Tour de France
 

Anyone going to watch it this weekend when it's in England?

I was going to until I stupidly agreed to work this weekend without checking my diary first :(

Steve

Not through choice, it's shutting Cambridge down for the day, I live on one of the roads that are getting biked up so I'm trapped home all day

yep, quite exited

will be going to see the start in Cambridge on Monday, with all the kids

I am debating whether to go and fight with an estimated 60,000 on Holme moss or in Sheffield somewhere.

I want to see the professionals suffer, it makes me have a slight smug face for a moment, but then that is wiped off when i remember cycling up steep hills!

Miles away for me.

Saw them last time mid nineties Brighton.


( for about 20 seconds ).


Saw the start in Limoux couple years back ( old dear lives about 10 miles away)

I'm goint to watch stage 1 at Grinton or where ever i end up cycling to.
Hopefully the weather will be nice making for a good day out.

I volunteered as a Tour Maker, so will be out marshalling in Leeds on Stage 1. Will hopefully be a flag marshal on a obstacle. Downside is I have to be at the meeting point at 5.30am!

Then we're out to watch it on Sunday on one of the climbs into Sheffield.

I just can't think for a single reason why any one watches road cycling!
Quite frankly I wouldn't poke my head round the curtain if they were peddling straight past my front window :confused:

I'll be happy pay my fiver for month eurosport to watch it, if that's possible

Ok no atmosphere but you get everything else.

It's a tactical game Brun, just like any team sport - plus lone break aways and of course the odd tumble.. I watched the whole thing last year - cos I had broken toes, very conveniently

Course I won't be able do that this year

Thanks for a vey useful post :thumb:

I can appreciate someone enjoying the sport to watch on tele but to watch a load of bikes zoom past in a matter of minutes then I can only assume you might see, if lucky a tumble but nothing else??

It's virtually going past my front door so even though not a great fan will watch it with the kids.

Does my post not possibly create debate? I might learn a thing or two by expressing my opinion!
I would suggest that my post has more use than yours - but that's another debate!
Let's face it, SN is short of debate ;)

Really looking forward to it. Going to watch Saturday's stage in North Yorks - Masham - and Sunday's down the road from where I live in Honley, West Yorks. :thumb:

No!

Masham will be good, it was my second option.
I bet the Black sheep beer tent will be very popular :D

Who's going to watch the tour, let's debate :confused:

Lol the irony

Watching sport on Tele, is one of the main reason this is a nation full of fat bastids


And while I am at it, I would ban people from wearing any sort of sports clothing unless engaged in some sort of sporting activity

Sick and tired of seeing fat idiots wearing football shirts that could not even jog to the half way line

But do enjoy watching it on Tele - ridiculous

It's a flipping pain in the arse and is going to bring my local roads to a stand still!
Nightmare!

Sorry for not keeping the thread on track.

No, not going to watch.

Been to see plenty of sport live but for the most part, prefer to watch on the TV.
Was at the British Gp in 92 and enjoyed the atmosphere, the noise and the smell but quite frankly, didn't even see 5% of what tv coverage can offer so I'll be sticking to the tv thanks.
Far from being a fat ******* and the only sport clothing I own would be a Senna t-shirt!

I'm 76 kg, down from 81, a couple months back. :smug:

Unfortunately I can still pinch half an inch, which can only mean I don't have much muscle at all

I'll be watching the tour in shorts and tee shirt, straight After my triathlon 9:30 to 12:30 Saturday. - or there abouts

This
Its going literally past my front door it's a hinderance, and why is the tour de France coming through England in the first place...... Surely the clues in the name??

I'm quite surprised it's coming here,given the state of our roads,especially oop north.

I spect Cambridge put a bid in, and won.? :)

As if by magic, the roads around my way that form key stages of the route have been repaired! My Scoob will appreciate them when the show leaves town on Monday. :thumb:

That's fine - but you would only be alowed to wear it whilst driving

i haven't seen any pot holes on my road being repaired and there's a few, although the council has been zipping up and down the foot path in the sweeper machines, im assuming they're going to be biking up the path :)

Mind you round here (Surrey) there are a lot of new cyclists, also fat (huffing and puffing) idiots wearing skin tight lycra, blocking up the hills, doing 5 mph.

So possibly they are better off watching it on tele, in their new expensive cycling gear and just admiring the latest carbon bike they have just purchased, than going anywhere near a real ride.