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I plan to to go on a one week bike tour in south Europe. I will stay one night each place, and bike around 100km a day between the locations. How would you do it with booking? I can go and book every day on booking.com or something, but will then need to do some research on every single hostel...

Re: Those 30 mins break are not important. What I was thinking was to have "sub stages" within a "day stage" and then the time is stopped on each checkpoint. Each rider can take up to 30 minutes break. I tried this with some friends, just as a 1-day race, and I think it was a cool format. If...

I would like 2-300km stages with 2 to 3 checkpoints in between - good to have some checkpoints to see the exact time difference between the riders. There could also be a 30 mins break on each checkpoint where the organazier could sell drinks and food. At night the riders could camp with tent on...

Transscotland looks cool, but not exactly what I wanted. I want more to go on "vacation" for 2-3-4 weeks with daily stages of 200 - 300 km, maybe some rest days in between. So then I have to set it up myself. It should be easy to arrange checkpoint races? Does it require police allowance if...

Re: But no competition on any of those "races"? That's boring...

Checkpoint races like Transcontinental Race are cool and fun. But ultra cycling is a bit too extreme for some of us. I wouldn't find it fun to sleep for just a few hours and face risks of theft or decreased trafic safety as a result of lack of sleep... Are there any checkpoint race with normal...

Not second, but second last stage, so 20th stage in years without prolog.

Re: Yeah, I think that's the reason why the TTs are so short - they favorize French riders. And that's why we need a standard, for example always 100 - 105 km ITT as the second last stage. The rule about max 80 (or 60) km can just be changed to 105 km.

The 20th stage of TdF this year was quite boring. When the distance is only 22K the affect on the GC is minimal. Also, most riders care only for the time limit, meaning there is less than an hour with actual action. Only 36K of TT in total is also way too low - only mountain stages decide the...

I think this should be tried out in a one-day race first, and then maybe a small tour, where the GC is based on points instead of time. I don't think this would change the whole concept of stage racing. It would actually be similar as today except that - There are more intermediate sprints and...

Hey cycling fans! Unfortunately some of the cycle races (or stages) are quite boring, for example the sprint stages the first week of the tour de France. This has been discussed early on this forum. The ideas were basically to short down the stages or add more climbs. Shortening down the stages...