Tour of Britain 2016

jesus, that smells a bit of the school bully

Woah there's a fellow Congletonian on the forum? Hold the front page...(of the Chronicle).

Used to work in Beartown myself.

It's a shame Stannard has been allowed to ride in for the win so easily. Always happy to see him powering away but the peloton aren't really arsed today are they?

Dimension Data put a couple of riders up front with Tony Martin, but no-one else could be arsed so they sat up.

Actually I from Oldham, moved here in '96. Not too bad a place to call home though.

My littlen, Daisy, and some bloke that wanted her to sign an autograph for him.

Great to see such massive crowds out in Cheshire for the TOB. Last year I got shoved down a few Strava leaderboards near where I grew up (West Cheshire FTW) by Michal Kwiatkowski and a few dozen other riders. Small price to pay to watch them pass over the swing bridge at the end of my parents' road.

I also think it's brilliant how much of a fixture this seems to be in the pro circuit too (Greipel, Dumoulin, Cavendish, Cummings after the seasons they've had), even if there could be better stages in the big cities.

Stage one went past my nans house in newton mearns and yesterdays was 5 mins from my parents in cheshire, I love the ToB!

Hugh Porter and Brian Smith are so bad at this.

They make Carlton Kirby sound decent by comparison.

Is ITV player broken for anyone else? Ads play fine but I just get very slowly refreshing still shots of the actual race.

Ah well i'm back in Congo Bongo after a 14 year sojourn in the Big Smoke. If you fancy a beer sometime give me a shout. LFGSS North North North West Beers.

New to London, who's keen to Head down and watch the final on Sunday?

Will do, maybe a ride with a pub stop, quite like the ride out to Wincle , pint and summat to eat at the Ship Inn.

Should be a good finish today, up haytor.

I think cummings is going to win it! With the sneeky town centre TT.

Hugh fucking Porter.

Vermote being paced back by a team mate (actual a wanty group rider).

Tony Dummerlin at the head of the race.

WTF?

Cummings into 1st on GC.

Can't see Tom D taking 50 seconds from him in the 14k TT.

Looks like Cummings to win overall. Makes me so happy.

I'll be there, shouting him on tomorrow.

Was going to come down, but weather looks crap.

The strong sprint field is down to world champs parcours and some shifting race dates making it a good warm up

Sounds great! Let's organise.

Anyone else keen?

I'll be there today, want to see how bad the weather it is on the TT, if we can't make that then most likely we are going to watch the circuit race instead.

Just watched it come through Bristol. Cavendish seems keen- right up front in the sky train. And Griepels huge.

I just watched the highlights of the time trial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwvU3tC1Fuk

You know it's a British race when you watch the slow-mo of the riders after they cross the finish line. :)

The other Wirral guy ryan at 9th