Tour of Britain

Wiggo has retired
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/397221/cw-exclusive-wiggins-quits-tour-of-britain-to-focus-on-tt-world-champs.html

Love the fact he rode home after the stage.

Just started watching my recordings of the last few stages BUT!!!!
where the fuck is ligget and sherwin??!!!!!! Just not the same.

They've probably disappeared up Armstrong's rectum by now.

^Hey Andy I found a stack of monthly cycling mags from 94 yesterday; lots of great cover stars like Hamilton, Petacchi. Ulrich, Heras and several of Armstrong. I'm sure you'll be keen to have them so just let me know when it would be convenient to drop them off.

Well they should get out and take over from these two clowns, useless!

No sign of stage 2, and stage 3 has a 'technical fault'. How are we supposed to be inspired by our heroes?

I'll be about on the weekend though for this in central london with flyers for Bicycle film festival.

Anyone that wants to watch the past stages in ITV I urge you to complain to ITV and Tour of Britain organisers. Here are the email addresses:

robertsh@thetour.co.uk; bennettm@thetour.co.uk; jonesg@thetour.co.uk; lisa@thetour.co.uk; a.grant@sweetspotgroup.co.uk; brophyc@thetour.co.uk; accounts@thetour.co.uk; viewerservices@itv.com

If ITV are going to bid (which I presume they did) for the right to air the tour then they better be prepared to live up to the expectation that they will put it on their catch up thing like the TOB website says they will.

Bloody ITV fails to provide anything decent to watch yet again.

Cheers, have done exactly that.

The ONE good thing that ever been on ITV, TV Burp, wasn't available on catch up either.

Yep. Rubbish.

Thomas de Gent, what a nutter! And Ian Wilkinson of Halfords coming over the line without a helmet, just too crazy!

Anyone going down to watch this today??

heading to Westminster on my fuji for 3pm

Race starts at 2pm tho!

Race starts at 2pm tho!

exactly

http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/_ns_race/stage8_route.asp

Just done the route. Sweet.

Was behind Daley Thompson some of the way. He was expressing a lot of appreciation for the rapha 'podium girls'.

heading there in an hour. what's the best place to watch?

I think Mal and I are going near the Start Finish unless there's loads of people.

Im going for a sticky.

hippy ya bastard, answer your phone!

me. ricky and desi are heading up - give us a tinkle when you're up there

Shower.. ringing..

Does anyone know if there is anything going on at Tower Hill this year?

I wandered through the pit area just after they finished; I thought it would be all marshalled off or something but it was cool seeing the riders posing for photos with kids and everyone ogling all the bikes up close. Some bloke walked through with a signed life size cut out of Ed Clancy which was a bit wierd.

606, some kind of classic music was playing in tower hill. Not many people at TOB.