http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Tour de France 2027 en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:34:14 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711&page=2#post-383991 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:12:13 +0000 chdot 383991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/midlothian-pupils-launch-official-poster-competition-for-tour-de-france-grand-depart-7961500" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/midlothian-pupils-launch-official-poster-competition-for-tour-de-france-grand-depart-7961500</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711&page=2#post-382909 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:31:22 +0000 gembo 382909@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Brompton in pals motor might be the way - i have feeling trains busy that day? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711&page=2#post-382907 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:04:52 +0000 Arellcat 382907@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Anyone got any good ideas re seeing the start in Edinburgh then getting to Melrose before the cavalcade or at least the peloton?</em></p> <p>I think you could, but depends on timing.</p> <p>Edinburgh to Tweedbank is 47 miles, so a TdF rider might cover that in a couple of hours. Assuming a typical Grand Depart time of something in the early afternoon, say 1300, then after watching the start you could rush to Waverley for the train. You have trains every half an hour, and it takes near enough one hour on the train to get to Tweedbank. If you took the 1343 train for example you could be in Tweedbank by 1442. Maybe allow 5 minutes either side for contingency of getting a bike on and off the train and fighting through crowds.</p> <p>Melrose is only 1.5 miles down the road from Tweedbank, and slightly downhill, so probably 10 minutes' ride.</p> <p>So depending on the start time and how long you spend watching, and how far you are from Waverley, and how soon the train leaves, you might just make it.</p> <p>Or watch the depart, then unfold your Brompton and race a few blocks to someone with a car and belt down the A68 and park somewhere in or near Melrose. Leaderfoot viaduct parking (for example) comes up in about 1 hour 10 minutes but might be full of other TdF fans; Newtown St Boswells in about 1h20. Unfold, dash, spectate. Again, you might just have time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711&page=2#post-382888 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:20:01 +0000 bakky 382888@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo now yer sur-ron yer way! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711&page=2#post-382887 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:25:31 +0000 gembo 382887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bakky - not as fast as the peloton. Perhaps i could. Speak to the boys in the balaclavas and get a delimited e bike </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711&page=2#post-382886 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:34:09 +0000 bakky 382886@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo depends - how fast are you on a bike? ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-382885 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:09:56 +0000 gembo 382885@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyone got any good ideas re seeing the start in Edinburgh then getting to Melrose before the cavalcade or at least the peloton? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-382867 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:48:38 +0000 amir 382867@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A road near to me is currently being resurfaced, apparently due to the TdF. It is sad that the roads are considered too dangerous for professional cyclists but the standard is fine for everyday cyclists. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-382836 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:37:55 +0000 gembo 382836@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like my comment was so very hilarious they have posed it Ha ha </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-382831 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:56:18 +0000 gembo 382831@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Innerleithen seems to have a few Nimby roasters. I tried to post on their facebook forum that you can turn up early and get a sweetie chucked at you from cavalcade to cheer up yer moaning pusses. This was declined as need to be a member of the group for 24 hours before posting. All their roads will get fixed what is wrong with the hurdies? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-382828 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:13:47 +0000 chdot 382828@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/ws/800/cpsprodpb/2813/live/ce913230-f221-11f0-b5f7-49f0357294ff.jpg.webp "></p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8x9544qr14o.amp" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8x9544qr14o.amp</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-382824 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:19:05 +0000 chdot 382824@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/15/tour-de-france-reveals-the-six-uk-stage-plans-for-historic-2027-grands-departs" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/15/tour-de-france-reveals-the-six-uk-stage-plans-for-historic-2027-grands-departs</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-382475 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:41:14 +0000 chdot 382475@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The cost of bringing the Tour de France to Scotland has soared after the Scottish Government revealed it will be spending up to £9.25m on the event.</p> <p>Ministers have finally revealed an official figure for the first time months after controversy flared over the level of secrecy surrounding a £1.7m bill for taxpayers in Edinburgh.</p> <p>Council officials had previously insisted that the government would be underwriting “all costs” over and above the council’s contribution to the world's best-known cycling event.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://archive.ph/2025.12.15-142559/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25698716.scottish-government-reveals-tour-de-france-spending-plans/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/2025.12.15-142559/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25698716.scottish-government-reveals-tour-de-france-spending-plans/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-381443 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:25:16 +0000 neddie 381443@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>Finance and Resources Committee agreed that the money should be spent in line with the Council’s commitments and aims with regard to net zero...</blockquote></p> <p>The same Tour de France that is sponsored by the fossil fuel industry and comes with a large entourage of cars, helicopters, contestants and spectators being flown in and out ... that Tour de France?</p> <p>How can they possibly be claiming this is in line with "net zero*"?</p> <p>*whatever that means </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-381442 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:17:05 +0000 neddie 381442@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>officers will hold an open ‘town hall’ meeting in late autumn with active travel, schools, cycling and community organisations to share more information on the opportunities afforded from hosting the Grand Départ.