Re: Tour de France : Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:28 am  

aj cougar wrote:

I must have missed the bit where they passed through the city of culture that is Bradford.

It was the bit between Blubberhouses and Hebden Bridge.

Re: Tour de France : Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:37 am  

Fr13daY wrote:

Rumour has it that the advertisement break while going through K-town was prompted by a large (ahem) phallus drawn upon the road, which (no doubt) while hilarious to residents, wasn't deemed suitable for the greater TV audience.

That was a local writing their name...

Re: Tour de France : Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:24 am  

I quite like their attitude to timekeeping. In an age when winning margins are often calculated to three decimal points, they give everyone the same time.

[Bulliac]

Re: Tour de France : Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:26 am  

Clearly they need a video ref..

[Bullseye]

Re: Tour de France : Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:51 am  

aj cougar wrote:

Keighley looked excellent and the turn out was superb.

All the villages before and after came across well as well.

I must have missed the bit where they passed through the city of culture that is Bradford.

TBH I thought Keighley town centre looked very poor compared with Haworth and Silsden who looked amazing. North Street was utter pants. A few shops had put up a couple of bits of shoddy bunting and that was it. Shame!

Did the rotary club get many takers for that bit of scaffolding they put up near the Shimla Spice? £20 to stand on it about 2 ft higher than pavement level. Ripoff!

Re: Tour de France : Wed Jul 09, 2014 12:32 pm  

Cibaman wrote:

I quite like their attitude to timekeeping. In an age when winning margins are often calculated to three decimal points, they give everyone the same time.

They'll give you the same time if you fall off and crawl over the line an hour later, provided you remember to drag your bike with you.

[Bulliac]

Re: Tour de France : Wed Jul 09, 2014 3:37 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

TBH I thought Keighley town centre looked very poor compared with Haworth and Silsden who looked amazing. North Street was utter pants. A few shops had put up a couple of bits of shoddy bunting and that was it. Shame!

Did the rotary club get many takers for that bit of scaffolding they put up near the Shimla Spice? £20 to stand on it about 2 ft higher than pavement level. Ripoff!

To be fair, the smaller the place the more they feel proud that their little corner of the world has been singled out for all this attention and they seem to get themselves up for these events. Bigger places just seem to, dare I say it, give a sort of Gallic shrug and take it more in their stride.

Re: Tour de France : Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:44 pm  

Fr13daY wrote:

Rumour has it that the advertisement break while going through K-town was prompted by a large (ahem) phallus drawn upon the road, which (no doubt) while hilarious to residents, wasn't deemed suitable for the greater TV audience.

isnt that the symbol for the watering break? must have had a good hose-down.

amazing how many of you were drawn to Keighley, is there a secret agenda for season tickets for next year going on here?

I watched it at Kilnsey, no knobs on the road but plenty beside it.

[Bullseye]

Re: Tour de France : Thu Jul 10, 2014 8:22 am  

Bulliac wrote:

To be fair, the smaller the place the more they feel proud that their little corner of the world has been singled out for all this attention and they seem to get themselves up for these events. Bigger places just seem to, dare I say it, give a sort of Gallic shrug and take it more in their stride.

Fraid I have to disagree Bulliace. Knaresborough looked great, as did Skipton. I know Harrogate was the finish for stage 1 but it looked superb. I know Keighley isn’t as well off as those places but the town centre didn’t so much as shrug as to just fecklessly not be arsed.

Poor effort.

Re: Tour de France : Thu Jul 10, 2014 9:27 am  

To be fair on Keighley there was a huge crowd down on the dual carriageway for the end of the sprint section, and the mosque on North Street had made the effort to put a massive banner up. But unlike Skipton, and Harrogate most of the shops on North Street are actually empty and derelict, but little effort from the councils to try to make the place look better for it's moment in the global spot light