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There are eight days of racing at the Tour of Britain, and each day is different! Watch our race day explanation video to learn about what to expect when the UK’s most prestigious cycle event comes to your town.

From the very start of the day to ending with the battle for the stage win, find out how the event is delivered and how the racing unfolds out along the route.

Video:  New to the Tour of Britain? Watch our explainer video guide to discover what the race is all about

At the start of each day’s stage, fans have a unique opportunity to get up close and meet riders. There is a team buses area where you can get autographs and selfies, as well as the chance to check out the latest bike equipment.

Before the riders start the stage, they all take part in the sign on ceremony. This is held on the main stage next to the start line.

There is lots to see and do before watching the racing set off. Be sure to get there early to not miss out.

FINISH AREA

Our Tour Village is situated at the finish area. It is filled with lots of stalls and exhibits from our official partners and local businesses – offering a range of cycling products to buy, free giveaways food, drink and more!

At the finish area, you will be able to watch the battle for the stage win and see first-hand who crosses the finish line first.

There will then be a presentation ceremony where you can watch the stage winner be presented with their winner’s prize.

Additionally, you’ll see the current race leader in the general classification. This is the rider who has taken the lowest cumulative time to complete the stages so far – and will wear a special jersey. Often this leader will change throughout the week of racing. You’ll also see the sprints, King of the Mountains and other jerseys presented here.

On the final day, there is a special ceremony where the overall winners are presented with their prizes, jerseys and celebrate with champagne.

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Photo: Fans flock in their thousands to each stage finish!

TEAMS AND RIDERS

Every year some of the world’s top riders and teams come to the UK to compete in the Tour of Britain. There are 20 teams that will compete in the 2023 Tour; find out more about them here .

On each team there are six riders – that’s 120 professionals on the start line of the opening stage. World champions, Tour de France winners and Olympians have all competed in the Tour of Britain over the years. This includes the likes of Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish, Geraint Thomas.

Closer to race week after teams confirm their riders our rider list will be available to download here .

RACE CONVOY

The race convoy is a collection of cars and motorbikes that accompany the professional cyclists across the stage. This includes police, National Escort Group (NEG) safety bikes, TV motorbikes, team cars, convoy cars, commissaires, judges and medical staff.

They will be split up ahead and at the back of the riders in order to facilitate safe riding conditions and safe road closure implementations.

Click here to learn how the convoy works to operate road closures as they move across the route.

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Photo: The race convoy has many functions during the Tour, with its protection of riders and fans alike one of the most important 

When the riders meet 0KM (which you may hear referred to as “kilometre zero”) the race begins. Often this is when a small group of riders, typically from different teams, will attack off the front of the race and ride together to distance themselves from the main peloton – this is known as a breakaway.

Breakaways can vary in numbers. If there is a big group of breakaway riders, the main peloton behind may try to up their tempo in order to catch the break and not allow them to establish a strong time gap.

Out on the road, there is potential for lots to happen. Every team has a communication system where they can feed info from their team car to their riders and vice versa.

During the race, riders may encounter mechanical issues, such as flat tyres, broken chains, maybe a crash, which will require the team car to reach them and swiftly fix the problem – sometimes the rider may actually swap to a new bike to make sure they waste as little time as possible.

King of the Mountains

On every stage, there are designated King of the Mountains (KoM) sections. These key climbs are where riders compete for points towards the KoM jersey.

These are great places to watch the race. So riders are often going at their slowest when they are tackling the hardest climbs in Britain. You’ll be at the heart of the race and up close to the action.

The race also features three intermediate sprints sections. Here riders contest points and time bonuses, so the action is fast and frantic.

As the race gets towards the end of the stage, the pace gets faster and faster. The peloton will try and catch riders from the breakaway and set up an exciting sprint finish.

Depending on the style of finish, there may be different approaches to tacking the stage win. It could be an uphill or hill-top finish, in which case the best climbers will come to the front and look to gain time on their rivals.

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Riders are set to battle it out at the Tour of Britain 2023

After a truncated edition in 2022 due to police having to head off to administer the Queen's funeral, Britain's biggest race - the Tour of Britain - returns for (hopefully) a full run in 2023. 

It's a much more compact edition this year with the race taking place mostly in the middle of the country so if you're anywhere south of Manchester and north of Reading you have precious few excuses for not getting to the roadside to cheer on your favourite rider.

Among the riders set to light up the race are previous winner Wout van Aert and 2022 second place finisher Tom Pidcock , who'll hope to go one better in 2023.

Tour of Britain overview

Tour of britain 2023 route.

Stage 1,   Sunday 3 September

Route: Greater Manchester to Altrincham 

Today's route is near identical to the final stage of the 2019 tour, starting in Altrincham and travelling to Manchester in an anti-clockwise direction taking in the surrounding area’s undulating terrain, including the category two climb of Grains Bar (2.4km at 5.8%) and category one Ramsbottom Rake (1.3km at 8.8%). Those climbs might not sound like much, but together with a number of unclassified rises were enough to significantly reduce the peloton to just a few dozen riders after Ineos Grenadiers applied the pressure. 

The race did eventually culminate in a reduced bunch sprint won by Mathieu van der Poel, but not before we were entertained by a relentless flurry of attacks as teams struggled for control.

