Recent content by Steven Roots

Juvasshyta : Great one. That will hurts. Norway is a really cool place. The shape of the country doesnt help for the races, though, but thats a good one right there, given that you selected a specific area. And that stage through 10 Voksenkollen...vicious. The Tour of Japan is really something...

STAGE 20 : Wuwei - Lanzhou, 280km. Third stage taking place entirely in China, we're now in Gansu. Its a province trapped between the tibetan plateau and the mongolian plateau. In this kind of circumstances, obviously, both cities were major parts of the Silk Road as they were on the only...

STAGE 19 : Xining - Xining, 232km. Xining is the capital of the Qinghai province, in China. A province very well known around here as its the theater of the most famous race in China, the Qinghai Lake Tour. We could have used the lake to do the stage, but realistically speaking, as we need...

Madeira isnt bad either for punishing mountain stages. Shymbulak is a nice idea, there is plenty of atrocious climbs south of Almaty. A shame that its not possible to do a loop or a circuit around those. STAGE 18 : Urumqi - Tourfan, 251km. Back in China, for good this time. Urumqi is the...

STAGE 17 : Bichkek - Kosmostantsia, 280km. Bichkek is the capital of Kyrgyzstan, right at the border with Kazakhstan, at the north of the country. Its a relatively recent city, as the kyrgyz used to be nomadic in their lifestyle, and it was named after Mikhail Frunze in soviet times. We'll...

I thought that Lausanne was much bigger, but i forgot once again that swiss are much better organized than others. STAGE 16 : Naryn - At-Bashi, 291 km. The longest stage of the race. And a difficult one, too. We move back in Kyrgyzstan, to the north of Kashgar. Naryn. We'll spend the day...

Did i won several mountain classifications on GT ?

I have an excuse, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and China is bound to give you awfully long stages. And the very next one is the longest...

Re: I like to turn around the pot , so, did he had ridiculously large shoulders and was he bald when he won his GT ?

Did i have ridiculously large shoulders and was i bald when i won my GT ?

STAGE 15 : Irkeshtam - Kashgar, 238km. As i'm not a sadistic guy, i promise, today is quieter. Irkeshtam is right on the border between Kyrgyzstan and China. But on the kyrgyz side. As there is, i believe, only two connecting roads between these countries, we didnt have many options. The...

Was that great achievement also done later by Jan Ullrich ?

Was the major achievement of my career done on swiss roads ?

Nice Tour w52. Im not sure that a MTT is the best way to end it, but, the route and the views are surely worth the trip. As said by Max Rockatansky, the bigger islands should be able to host a 3-4 days race...in March or so, the climate should be absolutely fine, and the schedule is relatively...

Thats funny, when i see that Vuelta (and others previously), i get the feeling that you can have an extra-hard full route with stages filled only with cat.2 climbs without needing to have 10 MTF... I indeed forgot to talk about the great uzbeks of the 80's. I already talked about Abdujaparov in...