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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-of-britain-2016-route-announced/
Circuit race and ITT in Brizzle.
Looks good!
Excellent back to Kendal and up Beast Banks ! might go watch them climb the Struggle 🙂
6th September - finishes at Tatton Park which is just 30 mins by bike for me and regularly features on my local loops.
I've just checked my shifts and that's my only day off that week too. Looks like a ride out for coffee and cake might be in order. 8)
That'll be the liddle lads first day at school do I'm going to HAVE to take it off work. Heh.
Nice priorities! 🙂
a race staart at denbigh north wales a town time forgot
The first day finishes in Castle Douglas, only 10 miles from my house but i dunno whether or not to view it further up the Ayr road as there will be some cracking spots to view it coming down the valley - then again if it's pissing down i'll prob not bother.
Why did I not see this thread, I had a good old scroll!. c&p for Cotswold friends:
Excellent! Not past my house as 2 years ago but about a mile away on the run in to Bath on stage 5. For Stroud locals passes through the town, looks like Selsley hill and Woodmancote out of Dursley (ouch). Next day ace TT course in Bristol that appears to cross the suspension bridge. 2 days booked off right there!
Meanwhile, Facebook is full of moaning ****s complaining that it's not going to Yorkshire / the East of England / past their front door and why does it always finish in London...
🙄
Looks like a good route, I'll probably head up to the Lake District stage, maybe watch it on The Struggle out of Ambleside.
FFS!
Stage 4 finishes 5 miles from my house.
My wife has booked a holiday that I didn't want to go on and we leave the day before!
FFS!
I was disappointed with the previous ToB 2014 (?) Stroud route: along the busy A46, completely divorced from the things that make cycling great: Rodborough Hill, the Commons, Winstons ice-cream and the Ladder (Rant over).
However this new 2016 route has given the Stroud Alpes the respect it deserves: after muscling through Gloucester, looks like it'll be the climb up to Edge, which will hopefully string the pack out a bit, then the fast decent down through sunny Stroud before taking on the epic Selsley climb - which has fantastic scenery over the Woodchester valley and plenty of spectator points along the edge of Selsley Common. After levelling out in the woods, there'll be a nice stretch of rolling road for recovery, passing Coaley Peak, before the drop into Uley - which will be the place to be if you want to watch some fast, twisty descending (hope it's not wet) - and sample the local Uley Ales while you're there. Then an undulating dash out of Uley to get to the front for the Whiteway climb out of Dursley and then looks like it veers down into Wotton-under-Edge for another epic descent, then onwards alongside the Cotswolds escarpment.
Great stage 2 in the Lakes, right past my house pretty much. Shame as Whinlatter from the west must be the easiest pass in Cumbria, although I suppose they have done Honister previously. Struggle should be good viewing, excellent platform for an attack to get away, perhaps?
My wife has booked a holiday that I didn't want to go on and we leave the day before!
Centre Parcs?
Tour of the West
Hi there Crazylegs.
FoD. Yeah!!! but I cannot find a zoomable map to be precise. ToB page isn't
Anyone got a link?
The South Wales route looks bit naff. Won't be bothering to go watch this year.
Not starting from Stoke for once this year but nearby from Congleton around Cheshire to Tatton park for stage 3. That'll take the medal for the flattest section then.
@ Bregante 🙂
But no, she's not that cruel!