O/T Tour De France

Anyone excited about the TDF coming to South Yorkshire? According to Radio Sheffield, while west and north Yorkshire are embracing it, there's apathy in south Yorks. I cycle, but can see a couple of reasons why we're not that interested:

1. It's not that exciting is it? No matter where you are, two minutes and they'll have all gone past.

2. It's going through the crappiest parts of Sheffield. North Yorkshire is sending it through the dales. South Yorkshire is sending it up Wincobank.

Perfect opportunity to embarrass your county on a world stage.

Anything to do with france is bollix.
Smuggle Apples in , with the Granny Smiths.
Trawl everything up in the sea.
Boycott our meat.
then ask us to play by the rules.
Bell ends the lot of them.

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Originally Posted by crashbang

Anything to do with france is bollix.
Smuggle Apples in , with the Granny Smiths.
Trawl everything up in the sea.
Boycott our meat.
then ask us to play by the rules.
Bell ends the lot of them.

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Did you meet FrogMiller Crash?? Thought not...BELLEND...XD XD XD XD

Yes i know Froggies actually English but he"s embraced thecountry and i"m sure he"s got loads of genuine friends that are french.

Perfect opportunity to embarrass your county on a world stage.[/quote]

Widely circulate post No. 2 and you can do that without going near any bike

Take it French football is no good either? That's why they are still in Brazil and ours are...err...

France is ballix
The Tour de France is ballix
And closing or restricting the roads we pay our road tax for is ballix

All in all a load of ballix.

Apparently the road tax doesn't pay for the roads. Council tax pays for the roads, which cyclist also pay.

Road tax is a pollution tax which is why bigger cars pay more than smaller cars.

It's a common mistake Bobby, but you being a driver trainer I thought you'd have known...

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Originally Posted by loyalmiller

Apparently the road tax doesn't pay for the roads. Council tax pays for the roads, which cyclist also pay.

Road tax is a pollution tax which is why bigger cars pay more than smaller cars.

It's a common mistake Bobby, but you being a driver trainer I thought you'd have known...

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Think it's called Vehicle Excise Duty - a tax on vehicles and their emissions

I don't think Wincobank will be embarrassing anyone apart from maybe an under-prepared rider or two.

Jenkin Road, after 200km, will be an interesting challenge. 800m with an average gradient of about 20% and bits of it greater than 30%. Tour De France riders have got off and walked in the past with those sorts of gradients (typically, Alpine ascents are only 7-8% but they go on for 10-20 miles rather than half a mile, different gearing and skills required).

The thing with the South Yorkshire bits is that it's mostly a drop down off the moors into a city finish. Lots of those types of sections are pretty boring until you get towards the sprint finish (which will start from the top of Jenkin Road I imagine).

The chase into the City Centre will be pretty impressive I'd have thought.

Personally, I'll be going up Woodhead somewhere. Think I'm going to steer clear of Holme Moss as the crowds will be ridiculous. Hoping to find an uphill section where you might get a chance to see them

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Originally Posted by sawmiller

Apparently the road tax doesn't pay for the roads. Council tax pays for the roads, which cyclist also pay.

Road tax is a pollution tax which is why bigger cars pay more than smaller cars.

It's a common mistake Bobby, but you being a driver trainer I thought you'd have known...

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Think it's called Vehicle Excise Duty - a tax on vehicles and their emissions[/quote]

Same difference,saw just a posher way of saying it.

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Originally Posted by HotshotBobbyW

And closing or restricting the roads we pay our road tax for is ballix

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You pay Road Tax? You should ask for a refund. Churchill abolished it in the 1930s.

Roads are paid for out of general taxation and have been since before the second World War.

Closing some of them for a few hours for a few million quid of economic benefit doesn't sound a bad idea to me (not to mention that the TdF rules mean that the councils have had to pull their fingers out and actually fill in some of the potholes on the route sections...shame they couldn't do elsewhere too).