Do elite bike races like the Tour of Britain benefit Sheffield?
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00:00Yeah, absolutely. It brings a lot of the cyclist community together, it also encourages active travel and sort of boosting people's fitness and things like that.
00:11So yeah, I definitely think it's worth it.
00:13Did you notice an improvement like that after the Tour de France in 2014?
00:19Absolutely, yeah. When it came through Sheffield there was such a massive buzz about the place and there's obviously then people that travelled over to Harrogate to watch Stage 2 as well.
00:30So I just think it was just great for the county, great for the country as well and great for Sheffield.
00:37I think Sheffield has quite a good tradition of cycling. There's a lot of people, a lot of stars that come from this area or Yorkshire and Sheffield.
00:48So I think it helps to promote that, it helps promote the kind of world of cycling.
00:54I know the Tour of Britain has gone down over the last few years hasn't it, not as big as it was.
01:00But I think to promote cycling, especially just everywhere, it's really useful.