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A little bit of cheer for British cycling: Emma Pooley just won a stage of the Giro Rosa, holding off Marianne Vos too, so a very good effort. Meanwhile I am hoping that G will now step up and nick a stage win for Sky. Won't be easy with their team now so short handed and trying to keep Porte...

Great to see those crowds on the TV coverage, maybe not quite Giro style hysteria but they did get a bit enthusiastic at times. Thankfully I didn't recognise any NSC cycling geeks running up the road in their mankinis getting in the faces of the peloton..............maybe that will happen on...

Yeah right, I'm sure the EOD have much better things to do than enforce parking in Saffron Walden - unless it has suddenly become a hotbed of terrorism. This is sleepy rural Suffolk, not Afghanistan or Syria. An assistant Commissaire might just stand by the offending vehicle, wave a warning...

Meanwhile I wonder how many punters will enjoy parking across your driveway to watch the TdF while you are away...........?

There are also a few dour stereotypical complainers whose views of the TdF in Yorkshire make Bry Nylon look like a rank amateur......:D Plus a few Geoffrey Boycott types happy to moan that 'my Granny could ride her bike faster ooop t'fells faster than that.....and didn't need no poncey soft...

The contrast is curious. Having just been in Yorkshire for a couple of days it is so evident they are doing their best to embrace the TdF. Virtually every community has created imaginative displays - including many not on the route. Further afield in adjoining counties the overhead traffic...