Extending Tour de Yorkshire by another day a ‘no-brainer’ according to Gary Verity

We could follow the Dunkirk method and call it '3 days in Yorkshire' but actually make it four hoping BC wouldn't notice.

Or beat the Giro to the punch and have a Grand Depart in Japan (or failing that Norwich).

Ultimatly though, whilst I understand Gary's argument, I'd like to understand how we ensure we keep going for ten years and don't fizzle out in three.  Would going four days make ASO more likely to stay onboard, or just stretch council funding too far and so become unsustainable?

Next year we need a "t'grand depart " of TdY in Wigan to help introduce Lancashire to what their missing!

Come on BC, give us four days!! Us Yorkshire folk may even warm up to Lancastrians in that time, but maybe not Londoners...

I love the ToB, but it's very spread out. I only ever see one stage. The massive advantage of the TdY is that you can go to Yorkshire and watch all the stages. I bet the teams appreciate the shorter transition time too.

The thing is about British Cycling is that thy have protected the TOB for years, and one of the reasons that the TDY is now so popular is simply that the TOB ought to be renamed the Tour of the North West...finishing near Stoke!

I cannot recall the last time it ever had any real presence in Yorkshire, hence the TDY was conceived and is in my opinion now more popular than the TOB.

British Cycling must look at the crowds around Yorks for both runnings and realise the massive error they have made by neglecting the region for so long, but then again everything at BC appears to be clouded in some kind of secret fog in the last 3 or 4 years, so the flawed decision making re TOB route/s comes as no surprise does it

Not 100% convinced about the numbers (both punters & pounds), but surely British Cycling will grudgingly give us that fourth day - Thursday or BH Monday, though? - they need all the friends they can get right now, don't they?

I would love to see a stage with far more climbing in it with more of the steep stinger hills like Sutton bank in it to get riders thinking carefully about their gearing. It was interesting to watch some of them having to mash their gears hard up Sutton bank and a few more climbs like it could have thrown a few more tactical curve balls at the peleton. For example, in close proximity, there's Boltby bank, Hawnby, Rievaulx, Bransdale and the infamous Rosedale chimney that are not only scenic spots but also vicious gradients that would make you think about your rear cog. I know some of the roads are on the narrow side but it would be great viewing.
PS don't tell everyone but some of those roads see very little traffic and are great places to ride

I watched it, it was fantastic. Quite why it's worth going to watch a bike race for 10 minutes  I don't quite understand but it's great. The crowds are huge but spread over such a huge distance that you can get as close as you like and everyone really enjoys it.

Special kudos for the Tractor Rally (which has been running for many years) which came through Hutton-le-Hole as an unofficial sort of warm up act 

Why not 4 days? and why can't the women have a 4 day race too? Wouldn't that make it a rare race for them? It seems stupid that to get an equal bike race, women have to do triathlon.

Come on British Cycling, just admit Tour de Yorkshire is better than Tour of Britain and give TdY more support.  Give us one more day.