Expect a similar type of rider to triumph today.

Stage 2, Monday 4 September

Route: Wrexham to Wrexham

At just 109.9km, this is a remarkably short stage by any standards, and as a result could witness some atypical racing. Shorter stages tend to produce more intense racing, with riders able to attack earlier on in the knowledge that they won't have to sustain their efforts for as long.

So although the route doesn’t offer many springboards to launch attacks, travelling westwards across the border and into Cheshire rather than eastwards towards the hills of the Clwydian Range to the west, expect riders to try their luck regardless.

Most important of all will be the Eyton Hill, the category three climb summited with just 18.5km left to ride. It’s close enough to the finish for attackers to fully commit themselves, but will the shallow gradients (averaging only around two and three percent) be enough to establish meaningful gaps?

Stage 3, Tuesday 5 September

Route: Goole to Beverley

Setting off from the small market town of Goole, the riders will head north-eastwards to Bridlington, from where they will travel southwards along the coast and then inland again for a finish in Beverley. For the residents of Beverley, this will be a chance to witness a stage finish after the minster town had previously hosted the beginning of Tour de Yorkshire stages in 2016 and 2018, the former won by Harry Tanfield from a successful break, the latter by Dylan Groenewegen in a sprint.

Much like the course of the town’s famous racecourse, the parcours today before arriving at Beverly is mostly flat, but there are a few potential obstacles to overcome if this is to be a sprint finish. The category three hills up Towthorpe Lane and Langtoft must both be climbed during the first of the stage, and after that comes a stretch of about 35km near the coastline which could, if the wind blows strong and in the right direction, cause echelons. But this should in theory be the most nailed-on stage for the sprinters so far.

Stage 4, Wednesday 6 September

Route: Sherwood Forest to Newark-on-Trent

After setting off from Edwinstone in Sherwood Forest, famous for its association with Robin Hood, the riders face the first to the day’s two category three climbs, Kilton Hill, just 15km into the stage. Then, after briefly crossing into Yorkshire and riding through Haworth, where a monument to Tom Simpsons can be found, they will travel southwards again to tackle the next climb, Red Hill Lane.

There’s a whole 85km between the top of Red Hill Lane and the finish, so plenty of time for the race to settle down for a bunch sprint.

Stage 5, Thursday 7 September

Route: Felixstowe to Felixstowe

Perhaps to make up for the lack of any difficult terrain, the organisers have rendered stage five less straightforward than it would otherwise have been by extending it to a total of 192.4km. That makes it by far the longest stage of the race, and could prevent this from being the predictable sprint stage it looks on paper.

Small undulations in the road that would otherwise have been passed over without a second though will sting the legs of the weaker riders, and being so close to the coast a crosswind could encourage a strong team to the front on any exposed roads.

Stage 6, Friday 8 September

Route: Southend-on-Sea to Harlow

Today’s stage is likely to be the last chance for the sprinters to compete for a stage win. And it should be about as nailed-on for them as any stage in the year’s race — there is only one official climb to be overcome, and it’s only a mild category three one tackled with 46km left between its summit and the finish for the peloton to bring back any optimistic attackers who try to use its shallow gradients to get away.

Stage 7, Saturday 9 September

Route: Tewkesbury to Gloucester

The organisers have made the most of the lumpy terrain of the Cotswolds to devise a route that should be selective, and one of the most important days in the GC race.

There is one climb up the category two Winchcombe Hill just 20km after the roll-out in Tewksbury, but the real action will be reserved for the final 30km. First the category two Crawley Hill, which features a nasty ramp at over 20%, then an uncategorized yet deceptively hard 3km rise to the village of Edge, which includes a similarly sharp ramp of 15%.

Stage 8, Sunday 10 September

Route: Margam Country Park to Caerphilly

The climbs to be taken on might not be especially different than those that have preceded them earlier in the week, but there is still a notable upgrade in terms of severity.

That’s clear when the race heads up to the outskirts of Bannau Brycheiniog (formerly Brecon Beacons) national park to take on the first two climbs of the day, Rhigos and Bryn Du, which have both been designated the maximum difficulty racing of category one.

And after a 35km south-easterly trek from the top of the latter comes a double-ascent of the day’s most important climb, and the one on which the entire fate of the Tour of Britain could be decided — Caerphilly Mountain.

In truth it’s more of a hill than a mountain, lasting just 1.3km, but that’s still enough road for its viscous average gradient of 10% to really sting and force a selection.

