Recent content by JReed27

I quite often give the organisations a bit of a pass because you don't know how difficult it is to negotiate with local governments and what deals they have with certain towns. This route however, would be easy to have better stages with the same start and finish towns for most of the major...

I'd expect Montgenevre - Lautaret with a few hills south of grenoble before the finish (best option would be to go via the Col Du Luitel or Chamrousse) The other option would be Mont Cenis - Grand Cucheron which could be followed with a flat run to grenoble or use the same hills as the Dauphine...

It wasn't long ago that I quite liked the rumoured route but with every update it looks worse and worse lol

Tempogrinding climbs can be good for racing if everyone is tired and there race has split into lots of small groups, but for that you need a hard stage to tire riders and a hard climb to split the riders up. This proposal would have the only steep climb as the first of the day so it would most...

there is nothing like that on the route. While I don't like every stage they at least give riders and teams options. I'd rather this than a route that is just variations of difficult mtfs where there is virtually no room for interesting tactics

The obvious solution to 90% of the problems the giro faces is to switch its calender position with the vuelta so they don't have to make the race easier to accomodate for top GC riders focussing on the tour and they can use high elevation climbs that are usually snowed off. This will never...

100% agree, a climb needs to be properly steep and hard to force action far from the finish, a climb like grappa is hard and could lead to early action but if the group are so minded they could easily go over the top in a group of 20 like we saw with Passo Giau in 2023. Even Coll de Pradell...

In general I agree, recent editions that have underwhelmed have done so partially because the GC has been too close meaning the first 2 weeks are spent waiting for the last week and the last week is spent trying to hold position rather than make up time. Obviously MTFs do a good job at opening...

Pradaccio is nothing more than a publicity stunt that will only serve to dissapoint fans on what would normally be a fine medium mountain stage. Grappa stage looks really bad especially as it would supposedly be replacing a stage around cortina which would probably be a lot better, even with...

How about Trobaniello then Farrapona from the east

It is definitely better than recent years but its a long way from the 2015 and 2016 routes. For me stages 15,16, and 17 look like big missed opportunities compared to earlier rumours. If they were able to have Giau, Druscie as originally planned along with a proper mortirolo stage then this...

tbh they are both getting there information from the same articles as far as I can tell and just taking their own creative liberties on the exact route, I'd probably have more confidence in La Flamme Rouge purely because they said that the Bormio stage would be 150km when everyone thought it was...

I worry that the Aosta stage is too similar to the Finestre stage and anyone who wants to try something will just wait until the finestre and an intresting combo of climbs will be wasted. Also San Valentino looks very similar to grand colombier which isn't usually the best climb for a summit...

It's not looking quite as good as I had hoped from some rumours but it's not bad. I don't think we will know what side of the mortirolo they are using until they route presentation but based on everything else I think it will be the easier side as they like to have 1 medium mountain stage for...

A few intersting things from this post Stage 15: Descending the north side of Grappa which leads to a slighlty longer (although hillier) valley road before an easy final climb compared to the 2017 finish. Only benefit would be that the run in after the final climb looks a bit more interesting...