We get to see the front of pro racing and sometimes the
big names going off the back when they’re picked out by the TV cameras.
But rarely do we see the battle at the back; riders who
suffer mechanicals fighting hard to get back on and other groups trying to do
the same.
When it’s raining, the roads are flooded, the crowds are
deep on the sides of the roads and the cavalcade cars are packed tight in dodgy
conditions it’s even more dramatic.
Irishman Sean McNicholl recorded some of that action
yesterday on a sodden stage 1 into Selby at the Tour de Yorkshire.
He’s working as one of the directeurs, under Matt Cronshaw,
with Ribble Pro Cycling, one of the UK Continental teams in the British race.
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Ribble had line-ups in both Kerry Group Rás Mumhan and
the Tour of the North in Ireland over the Easter weekend. Indeed, the riders
featured in the clips below were riding those races.
In the first video Zeb Kyffin and Jacob Tipper are
fighting to get back on, and they make it.
Tipper had just punctured before a climb, with Kyffin
giving him his wheel and then getting a bike change himself before they battled
to regain contact.
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Tipper won the opening stage in the Tour of the North and Kyffin won the stage 2 TT.
In the second video below Scott Auld is getting back on
after he and a load of other riders, including Chris Froome, stopped for a nature
break.
The team had a rider in the breakaway, Dan
Bigham, while all this action was going on off the back.
Bigham was 2nd on stage 2 of Kerry Group Rás Mumhan at Easter and won the climbers’ jersey.
While he was caught on the finishing straight yesterday, just getting swamped by the front of the peloton, he took 14th and the most aggressive rider jersey
Zeb Kyffin and Jack Tipper - who rode the Tour of the North the weekend before last - get back on after a mechanical.
Scott Auld makes his way back to the Tour de Yorkshire peloton; a lot of riders coming and going at the back.
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