2015-Tour de Yorkshire (2.1)-1.05/3.05

[TMP402]

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Rosedale Chimey for HTF. Not in the Pennines but so what.

Looked up a youtube video. Looks pretty good. I'd have a day of hills like that. Not Yorkshire but the climb to Harlech castle is the steepest paved road in Britain I think with sections of 40%.

How many pros would be able to ride up that without dismounting though?

You may have hit upon something there.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Oh you mean Ffordd Penllech. Its only the hairpin inside that's 40%. The rest is only a meager 25%. Bwlch y Groes or Hellfire pass is probably the toughest.

Anyway, back on topic, your lay out sounds good. A hilly sprint stage to start with would be much better than the one to York that Moreno Hofland won.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

1) flattish stage around East Yorkshire
2) bumpy stage with cobbled hills around Keighley and Halifax
3) hilly stage with similar run-in to 2014 Tour stage to Sheffield
4) stage with the steep Moors climbs such as Sutton Bank, Newgate Bank, Blakey Bank, have a loop with RCB then back to Rosedale Abbey for Heygate Bank, Egton Cliff then descend to finish in Whitby.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

I wish they'd drop the francophone name. Cycling is not a French activity and the name makes them look like slack jawed hicks who have only heard of 1 bike race.

 

[Billie]

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I wish they'd drop the francophone name. Cycling is not a French activity and the name makes them look like slack jawed hicks who have only heard of 1 bike race.

The race is organised by ASO so doubt they'll change it.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

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I wish they'd drop the francophone name. Cycling is not a French activity and the name makes them look like slack jawed hicks who have only heard of 1 bike race.

The race is organised by ASO so doubt they'll change it.

Makes sense; a fitting partnership of 2 of the smuggest parts of the world.

 

[MartinGT]

Next years edition stage 3 looks a belter. Some TOUGH climbs there. Stage 1 has a beast of a climb in Greenhow Hill.

 

[postmanhat]

From cycling weekly

Date: Friday, April 29
Where: Beverley to Settle
Distance: 184km
Elevation: 1832m
Who does it suit? Sprinters’ stage, if a break can’t use one of the climbs to get away
Sprints: Bubworth, Threshfield, Giggleswick
KOM: Greenhow Hill

Date: Saturday, April 30
Where: Otley to Doncaster
Distance: 135.5km
Elevation: 1110m
Who does it suit? Sprinters’ stage, with a few small kicks towards the end
Sprints: Scholes, Warmsworth
KOMs: Harewood Bank, East Rigton, Conisbrough Castle

Women’s race: On the same course in the morning

Date: Sunday, May 1
Where: Middlesbrough to Scarborough
Distance: 196km
Elevation: 2593m climbing
Sprints: Thirsk, Whitby Abbey
KOMs: Sutton Bank, Blakey Ridge, Grosmont, Robin Hood’s Bay, Harwood Dale, Oliver’s Mount

Stage 3 has a few lung-openers Presumably, we can expect some wind up there?