</p> <p>This will be a call for ideas and initiatives to make best use of the Tour de France being in Edinburgh and to provide a lasting legacy for the city</blockquote></p> <p>Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-381441 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:09:17 +0000 neddie 381441@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From the report above:</p> <p><blockquote>Major events such as the Tour de France allow activation and amplification of a range of active lifestyle and policy agendas, including active travel; increased participation by women in cycling; promotion and increased use of active travel<br /> infrastructure projects in the city</blockquote></p> <p>I thought it had been debunked that "cycling as sport" produced any increase in active travel take-up in the long-term ??? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-381439 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:18:51 +0000 neddie 381439@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If this wasn't cycling-related, the headline would have been:</p> <p>"Tour de France expected to bring more than £131million in economic benefits to Edinburgh"</p> <p><a href="https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s88945/8.2%20-%202027%20Tour%20de%20France%20Grand%20Depart%20-%20Update%20Report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s88945/8.2%20-%202027%20Tour%20de%20France%20Grand%20Depart%20-%20Update%20Report.pdf</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-381437 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:58:31 +0000 chdot 381437@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The 'total cost' of bringing the Tour de France to Edinburgh has been revealed for the first time — but the full scale of public funding required to support the 2027 event remains unclear. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://archive.ph/2025.10.04-152853/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25515289.total-cost-tour-de-france-edinburgh-revealed-3-3m/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/2025.10.04-152853/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25515289.total-cost-tour-de-france-edinburgh-revealed-3-3m/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-381132 Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:30:26 +0000 chdot 381132@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Edinburgh councillors have agreed to set aside £1.7m to cover costs of hosting the start of the men's Tour de France 2027. </p> <p>Funding to host the opening stage of the world's most famous cycling race will come from income from the city's visitor levy </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04qnn44y47o?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04qnn44y47o?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-380998 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:28:06 +0000 SRD 380998@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo I missed your genuflection on Friday</p> <p>@chdot wahoo! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-380989 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:13:44 +0000 chdot 380989@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://archive.ph/2025.09.03-141043/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25438282.scottish-government-underwrite-city-tour-de-france-bill/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/2025.09.03-141043/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25438282.scottish-government-underwrite-city-tour-de-france-bill/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-380397 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:20:17 +0000 gembo 380397@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thought i had our league won from Wout’s stellar effort. Given we were all too cool to pick Pog. But there is always a weird factor in the final total So All Hail King Zog </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-380391 Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:38:45 +0000 SRD 380391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@mga we have lots of stage ideas. </p> <p>How about a time trial finishing up the royal mile? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-380387 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:53:22 +0000 chdot 380387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>She is hopeful, though, if not optimistic, that by the time 2027 comes around, her legacy to British cycling will be properly acknowledged. “If you are going to mention my previous existence you’re going to have to mention who I am now,” she said. “I haven’t disappeared, and I haven’t died. I am not a refugee from who I was before.” </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jun/16/when-i-stopped-racing-i-thought-who-am-i-pippa-york-on-leaving-her-old-life-behind" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jun/16/when-i-stopped-racing-i-thought-who-am-i-pippa-york-on-leaving-her-old-life-behind</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-380208 Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:53:04 +0000 mga 380208@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think it will end up with just one stage in Scotland. Either a time trial or stage starting and ending in Edinburgh. The 2nd and 3rd stages are to be in England and Wales.</p> <p>Central Edinburgh doesn't seem ideal for a sprint finish. Melville Drive perhaps would be suitable. Trams tracks would seem to rule out Princes Street. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-380202 Sat, 05 Jul 2025 11:22:07 +0000 chdot 380202@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>This week he was forced to admit it was “inappropriate” but felt a positive informal discussion with political group leaders in October was enough to proceed. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://archive.ph/SWYgq" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/SWYgq</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-380072 Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:01:55 +0000 chdot 380072@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>“But when a decision needed to be made we needed the resources set aside hence the process that we went through. I now regret and feel we should have either come to culture and communities [committee] before that or this committee [...] but the decision signing on the dotted line, no officer has made such a decision because we haven’t set the resources aside to do so.”</p> <p>He added: “We should have used committee as a place to get that formal commitment. But I think because I felt there was broad cross-party support we could get on with it, set the money aside and come back and talk about the event in detail.” </p> <p>Officers said they hoped the £1.7m could eventually be covered by income from the city’s upcoming visitor levy, or ‘tourist tax’, as they expect the event to generate extra revenue. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://archive.ph/vIOH7" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/vIOH7</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-379117 Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:27:46 +0000 chdot 379117@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Haven’t seen any other maps</p> <p><img src="https://dqh479dn9vg99.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/03/GRAND-DEPART-uk-v2-scaled.webp "></p> <p><a href="https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/our-perfect-british-grand-depart" rel="nofollow">https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/our-perfect-british-grand-depart</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-379031 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:02:22 +0000 neddie 379031@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can we turn this around so that we get the council to actually build some active travel infra, as a precondition/legacy to the race? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21711#post-379030 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:17:04 +0000 Yodhrin 379030@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well I'm in a bad mood and I feel like sharing so: there goes the active travel budget for the next couple of years gents, got to make sure the route is nice and pretty for the cameras. </p>