Tour of Britain

This year has consigned me to becoming a professional arm chair cyclist. The few episodes I've had out on the bike have ended disastrously with a DNF or a chest cold. My training has mostly been competing in the Tour de France in front of the tele, followed by the Vueleta or the Tour of Britain. Stage 5 of the TOB finished in Stoke on Trent about an hour or so up the motorway and I thought I would head up and see it live, in the flesh. A great day out as I joined hundreds of other arm chair enthusiast, mostly overweight eccentric types wearing woolen team strips from the seventies or pushing an original steel framed 6speed Colnago. Avoiding getting flattened by the autograph hunters I did get a few good snap shots of the who's who. I think I could become a professional cycling photographer in the lines of Graham Watson , but I do need to work on my technique, it is embarrassing when Tony Martin of Team Columbia HTC points out that I need to take the lens cap off the front of the camera first