ASO set to sign deal for new Yorkshire race

It was pointed out during today’s event in Harrogate marking 100 days until the Tour de France's Grand Départ begins in Leeds on 5 July, that Welcome To Yorkshire chief executive Gary Verity always pulls some kind of rabbit out of his hat at such moments, and Verity didn’t disappoint a packed auditorium at the Harrogate Conference Centre.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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