Organisers of the Tour of Britain have announced details of this year’s Tour Ride line-up, enabling entrants to the sportives to ride the same roads as the pros in four of the stages that will feature in September’s race – those in Scotland, Wales, East Anglia and Stoke-on-Trent – with a fifth ride also tying in with the Cycle Show at the NEC in Birmingham.
The five rides provide diverse terrain, ranging from the climbs of Caerphilly Mountain on the Welsh leg or Gun Hill in Staffordshire to the flat landscape of East Anglia for those of you who are more rouleur than grimpeur.
Registration is now open for all five rides, the first of which, on Sunday 22 July, runs 200km from Ipswich to the Norfolk Showground. The Tour Ride Wales on 12 August starts and finishes at Caerphilly Castle, while the Scottish event, on 26 August, is based around Dumfries.
The Stoke-on-Trent ride, which has attracted 2,000 riders in each of the past two years, will be held on Sunday 23 September, a week after the Tour of Britain itself finishes in Guildford.
Sunday 30 September sees the fifth and final ride from the NEC in Birmingham, coinciding with the Cycle Show with participants gaining 50 per cent off admission and car parking, and the event also ties in with the Summer of Cycling initiative.
Each ride will be supported by neutral service provider Specialized plus National Escort Group motorcycle outriders, while routes include full and half-distance options, and there will also be shorter family rides in Scotland and East Anglia. Feeding stations will be stocked with products from official suppliers Maxifuel, Highland Spring and Soreen.
Full details of all the events, including how to register, can be found on the Tour Ride website.
Radar tells me their closing speed, if they are slowing and how far away. Then I decide to say a prayer. The change of light pattern is incidental.
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No, that's very doubtful while proper testing would be fully destructive.
In that £1000 exactly scenario, beginners should probably be made aware that pedals will be extra.
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