Tour of Britain 2015 - no time to run out of biscuits now, MN peloton!

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Whilst we're still riding up and down northern Spanish mountains, the home tour is rolling out of the beautiful Beaumaris on Angelsey, to start this years ToB with Lord Wiggo and Cav amongst other stars.
They go north into Scotland via Cumbria, down through Northumberland, to the Midlands and across to E Anglia before hitting London next Sunday.

If you tap on this map once things will get ever so slightly clearer...and we have race teams coming up....

Can't get to see this (boo!) but will try to catch it in the TV.

Who has the coverage? I've lost my sky remote so can't hunt the channels other than at the box and that's a bit of a faff!

ToB Start list:

Tour of Britain 2015: start list

Cannondale-Garmin

1. Dylan van Baarle (NED)
2. Alberto Bettiol (ITA)
3. Sebastian Langeveld (NED)
4. Alan Marangoni (ITA)
5. Ryan Mullen (IRL)
6. Ruben Zepuntke (GER)

Etixx-QuickStep
11) Mark Cavendish (GBR)
12) Fernando Gaviria (COL)
13) Mark Renshaw (AUS)
14) Zdenek Stybar (CZE)
15) Matteo Trentin (NED)
16) Petr Vakoc (CZE)

Team Sky
21) Ben Swift (GBR)
22) Andy Fenn (GBR)
23) Pete Kennaugh (GBR)
24) Ian Stannard (GBR)
25) Wout Poels (NED)
26) Elia Viviani (ITA)

IAM Cycling
31) Stef Clement (NED)
32) Stefan Denifl (AUT)
33) Sondre Holst Enger (NOR)
34) Roger Kluge (GER)
35) Clement Chevrier (FRA)
36) Jonas van Genechten (BEL)

BMC Racing
41) Taylor Phinney (USA)
42) Floris Gerts (NED)
43) Stefan Kung (SUI)
44) Dylan Teuns (BEL)
45) Danilo Wyss (SUI)
46) Rick Zabel (GER)

Cult Energy Pro Cycling
51) Russ Downing (GBR)
52) Rasmus Quade (DEN)
53) Rasmus Guldhammer (DEN)
54) Martin Mortensen (DEN)
55) Michael Carbel Svendgaard (DEN)
56) Fabian Wegmann (GER)

An Post Chain Reaction
61) Paulius Siskevicius (LTU)
62) Conor Dunne (IRL)
63) Aaron Gate (NZL)
64) Aidis Kruopis (LTU)
65) Xandro Meurisse (BEL)
66) Alistair Slater (GBR)

Lotto-Soudal
71) Andre Greipel (GER)
72) Sean de Bie (BEL)
73) Jens Debusschere (BEL)
74) Pim Ligthart (NED)
75) Marcel Sieberg (GER)
76) Frederik Frison (BEL)

MTN-Qhubeka
81) Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)
82) Gerald Ciolek (GER)
83) Tyler Farrar (USA)
84) Serge Pauwels (BEL)
85) Daniel Teklehaimanot (ERI)
86) Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (RSA)

Madison-Genesis
91) Mark McNally (GBR)
92) Matt Holmes (GBR)
93) Mike Northey (NZL)
94) Matt Cronshaw (GBR)
95) Tom Scully (NZL)
96) Tom Stewart (GBR)

Movistar
101) Alex Dowsett (GBR)
102) Ruben Fernandez (ESP)
103) Gorka Izaguirre (ESP)
104) Juan Jose Lobato (ESP)
105) Igor Anton (ESP)
106) Benat Intxausti (ESP)

Team Novo Nordisk
111) Javier Megias (ESP)
112) Joonas Henttala (FIN)
113) David Lozano (ESP)
114) Andrea Peron (ITA)
115) Charles Planet (FRA)
116) Kevin de Mesmaeker (BEL)

JLT-Condor p/b Mavic
121) Kristian House (GBR)
122) Graham Briggs (GBR)
123) Ed Clancy (GBR)
124) Mike Cuming (GBR)
125) Richard Handley (GBR)
126) Tom Moses

LottoNL-Jumbo
131) Moreno Hofland (NED)
132) Koen Bouwman (NED)
133) Steven Kruijswijk (NED)
134) Brian Bulgac (NED)
135) Bram Tankink (NED)
136) Nick van der Lijke (NED)

Tinkoff-Saxo
141) Robert Kiserlovski (CRO)
142) Michael Morkov (DEN)
143) Juraj Sagan (SVK)
144) Chris Anker Sorensen (DEN)
145) Nikolay Trusov (RUS)
146) Antwan Tolhoek (NED)

