Stage 2
From the Lake District to Liverpool
- Saturday 3 July 2027
- 224 km
- 2,518 m climbed
The route as announced. It can still change before the start, and the story is told here once it has been ridden.
The road
Before the race
From the Lake District to Liverpool
Keswick sends the race south out of the Lake District, and the middle of the day is a run of short climbs: Jubilee Tower, the Trough of Bowland and Waddington Fell, 3.4 kilometres at 6.4%, all inside twenty-five kilometres, then Belmont. The Côte de Parbold tops out forty kilometres from Liverpool, and from there the road is close to flat: a sprinters' finish at the end of a day built to tire them.
Open this stage on the globe
The route on real terrain — and the GPX to ride it before the race does.