T minus 35 days and counting, to the Grand Depart from Leeds 5th July, with two stages in the White County, and then a third from Cambridge to the Mall in London. It's just soo exciting!
It's the biggest biking event in the world, with approx 190 professional riders in about 20 teams racing across tarmac and cobbles, up mountains and down Dales and ending on 27th July on the Champs Elysee, Paris in the now traditional sprint finish there.
So here's the thread to share in it all, swop info about accommodation for Tour watchers, road closures, the parcours (courses), peloton gossip, potential meet ups, tv coverage, who's got the nicest legs etc.. and everything to do with the thrills and occasional spills with the event that is a game of poker played out every day on 380 wheels.
OF course if you are a newbie to all of this and are curious about the whys and hows of racing then ask and someone will pop up to answer questions. Hopefully.
So I'll depart here next with the routes of the UK 3 stages being taken so no-one gets lost and ends up in the dreaded broom wagon.
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Tour de Yorkshire, Cambridge...and oh yes France as well!!
Panwearsjaune · 31/05/2014 13:05
Thanks Pan for the new thread
Just marking my place while I get into training for le grand départ.
Would MNHQ give us a yellow , do you think, or would that be pushing our luck? 
Froome et al were scoping out both the Yorkshire stages. There is much indignation in our bike club that David Lopez took a hat-full of Strava KoMs off the local riders. .
Harrogate's mini-jersey bunting is going up - it'll look ace.
am currently making Mont Ventoux in the garden shed
Figuratively spluttered all over the laptop.
Classic.
fruitpastille, it's confusing, dramatic, heroic, funny, serious, colour-rich and utterly splendid! For two days in July, South and a bit of North Yorkshire will be the focus of multi-coloured international madness.
Fantasy team you say? Oooooh.
Endoplastic I have one of these by my bed .
Just bunny-hopping over from the Giro thread so I don't lose sight of the peloton - don't want to end up in the broom wagon
Penblwydd Hapus DA 
(Told you I was slipstreaming elegantly over to the next thread 
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Yes, holding my little mountain marker in my hand you'd probably need a bloody big shed to make one to scale including this. I imagine you could make something similar but smaller out of lego. What size does it need to be, I have an awful lot of lego.
Sláinte, Lost You need to share this fizz with me or I'll have a very sore head tomorrow
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your well-earned sore head is your own DA.
See you on the other side.
And don't forget..we have team Cat 1 mountain training at 5.45am tomorrow. See you then.
Will I get kicked off the thread if I don't turn up for training until noon? I really have to finish this bottle...
Actually I can't. I have to get DS2 to an exam tomorrow morning. Bugger
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