The 2016 Tour of Britain (2.HC) 04/09-11/09/2016

[Pricey_sky]

Potential showers forecast for the north of England tomorrow, could be some decent racing.

 

[willbick]

Im starting to think not many of the sprinters are gonna be dropped on these stages and with several teams looking for a sprint win I think every stage bar the hilltop finish will be contested by a pretty big bunch

 

[Pricey_sky]

Re:

Im starting to think not many of the sprinters are gonna be dropped on these stages and with several teams looking for a sprint win I think every stage bar the hilltop finish will be contested by a pretty big bunch

Surely a climb as hard as the struggle, 30k from the finish will see splits in the bunch? Especially with some tricky climbs before that which are much more difficult than today, plus a finish up Beast Banks (400m @ 10%+)

 

[HelloDolly]

Re:

Im starting to think not many of the sprinters are gonna be dropped on these stages and with several teams looking for a sprint win I think every stage bar the hilltop finish will be contested by a pretty big bunch

Dan Martin has no sprinter to protect and says he will go for this race ...so I expect him to attack.....Nicolas Roche would go for it too but Viviani is the team leader . BMC & Movistar as well ....Not every team will want to wait for the sprint

SKY may have too many conflicting options ...

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Today's stage looks quite well designed. I think The Struggle is a hard enough climb for the race to blow up there. Putting a climb that's sure to break up the race at 30km with some easier terrain to follow is always a good idea. It's good that cycling in Britain has grown a bit, there's such an amazing geography for good race design; steep hills with narrow but raceable roads everywhere and terrible weather all year around. The Tour of Britain and Tour of Yorkshire are usually quite good.

 

[Samamba]

Dangerous breakaway: Greipel, Van Zyl, Roche, Vermote, Vliegen, Mullen, Benito, Saez, Dunne, Meurisse, Hoekstra, Tusveld, Leezer, Lindeman, Coledan & Mosca.

3'45 Visconti & Arcas

5'30 Peloton

Who's gonna bring this one back?

 

[robin440]

Ian Stannard and Michael Hepburn?

 

[deValtos]

How do you watch this race? Who's broadcasting it?

 

[HelloDolly]

Re:

How do you watch this race? Who's broadcasting it?

ITV4 in the UK

But I think www.cyclinghub.tv may have it

https://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/ have it but be careful of viruses ,etc

 

[King Boonen]

Re:

How do you watch this race? Who's broadcasting it?

ITV4 in the UK, think it's just started.

 

[deValtos]

Thanks guys.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Group of 14 including Roche, Greipel and Vermote have 1"26 with 43k's to go. Less than 10k's from the struggle and the weather is horrible!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Lake District can be beautiful
but not today

 

[Pricey_sky]

Cav leading the peloton in to the base of the struggle. Greipel and Dunne dropped from the break

 

[Pricey_sky]

Dennis and Cummings go off the front

 

[LosBrolin]

Dumoulin and Dan Martin dropped? :surprised:

 

[Samamba]

Dennis dropped everyone.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Dennis very strong, reaches the front group of 5. No time gap back to what's left of the bunch.

Didn't see Dumoulin, Poels or Dan Martin at all.

 

[Samamba]

Cummings, Martin, Gallopin, Swift, Dumoulin, ... 30" behind

No Poels.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Strong chase group if they get it together, front group working well though.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Good job, Guillaume! (the other Martin )

 

[Pricey_sky]

Cummings, Dumoulin and Martin off the front of the chase group. Still nearly 30s

 

[Amnes2015]

If Ben Swift doesn't win from a 20 man group of TT'ers and climbers .... common

 

[Samamba]

Cummings dropped Martin & closed the gap to the front group

 

[Pricey_sky]

Cummings drops Martin and Dumoulin, Gallopin trying to make it across too.

Cummings makes the front group! Great racing