Saturday Skipton and Sunday the sprint section, great atmosphere and loved the British Police van playing the theme from Allo, Allo on it's horn - don't think the gendarmes got that one!

I guess most of the crowd will have ridden a bike at some stage, so feel closer to the competitors - though like me I doubt if they could keep up 25mph for 5 hours and anyone who cycles up Holme Moss at 20mph must score very highly on the FA Effort scale

Agreed. It was amazing. I went to Ilkley on Tuesday too. Really enjoyed that. I was disappointed that the Tour boys only did one lap. Hope they keep the Ilkley one next year.

Why didn't Robbie arrange for the riders to do a lap around the pitch at half time. We would have broken the 102k gate record. Maybe next time Robbie!

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.

Don't worry no one saw Keighley either so you didn't let the side down.

The ones with Bradford postcodes?

My main worry was that they wouldn't have cleared it up along the A629 from Skipton to Keighley as I returned from Scotland, however despite all the signs along the A65, like messengers of doom, all telling of "delays", thankfully there were none. Result!

Maybe, but I've seen more than one real cock and balls running up a mountain along side the riders.

It was the bit between Blubberhouses and Hebden Bridge.

That was a local writing their name...

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.

Clearly they need a video ref..

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!

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.

To be fair, the smaller the place the more they feel proud that [itheir[/i 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.