Anyone going to watch Le Tour

Only on the telly.

Beano

Maybe go and see the Graeme Obree film instead.
Went to the final day of le tour in Paris a couple of years ago and caused something of an international incident with a group of pushy Germans. Still scarred by the fact that some Americans were peacemakers (now there's something you don't see every day)

If I see any Germans, I'll assume they are the same ones and give them a push for you.

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Originally posted by Howlinhounddog:
Maybe go and see the Graeme Obree film instead.
Went to the final day of le tour in Paris a couple of years ago and caused something of an international incident with a group of pushy Germans. Still scarred by the fact that some Americans were peacemakers (now there's something you don't see every day)

That should be interesting veiwing. I'm hoping they make a good job of it and don't rely on making the whole of the British cycling fraternity out to be arseholes. That honour should rest solely with the BCF as it was at the time.

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Went to the final day of le tour in Paris a couple of years ago

Advice on a good vantagepoint would be appreciated. Is there other entertainment besides the racing.

just cant get my head around the fact that the tour of france is going to be in london !!
surely they will have to rename it........
tour de france including london diversion perhaps ?

I saw the Tour a good few years ago in the leafy lanes around Portsmouth (I think). It was in a little village, the kids had been given the day off school to celebrate and everyone was wonderfully friendly. Twas when Indurain was King. I would recommend it partiularly if the riders are going at less than 100 miles an hour.

I used to adore the Tour but with all the doping it has dampened my spirit for the event. It makes a mockery of previous results even before Landis. Maybe if they were all allowed to dope themselves to death it would be a level playing field, but then we'd probably get more Tommy Simpson like casualties as the bar is raised. Not sure if their is an answer to it.

Used to adore the Mountain stages.

Still have my yellow Tour bumbag which I use on special occasions

Le Diccus

Go Cavendish??

If he does get to start it will at least be interesting to see if he really has the potential.

They've started putting up the banners and marking the roads today. I'm trying to work out my best spot to stand but it is difficult to tell if they'll use both sides of the roundabouts and dual carriage ways.
Do you think I'd get away with spraying messages on the road? No, neither do I.

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Do you think I'd get away with spraying messages on the road?

Would anyone be able to read your hand writing?

Just stand right in front of them, ducking out of the way at the last minute to throw your bottle of water over them to 'refresh' the riders. They love that.

Perhaps next time they can start off the King of the Mountain competition at Becton Alps?

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Do you think I'd get away with spraying messages on the road?

Would anyone be able to read your hand writing?

It's a blasphemous rumour about not been able to read doctor's handwriting. A recent study in the Huckleberry Lancet showed that 0.000005% doctor's writing is legible.

......................Or dress up as a Policeman and stand in the way to take a photograph during the sprint finish.

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Originally posted by BigH47:

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Do you think I'd get away with spraying messages on the road?

Would anyone be able to read your hand writing?

It's a blasphemous rumour about not been able to read doctor's handwriting. A recent study in the Huckleberry Lancet showed that 0.000005% doctor's writing is legible.

Sadly, we rarely get to write at all these days, only signatures. Everything else has to be typed into the computer, or we don't get paid.
No, really.

And they call that progress!

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Originally posted by Diccus62:

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Originally posted by BigH47:

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Do you think I'd get away with spraying messages on the road?

Would anyone be able to read your hand writing?

It's a blasphemous rumour about not been able to read doctor's handwriting. A recent study in the Huckleberry Lancet showed that 0.000005% doctor's writing is legible.

Sadly, we rarely get to write at all these days, only signatures. Everything else has to be typed into the computer, or we don't get paid.
No, really.

Not even the CD scripts.

Plenty of crappy DWP forms though

Electronic prescribing=no signatures!

Any day now.

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Advice on a good vantagepoint would be appreciated. Is there other entertainment besides the racing.

Sorry I've taken so long to reply. First thing, get there early(like at least 4 hours early)Take a walk down the evening before 5 ish. You can then see how the village etc is layed out and decide how close to the finish you want to be (best chance approx 150m)My advice is The rue de rivoli at 1km banner. This is opposite team hotels so always a lot going on at the windows.Plus if nimble enough to climb on the wall you can see the peleton emerging from the couvre de Rivoli all the way to the Place de concorde turn. Lots to see for about 11/2 - 2 hours before the peleton as the sposors do their bit ( will try to post a couple of snaps)After the 10th circuit this position affords enough time to get around for the presentation and speaches. Hope that helps. Next time I'm going for the Col de Tourmalet

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Advice on a good vantagepoint would be appreciated. Is there other entertainment besides the racing.

Sorry I've taken so long to reply.

Yes, well it went past three days ago!
Found myself a good spot at a roundabout on the crest of a hill, where Millar was starting his break away. Got some good photos, but still haven't worked out how to post them here.

I watched from Greenwich since I live there. I'm really enjoying the Tour - Cancellaro has been great, Vinokourov getting back to the pack yesterday was impressive, especially as he seemed to have left his right buttock behind on the tarmac, as well as his team mates. Sadly, I think Wiggin's game will soon be up today.

I cycle much more than I used to (my excitement at my soon to arrive Bob Jackson is barely containable) and, on the basis of 'the more you know, the more you know you don't know', I am truly astonished at what these riders do.

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Electronic prescribing=no signatures!

Any day now.

You mean you're trusting CfH to deliver something that works?

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My advice is The rue de rivoli at 1km banner.

Howlinhounddog. Thanks for the advice.

We're staying at a hotel on the Rue de Rivoli opposite the Tuileries Gardens, which should be fairly close to the 1km banner, I must remember to get up early and put a couple of towels on a barrier. A room at the front of the hotel would be ideal but unlikely.

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Next time I'm going for the Col de Tourmalet

We’re thinking of going to a few mountain stages next year, but I am a bit worried how “her indoors” will cope with being outdoors, up a mountain.

Can somebody tell me what this business of the Tour starting in England is all about? Is it now the Tour de (mostly) France...?

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Can somebody tell me what this business of the Tour starting in England is all about? Is it now the Tour de (mostly) France...?

Money.

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Is it now the Tour de (mostly) France..

It’s been the tour of mostly France for a long time. Last year it passed though Germany, Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium, and Spain.

The Giro Italia started in Belgium last year

The “4 days of Dunkirk” race lasts 5 days.

You don’t always get what it says on the tin.


Without London paying the tour millions it wouldn’t have started in London. However the benefits of the resulting publicity will be worth tens of millions.