Tour de Yorkshire
Discussion
djohnson said:
soxboy said:
djohnson said:
Burley in Wharfedale being the village? I'm guessing you're referring to the speed bumps through Burley Woodhead? Assuming I'm right I can't see that they can leave the cyclists to bump over them they're pretty big bumps in a 4x4 never mind a bike.
Yes that's the one. Will be interesting to see what's planned. madbadger said:
djohnson said:
soxboy said:
djohnson said:
Burley in Wharfedale being the village? I'm guessing you're referring to the speed bumps through Burley Woodhead? Assuming I'm right I can't see that they can leave the cyclists to bump over them they're pretty big bumps in a 4x4 never mind a bike.
Yes that's the one. Will be interesting to see what's planned. 
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/ge...
Just a couple from the above:
"The Sheffield Hallam MP added: “As the most senior member of the Government from Yorkshire..."
Who then on the BBC news says that Hull is in Yorkshire!
"The Tour de Yorkshire will take place on the last weekend before polling day when Mr Clegg and his political colleagues are likely to be scrapping for votes.
He said: “One of the many reasons the Tour de Yorkshire will be so popular with the public is they will so utterly fed up with politics and politicians by that stage that the country will flee to escape the clutches of us campaigning politicians...”
You are not wrong there Nick!
.......
But £800k of our money when we as a country don't have any spare cash?
Just a couple from the above:
"The Sheffield Hallam MP added: “As the most senior member of the Government from Yorkshire..."
Who then on the BBC news says that Hull is in Yorkshire!
"The Tour de Yorkshire will take place on the last weekend before polling day when Mr Clegg and his political colleagues are likely to be scrapping for votes.
He said: “One of the many reasons the Tour de Yorkshire will be so popular with the public is they will so utterly fed up with politics and politicians by that stage that the country will flee to escape the clutches of us campaigning politicians...”
You are not wrong there Nick!
.......
But £800k of our money when we as a country don't have any spare cash?
mybrainhurts said:
Roads can be closed for sweaties farting around on bicycles.
Roads cannot be closed for motor sport.
Why is that?
My guess would be because a tonne and a half of car doing 120mph does considerably more collateral damage when it all goes wrong and we live in risk averse times. It's a shame though. I'd love to see the Chimney Bank hill climb re-instated. Roads cannot be closed for motor sport.
Why is that?
skeggysteve said:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/ge...
Just a couple from the above:
"The Sheffield Hallam MP added: “As the most senior member of the Government from Yorkshire..."
Who then on the BBC news says that Hull is in Yorkshire!
"The Tour de Yorkshire will take place on the last weekend before polling day when Mr Clegg and his political colleagues are likely to be scrapping for votes.
He said: “One of the many reasons the Tour de Yorkshire will be so popular with the public is they will so utterly fed up with politics and politicians by that stage that the country will flee to escape the clutches of us campaigning politicians...”
You are not wrong there Nick!
.......
But £800k of our money when we as a country don't have any spare cash?
I'm intrigued with your comment "Who then on the BBC news says that Hull is in Yorkshire !" I assume your comment is intended to dispute this ?Just a couple from the above:
"The Sheffield Hallam MP added: “As the most senior member of the Government from Yorkshire..."
Who then on the BBC news says that Hull is in Yorkshire!
"The Tour de Yorkshire will take place on the last weekend before polling day when Mr Clegg and his political colleagues are likely to be scrapping for votes.
He said: “One of the many reasons the Tour de Yorkshire will be so popular with the public is they will so utterly fed up with politics and politicians by that stage that the country will flee to escape the clutches of us campaigning politicians...”
You are not wrong there Nick!
.......
But £800k of our money when we as a country don't have any spare cash?
I've lived just outside Hull for all 54 years of my life and throughout that time it ( Hull ) has always been in Yorkshire ( East Yorkshire to be precise)
Perhaps you can enlighten me as to where you actually consider Hull to be situated ? It was in Yorkshire yesterday and today and I'm guessing that unless there's a significant change tonight ( earthquake maybe ? ) that it will be tomorrow !
Edited by sng45 on Thursday 19th February 23:14
sng45, Hull is not in the East Riding of Yorkshire, hence my comment.
As I'm sure you know Hull tried, last year, to nick a bit of the East Riding but the people of the East Riding told them to bugger off!
I'm not surprised by your wanting to be in the East Riding as it's a lovely place and by the way you spell your first name the wrong way as well!
As I'm sure you know Hull tried, last year, to nick a bit of the East Riding but the people of the East Riding told them to bugger off!
I'm not surprised by your wanting to be in the East Riding as it's a lovely place and by the way you spell your first name the wrong way as well!
