Tour of Britain 5-12 September 2021

[Red Rick]

These the same people who said he would go the Tour with zero prep for the mountains and then we saw him destroy the world on the double Ventoux?
Ok.

He destroyed the breakaway on the Ventoux.

 

[SafeBet]

He destroyed the breakaway on the Ventoux.

Does that change the fact we were fed a healthy dose of BS?

 

[Kwibus]

Does that change the fact we were fed a healthy dose of BS?

I don't think it was BS, if anything the people at Jumbo-Visma are always way too open giving information. WvA really did have a crappy preparation for the TdF this year, it's just an incredibly good rider that suprised the staff of Jumbo that day.

 

[BlueRoads]

I don't think it was BS, if anything the people at Jumbo-Visma are always way too open giving information. WvA really did have a crappy preparation for the TdF this year, it's just an incredibly good rider that suprised the staff of Jumbo that day.

If that's what he can do with a crappy preparation I really don't get why he doesn't go for yellow. Okay, maybe he wants green first while keeping cross, and then in the next years yellow.

 

[Red Rick]

Does that change the fact we were fed a healthy dose of BS?

They said he wouldn't be bood at the start of the Tour, then he didn't compete for the win on the first 2 hill top finishes at all and had a comparatively bad ITT.

 

[VO2 Max]

Isn’t it part of the national park so maybe they can’t trammel the fields?

It's outside the Eryri/Snowdonia park, and I don't think the summit complex is within any of the conservation areas that are on the Gogarth/Orme, but of course the landowner can put whatever restrictions they want. You could imagine a finishing circuit in the style of Fleche Wallonne, doing the main part of the climb up to the midway tram stop then making the twisty descent down to Marine Drive; there's another steep climb just south of the A55 you can link up with.

 

[Blanco]

Poor form not to name the poster you are criticising.

I also don't agree that Sagan is a clown on a bike in the same style as Alaphilippe. In fact, I think they race quite differently (aesthetically too).

Sagan is not a clown at all, Alaphilippe on the other hand is clown and a half!

 

[MartinGT]

WTF haven't they towed that car?

 

[MartinGT]

Nailed on an accident there FFS

 

[MartinGT]

A load of police cones out and they've just blatantly ignored them. Shows you what the British public really think of racing on the roads.

 

[yaco]

I wonder why there aren't two or three Classic type races in the UK - Their is definitely the parcours to make for interesting racing.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

I wonder why there aren't two or three Classic type races in the UK - Their is differently the parcours to make for interesting racing.

Indeed but they seem stuck on keeping the Vino, sorry Olympic, heritage going with that tepid Ride London Classic.
I used to ride and TT round this stage five area a lot and loved it.

 

[MartinGT]

Contrary to what the commentators say. The general British public don't want cyclists on the road let alone racing so the authorities are making it difficult to host racing. Hence why the road racing scene in Britain is almost dead. The Premier Calendar is pony now. It's hard for a club to put a race on. That's why the Tour series is popular and crits. They're on smaller circuits.

 

[willbick]

Indeed but they seem stuck on keeping the Vino, sorry Olympic, heritage going with that tepid Ride London Classic.
I used to ride and TT round this stage five area a lot and loved it.

It's ridiculous that UK doesn't have any world tour races and no major one-day races, considering how many British riders there are. It's just a result of the historical antipathy to road racing here which just makes it harder to organise anything and i suppose the fact that we are physically separate from mainland Europe (+ brexit) makes it more difficult to get the world tour peloton racing here. The organisers of the ToB deserve a lot of credit considering

 

[BlueRoads]

Always love this sequence in the PCS ticker...
"It's raining"... "It's pouring rain"... "XY is struggling to put on his rain jacket".

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

It's ridiculous that UK doesn't have any world tour races and no major one-day races, considering how many British riders there are. It's just a result of the historical antipathy to road racing here which just makes it harder to organise anything and i suppose the fact that we are physically separate from mainland Europe (+ brexit) makes it more difficult to get the world tour peloton racing here. The organisers of the ToB deserve a lot of credit considering

The Ride London Classic was a WT event but hasn't been on the calendar in 2020 and 2121 because of Covid.
Such an unmemorable race though and a real waste of a WT slot considering the available alternative parcours..

 

[Mayomaniac]

The Ride London Classic was a WT event but hasn't been on the calendar in 2020 and 2121 because of Covid.
Such an unmemorable race though and a real waste of a WT slot considering the available alternative parcours..

Yeah, one could even create a nice race around some of the larger cities...

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Just tuned into a sketchy live stream of stage 5 with about 15km to go, the roads are wet, but can't tell whether it's actually raining. (Don't know whether it's the camerawork, but I shouldn't complain since I'm not paying for this feed.)

The scenery is nice and green, and I'll enjoy it before the feed inevitably cuts out probably about 500m before the finish line.

 

[dgodave]

Wow cool bridge!

 

[MartinGT]

Matt Stephens 'The British public have taken cycling to their hearts'


LOL

 

[BlueRoads]

What on earth is DQS doing? There was a gap behind Cav and four DQS guys and then the last DQS guy closes it two times... why not let the group go and let the others chase?!

 

[Tim Cahill]

The Ineos boy decking it actually helped them there

Cav had to make a massive effort to jump the gap and didn't have enough in the end

 

[Tricycle Rider]

crash!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Who decided that was an appropriate curve to have in the final kilometre?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Hayter's gonna Hay!