The opening leg will start and finish in Lincoln, before heading to the coast for the second stage between Boston and Skegness.<\/p>\n
The race then moves to Hull, before heading into the Wolds for the finish in Beverley, East Yorkshire. <\/p>\n
North Yorkshire then hosts stage four, starting in Helmsley and finishing in Leyburn.<\/p>\n
The final stage will see the peloton heading north over the border into Scotland, with a new start and finish location in the market town of Earlston for the first time in the event’s history.<\/p>\n
Day added: “We are delighted to be bringing the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men to these fantastic locations.<\/p>\n
“Taking the Tour to Lincoln for the first time, a city synonymous with its love for cycling, will be special for the opening stage of the men’s race.”<\/p>\n
He added that Lincoln was known for hosting the annual Lincoln Grand Prix, which is the country’s longest\u2011running and biggest single-day road race and features a 656ft (200m) climb up the cobbles of Michaelgate towards the city’s cathedral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening leg will start and finish in Lincoln, before heading to the coast for the second stage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}