S10 Ep152: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 9: Linlithgow – Alloa
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The roll out is from the site of the West Lothian Cycle Circuit at Linlithgow. Lionel meets Matt Ball, one of the driving forces behind the creation of the circuit about how he hopes it will inspire generations of young cyclists and give riders of all abilities somewhere to meet, ride and race.
Then it's a short final stage via Falkirk, Stenhousemuir and Stirling before the last stretch to Alloa in time for kick-off and the pre-match specialty, a Scotch pie on a roll. Yes, you read that correctly – a pie in a bread roll.
The Tour d'Écosse resumes next time with the final run of stages taking Lionel and Simon all the way to Dingwall, home of Ross County.
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| 0:00.0 | The Scottish FA Cup 4th round, |
| 0:08.6 | preconciting nil, and the United 1. |
| 0:11.4 | Clied back against a Bernian as a late kickoff. |
| 0:14.6 | The D1, better back this one, won. |
| 0:17.8 | Happened academic, won. |
| 0:19.8 | Motherwell, two. |
| 0:21.7 | Hard of a low kickoff. |
| 0:23.2 | Back, back. |
| 0:25.2 | How you doing? |
| 0:26.4 | Pleasure to meet you. |
| 0:27.4 | Oh, elbow to elbow. |
| 0:28.7 | This is Sam, yeah. |
| 0:32.1 | We got in the Brumwagon and headed east out of Edinburgh to Lin-Lithgow, home of the |
| 0:36.7 | West Lothian cycle circuit. |
| 0:38.6 | There, we met one of the driving forces behind the circuit's creation before setting off |
| 0:43.2 | for stage 9 of the Tour de Coss. |
| 0:45.6 | The final one of this portion of the tour, which would take us a total of 55 kilometres |
| 0:50.1 | via Full Kirk, Stenhausmure and Sterling to Alloa, where we would watch Alloa Athletic |
| 0:55.2 | take on Clyde in Scottish League Division 1. |
| 0:58.6 | OK, I'm Matt Ball. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm a board member of the Lin-Lithgow Community Development Trust. |
| 1:02.9 | I'm also a founding member of West Lothian Clarian. |
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