Click below to hear us ringing the bells of Barnsley St Mary’s for the Tour de Yorkshire. Film and sound via a Facebook film by The Property Shop Barnsley.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/639887776093707/permalink/1698483803567427/

Polka dots versus Star Wars in between church bells for the womens and mens race. This is Barnsley Jim, but not as we know it.

https://bellsandbikes.com/tdy-18/

Rings bells. Enjoys sunshine. Gives a copy of my book to the 2016 TdY winner.

https://bellsandbikes.com/tdy-18/

How can churches easily have fun with their local community on Tour de Yorkshire race day? How about brews, loos and pews! Oh and, of course, some bells.

You will rarely have so many folk standing for hours outisde your lychgate, having a party, waiting for the race, doing selfies and always on the look out for a cuppa, a toilet and a lofty viewing point. Voila. Brews, loos and pews. You got it!

If you want to up the ante you could always hold an outdoor service too…..

Hot news! Check out the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire race route. *AND* the churches with bells within earshot of the route.

https://bellsandbikes.com/tdy-18/

#tdy #yorkshire #tourdeyorkshire #tdy2018 #cycling #wtdy #wtdy2018

Yorkshire saves the Universe.

As Jodie Whittaker become the thirteenth regeneration of Doctor Who, Sheffield Town Hall police box could make a bid to be the new TARDIS.

All this follows on from the early detection of Daleks in Yorkshire by @Mirf_Chris on Twitter. This yellow jerseyed Dalek was spotted extourminating bunting roadside at Le Tour de France Grand Depart in Yorkshire in 2014 #tdf #tdf2014 #tdy #tourdeyorkshire #sheffield #yorkshire #cycling

In July 2014, three million people thronged the roadsides of Yorkshire to welcome Le Tour de France to God’s Own County.  The sun shone, bands played and church bells rang.

Yorkshire was globally endorsed as the new home of world cycling and its churches took centre stage as landmarks in the TV commentary.  The story continues with the annual Tour de Yorkshire and the upcoming 2019 UCI Cycling World Championships.

Here, Rod Ismay, author of Bells & Bikes, picks 16 churches from the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire for you to visit and enjoy; all looking great from the saddle. Plenty of other churches on the route are listed on ExploreChurches, why not explore the map.

Click the photo below to enjoy the article on #ExploreChurches

http://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/explore-churches/tour-de-yorkshire-2017

Did you see those beautiful churches and their soaring towers dominating the TV footage of Le Tour de France and the Tour de Yorkshire? Did you see those massive yellow jerseys, giant bunting and painted bikes that folk adorned their towers with?

If so you’ll love “Tours de la Tour” on the Church Days website. If not, you’ll love it all the same.

Church Days welcomes visitors to the 16,000 Cathedral and Church buildings of the Church of England. Get on your bike and plan a ride around them. Click the photo below…

http://www.churchdays.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=37&Itemid=388

The Tour de Yorkshire gets better and better. And you can ride the route too!

Whether or not you are one of the thousands of folk riding the Sportive this weekend, you can make a holiday of it another time.

Click the link below to see the 2017 race routes on the official website. You can also explore previous years races there. Below it is a link to the Yorkshire map of the YHA (England & Wales), with handy accomodation in many memorable locations from the Tour de France 2014 and from subsequent Tours De Yorkshire. Go on, make your own cycle tour.

http://letour.yorkshire.com/2017

http://www.yha.org.uk/places-to-stay/yorkshire

Do send us a photo of your bike on the race route. And a church. And bells!

Click here for the official timings for the Mens and Womens races on the Tour de Yorkshire website.

http://letour.yorkshire.com/timings