Tour of Britain startlist

Movistar Team 

DS Max Sciandri 

1 Gonzalo Serrano ESP

2 Will Barta USA

3 Imanol Erviti ESP

4 Max Kanter GER

5 Gregor Mühlberger AUT

6 Óscar Rodríguez ESP

INEOS Grenadiers 

DS Roger Hammond / Ian Stannard 

11 Tom Pidcock GBR

12 Carlos Rodriguez ESP

13 Luke Rowe GBR

14 Connor Swift GBR

15 Josh Tarling* GBR

16 Ben Turner GBR

Bingoal WB 

DS Alessandro Spezialetti 

21 Floris de Tier BEL

22 Johan Meens BEL

23 Davide Persico* ITA

24 Dimitri Peyskens BEL

25 Lennert Teugels BEL

26 Kenneth van Rooy BEL

Great Britain  

DS John Herety / Matt Brammeier 

31 Ethan Vernon GBR

32 Jack Brough* GBR

33 Josh Giddings* GBR

34 Noah Hobbs* GBR

35 Oliver Wood GBR

36 Stephen Williams GBR

BORA hansgrohe 

DS Jens Zemke / Heinrich Haussler 

41 Sam Bennett IRL

42 Patrick Gamper AUT

43 Nils Politt GER

44 Max Schachmann GER

45 Ide Schelling NED

46 Danny Van Poppel NED

Bolton Equities Black Spoke Cycling  

DS Franky Van Haesebroucke / Greg Henderson 

51 Jacob Scott GBR

52 Matt Bostock GBR

53 James Fouche NZL

54 James Oram NZL

55 Mark Stewart GBR

56 Rory Townsend IRL

Global 6 Cycling 

DS James Mitri / Luis Gerrado 

61 Nicolas Sessler BRA

62 Giacomo Ballabio ITA

63 Tomoya Koyama JPN

64 Ivan Moreno ESP

65 Callum Ormiston RSA

66 Tom Wirtgen LUX

Jumbo Visma 

DS Arthur van Dongen / Maarten Wynants 

71 Wout van Aert BEL

72 Edoardo Affini ITA

73 Steven Kruijswijk NED

74 Olav Kooij* NED

75 Jos van Emden NED

76 Nathan van Hooydonck BEL

Equipo Kern Pharma 

DS Pablo Urtasun 

81 Roger Adrià ESP

82 Igor Arrieta* ESP

83 Iñigo Elosegui ESP

84 José Félix Parra ESP

85 Ibon Ruiz ESP

86 Danny van der Tuuk NED

Saint Piran 

DS Steve Lampier / Julian Winn 

91 Alexander Richardson GBR

92 Harry Birchill* GBR

93 Finn Crockett GBR

94 Zeb Kyffin GBR

95 Jack Rootkin-Gray* GBR

96 Bradley Symonds GBR

Team dsm - firmenich 

DS Matt Winston 

101 Tobias Lund Arnesen DEN

102 Patrick Eddy* AUS

103 Enzo Leijnse* NED

104 Niklas Märkl GER

105 Tim Naberman NED

106 Casper van Uden* NED

Q36.5 Pro Cycling 

DS Aart Vierhouten / Rik Reinerink 

111 Mark Donovan GBR

112 Damian Howson AUS

113 Kamil Malecki POL

114 Nicolò Parisini ITA

115 Joey Rosskopf USA

116 Szymon Sajnok POL

TDT - Unibet 

DS Rob Harmeling / Julia Soek 

121 Harry Tanfield GBR

122 Joren Bloem NED

123 Davide Bomboi BEL

124 Jordy Bouts BEL

125 Abram Stockman BEL

126 Hartthijs de Vries NED

Team Flanders - Baloise 

DS Hans De Clerq / Andy Missotten 

131 Kamiel Bonneu BEL

132 Sander De Pestel BEL

133 Milan Fretin* BEL

134 Elias Maris BEL

135 Ward Vanhoof BEL

136 Aaron Verwilst BEL

Trinity Racing 

DS Peter Kennaugh / Jon Mould 

141 Luke Lamperti* USA

142 Robert Donaldson* GBR

143 Luksas Nerukar* GBR

144 Finlay Pickering* GBR

145 Ollie Reese* GBR

146 Max Walker* GBR

Uno-X Pro Cycling 

DS Gino van Oudenhove / Arne Gunnar Ensrud 

151 Alexander Kristoff NOR

152 Frederik Dversnes NOR

153 Tord Gudmestad* NOR

154 Tobias Halland Johannssen NOR

155 Ramus Tiller NOR

156 Martin Urianstad NOR

* Denotes eligibility for the young rider jersey as under-23 

TOUR of Britain PAST WINNERS IN THE LAST 10 YEARS

2012: Nathan Haas (Aus)

2013: Bradley Wiggins (GBr)

2014: Dylan van Baarle (Ned)

2015: Edvald Boasson Hgen (Nor)

2016: Steve cummings (GBr)

2017: Lars Boom (Ned)

2018: Julian Alaphilippe (Fra)

2019: Mathieu van der Poel (Ned)

2020: No race

2021: Wout van Aert (Bel)

2022: Gonzalo Serrano (Esp)

Tour of Britain jersey guide

Blue: GC leader jersey

The best overall rider in the race calculated by the cumulative time they take on each stage.

Green: cottages.com sprints jersey

The first 10 riders each day get points as follows: 25, 18, 12, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Intermediate sprint points are awarded to the first five riders on a 10, 7, 5, 3 ,1 basis.

Black: Pinarello KOM jersey

First-category climbs give the first 10 riders points in descending order from 10. Second-cat climbs work the same for the first six riders, the first getting six points, while third-cat climbs see the first rider get four points.

White: young rider's jersey

Awarded to the best placed GC rider who is also under-23.

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How to watch the 2022 Tour of Britain – live TV and streaming

Pidcock, Teuns, Porte, Woods, Jorgenson among the major names headlining 18th edition

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The highlight of the British racing calendar is underway, with the 2022 Tour of Britain winding its way down from Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight this week.

Cyclingnews will have full stage reports, results, news, interviews, and analysis throughout the race.

