Tour of Britain, Thursday 8th September

Anyone else up for a ride out to watch the Tour of Britain on one of the climbs, either in the Forest of Dean or the Cotswolds

I am hoping to watch them going down Crawley Hill at Uley

I'm planning on watching either the climb up towards Clearwell or Speech house

Simon, that sounds good might join you, do you know what time they are going through??

Stowe Road St Briavles is the climb from the A466 (Wye valley road) up to Clearwell
Estimated arrival times between 12.28 - 12.53

or Speech House (feed station after climb )B4226 12.45 - 13.12

Stowe road looks good, just need to sort somewhere for lunch afterwards, St Briavels ?

Not much in St Briavels apart from the PUB of course.
other options would be Tintern or over the top and down the other side to Lydney couple of good cafe's I know

Simon, I could meet you at the junction of Stowe road and Mork road at 11am. Whenever i've watched the TOB or TDF stages you need to get there early.

Alternatively meet in St Briavels out side the YHA and ride/walk down the hill to find a good spot.

I think I've managed to wangle some time off work on Thursday so may be able to join you for this if that's ok?

jo1 wrote:

I think I've managed to wangle some time off work on Thursday so may be able to join you for this if that's ok?

Only if you promise to take it easy on me on the way there.......I've seen your pace and you could be riding the TOB in your own right!

I will definitely keep it slow! I'm racing Wednesday night, so it will be strictly a recovery ride for me!!

Happy to meet up in St Briavels
Same time? 11.00

Simon Luce wrote:

Happy to meet up in St Briavels
Same time? 11.00

Good for me

Sounds good to me too.
Ken, where are you riding over from?

I was going to leave from Costa (Bradley Stoke) at 9.30am.

Easiest meeting place if anyone else decides to join us.

Great, see you there

Woohoo got the day off so I will join you guys. See you at Costa.

Brilliant! See you there

Give them a head start Jo

I'll be gentle with them

Excellent, see you in the morning Edders. Will be leaving promptly at 9.30

Disaster. Just giving the bike the once over and came across a loose spoke and it just won't tighten. I'll go to the giant store first thin see if they can help in time. If not have fun without me.

Disaster averted. Peeled back the rim tape. Screwed the nipple and it seemed to bite with the rim. Tightened with a pair of pliers (I know) and it's not rattling around anymore. Wheel needs truing but will do for tomorrow.

If any one can bring a spoke key thingy majig that would be great but I'll try getting one at giant if not.

See you tomorrow.

will try and remember a spoke key