2020 World Championships - now confirmed for Imola, Italy.

[Mayomaniac]

Turns out nuking PdBF is not enough.

Now I want it to disappear into a black hole instead.

I dont mind the usual one (without the additional ramp they did last year) as a first week MTF, but it has become an overused climb.

 

[Gigs_98]

 

[gregrowlerson]

How about that climb right outside the window? Climb, descent, hilltop

 

[Red Rick]

*** hell I'm actually most people considered that hill a success, they were talking about it for weeks and then the disappointment of the race lasted all of 30 minutes.

Didn't the u23s do a faster Igls climb than the elites?

 

[Red Rick]

Seriously if we are to get a WCRR with a mountain finish, then just go all in on the novelty and actually use a climb that's so hard it hasn't made the GTs so we don't have to wait for the final ascent of a climb we've already seen too many times.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Turns out nuking PdBF is not enough.

Now I want it to disappear into a black hole instead.

Hey, Red Rick: Do you know the Hitler Rants Parodies? I reckon you could put together a great one for the revelation of this years TDF route. They even bring a map out in the scene, and so you (aka Hitler) are sort of giving the route the all clear as it goes along....until it gets to stage 20. When you explode!! We could get references to Thomas in there, and Porte. *** would just write itself!

 

[Red Rick]

Hey, Red Rick: Do you know the Hitler Rants Parodies? I reckon you could put together a great one for the revelation of this years TDF route. They even bring a map out in the scene, and so you (aka Hitler) are sort of giving the route the all clear as it goes along....until it gets to stage 20. When you explode!! We could get references to Thomas in there, and Porte. *** would just write itself!

"Führer. The final ITT.....

The final ITT finishes on La PLanche de Belles Filles"

 

[gregrowlerson]

"Führer. The final ITT.....

The final ITT finishes on La PLanche de Belles Filles"

Removes glasses....

 

[gregrowlerson]

Hitler (on Pinot's likeability): "I like him, and he's French!"

 

[Gigs_98]

Removes glasses....

...Es bleiben im Raum Libertine Seguros, Mayomaniac, Netserk und Tonton

 

[Climbing]

You have to be *** kidding me...

 

[Red Rick]

Okay what are the odds that the WC ITT, originally planned on the final day of the Tour, is in fact a carbon copy of the Tour ITT, just one day later

 

[Gigs_98]

On another note, I only just realized the RR is on the typical San Sebastian spot a week after the end of the tour. Considering that race usually favors the guys coming from the tour I really wouldn't be surprised if we get a rider who wins both the yellow and the rainbow jersey in one season.

 

[Red Rick]

On another note, I only just realized the RR is on the typical San Sebastian spot a week after the end of the tour. Considering that race usually favors the guys coming from the tour I really wouldn't be surprised if we get a rider who wins both the yellow and the rainbow jersey in one season.

They're doing their best effort to top Gilberts 2011 as the most overrated season of all time. It will be so hard for me to rate it as a WC lol.

 

[gregrowlerson]

I've got a good idea for LS playing the Fuhrer in a rant scene.

"With the need to cut costs in light of covid 19, the stage 20 individual time trial to Planche de Belle Fillies has had to be changed."

"There just isn't enough money left to have a car for each rider."

Hitler: "Good. I hate that climb. Just so long as they are not transferring for a finish on the Tourmalet."

"Mein fuhrer...."

"The stage will stay where it is, and it will...."

"It will become a team time trial. Eight riders for every car...."

 

[Asero831]

On another note, I only just realized the RR is on the typical San Sebastian spot a week after the end of the tour. Considering that race usually favors the guys coming from the tour I really wouldn't be surprised if we get a rider who wins both the yellow and the rainbow jersey in one season.

Nah, not happening. The Tour winner has plenty of commitments and TV appearance and it will hinder his preparation and focus

 

[TomLPC]

Seriously if we are to get a WCRR with a mountain finish, then just go all in on the novelty and actually use a climb that's so hard it hasn't made the GTs so we don't have to wait for the final ascent of a climb we've already seen too many times.

Now you're talking.

 

[Pantani_lives]

Sallanches is just a speculation based on one photo on social media, with Hinault winning there forty years ago. It might be great if it's there, in the East French Alps, but we'll have to wait two more days to find out.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Now you're talking.

Looks well worth catching a sexually transmitted disease from.

 

[tobydawq]

They're doing their best effort to top Gilberts 2011 as the most overrated season of all time. It will be so hard for me to rate it as a WC lol.

Oh, come on, you're usually more nuanced than that. He won Strade, Brabantse Pijl, Amstel, FW, LBL, San Sebastián and GP de Montréal in a single season and the first stage of the Tour, yet you only see "lol, just one monument and no Worlds".

He was insane.

 

[Red Rick]

Oh, come on, you're usually more nuanced than that. He won Strade, Brabantse Pijl, Amstel, FW, LBL, San Sebastián and GP de Montréal in a single season and the first stage of the Tour, yet you only see "lol, just one monument and no Worlds".

He was insane.

Which isn't all that much for a season that gets shoehorned into the discussions about the greatest seasons of all times. I think it's overrated not because it wasn't great, but because I think it's propped up to be much more than it was.

 

[Kaptain Kool]

The GP Plouay course might be ideal for the Worlds for a change. There's hardly been any racing there in over 3 days.

 

[tobydawq]

Which isn't all that much for a season that gets shoehorned into the discussions about the greatest seasons of all times. I think it's overrated not because it wasn't great, but because I think it's propped up to be much more than it was.

Yes, it is much.

 

[jaylew]

A mountaintop finish is long overdue considering all the ones we get that end in bunch sprints.

 

[tobydawq]

No.