick and Morty are my current favourites.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

[QUOTE 5268270, member: 45"]This will be the second time they'll ride past my workplace (different jobs). May take the day off to paint a big penis on the tarmac up Cheddar Gorge.[/QUOTE]

I was thinking the gorge would be a top destination to watch. I’ll come and find you and your penis. See you in September.

 

[MiK1138]

Is that the bit that doesn't want to be part of Britain anymore?

You need to change your newspaper mate, Britain is an island, no one is suggesting dynamiting the border

 

[Crackle]

I quite fancy heading to Whinlatter.

 

[Milkfloat]

I am spoilt this year - both the Ladies and Men's tours are coming to town.

 

[Milkfloat]

 

[Kernow_T]

Doesn't come within 2 hrs of where I am. Perhaps Cornwall is deemed not to have the 'infrastructure' (Motorway, running water, electricity, round wheels etc) for such an event

 

[Bollo]

Is there a rule that says that bike races in Britain have to have incredibly annoying websites?

They’re all like that. The Giro and TdF sites are both usually dreadful.

 

[smutchin]

Doesn't come within 2 hrs of where I am. Perhaps Cornwall is deemed not to have the 'infrastructure' (Motorway, running water, electricity, round wheels etc) for such an event

I'm fairly sure it has been to Cornwall in the past though. But I don't think it has been to Kent since it was the Milk Race and they certainly can't use the infrastructure excuse for that.

Yorkshire misses out this year too, as does East Anglia. It happens. It's a race of eight stages. Even with 21 stages the Tour de France usually misses out large parts of the country - Alsace this year, for example.

I would love it if the ToB did visit Scotland - the scenery would be a fantastic advert for cycling in Britain - but it would be a logistical nightmare so I get why they don't. It would be nice if Scotland had its own stage race along the lines of the TdY.

ETA: just checked and the last time it visited Kent was 2006, when a stage finished in Canterbury, the year before the Tour de France did the same. For some reason, I don't remember the ToB coming down here, even though I live just a few miles away from the finish line. It has visited Scotland many times over the years, the last time in 2015, but no further north than Glasgow/Edinburgh by the look of it. It seems I was mistaken in thinking it had visited Cornwall in the past - Exmouth is about as close as it has come.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Stage 3 which comes past me is actually a really good route if anyone is interested in doing it.

 

[Kernow_T]

I'm fairly sure it has been to Cornwall in the past though. But I don't think it has been to Kent since it was the Milk Race and they certainly can't use the infrastructure excuse for that.

Yorkshire misses out this year too, as does East Anglia. It happens. It's a race of eight stages. Even with 21 stages the Tour de France usually misses out large parts of the country - Alsace this year, for example.

I would love it if the ToB did visit Scotland - the scenery would be a fantastic advert for cycling in Britain - but it would be a logistical nightmare so I get why they don't. It would be nice if Scotland had its own stage race along the lines of the TdY.

ETA: just checked and the last time it visited Kent was 2006, when a stage finished in Canterbury, the year before the Tour de France did the same. For some reason, I don't remember the ToB coming down here, even though I live just a few miles away from the finish line. It has visited Scotland many times over the years, the last time in 2015, but no further north than Glasgow/Edinburgh by the look of it. It seems I was mistaken in thinking it had visited Cornwall in the past - Exmouth is about as close as it has come.

Yes, regularly reaches Devon.
Exmouth may as well be Glasgow tbh (ok 8 hours closer)! The Tour of Britain (in one manifestation or another) has been going long enough to do all it can to come to Cornwall (especially given it's dramatic landscape and, probably unique, cycling challenge) but the same can be said of any other county it's never visited - ooo imagine a time trial on the Scillies!