- News
- Reviews
- Bikes
- Accessories
- Accessories - misc
- Computer mounts
- Bags
- Bar ends
- Bike bags & cases
- Bottle cages
- Bottles
- Cameras
- Car racks
- Child seats
- Computers
- Glasses
- GPS units
- Helmets
- Lights - front
- Lights - rear
- Lights - sets
- Locks
- Mirrors
- Mudguards
- Racks
- Pumps & CO2 inflators
- Puncture kits
- Reflectives
- Smart watches
- Stands and racks
- Trailers
- Clothing
- Components
- Bar tape & grips
- Bottom brackets
- Brake & gear cables
- Brake & STI levers
- Brake pads & spares
- Brakes
- Cassettes & freewheels
- Chains
- Chainsets & chainrings
- Derailleurs - front
- Derailleurs - rear
- Forks
- Gear levers & shifters
- Groupsets
- Handlebars & extensions
- Headsets
- Hubs
- Inner tubes
- Pedals
- Quick releases & skewers
- Saddles
- Seatposts
- Stems
- Wheels
- Tyres
- Health, fitness and nutrition
- Tools and workshop
- Miscellaneous
- Buyers Guides
- Features
- Forum
- Recommends
- Podcast
news
Tour of Britain 2019 route mapRoute of September's Tour of Britain unveiled (+ details of all stages)
The route of this year’s Ovo Energy Tour of Britain has been announced today, with the race starting in Glasgow on Saturday 8 September and finishing in Manchester the following Saturday, followed on the Sunday by the city hosting an HSBC UK Let’s Ride mass participation event.
After the opening two stages in Scotland, the action will be played out in the north and midlands of England, with a route totalling 1,250 kilometres and includes uphill finishes at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Kendal, and Warwickshire’s Burton Dassett Country Park.
“This year’s race is a quintessentially British affair, combining the short and sharp climbs we’re famed for with finishes for the world’s best sprinters and hopefully a few surprises along the way,” commented race director Mick Bennett.
“But more than ever this year’s OVO Energy Tour of Britain route has been designed with spectators in mind.
“From visiting three iconic cities and including uphill finishes that are guaranteed to create drama to using finishing circuits, this year’s race will play a big role in helping Britain become a great cycling nation,” he added.
Once again, the race will be broadcast in its entirety on ITV4, which will also screen highlights each evening.
Here are the details of all the stages.
@OVOEnergy Tour of Britain stage one reveal
Glasgow
Kirkcudbright
Saturday 7 September
201.5km
The only stage above 200km this yearhttps://t.co/YxXPR5fG24#OVOToB pic.twitter.com/DPyw47w6Oi
— Tour of Britain (@TourofBritain) May 29, 2019
@OVOEnergy Tour of Britain stage two reveal
Kelso
Kelso
Sunday 8 September
166.5km
Held entirely within the Scottish Bordershttps://t.co/sV46Z7cwKZ#OVOToB pic.twitter.com/7m63JGWbYa
— Tour of Britain (@TourofBritain) May 29, 2019
@OVOEnergy Tour of Britain stage three reveal
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Monday 9 September
186.2km
Uphill finish on Grey Street!https://t.co/XVQOWGWFh4#OVOToB pic.twitter.com/ddIJs0fvoX
— Tour of Britain (@TourofBritain) May 29, 2019
@OVOEnergy Tour of Britain stage four reveal
Gateshead
Kendal
Tuesday 10 September
171.5km
Stage features nearly 3,000m of climbinghttps://t.co/Bir1vEv7wP#OVOToB pic.twitter.com/Q7YIK22q2q
— Tour of Britain (@TourofBritain) May 29, 2019
@OVOEnergy Tour of Britain stage five reveal
Birkenhead
Birkenhead
Wednesday 11 September
174km
Spectator friendly day starting/finishing in Birkenhead Parkhttps://t.co/VjhsP4qADe#OVOToB pic.twitter.com/5sNNnzImil
— Tour of Britain (@TourofBritain) May 29, 2019
@OVOEnergy Tour of Britain stage six reveal
The Worcestershire Stage
Thursday 12 September
First time in the county since 2017 - more detailshttps://t.co/LbSK5OpjpL#OVOToB pic.twitter.com/5XfAOO7uSj
— Tour of Britain (@TourofBritain) May 29, 2019
@OVOEnergy Tour of Britain stage seven reveal
Warwick
Burton Dassett Country Park
Friday 13 September
186.5km
Three ascents of Burton Dassetthttps://t.co/7G28hIoQcI#OVOToB pic.twitter.com/6AWQwUujlL
— Tour of Britain (@TourofBritain) May 29, 2019
@OVOEnergy Tour of Britain stage eight reveal
Altrincham
Deansgate, Manchester
Saturday 14 September
165km
Passes through all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs - our first stage finish in the city since 2004!https://t.co/C9N5dqyjos#OVOToB pic.twitter.com/ZDgeCTO6S6
— Tour of Britain (@TourofBritain) May 29, 2019
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
Latest Comments
- Cycle Happy 1 min 48 sec ago
If the sign pictured is one of the actual ones being used for enforcement, isn't it the wrong sign for prohibited cycling? Effectively a no no...
