2015-Tour de Yorkshire (2.1)-1.05/3.05

[DBotero]

Stage 1 - Bridlington › Scarborough(174 km)

Stage 2 - Selby › York(174 km)

Stage 3 - Wakefield › Leeds(167 km)

Start list:http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/tour-de-yorkshire-start-list

 

[DFA123]

Just watched the first part of the coveage. Kittel - one of very few big name riders there - is clearly treating it like an easy training run after his illness and is already six minutes off the back. The roads also seem to be partially open to traffic, with several cars coming towards the riders.

Not a great start to the event.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Kittel has abandoned

 

[DFA123]

Re:

Kittel has abandoned

Such a shame. The race has really good potential with an interesting route, testing weather and high spectator interest, but the organisation has been poor so far and now the star attraction has dropped out without even contesting a sprint.

 

[rick james]

Testing weather??? this is our summer

 

[Pricey_sky]

Cote de Robin Hood's Bay, Cote de Goose Eye, Cote de Cow and Calf. Love Yorkshire!

 

[rick james]

making hard work of the wee 12% climb

 

[del1962]

Just watching it reminds me why this is such a hard area for riding

 

[Swiss Tony]

bit of a 22% there... Looks beautiful ...I miss England : (

 

[Vino's Mum]

Re:

Robin Hood's Bay

A great little village, and should be an interesting climb.

 

[Eagle]

Why is it called Tour de Yorkshire?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Coz in the UK using French is considered classy

De clerc oooooooooooop

 

[rick james]

sky rider crashes

 

[Pricey_sky]

Loads of riders down, road is mega slippy!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Yorkshire rain the best in the world
crash slip crash.

 

[BigMac]

At least iZnoGouD was funny.

Anyway, Steele Von Hoff, Julien Simon, will be up there. I'd bet on Reinardt van Rensburg for a stage win here, but he hasn't been performing well.

Never thought I'd say it, but with Lars van der Haar and Lawson Craddock, I'm actually rooting for Giant, lol. Perhaps from a break, now that Kittel is gone.

 

[DBotero]

Crash

 

[rick james]

Slippy roads now

 

[Pricey_sky]

Riders all over the place here.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Where's Wiggo ?
he doesn't like downhill in the rain (Giro!)

 

[willbick]

Re:

Kittel has abandoned

This season is starting to look like a write-off for Kittel. He's clearly still in no sort of shape

 

[Pricey_sky]

Only around 20 riders in the bunch now. At least 10 riders down in that crash has split everything.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Nice selection.
Sheep Goats
Boys Men
etc

 

[DBotero]

Wiggins was dropped from what i saw.

 

[del1962]

Bunch is coming back together