07-09-2023, 16:15
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2023, 16:17 by Ska'dForLife-WBA.)
(07-09-2023, 16:00)ritchiebaby Wrote: Although I've only managed to watch 2 stages live, I have to say how boring I've found this race. There's no mountains, hardly any hills and a general pedestrian procession.
Even as a layman, it's striking to see on the map how they barely venture south of the Avon-Thames line or north of the Ribble-Humber line, which isn't exactly doing what it says on the old "Tour of Britain" tin. Is there nowhere for them to cycle in the Cairngorms, the Lake District, the Quantocks or Chilterns or Mendips?
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