- two20 23 min 36 sec ago
Because what you want are four execs from a company so successful they have just gone out of business.
- chrisonabike 29 min 47 sec ago
Well that leaves me confused. Not least:...
- Saxtoo 32 min 11 sec ago
Suvi is getting paid way too much. Needs a wages review. And quick....
- Another_MAMIL 42 min 28 sec ago
Most commonly, motorcyclists blip the throttle when changing down a gear, not to scare anyone. It's a good habit because smoother down-changes...
- Dnnnnnn 1 hour 33 min ago
They're not losses - they're "negative profits"!
- bobbinogs 1 hour 39 min ago
I would say that a wide neck opening would be fine for many cyclists who, like me, wear a buff when it is chilly. They're a great vfm additional...
- chrisonabike 2 hours 40 min ago
Man simultaneously possessing and eating a series of rich cakes decries pastry chefs for supplying unhealthy food......
- andystow 2 hours 47 min ago
That's probably cost you over a minute now across all your rides.
- Hirsute 2 hours 55 min ago
There are at least 4 regular posters on here who have ebikes due to various medical ailments.
Add new comment
31 comments
#Prayforkeirik
Worcester stage Thursday, NEC Cycle Show Friday. One happy Brummie here!
Worcester Stage Thurdsay, Warwick (viewing at Kenilworth Friday), Cycle Show Sunday. Another happy Brummie.
They have probably forgotten that two stages of the Womens tour including the final is in Wales.
And now they've caused a double post. Who do I complain to?
Well it literally does go past my front door this year. Who do I complain to?
It's bad enough having the road closed once a year for the chester marathon, but now these bloody cyclists will be shutting my road for at least 30 minutes. I won't be able to get out if there's an emergency shortage of milk or bread, or beer.
I know there is an issue with repeated posts (although it has only happened to me when I got impatient and clicked on the [Save] button more than once), but 4 repeats of the same post, then a post from another user and THEN another duplicate. That's a new one on me.
The Tour Beyond The Wall.
You could do a great 3 day race, Borders to Tyneside, Tyneside to cumbria, cumbria to borders, with the days movign each year so the final stage was a different location each year.
ALternatively I'm up for a petition to make Tweed to Tyne an annual one day classic...
That's one way of getting your post count up.
6 posts
This year's tour DOES GO THROUGH YORKSHIRE !!! Stage 8 is in Saddleworth for about 5 miles entering from Mossley (Lancs) and then passing throught the YORKSHIRE villages of Greenfield, Uppermill (my home), Dobcross and Delph. The KoM climb from Delph to Grains Bar is all in YORKSHIRE. The tour then passes back into Lancashire at Shaw.
There were administrative boundary changes in 1974 and our local government is now from OldhamMBC and Greater Manchester, but our Saddleworth boundary markers all bear the white rose and are in YORKSHIRE !!!
The rival Tour de Yorkshire only covers the present administrative county and ignores the old, traditional Yorkshire fringe areas such as Saddleworth, Sedbergh and Dent (now within modern Cumbria).
So - good to see a major tour in true Yorkshire and enjoy the climb to Grains Bar and our great YORKSHIRE villages!!!
This year's tour DOES GO THROUGH YORKSHIRE !!! Stage 8 is in Saddleworth for about 5 miles entering from Mossley (Lancs) and then passing throught the YORKSHIRE villages of Greenfield, Uppermill (my home), Dobcross and Delph. The KoM climb from Delph to Grains Bar is all in YORKSHIRE. The tour then passes back into Lancashire at Shaw.
There were administrative boundary changes in 1974 and our local government is now from OldhamMBC and Greater Manchester, but our Saddleworth boundary markers all bear the white rose and are in YORKSHIRE !!!
The rival Tour de Yorkshire only covers the present administrative county and ignores the old, traditional Yorkshire fringe areas such as Saddleworth, Sedbergh and Dent (now within modern Cumbria).
So - good to see a major tour in true Yorkshire and enjoy the climb to Grains Bar and our great YORKSHIRE villages!!!
Unknown.jpeg
This year's tour DOES GO THROUGH YORKSHIRE !!! Stage 8 is in Saddleworth for about 5 miles entering from Mossley (Lancs) and then passing throught the YORKSHIRE villages of Greenfield, Uppermill (my home), Dobcross and Delph. The KoM climb from Delph to Grains Bar is all in YORKSHIRE. The tour then passes back into Lancashire at Shaw.
