I'd start a facebook page if I were you

Nobody??? You mean a couple of people on a rugby forum find it boring

nice exaggeration there.

I just don't get the whole cycling thing. Last year when it all kicked off in Yorkshire, loads of my mates from work were getting giddy over sittout out and watching it. Not 1 of them could tell me who won it and I expect that was the case for the tour de Yorks, no real knowledge or emotion or passion of anyone who is in it but Cheer randomly for Bradley Wiggins right? Its a tame spectator sport in my opinion but this country is sublime for jumping on a bandwagon.

I just don't get people who don't get it!

Some people get excited about a woman they have never met having a baby.

I have a passing interest in it, I always keep an eye on the grand tours and enjoy watching the mountain stages in the TdF. But then I will watch literally anything and cycling is not a good spectator sport. You can go for hours with nothing happening barring maybe a crash. So it does kind of baffle me why so many people seem to be interested in it now.

I'll pop you a new sarcasm detector in the post, shall I?

It's all in the marketing !
A brand new event on the back of Le Tour last year and 1.5million folk turn out to watch.

We could do with cycling's marketing guru to help RL.

Having said that, as a spectator sport, give me RL ever time, even when Wakey are playing

True.

How many of those people out on the streets watching over the weekend would've sat and watched it on TV if it was Tour De 'insert any other county's name here'.

FFS - it's world class, international sport taking place here, in our towns and cities, on our roads. You can get close up to the riders, have a chat, get a photo/selfie, have a good look at the bikes and it's free! Does it matter if people don't understand the tactics or know the names of all the riders? It's like the London Olympics: I know someone who was chuffed to bits to get tickets for the dressage or something like that. She knows sweet FA about riding, show jumping and the rest and hardly knows one end of a horse from the other but she was there and she loved it! It's like Ascot, the grand National, the boat race, even international RU - they're events, out of the ordinary, something to celebrate if they float your boat. If they don't grab you, don't go but don't be sanctimonious about those who do!!!

You should keep it for yourself if you think what you wrote constitutes sarcasm.

So some people enjoy it regardless and we shouldn't therefore voice our opinion about it......

......ok shut down this message board then.

As for sanctimonious, isn't a large part of the audience who are now 'in to' cycling only so because they can say at their middle-class dinner parties whilst comparing their mortgages and couple of kids that they watched the cycling. It's reached that level that tennis and golf have.....you get a mortgage and 2 kids, you start like cycling/tennis/golf because you're a respectable middle class person.....not because it actually entertaining sport.

"Ohhhhh Barry, did you watch the TDY, did you see how so-and-so peddled for that 30 secs.....it was like watching Lionel Messi on a bike, pure magic"

If you didn't include crashes then a highlights reel of cycling would just be what you see by looking out your window when driving. Dire.