Another business that certainly benefited from the 2014 race is the Bank View Café in Langsett.
The red spotty walls became synonymous with the whole event and proved an inspired choice by Pete Sparks, who took over the café 20 years ago.
“I thought it needed to look smart, so I stood back admiring my freshly painted white café and it just dawned on me,” Sparks remembers.
“It took me about a week. I just used the dustbin lid. It was surprisingly easy.
“The media were casting around for building up the story, and it made the perfect backdrop for a lot of different stories about the tour.”
Twelve years on, on a warm summer’s afternoon, every table in the “picnic garden” round the back of the café is full of walkers and cyclists tucking into teacakes and full breakfasts.
According to Sparks, the breakfast of choice for “super-fit cyclists” is actually a plate of “poached eggs and beans”.
Sparks says that financially the café saw a 20% jump in turnover following the original visit by the Tour, and that has been “sustained”.
“It’s turned this area into a tourist destination, which is fantastic for local businesses, and it has a knock-on effect, really, because local hospitality supports local food suppliers,” he says.
Sparks says that although the 2027 route will not take the peloton directly past the café, it will pass only a couple of miles away and there will still be a “party atmosphere”.
“I think we’ll end up being like a starting base for people viewing it, so hopefully we’ll get lots of families walking or cycling from Langsett out into the hills,” he explains.
“We’ll certainly be open extended hours around the event. There’ll be a party atmosphere going on, we’ll have the race on the big screen in the café – and there might be one or two surprises up my sleeve.”