Otley on Sat, bottom of the run down to West Vale, Elland on Sun (probably)
Forecast doesn't look brilliant for the weekend, which is a shame given the wall to wall sunshine we've had recently
Day 1: Riding through Skipton, and following Le route up to Buckden to hopefully get a good spot on Cote de cray.
Day 2: Family up to Haworth nice and early to try and bag a good spot on Penistone hill above Stanbury reservoir.
Stage 1 - buttertubs
Stage 2 - rochdale end of cragg vale
Stage 3 - Nans funeral that day 🙁 so watching later on TV
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that the Woodhead/Holmemoss and Glossop roads will be closed to cars from 6am!
They've a load of buses ferrying folk in, so it's that or on ya push irons..;)
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Every road the tour touches is closed from 6am at the latest with some very very limited crossing points open.
Here's a bit of a leaflet with a decent map at the end....
Anyone know how chaotic Leeds City centre is yet?!
Anyone know the 'exact' timings that the Peloton will be passing through certain parts tomorrow?
Anyone know how chaotic Leeds City centre is yet?!
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http://www.leeds.gov.uk/Pages/millenniumcam.aspx
Harrogate traffic last night was the lightest I have ever seen it.
We are leaving for ilkley very soon... Could be fun!
[quote=hora said]Anyone know the 'exact' timings that the Peloton will be passing through certain parts tomorrow?
http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/stage-2.html
Click on Time schedule tab about half way down page.
Eeeee French Police on motorbikes. That'll be a sight!
Headrow is rammed. 6 to 10 deep on the barriers. You need to head half a mile up the course to get good spot. I'm round the corner on the A61 by Pratt's furniture shop. Fantastic atmosphere. First wave of caravan has been through, more to come.
How many of those in the central Leeds crowd realise it's just a slow roll-out and neutralised? I bet some are expecting some mad dash sprint and balls-out racing 😆
*waves at midlifecrashes*
Further up myself; sun beating down now 😀
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/19345115
tomorrow
already seen 2 RTA's and a load of mamils binning it on the corner since they resurfaced it, im not sure if folks think this road is closed but flying down it on the wrong side? well you wouldn't do it on any other mode of transport
its a bit of a melting pot At the mo as everyone is trying to ride the route beforehand and lots of cyclists and cars isnt mixing
Somewhere north of Skipton, just got a bo11ocking off a gendarmerie.
Everyone keeps saying roads are closed from 0600 tomorrow. This link to Kirklees council website says 0730. Is this link wrong?
[url= http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/events/tourDeFrance/pdf/tourDeFranceRoadClosures.pdf ]Kirklees council road closures le tour[/url]
Just spoke to the council. Roads will be closed by 0730, but due to the time it takes to prepare this might be slightly sooner.
Really? Off a French officer?? 🙂
Caravan just arriving at Chevin Cycles, Harrogate now. Town centre and fan zones full. Space to see it from 1.5 km out from finish.
*waves back from under my new polka dot hat*
Just back home after spectating just along the road at the top of the 'Col de Cray'/Kidstones. The place was absolutely jam-packed with spectators, but we found a good vantage point at the roadside a bit further along the road from the hordes.
A bloody good day out which included a 41mile mtb ride there & back.
As I southerner, I have to say 'Well done Yorkshire'
On the TV it looked amazing. The crowds, the weather, the scenery, everything.
Shame about the finish!
spent the morning on the start line in leeds, then supping magic spanner for a few hours watching rollapolluza, then watched the finish on the huge screen in briggate.
awesome day....... 8)
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Fantastic day. despite the gradient they were gone in no time, best part was the support vehicles stopping on the hill and the drivers not having a clue how to do a hill start. Entertainment all day long that. The smell of burning clutch was constant 😯
Wow I bet the French watching on tv thought wow les roast beoufs LIKE cycling. Weird.
Was sat in front of the projector for the depart, then left to race my own Tour de Fowlmead# E123, before returning for the highlights. Prudhomme will have been delighted with the crowds today. I'm sure he'll be keen to bring the TdF back to the UK again ASAP.
#Crowds were a little smaller. I believe three is a crowd 😉
Did the park and ride to Reeth. Amazing to see hundreds of people all ages and sizes, mtbs, road, trikes & tandoms cycling the last 10 miles / 1000ft over the moors to the route.
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Great views and brilliant atmosphere.
Managed to get up Buttertubs, it was mental !!!
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well I had a great day
camped at nidderdale bike fest - they did a really good job for a pop up campsite
rode through the woods to ripley castle just outside harrorgate, found a spot 3 miles fro the finish, and of course they were really flying past, nearly blew my flat cap off
then once past rode on into harrogate, but solid gridlocked about 1 mile from the finish so nipped into a pub and then returned
so if you saw a fat bloke on a fat bike - it was prob me - 😀
That was awesome. Rode over to Kidstones from Horton. Great atmosphere - thought there were plenty there until I saw the pics from Buttertubs. 🙂
LOL! I honestly thought that it was just us lot on here that were mad about bikes, but there's definitely a few more out there!
Cote de Grinton... amazing!
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Crazy day was in Leeds for the start then train madness to harrogate
Would not have missed it
Bikes beer and sunshine perfect , well apart from cav
Went up to Buttertubs with Vortexracing. Fantastic day, crowds were brilliant, excellent atmosphere.
Great pics cp.
Yeah, thanks cp. 8)
Day 2, guess where this is:
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Spitfire and Lancaster? flying overhead.
so many morons standing in the road waving mobile phones around and not looking at the riders bearing down on them, somebody went flying in that intermediate sprint, surprised theres not more accidents.
i’m waiting for the fat labrador incident or maybe a mobility scooter and somebody adamant the tour will not interfere with a scratch card/can of cider/chips purchase.