Great Britain
151) Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBR)
152) Gabriel Cullaigh (GBR)
153) Scott Davies (GBR)
154) Hugh Carthy (GBR)
155) Alex Peters (GBR)
156) Ollie Wood (GBR)

NFTO
161) James Lowsley Williams (GBR)
162) Dale Appleby (GBR)
163) Ian Bibby (GBR)
164) Eddie Dunbar (IRL)
165) Johnny McEvoy (GBR)
166) Rob Partridge (GBR)

One Pro Cycling
171) Yanto Barker (GBR)
172) Marcin Bialoblocki (POL)
173) George Harper (GBR)
174) Josh Hunt (GBR)
175) Chris Opie (GBR)
176) Peter Williams (GBR)

Team Raleigh-GAC
181) Steve Lampier (GBR)
182) Karol Domagalski (POL)
183) Morgan Kneisky (FRA)
184) Andy Hawdon (GBR)
185) Evan Oliphant (GBR)
186) George Pym (GBR)

Team WIGGINS
191) Sir Bradley Wiggins (GBR)
192) Michael Thompson (GBR)
193) Jon Dibben (GBR)
194) Owain Doull (GBR)
195) Chris Lawless (GBR)
196) Andy Tennant (GBR)

TV coverage for UK is on ITV4 daily - 3 hours live from 1pm and then a highlights show usually at 8pm for an hour (except tonight when it's 10pm). Eurosport are still trudging round Spain...

So to push us off, here is the route map for Stage 1 today, Angelsey to Wrexham, which essentially means the fun of riding Snowdonia....

And for ease of ref. here is the official website with more info and much clearer stage maps

and no race radios. Interesting.

I watched them set off earlier on ITV, as went on holiday to North Wales this summer and I wanted to see Beaumaris on the telly. If anyone ever visits there is an amazing ice cream shop. Doubt the peloton had a chance to stop for one, shame really.
First mountain points were at Pen-y-pass which is where we parked to climb Snowdon.

Now waiting for the highlights - with that and the Vuelta still going on I'm glad I don't have much to do other than watch cycling this evening.

ooh Snowdon, nice. Good views from the top on the day Endo?

Nah, couldn't see a thing. We were lucky it wasn't actually raining or snowing, I think a bit of cloud probably comes as standard.

I live in Wrexham, there was quite a lot going on today. We'd hoped to pop in but I was too poorly. Shame as I've read it was quite a finish!

It's coming past us next Friday, apparently (over near the roaches/ leek somewhere I think). One of our friends is demanding that we go along to watch

it WAS quite a finish...but the highlights aren't on yet...

Ooh, a Tour of Britain Thread!

I was watching the Vuelta, which I'd recorded on Eurosport, when someone decided to show a photo of a tweet giving the result of stage one of the TofB. Massive spoiler . I'd been so looking forward to watching the highlights later. The commentators had to apologise as lots of viewers complained.

I didn't think you'd be getting the ToB over there DA - that ITV4 was the sole carrier so a bit limited on coverage. My techy limits being made plain.
Still a good finish.

Friday comes to Buxton in the Peaks, near me, but worky things that I just can't get out of means a non. It's about 15 miles away. Damn. Not been to a ToB before.

Yup we do. Highlights tonight, and live coverage on Eurosport 2 tomorrow, in HD no less . We don't have ITV in HD, so it's Eurosport all the way.

Highlights not on until 10! Am trying to avoid spoilering. ITV4 Vuelta coverage didn't mention it.
They did ask Nairo Quintana where he was hiding the motor and the batteries in his bike, which I thought was quite funny.
(the top 5 riders all had their bikes inspected by the UCI in case of motors).

I did wonder whether there was a thread, and lo and behold! :o

That was a good finish. I didn't see him coming either.

I saw the IAM team at edinburgh Hilton yesterday. It was really exciting...loads of bikes crammed onto cars, and fit cycling types walking about!

Stupid school and sport and all that, not time to even watch this. Grrrrrr. (I am taking beach lifeguard exams, so exciting, so time consuming, so covered in bruises)(It is worth missing Cav for)

I'm a bad 'road captain' I'm afraid - just caught up with events now. Lifeguard stuff sounds really really interesting! Good for you, though less of the bruises.

192 kms Stoke to Nottingham?

Yes, if you don't go in a straight line!

Great last stage controversial