The 2022 Tour of Britain will be broadcast around Europe and the rest of the world, with all stages live on the air, and you can find out how to watch the race wherever you are with our handy guide and with ExpressVPN .

The race is set to be a warm-up for the upcoming UCI Road World Championships, with it's hilly parcours and punchy finishes a good proving ground ahead of the trip to Australia.

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Tour de France stage winner Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) heads up the start list. The Briton is joined at the strongest team in the race by the retiring Richie Porte, Amstel Gold Race winner Michał Kwiatkowski and Brabantse Pijl winner Magnus Sheffield.

Dylan Teuns leads Israel-Premier Tech in the race for UCI points. The La Flèche Wallonne champion is accompanied by Michael Woods as part of a strong squad.

Felix Großschartner lines up as the leaders of Bora-Hansgrohe, with Jordi Meeus set to be their sprint option.

At Team DSM,  Cees Bol  will be looking to target sprint wins while Chris Hamilton is an option on the hillier days. The versatile  Matteo Jorgenson heads up Movistar, who can also look to Oscar Rodríguez in the quest for points.

Filippo Zana (Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè), Anthon Charmig (Uno-X), and Thomas Gloag (Trinity Racing) are among the other names to watch, while Jake Stewart (Great Britain), Sacha Modolo (Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè), Kenneth Van Rooy (Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise), and Eduard Prades (Caja Rural-Seguros SGA) are all set to compete in the sprints. 

Read on for all the information on how to watch the 2022 Tour of Britain .

Follow Cyclingnews on Twitter , Facebook and Instagram for alerts and news on important stories and action during the race.

The 2022 Tour of Britain will be broadcast in the United Kingdom, Europe, the USA, Canada, and Australia on  GCN+ , with a year’s subscription costing £39.99. Eurosport will also be airing the race via the Eurosport Player.

In the UK, ITV4 will also be airing the race live on TV and online daily.

Around the world, other broadcasters include L'Equipe (France), Claro (Latin American), RTVC (Colombia), and Sky (New Zealand).

Be warned, though, geo-restrictions may apply if you're outside your home country or on holiday during the race.

You can get around that, however, by accessing the streams via a VPN. 

ExpressVPN offers the ability to simulate being back in your home country, allowing you to watch the race live on various devices – including Smart TVs, Fire TV Stick, PC, Mac, iPhone, Android phone, iPads, tablets, etc.

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The tour of britain once again makes its way across the uk from sunday 3 to sunday 10 september for eight epic stages, with the best riders in the country taking on global stars here on home turf. here we’ve pulled together all the key information you need to follow the action., watching from the roadside.

The Grand Depart will see riders leave the start line in Altrincham to Manchester for the first stage on Sunday 3 September, with Greater Manchester hosting a weekend of cycling events and activities to build up to the start of the race. 

Having hosted a stage of The Women’s Tour last year, Wrexham will host the second stage, before riders will take to the third stage starting in Goole and finishing in Beverley. 

Stage four will see riders return to Nottinghamshire, racing from Sherwood Forest to Newark-on-Trent, before a seaside trip starting and finishing in Felixstone on stage five. The riders then visit Southend-on-Sea and finish in Harlow for the sixth stage and will tackle the Gloucestershire hills on stage seven from Tewkesbury to Gloucester.

A return to the legendary Caerphilly Mountain climb forms part of a spectacular final stage in South Wales, with riders starting in the picturesque Margam Country Park and finishing near Caerphilly Castle.

Find out more about all the stages, including where you can watch and all the key timings here .

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Cheering on the Brits

The Great Britain Cycling Team is once again fielding a strong seven-man squad of talented riders for the Tour of Britain, including elimination world champion Ethan Vernon and scratch European champion Ollie Wood.

Having both competed at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships, where Wood also won a silver medal in the men’s Madison alongside Bolton Equities Black Spoke rider Mark Stewart, the British riders will be ready to race on home soil once again after the success of Glasgow. Stewart will also be competing in The Tour of Britain alongside teammates and fellow Brits Matt Bostock and Jacob Scott.

Wood and Vernon will be joined in the Great Britain Cycling Team by recent winner of the Arctic Race of Norway Stevie Williams, and promising 19-year-old Noah Hobbs, who finished fifth at the National Circuit Championships and third at Ronde van de Achterhoek this weekend. Josh Giddings and Jack Brough complete the line-up, having both raced competitively on the road this season and working well for their respective teams.

The team will also be rubbing shoulders with British WorldTour team INEOS Grenadiers, with Tom Pidcock ready to redeem himself after a second-place finish in a shortened Tour of Britain last year. 

UCI Continental team Saint Piran has a strong squad of British riders competing, including Alex Richardson, Harry Birchill, Finn Crockett, Zeb Kyffin, Jack Rootkin-Gray and Bradley Symonds, having dominated the National Road Series this year with a clean sweep of podiums in each round. TRINITY Racing will also be competitive at The Tour of Britain for another year, with Lukas Nerurkar, Bob Donaldson, Finlay Pickering, Oliver Rees and Max Walker ready to take to the start line.

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Broadcast details

Every stage of the The Tour of Britain will be televised live on ITV4 in the UK, and can be viewed worldwide on Eurosport and GCN. 

