scouser i live on an island, its bloody windy ere every day!! and twa the Hinault ride was kept a little low key over here, although i knew he was coming i only found out when after he'd gone, BUT interesting stuff about Jersey being recced bout a tour start, i always thought a prologue was a bloody good idea as we have a perfect road for it which was used for the prologue of the tour de bretagne ealier this year, which was brought here with poss a look into the possibilities of the tour coming here too. then it would be a short hop of several miles over to st malo for stage 1. as for Jersey staging a full stage as mentioned in the rag, i doubt it, its only 45 miles around jersey, and althougfh it would be a tough hilly race, ithink the none cycling fraternity would seriously struggle to accept any road closures. i'll keep this forum posted on any local news.