Tour de France 2014 in UK

Cosimo · 18 Feb 2013 at 16:56

This news appears to have been overlooked.

The 2014 Grand Départ will be in Yorkshire followed by two more stages in the UK:

Grand Départ - Leeds/Harrogate 190km - Saturday 5th July
Stage 2 - York /Sheffield 200km – Sunday 6th July
Stage 3 - Cambridge/London 170km – Monday 7th July

Promo videos:

More:

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2013/us/grand-depart-2014.html

Get those dates in your diary.

touch · 18 Feb 2013 at 17:03

It wasnt overlooked, just the discussion about it when it was announced is now hidden way back in the road cycling thread.
I think pretty much everybody who posts in that thread will be going to see it

Also note that the Giro d'Italia will be starting in ireland in 2014.

Cosimo · 18 Feb 2013 at 17:26

touch said:
It wasnt overlooked, just the discussion about it when it was announced is now hidden way back in the road cycling thread.
I think pretty much everybody who posts in that thread will be going to see it

Must have been very well hidden because I didn't find any reference to it. Anyway it deserves a far wider audience than here.

One More Solo · 18 Feb 2013 at 17:30

I've definitely discussed it on here but I can't for the life of me find my posts. Weird. Anyway, it's around my birthday so I'll be taking a long weekend and possibly on to France for a fortnight after. We went to the Alps on honeymoon last year and had an awesome time so heading back this July for the Tour and more cycling.

Vonhelmet · 18 Feb 2013 at 17:38

2014, you say? Think I'll be planning ahead to find my way to part of the route when it heads through Yorkshire.

#Chri5# · 18 Feb 2013 at 18:45

My misses has family in Sheffield who live a couple of minutes walk from the route into Sheffield. We've already "booked" our room

I imagine hotel prices in Harrogate etc will rocket when that weekend is released.

I think I might have been signed up as a Le Tour Maker as well.

platypus · 19 Feb 2013 at 07:24

I'll be making sure that I'm there at the start of the Cambridge leg, and we'll probably visit the parents for when it passes through Howarth.

topgun06 · 19 Feb 2013 at 08:58

Must make sure I go to at least one of the Yorkshire stages.

A.N.Other · 19 Feb 2013 at 09:09

They're going right past my Dad's house in Knaresborough. I'll probably be up to have a look if I've got the time

Grimley · 22 Feb 2013 at 19:13

IIRC, the stewards for the tour when it was last here were volunteers. I was asked to steward the Kent part of the tour through my lions club. I'm hoping the organisers ask again as I missed out last time (I was abroad at the time)

~Mike~ · 22 Feb 2013 at 19:27

Good to see 3 stages over here again. I remember when it came past my house in 1994.

VeNT · 22 Feb 2013 at 22:03

I'd so love to go see this but there's no chance right now, I'm guessing every hotel on the route has put their prices up tenfold or more!

Cosimo · 24 Oct 2013 at 06:57

The route for the 2014 Tour has been announced, running from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2014. It will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,656 kilometres:

9 flat stages
5 hill stages
6 mountain stages with 5 altitude finishes
1 individual time-trial stage
2 rest days

The full route and stage details:

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2014/us/overall-route.html

Le Tour Yorkshire - Grand Départ 2014:

http://letour.yorkshire.com/

Calpol · 24 Oct 2013 at 07:46

I will probably ride over to the Cambridge -London stage. Need to suss out the route and work out a nice place to watch.

Sagalout · 24 Oct 2013 at 08:04

Still can't believe this is coming past my house....twice! Will be wierd seeing the peleton on roads I travel every day (first 6 miles is on my actual commute!)

In case anyone missed it there's a great video by Welcome To Yorkshire (bike builder at the start is Feather who was featured in cycling magazine - I'd love one of his bikes!

http://t.co/5XhrHhpFg3

physichull · 24 Oct 2013 at 16:50

Vonhelmet said:
2014, you say? Think I'll be planning ahead to find my way to part of the route when it heads through Yorkshire.

Definately. I've already got my eye on riding some of the route before the Tour kicks off.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 25 Oct 2013 at 18:19

Guess I'll have to drive over to East Anglia on the Monday then. No chance of me trekking all the way 'up north'.

Better make sure I save up a bottle of wee on the day, just in case Mark Cavendish fancies something to cool down with.

Vonhelmet · 25 Oct 2013 at 18:27

My neighbour has organised a camping trip to Yorkshire with the guys I ride with. I didn't get it together to go with them, and I'm not a fan of camping anyway, so I think I'll get up early on the Sunday and get across there to see it. I can get a train to Oldham easily enough and ride from there.

Plotting...

Plotting...

davestar_delux · 18 Jan 2014 at 21:04

Goes right past my house in Harrogate as well but I think I am heading up to Scotland for my sisters wedding the day it starts...

#Chri5# · 15 Apr 2014 at 22:06

Boing - 80 days to go.

Has anyone else volunteered to be a Tour Maker? I've just gone through the online training, next up is a day somewhere next month.