Stage one: Altrincham to Manchester (Sunday 3 September)

  • Live: 11:30am – 4:30pm
  • Highlights: 8pm – 9pm

Stage two: Wrexham to Wrexham (Monday 4 September)

  • Live: 11:30am – 3:15pm

Stage three: Goole to Beverley (Tuesday 5 September)

  • Live: 11:15am – 4pm

Stage four: Sherwood Forest to Newark-on-Trent (Wednesday 6 September)

  • Live: 11am – 4pm

Stage five: Felixstowe to Felixstowe (Thursday 7 September)

  • Live: 10:30am – 4pm
  • Highlights: 9pm – 10pm

Stage six: Southend-on-Sea to Harlow (Friday 8 September)

  • Live: 11:30am – 4pm

Stage seven: Tewkesbury to Gloucester (Saturday 9 September)

  • Live: 11:45am – 3:45pm

Stage eight: Margam Country Park to Caerphilly (Sunday 10 September)

ITV4 is available on Freeview (channel 25), Freesat (channel 117), Sky (channel 120), Virgin Media (channel 118) and the ITV Hub (online) in the UK.

Find out more here and download the Tour of Britain race guide here .

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Bell and Holl secure second national titles on the final day in Manchester

Bell and Holl secure second national titles on the final day in Manchester

Jenny Holl and Lauren Bell both took their second titles of the weekend on the final day of the British National Track Championships at the home of British Cycling, while Team Wales and Team Inspired won the team pursuit and team sprint, respectively.

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Inside the Dramatic Bid to Rescue the Tour of Britain From the Brink

The flailing race faces its greatest uphill battle yet: the fight for its future.

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When new Ineos Grenadiers CEO John Allert announced that his team would do whatever it could to help the flailing Tour of Britain in the wake of the news that race organizer SweetSpot had entered voluntary liquidation, it seems like an obvious move; an inextricably British team swooping in to rescue the British race.

Last week, on an overarching call that outlined how their new CEO sees the future of Ineos Grenadiers, Allert said that his team would work to get the Tour of Britain back on steady footing.

“All I can say is as a team with British heritage you know, we will work with any stakeholders, British Cycling or any commercial stakeholders, to as quickly as possible see a Tour of Britain back on the calendar,” Allert said. “I think it’s an important race, not just for the UK, but I think some of these national races are huge opportunities for local riders, non WorldTour teams, and for local fans and having a gap on the calendar like that is not good for the sport.”

At a time when women’s professional cycling is seeing massive change and substantial (and hopefully long-lasting) growth, a gap in the calendar, leaving all of Britain out in the proverbial cold, can do serious and sustained damage to the efforts of those trying to grow the sport.

However, for now, the focus remains on the men’s Tour of Britain and the potential involvement of the British powerhouse Ineos Grenadiers.

According to EF Education-EasyPost rider Owain Doull, himself a Welshman, the Tour of Britain not only provided a first-rate race for the pros, but also was a staple of the fan experience.

“From a rider’s perspective, it’s a race we all love,” Doull recently told Cycling Weekly . “From a fan’s perspective, it’s always super well supported. The roads are always packed.”

And those fans need to be considered for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is how major bike races can and will continue to serve as one giant promotional tool for the magic, joy, and benefit of riding bikes.

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Cycling is already seeing massive increases in London, with recent studies showing that bike riders outnumber automobile drivers on the city’s streets. Of course, much ink has been spilled over the hypocrisy of how damaging to the environment bike races can be. But if getting more people on bikes is the goal, there are few better commercials than a multi-day race through large swaths of an entire country.

Which also brings the fore the dichotomy of Ineos Grenadiers—who have sometimes found themselves at the center of controversy ever since transitioning from Team Sky in 2019—potentially coming to the rescue.

Even on their first official race day at that year’s Tour of Yorkshire, Team Ineos, as they were then called, was met with a small sea of activists outside of their busses, protesting chemical company Ineos’s production of plastics and their links to fracking.

It was a move that stood in even starker contrast considering the multitude of environmental campaigns Team Sky was involved in over the years. As recently as 2018, the team’s main sponsor, broadcast company Sky, publicly promised to eliminate single-use plastics from their team by 2020.

They doubled down on their efforts that year, when their jerseys featured an image of an Orca and promoted Sky’s Ocean Rescue program. That’s not to say Team Sky was totally blameless. They, like every other bike team, drove caravans of carbon-emitting vehicles in races around the world. Is there any way around that?

Of course, the team caught flack again when “Team Ineos” became “Ineos Grenadiers,” in order to promote the bulky diesel SUV created and sold by the company. Such a relationship makes the question of “how green is bike racing, really?!” even more apparent.

Still, bike races are, at least in this writer’s opinion, a major net positive for the world at large, especially if they serve to get more people on bikes. Considering as much, I guess, and within reason, I really don’t care whose money or muscle keeps the Tour of Britain (and hopefully the Women’s Tour ) afloat. I care that the bike racing calendar and one of the most steadfast cycling nations at large still has their trademark race on the calendar.

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Tour of Britain 2023 stage one: Route map and road closures from Altrincham to Manchester

The Tour of Britain 2023 sees a star-studded peloton ride from Altrincham and Manchester on stage one to the route finish at Caerphilly Castle on stage eight, via Wrexham, Sherwood Forest, Southend-on-Sea and much more.

