2017 Worlds BERGEN, NORWAY, ITT ELITE Wednesday 20 Sept

[Maaaaaaaarten]

The climb is a dead end, but they could have gone up part of the climb and then descended back into town via another road. Half of this climb would still have been a good addition to the RR, imo.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Climb not too narrow for RR....great opportunity to divide the field up .....should be in RR

I think it's a dead end.

Could've been the finish, but than it would be a very closed race up until the last climb

 

[HelloDolly]

Re: Re:

Climb not too narrow for RR....great opportunity to divide the field up .....should be in RR

I think it's a dead end.

Even better :lol: :lol: :lol:

Lets see them deal with that ...

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Looking at De Plus, it's probably best to save a ton of energy in the flat bit and go full gas on the final climb and also note De Plus didn't do a bike change. Obviously the sample size so far is too small to determine what the best strategy is, but so far the best time seems to have a fairly particular strategy, i.e. saving energy for the final climb and no bike change.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Dumoulin didn't even say in the end if he was going to do the bike change. Could be that he doesn't after all

edit: that pakistani dude losing 4 minutes on the climb

 

[LaFlorecita]

This TT is too short for a World Championship

 

[klintE]

Re: Re:

Climb not too narrow for RR....great opportunity to divide the field up .....should be in RR

I think it's a dead end.

Even better :lol: :lol: :lol:
Lets see them deal with that ...

Sagan changes his bike to MTB and wins

 

[Eyeballs Out]

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Climb not too narrow for RR....great opportunity to divide the field up .....should be in RR

I think it's a dead end.

It doesn't look like a dead end on the map, it looks like you could carry on heading north and then connect back with the main circuit near it's NW point

 

[Popchu]

I fear the last contenders won't ride in the same weather conditions. Kelderman could benefit?

 

[Singer01]

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This TT is too short for a World Championship

yeah, i'm not bothered about the climb like some, but another 10-15km would have been correct to balance it.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Arndt going fast. Ofcourse a Sunweb rider..

 

[Gigs_98]

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Climb not too narrow for RR....great opportunity to divide the field up .....should be in RR

I think it's a dead end.

It doesn't look like a dead end on the map, it looks like you could carry on heading north and then connect back with the main circuit near it's NW point

Yeah I saw that too, but since there is no street view, the street is probably a rather narrow one and would be dangerous as a descent. Note, that if they would climb this from the other side, I'd argue that the side they climb today is too narrow as a descent as well.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Fantastic atmosphere on the hill

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Tratnik with the first 40km/h+ average ride.

I'm telling you, on a hard course like this, with low average speeds, differences are going to be as big as a 50km flat ITT

 

[StephenC2020]

Any chance Arndt or Tratnik could take this if the weather turns?

 

[Rachela]

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Winner not gonna average 40kph

aand here we go

 

[del1962]

Arndt lost a lot of time on climb, unsuprising though

 

[LaFlorecita]

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This TT is too short for a World Championship

yeah, i'm not bothered about the climb like some, but another 10-15km would have been correct to balance it.

IMO a worlds ITT should always be 1hr +
So an additional 10 or so flat km, or 6-7 hilly km, would have done the trick.

 

[Red Rick]

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Winner not gonna average 40kph

aand here we go

My brain is fried. I don't know how I got to that.

 

[Robert5091]

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Any chance Arndt or Tratnik could take this if the weather turns?

Nah, on this kind of distance/hardness it doesn't have such a large effect

 

[ontheroad]

Can't imagine that too many will change bikes given the little strip of red carpet lies on a cobbled section. Witness Lutsenko's disastrous bike changeover and how he struggled to get moving again afetr the bike change.

 

[wirral]

Latest weather suggests the rain will hold off.

 

[hayneplane]

Lampaert lighting up all the sectors, any chance he can get top 10 overall.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Lampaert lighting up all the sectors, any chance he can get top 10 overall.

Little with the climb at the end I think