Tour de England??
I still don't understand how its tour de France in England
I went to Cambridge today, it was awesome. We left yesterday and spent the day in Cambridge town centre (and a all dayer) then today we rode about 15miles to a little village parked the bikes up and waiting 4hrs for them to come. It was a good atmosphere and plenty of beer so the time went quickly. The front two buzzed by followed by the peleton 4 mins later. We were up a small hill but the speed these guys go is unbelievable, I am a capable cyclist but not even close to these guys!
We rode back to the pub and watched the rest and had a BBQ on! Baking hot day and couldn't believe it was pissing down in London! I know people will say why bother for 30 seconds of action but the greatest road race doesn't come to the UK every year so I just could not have missed it. It was one to say 'I was there'.
Tour de England??
I still don't understand how its tour de France in England
A bit like CCFC playing in northampton, some may say
I went to Yorkshire.....It was mental busy & a fantastic atmosphere.
Rode 50 miles to Hebden Bridge from Manchester on the Friday, scaling no less than 7 categorised climbs totalling over 6000ft. (inc. Holme Moss). exactly 4 hours riding time which I was chuffed with TBH.
Stayed in pub B&B, drank too much, had a little ride the next day to try & stretch the aches away.....but it was too painful so went to the pub to watch the tour & World cup.
Stayed another night & then watched the tour come past the pub door on the Sunday.....7 leaders followed by peloton about 4 mins later.
Only down side is that we couldn't get our bikes back on the trains as they were packed out & had to queue for over an hour just to get into the station.....so I've gotta go back next weekend to collect 3 bikes from a Yorkshire pub.
Wow, thats seems like a painful route there Jimmy! I would love to do Holme Moss one day, it looked so steep!
Did you watch Armstrong thing?
Went up on Saturday afternoon. Stayed on a site in ingbirchworth, where i spotted a caravan with a ccfc flag in the window. Cycled to Holme Moss at 6am on the sunday. Felt like I was going backwards at times.
Superb day and would be great for a one day classic.
So you scaled Holme Moss in the same direction as le tour then? Top effort fella.
Did you have a tail-wind that early in the morning? We had the wind in our face when we climbed it in the other direction on the Friday lunchtime.....luckily the heavens didn't open until later in the day, so we only got soaked in the saddle for the last 90 mins...
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