The great Wout van Aert will be on the startline and the Dutch Jumbo-Visma rider, who won this race in 2021, will be one of the biggest draws for cycling fans. He will be joined by talented 21-year-old teammate Olav Kooij in a strong Jumbo line-up.

Ineos Grenadiers provide plenty of home interest, with world and Olympic mountain bike champion Tom Pidcock fronting a team that also includes talented young Spaniard Carlos Rodriguez (fifth at the Tour de France) and Welshman Luke Rowe, riding in his home nation for several of the stages.

Track world champion Ethan Vernon and Tour de Yorkshire stage winner Harry Tanfield will also enjoy home support during the race.

Here is a closer look at the stage one route and road closures.

Stage one map and profile

Road closures.

A rolling road closure will be enforced on each of the stages. This means roads on and around the race route will be closed to traffic for a short period in which it takes the race to pass by – usually about 10 to 15 minutes around the estimated time of arrival and indicated by police escort vehicles.

On stage one there will be several road closures in place around the centre of Altrincham, some of which will be in place from 6pm on Saturday 2 September. This will also lead to parking suspensions in key locations to enable race infrastructure to be set up and following the race removed.

Stage one will finish on Deansgate in the centre of Manchester, causing a number of road closures in the city on Sunday.

Sunday 3 September: roads closed from 5am to 9pm

Water Street - From New Elm Road to Liverpool Road

Liverpool Road - From Water Street to Deansgate

Deansgate - From Whitworth Street West to John Dalton Street

Little Quay Street - From Quay Street to Atkinson Street

Atkinson Street - From Deansgate to Little Quay Street

Quay Street - From Byrom to Deansgate

Peter Street - From Deansgate to Oxford Street

Bootle Street - From Deansgate to Jerusalem Place

Jerusalem Place - From Bootle Street to Peter Street

Lloyd Street - From Deansgate to Southmill Street

Great Bridgewater Street – From Watson Street to Deansgate

Closures for approx. 15 mins between 3.15pm and 4.15pm

Regent Road East Bound - From River Irwell to Trinity Way

Trinity Way - From Regent Road to Water Street

Water Street - From Trinity Way to New Elm Road

Closures for approx. 30 mins between 3.15pm to 4.15pm

Watson Street - From Great Bridgwater to Peter Street

Route timings (predicted)

Market Street | Altrincham 11:45

Wilmslow 12:15

Hazel Grove 12:30

Stalybridge 13:00

Uppermill 13:14

Grains Bar 13:22

Rochdale 13:35

Ramsbottom Rake 13:59

Belmont 14:25

Aspull 14:45

Hindley 14:56

Atherton 15:00

Swinton 15:19

Salford 15:25

Deansgate | Manchester city centre 15:30

The route is marked with yellow advanced warning signs in the run up to the Tour of Britain. Organisers ask not to park along the route on race day.

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Tour of Britain 2024 Stages and Routes

The first details of the 20th edition of the modern race will be revealed in the coming weeks.

Following the cancellation of the 2021 edition owing to the death of Her Majesty The Queen, organisers SweetSpot will continue to work with the local authorities who were due to host stages to explore opportunities to host the race in the future.

One of the most highly anticipated professional cycling events in the United Kingdom is all set to kick off in the first week of September. The Tour of Britain is gearing up for its 2021 edition, which will also be the 14th edition since the reincarnation of the event with several changes in 2004. The cycling Tour of Britain route was unveiled back in February 2021 with the addition of a time trial stage. It now means that the Tour of Britain 2021 has nine stages compared to 8 in recent years. Even those eight Tour of Britain stages were a bump up from the five stages the event used to have in 2004.

The Surprising Route

Tour of Britain 2021 race director Mick Bennett unveiled the cycling Tour of Britain route in the hope of keeping up with the recent momentum of popularity gathered by the event. Several changes to the Tour of Britain stages over the last few years have made it more competitive and brought it to the levels of Tour de France or Vuelta a Espana. Attracting the best riders in the world to the United Kingdom is one of the sole objectives of this event.

George Square in Glasgow will form the location for the start of the 2021 edition. The nine Tour of Britain stages will see riders cover just over 1300 km from September 4 to September 11. This will certainly take its toll on the riders, but there is a consensus that the 2021 edition will be slightly easier than the 2015 edition. Furthermore, there is an opportunity for riders to make use of every Tour of Britain stage to prepare well for the upcoming World Championships in Qatar. This reason alone is expected to increase general interest amongst riders in the competition.

Tour of Britain 2021 – Challenging Parts

The upcoming competition brings a lot of aspects like challenging races and sprint finishes. These are aspects which will have a lot to do at the World Championships. Glasgow last played host to the start of the event back in 2008. It provides a sprint finish to the Castle Douglas since there is no prominent climbs along the way. Stage two goes through various sections of the enchanting Lake District, which may not offer anything out of the blue for experienced riders. The Lake District has been a standard fare of the Tour of Britain in recent years. Even though much of the route will be familiar, riders will have to be prepared for the climb from Ambleside towards the end of the stage.

