Goat wrote:As for spectating. You really need to choose your stage and location carefully. Depending on the terrain, riders will either bunch up together in a peloton or spread out in a long line. They may also break up into groups which gives you more to watch than the cyclists all passing by in one twenty second period.
Generally speaking, if you want to go watch then stick to the mountain stages where riders are much slower and multiple breakaway groups tend to form. If it's a flat stage its going to end up being a finish for the sprinters with little really happening up until the end, so stand near the finish line for that.
Agreed. Personally I'd rather watch the end of a sprint stage for pure excitement, but the mountain finishes would be great to watch too, apparently there were 300,000 people packed on to Mont Ventoux yesterday and Alpe d'Huez has been closed for two days because there are so many people waiting for tomorrow's double climb of it. Being anywhere other than the finish on a flat stage would be pretty pointless, they'd be gone in the blink of an eye.
The first three stages are in England next year, I'm hoping to get to one if not all of them.
Goat wrote:
Go on the ITV 4 official website and watch the live stream of the channel. The tour is shown every day from 2pm on there. You don't need the streaming sites and the official one is usually much more reliable quality and connection wise.
Presuming you're in the UK of course.
I might try it tomorrow. I've attempted to watch a couple of FA cup games on their website though and it's been pretty poor.
