eddielewis Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 For anyone into cycling the Tour of Britain is coming to Derby this Friday 6th Sep starting at the Derby Arena/Pride Park and ending at Newark. Some good riders in this years race such as Tom Pidcock, Julian Alaphilippe and Olympic champ Remco Evenepol. It starts at 11am but there will be a presentation of the riders at 10am. It's also live on ITV 4 if your vain enough to try and get caught on telly. Check the full route here if it's passing by your house: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/tobmenroute EtoileSportiveDeDerby and RadioactiveWaste 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB SPORTS Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 (edited) 1 hour ago, eddielewis said: For anyone into cycling the Tour of Britain is coming to Derby this Friday 6th Sep starting at the Derby Arena/Pride Park and ending at Newark. Some good riders in this years race such as Tom Pidcock, Julian Alaphilippe and Olympic champ Remco Evenepol. It starts at 11am but there will be a presentation of the riders at 10am. It's also live on ITV 4 if your vain enough to try and get caught on telly. Check the full route here if it's passing by your house: https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/tobmenroute Coming through Heanor, if they can navigate the pot holes!! Edited September 4 by GB SPORTS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddielewis Posted September 4 Author Share Posted September 4 12 minutes ago, GB SPORTS said: Coming through Heanor, if they can navigate the pot holes!! I suspect both Derby and Notts councils are going to panickily fill a few up on Thursday to avoid embarrassment GB SPORTS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NottsRam Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 31 minutes ago, GB SPORTS said: Coming through Heanor, if they can navigate the pot holes!! and the roadworks! GB SPORTS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 Bloody hell, I hate cyclists me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucker1884 Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 Ain’t nobody got time to read comments on here, as I’m currently on holiday spending all day everyday out cycling. Hope everyone only has nice things to say about us! 👀🚴♀️ Comrade 86 and uttoxram75 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 Fell off near Budleigh Salterton. The pump got caught in my trouser leg. /Best Monty Python episode ever/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjam Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 They passed by us yesterday. eddielewis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Bizarre spectator sport if you ask me, which nobody did, but I’m still saying it. Watching on TV, I can understand, you get to see the full race, see the pace, timings yadda yadda. In person, you watch them ride past you once and that’s it. Gone. If you’re lucky you might get to see one get a puncture or hit a pot hole, but mostly it will be the most uneventful event you have seen. There is no smell of petrol, the brum brum of an engine to appreciate the sounds, you would get more sound out of a Tesla driving past. Just nothing really to get excited about unless you’re in to men in Lycra, in which case you may as well watch WWE wrestling and laugh at how stupid it is. maxjam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WharfedaleRam Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Best road surfaces we ever had up here were in 2014, just before the Tour de France Grand Depart. Since then, we've barely seen a travelling man with half a wheelbarrow of 'spare' tarmac! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sufferingfool Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 5 hours ago, Day said: Bizarre spectator sport if you ask me, which nobody did, but I’m still saying it. Watching on TV, I can understand, you get to see the full race, see the pace, timings yadda yadda. In person, you watch them ride past you once and that’s it. Gone. If you’re lucky you might get to see one get a puncture or hit a pot hole, but mostly it will be the most uneventful event you have seen. There is no smell of petrol, the brum brum of an engine to appreciate the sounds, you would get more sound out of a Tesla driving past. Just nothing really to get excited about unless you’re in to men in Lycra, in which case you may as well watch WWE wrestling and laugh at how stupid it is. One of the best days I’ve had at a sporting event was watching a stage of Tour de France on a mountain stage about 20 years ago. Hard to describe why but it was a great experience with wife and two young sons. RadioactiveWaste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Bloody cycling. Got held up for two hours today - Newark was at a standstill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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