Stage three at the Congleton marks the beginning of the tough stages. As expected, the stage four takes its toll since it is the longest. As the competition enters into the final stages, riders go through Wales and Bath before a time trial event near London. The final stage will be a replica of the final stage in 2015, which received a lot of rave reviews. Each stage is tough and this will be on the minds of punters when it comes to Tour of Britain bet online.

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Strade Bianche 2024: When is it? Who's riding? What's the route? How to watch on Eurosport and discovery+

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When is Strade Bianche 2024? Who's riding? What's the route? How to watch on Eurosport and discovery+. Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) and Demi Vollering (SD Worx) will be the defending champions in the 18th edition of the race in Italy. The men will compete over a 215km course and the women over 137km in a race that is sure to provide plenty of drama.

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Your Year With The Pros: A Guide to the 2024 Road Racing Season

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With "opening weekend" now past – and with standout performances from Visma–Lease a Bike, which won both Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne and the men’s and women’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad – the road season is now truly underway. Here’s our guide to some of the highlights of the year.

Our first favourite race of the year, the Strade Bianche, takes place on the 2nd of March. Its combination of beautiful Tuscan scenery, white gravel roads, and a super-steep finish on the via Santa Caterina have made this one-day race a "Monument in waiting," and it never disappoints. Tom Pidcock won the 2023 men’s edition; as for the Strade Bianche Women Elite , the last winner was the unstoppable Demi Vollering .

The very next day, Paris–Nice , the first big European stage race, kicks off, with notable climbs in the final days of La Colmiane ( KOM Winner Anacona ) and Auron .

The first real Monument, Milan–San Remo , follows on the 16th of March, and then the Tour of Flanders squeaks in on the 31st of March. Tadej Pogačar will defend his men’s title and world champion Lotte Kopecky her women’s.

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One of the hardest men’s early-season stage races, the Itzulia Basque Country , takes place from 1-6 of April, but April is really all about the northern one-day Classics. Perhaps the most famous – or infamous – Paris-Roubaix , takes place on April 7th. Fans will, as ever, be hoping for wet weather, and the mud bath that ensues. Riders, including Roubaix reigning champions Matthieu van der Poel and Alison Jackson , will be hoping to get around safely and, possibly, take a shot at a sporting legend.

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The sporting arena then moves away from the cobbles to the hills of the Ardennes classics, where seeing the riders of the Flèche Wallone and Flèche Wallone Féminine hit the "wall" of the punishing Mur de Huy summit finish is always a highlight. Then Liège-Bastogne-Liège crowns the spring Classics: Remco Evenepoel and Demi Vollering will be defending their titles here.

May is all about the men’s Giro d’Italia , where the prodigious Tadej Pogačar will be starting his quest for a historic Giro-Tour double. If he is to achieve this, he’ll have to come out on top over three weeks that feature 44,550m / 146,000 ft of climbing, and passes including the Stelvio (21km / 13 mi @ 7.4%) and the Passo Rolle (19.2km / 11.9 mi @ 4.8%). And on the penultimate stage, two ascents of the fearsome Monte Grappa , which climbs almost 1,500m / 1 mi at an average gradient of over 8%.

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In June, it’s good to see the Women’s Tour of Britain back on the schedule after not running in 2023. It promises a hilly start on June 4th in Wales, though the route has not yet been announced, and will run to a weekend finale on June 9th.

Later in the month, the Tour de Suisse takes place. This year sees the third women’s edition run alongside the men’s race, which is one of the traditional warm-ups for the Tour de France. The Critérium du Dauphiné is the other event where Tour de France contenders fine-tune their form. This year’s Stage 7 sees a particularly fine parcours taking in the classic HC Col des Saisies , Col des Aravis and Col de la Colombiere before a summit finish – expect a Tour de France-style alpine showdown!

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You can’t look beyond the Tour de France in men’s cycling in July. It’s the focus of the season for top racers and fans alike. We’ll bring you an in-depth route analysis closer to race day, but the literal high point will be the Cime de la Bonette . At 2,802m / 9,193 ft, it is the highest paved inter-valley road in Europe, on Stage 19.

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On the women’s side of things, the rebranded Giro d’Italia Women will run from 7-14 of July and take in 11,950m / 39,200 ft of climbing over those eight days. It gets progressively lumpier as the race progresses, with Stage 7 featuring the 20km- / 13 mi-plus climb of Blockhaus : with over 1,600m / 1 mi of ascent, this is one of the biggest climbs ever featured in women’s racing.

Traditionally a fallow month before the Vuelta a España, August is jam-packed this year, as it hosts the men’s and women’s Olympic road races (3rd and 4th of August). These head into the picturesque Chevreuse Valley to the southwest of Paris before returning to the city for a few short, sharp climbs, with the Côte de la Butte de Montmartre coming 9.5km / 6 mi before the finish in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.

Thanks to the Olympics, the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift has been delayed from its usual start in July and instead runs from 12-18 of August. It starts in Holland and finishes atop the iconic Alpe d’Huez , the first time it has raced the climb. Records are bound to fall, but who will take the QOM crown? For this – and the yellow jersey – Demi Vollering and her SD Worx team already look hard to beat.

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Finally, the men’s Vuelta a España starts on August 17th. Although a more relaxed affair for riders than the Tour de France, it is traditionally a hard race targeted by climbers. This year it features only one flat stage and no less than nine uphill or summit finishes, including the classic Lagos de Covadonga , where the KOM is held by Thibaut Pinot.