There were administrative boundary changes in 1974 and our local government is now from OldhamMBC and Greater Manchester, but our Saddleworth boundary markers all bear the white rose and are in YORKSHIRE !!!
The rival Tour de Yorkshire only covers the present administrative county and ignores the old, traditional Yorkshire fringe areas such as Saddleworth, Sedbergh and Dent (now within modern Cumbria).
So - good to see a major tour in true Yorkshire and enjoy the climb to Grains Bar and our great YORKSHIRE villages!!!
Unknown.jpeg
This year's tour DOES GO THROUGH YORKSHIRE !!! Stage 8 is in Saddleworth for about 5 miles entering from Mossley (Lancs) and then passing throught the YORKSHIRE villages of Greenfield, Uppermill (my home), Dobcross and Delph. The KoM climb from Delph to Grains Bar is all in YORKSHIRE. The tour then passes back into Lancashire at Shaw.
There were administrative boundary changes in 1974 and our local government is now from OldhamMBC and Greater Manchester, but our Saddleworth boundary markers all bear the white rose and are in YORKSHIRE !!!
The rival Tour de Yorkshire only covers the present administrative county and ignores the old, traditional Yorkshire fringe areas such as Saddleworth, Sedbergh and Dent (now within modern Cumbria).
So - good to see a major tour in true Yorkshire and enjoy the climb to Grains Bar and our great YORKSHIRE villages!!!
Unknown.jpeg
This year's tour DOES GO THROUGH YORKSHIRE !!! Stage 8 is in Saddleworth for about 5 miles entering from Mossley (Lancs) and then passing throught the YORKSHIRE villages of Greenfield, Uppermill (my home), Dobcross and Delph. The KoM climb from Delph to Grains Bar is all in YORKSHIRE. The tour then passes back into Lancashire at Shaw.
There were administrative boundary changes in 1974 and our local government is now from OldhamMBC and Greater Manchester, but our Saddleworth boundary markers all bear the white rose and are in YORKSHIRE !!!
The rival Tour de Yorkshire only covers the present administrative county and ignores the old, traditional Yorkshire fringe areas such as Saddleworth, Sedbergh and Dent (now within modern Cumbria).
So - good to see a major tour in true Yorkshire and enjoy the climb to Grains Bar and our great YORKSHIRE villages!!!
Unknown.jpeg
Mostly supportive on Altrincham local media with many people hoping that it will lead to potholes being filled.
One classic, ‘my worst nightmare, men on bikes inLycra shorts weaving through traffic and riding through red lights getting on my bloody nerves’.
I think there should be a pinned-on banner above every single comments page of every website, something akin to the Oscar Wilde quote "it is better to keep ones mouth closed and be thought an idiot than to open it an remove all doubt".
Wait untill someone tells him he won't have to share the roads with cyclists, because they'll close the roads and stop him using them!
You can hear the gammon aneurysms starting now.
Well the male and female races are both within a reasonable cycling distance of myself with the option of seeing them three times along the route if I'm quick enough. Result.
Tour of the north of Britain!! Meh!
It does go past my front door, or near it anyway (stage 8). What can I complain about?
That you won't be able to drive your car exactly when you want to on the roads THAT YOU PAY FOR!
Alti -Manc, I am going to disappear down so many leaderboards.
I thought the tour was begining in Cornwall - but it looks like that is for 2020. Oh well, just have to reschedule the day off...
Twitter is amusingly full of complaints that it doesn't go to Wales or London or Inverness or past someone's front door.
Someone even complained that it wasn't going to Yorkshire, it's like - you've got the Tour de YORKSHIRE and the World Road Race Champs, exactly how much cycling do you want there?!
The route announcement always brings out all the immense bores who think that it can't be a tour of britain unless it goes right past their front door. I've seen so many people claiming it never comes to their part of the world, while tweeting from places that have stages many times in the past decade. It's an 8 day race so it can't go everywhere.
n+1
Too blinkin' right. For the last few years I've walked less than 5 minutes from my home to see either the Tour of Britain or the TdYorkshire. The last 2 years I walked 30 seconds to watch the riders whizz past and now they expect me to leave Yorkshire if I want to see any cyclists? We need a Tour going past my house at least once a month! (and fortnightly through the summer)
In all honesty we have been a little spoilt round these parts of late, getting to make a brew, walk to the end of the road with my cup of tea and watch world class cyclists race past was something special! (and to get to cheer on the womens race earlier in the day as well was an added bonus)
Depending on exactly where it goes, no detailed maps yet, but it looks as if it'll pass within a couple of hundred metres of my front door. I suppose I'll have to make an effort now.
It might just be a screw it moment and I'll take the whole week off and follow a couple of stages as it cuts across my territory over 6 stages and could be quite disruptive workwise.
It'll pretty much be my first bike race as a mere specator.
Pages