Tour of Britain 2025, September 2-7

[Berniece]

it's geo-blocked in Belgium, the US and most of northern Africa.

WatanNetwork YouTube region restriction checker | Check YouTube Video Region Restrictions Online

WatanNetwork online tool lets you see check any YouTube video to see in which countries it is blocked

watannetwork.com

Wonder why in Belgium, someone else must have bought the rights, but I have no clue who

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Southwold is one of the key stops of Sebald's walking route/historical adventure/philosophical exploration in Rings of Saturn. I think that is probably what the town is most famous for, along with the fact it's quite posh and has a good seafront/pier.

Never thought/hoped I would run into a W.G. Sebald mention in this forum, but here we go. Fantastic author.

 

[search]

Wonder why in Belgium, someone else must have bought the rights, but I have no clue who

Proximus, according to the race website, while it's on ESPN3 in the US. I guess both must have exclusive rights.

 

[Berniece]

Proximus, according to the race website, while it's on ESPN3 in the US. I guess both must have exclusive rights.

Used a VPN, able to watch now, although not much is happening. Hopefully we can get some echelons.

 

[search]

it's very wet now, but still no action at all with ~25k to go

 

[RedheadDane]

Not to be overly stereotypical about British weather but... very British, ain't it?

 

[Berniece]

Evenepoel training at the front of the peloton

 

[Wyndbrook]

Not to be overly stereotypical about British weather but... very British, ain't it?

Four months of no rain until race started.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Mixing it up close to the finish a recipe for disaster, I assume Evenepoel will move back now.

 

[Berniece]

Kooij easily, 2 for 2

 

[RedheadDane]

Kooij just stealing candy from little kids!
(Not literally. That would be mean...)

 

[Netserk]

Crazily narrow road in the finale of a sprint stage.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

According to PCS Remco and Van Wilder lost 1:21? Only 53 riders with the same time as the winner. What happened?

 

[Samamba]

According to PCS Remco and Van Wilder lost 1:21? Only 53 riders with the same time as the winner. What happened?

Crash in last km. Will be corrected.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I keep forgetting this race. Tomorrow another non-stage. Hopefully stage 4 will start giving off some sparks. By the length of these stages you would think it were an U23 race at best.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Crazily narrow road in the finale of a sprint stage.

This is a very typical problem of British races across the board - towns and cities want to get the finish near the centre for the promotional shots, and often there's overly technical finishes or some unnecessary twists and turns too close to the finish, or more street furniture than the average Dutch race. These East of England stages are never tough enough to break up the field (and probably wouldn't be even if they did utilise the fullness of the area) but the towns are mostly relatively small and are often too congested for a safe sprint unless there's a seafront promenade to use. Remember the Bury St Edmunds stage of the women's Tour a couple of years ago, that had two chicanes, progressively tightening, on a single lane road in the final kilometre, before a slight downhill on brick paving?

This was the same finish as was used in the Women's Tour a few years ago (believe Jolien d'Hoore won that day) - and more or less the same weather too. They got by ok that day, maybe more by luck than judgement given some of the risk involved, but that probably meant they were happy to use the same finish today.

 

[veganrob]

Only available in certain countries apparently

I can watch in Thailand. 🙂

 

[TourOfSardinia]

I can tell without watching:
most of the race will be just
4 guys viewed from the back
with a peloton viewed from the front
at ~1min
(kind of dull)

 

[AlpRaid]

This is really an unbelievably bad route design. Hoping the “riders make the race” as they say.

 

[peterfin]

We might see another zone 4 training block from Remco at the front prior to the sprint and that's it I guess...

 

[Berniece]

This is really an unbelievably bad route design. Hoping the “riders make the race” as they say.

Mostly because it's just 3 straight days of this. Hopefully some riders want to go for it tomorrow, and not just give the win to Brennan.

 

[Berniece]

Haha, Evenepoel irritated again that no one wants to work with him

 

[Berniece]

Beautiful leadout from Visma, and a nice win for Brennan. Nice to see them also giving him a chance instead of Kooij who could've won easily too.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Well done Olav, good sportsmanship

 

[QueenStagiaire]

All of these Tour of Britain sprints, half the decent sprinters just get boxed in all the time because they‘re on narrow roads, but that also means you need a lot of skill to win them.