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The Vuelta finishes on September 8th, the same Sunday as the week-long men’s Tour of Britain (route yet to be announced), which is a traditional warm-up race for the men’s UCI World Championships road race. This will cap a week of world champ festivities, featuring track and women’s and para-cycling races too. It starts on September 21st in Zürich.

Aside from a few smaller stage races in China and the Tour of Turkey, the season finishes in Italy with Il Lombardia, where Tadej Pogačar may well try to make it four wins in a row.

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Tirreno-Adriatico 2024 live streams: How to watch the classic Italian stage race

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The 59th Tirreno-Adriatico starts Monday March 4th crossing the Apennine mountains to link the seas either side of Italy’s boot. Covering 945km with a time trial and two summit finishes, it will test the stage race credentials of all taking part not least those gearing up for bigger challenges such as the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia later in the year. 

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Travelling west to east, linking the Tirreno and Adriatico across the spine of Italy, this seven-day stage race runs concurrently with Paris-Nice and although some detractors say this spreads the peloton too thin, on the other hand it allows the big stars the chance to avoid each other as they build their form.

Starting in the resort of Lido de Camaiore, this year’s race kicks off with the traditional short time trial along the pan flat seafront where the locals will be hoping Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers) can grab the first leader’s jersey. Leaving Camaiore the race begins its passage eastwards with a flat sprint stage followed by a brace of lumpy stages before entering higher territory in the Appennines. Stages five and six both feature summit finishes with the later up Monte Petrano, a 10.1km, 8.1% climb destined to decide the winner, if it’s not already in the bag by then.

The overwhelming favourite to take victory is the two time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike). After his total domination of O Gran Camiño where he comfortably won all three stages it will take some effort to beat him but lining up for the challenge will be Adam Yates and Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates), Ben O’Connor (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Ben Healy (EF Education - EasyPost), Tao Geoghegan Hart (Lidl - Trek) and testing his stage race capabilities, Thomas Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers).

The weather in Lido de Camaiore is set for 12 degrees and cloudy so perfect for the short time trial which will open this yer's event. Coverage of stage one begins at 12.50 p.m. (GMT). Read on to see how you can catch the action wherever you live.

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Belgium's Sporza and Italy's Rai are set to serve up free streams of this seven day UCI World Tour event.

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Using a VPN is incredibly simple.

1. Install the VPN of your choice . As we've said, ExpressVPN is our favorite.

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How to watch 2024 Tirreno-Adriatico live streams in the U.S.

Cycling fans in the U.S. can watch the 2024 Tirreno-Adriatico on  FloBikes . A subscription will set you back US$149.99 for the year or US$29.99 on a monthly basis.

And if you're currently out of the U.S. but still want to watch the race, then don't forget to explore  the ExpressVPN option  set out above.

How to watch Tirreno-Adriatico 2024 live streams in the U.K.

Live coverage of Tirreno-Adriatico will be broadcast on Eurosport and Discovery+.

A 'standard' subscription to Discovery+ which includes Eurosport's cycling coverage will set you back £6.99 per month or £59.99 per year. The package includes year-round cycling streams as well as other live sports including snooker, tennis, motorsports, the Paris Olympic Games, and more.

A premium subscription, which includes all that plus TNT Sports ( Premier League , Champions League and Europa League football plus rugby, wrestling, UFC, and MotoGP) costs an additional £29.99 per month.

If you're currently traveling overseas, don't worry, as you can use ExpressVPN to watch from abroad.

How to watch Tirreno-Adriatico live streams in Canada

Cycling fans in the Canada can watch the 2024 Tirreno-Adriatico on  FloBikes . A subscription will set you back CAN$150 for the year or CAN$29.99 on a monthly basis.

Not at home right now? Use ExpressVPN or another VPN service to trick your device into thinking you're still in Canada.

Tirreno-Adriatico 2024 stages

Stage 1 | Monday, March 4 | Lido di Camaiore - Lido di Camaiore 10km (ITT)

Stage 2 | Tuesday, March 5 | Camaiore - Follonica 198km

Stage 3 | Wednesday, March 6 | Volterra - Gualdo Tadino 220km

Stage 4 | Thursday, March 7 | Arrone - Giulianova 207km

Stage 5 | Friday, March 8 | Torricella Sicura - Valle Castellana 146km

Stage 6 | Saturday, March 9 | Sassoferrato - Cagli (Monte Petrano) 180km

Stage 7 | Sunday, March 10 | San Benedetto del Tronto - San Benedetto del Tronto 154km

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Simon Warren has been obsessed with cycling since the summer of 1989 after watching Greg Lemond battle Laurent Fignon in the Tour de France. Although not having what it took to beat the best, he found his forte was racing up hills and so began his fascination with steep roads. This resulted in his 2010’s best-selling  100 Greatest Cycling Climbs , followed to date by 14 more guides to vertical pain. Covering the British Isles, Belgium, France, Italy and Spain he has been riding and racing up hills and mountains for over 30 years now. He hosts talks, guides rides, has written columns for magazines and in 2020 released his first book of cycling routes,  RIDE BRITAIN . Simon splits his time between working as a graphic designer and running  his 100 Climbs brand  and lives in Sheffield on the edge of the Peak District with his wife and two children.

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