Well who knew. I am born and bred Hull and never knew they had changed the boundaries of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Are all those old maps incorrect then or have they genuinely changed somewhere along the way.
North Humberside was only ever a temporary blot on the landscape. When it first came in, even as junior school kids we used to scribble out the NHCC crest from the front of our exercise books.
The fact that Hull runs it's own authority does not cover the fact that it sits fairly and squarely in the East Riding 😊
Mind you, Trivial Pursuit asks which river Hull sits on, then gives the Humber as the answer. Caused many arguments that did 😉
North Humberside was only ever a temporary blot on the landscape. When it first came in, even as junior school kids we used to scribble out the NHCC crest from the front of our exercise books.
The fact that Hull runs it's own authority does not cover the fact that it sits fairly and squarely in the East Riding 😊
Mind you, Trivial Pursuit asks which river Hull sits on, then gives the Humber as the answer. Caused many arguments that did 😉
Edited by burriana on Saturday 21st February 00:39
Well it's over now so thought I'd let you know how it went.
Since my last post we have heard nothing but on Monday last week no parking notices went up.
No parking from 6am 'till 6pm on the day of the race.
I came home from work on Friday to find the roadside covered with no parking cones.
Then I got woken up on Saturday morning (the day the race comes through) at 6.30am by guys putting barriers out. So that was the reason for the no parking from 6am!
Spoke to one of the guys later in the day and he said they were very surprised by the amount of spectators in Brid.
The race was due to come past at 1.30pm, by 12 there was a lot of people and by 1pm there was a lot more. Must admit I was surprised at the number of spectators - the fish and chip shop and the pub appeared to be doing very good business!
The race came by in a flash! I really can't understand why people travel to watch it....woosh and it's over!
But the best bits by far were the police motorbikes and the police car at the end.
The bikes made an effort to entertain the crowd and the BMW X5 that came through after the cycles was waving and playing the sirens just for fun.
The really best bit was the police motorbikers that obviously needed to get somewhere very quickly - they really did use the excuse to have a bit of fun - 30mph limit, err, what 30mph limit!
Since my last post we have heard nothing but on Monday last week no parking notices went up.
No parking from 6am 'till 6pm on the day of the race.
I came home from work on Friday to find the roadside covered with no parking cones.
Then I got woken up on Saturday morning (the day the race comes through) at 6.30am by guys putting barriers out. So that was the reason for the no parking from 6am!
Spoke to one of the guys later in the day and he said they were very surprised by the amount of spectators in Brid.
The race was due to come past at 1.30pm, by 12 there was a lot of people and by 1pm there was a lot more. Must admit I was surprised at the number of spectators - the fish and chip shop and the pub appeared to be doing very good business!
The race came by in a flash! I really can't understand why people travel to watch it....woosh and it's over!
But the best bits by far were the police motorbikes and the police car at the end.
The bikes made an effort to entertain the crowd and the BMW X5 that came through after the cycles was waving and playing the sirens just for fun.
The really best bit was the police motorbikers that obviously needed to get somewhere very quickly - they really did use the excuse to have a bit of fun - 30mph limit, err, what 30mph limit!
mybrainhurts said:
Roads can be closed for sweaties farting around on bicycles.
Roads cannot be closed for motor sport.
Why is that?
You can get the roads closed for anything relatively easily but you can't get the law changed without an amendment by an act of parliament. Roads cannot be closed for motor sport.
Why is that?
So you can close roads for a march or a village fete or even a bike race, but as soon as you have cars averaging more than 30mph then you need to temporarily suspend the law.
A new law was passed this year which permits a limited number of motorsport events to be run on closed roads without said act of parliament so we are on our way.
Contentious point is that the bikes can do over 30 at times but there is no requirement for a speedo on a bike so the law they'd use to prosecute would be riding a cycle in a ferrrocious manner which is counterracted by the fact that it is done in a controlled manner under the cycling body's rules.
With regards to PR, I would have thought that everyone who would be affected by closures should have received some sort of notification directly so they are obviously working to a different set of rules to motorsport. Perhaps the public notices and the TV coverage is classed as sufficient?
Greensleeves said:
...... but as soon as you have cars averaging more than 30mph then you need to temporarily suspend the law.
With regards to PR, I would have thought that everyone who would be affected by closures should have received some sort of notification directly ....
Some of the support cars were not hanging about and the driving was very questionable.With regards to PR, I would have thought that everyone who would be affected by closures should have received some sort of notification directly ....
A couple of the police motorbikes were having a nice hoon, no problem because they were riding safely and were entertaining!
We had no direct contact only knew about it from the internet.
Chlorothalonil said:
Skeggysteve, do you live near Wetwang perchance?
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