2021 Giro Route Rumours

[Gigs_98]

Barring the sterrato stage and perhaps Cortina d'Ampezzo, that is a loooot of "okay" stages.

To be fair though, a lot of okay stages can be better than a few great ones. Especially if the great ones mostly come down to the last climb anyway. Also it's easy to ignore the problems when the high is this f*cking high. Just look at it

How can something so lifeless look so sexy?

 

[fbjim]

I want 2010 levels of rain on the Montalcino stage and Vegni to have a gun in case someone tries a rider protest.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

To be fair though, a lot of okay stages can be better than a few great ones. Especially if the great ones mostly come down to the last climb anyway. Also it's easy to ignore the problems when the high is this f*cking high. Just look at it

How can something so lifeless look so sexy?

Lachlan Morton has had to switch underpants a few times already.

 

[Gigs_98]

I want 2010 levels of rain on the Montalcino stage and Vegni to have a gun in case someone tries a rider protest.

The latest giro route reveal shall be combined with the earliest start of the annual CN Forum rain dance.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Sagan will never win Strade Bianche but will win in Montalcino.

 

[Red Rick]

Sagan will never win Strade Bianche but will win in Montalcino.

Nibali to win 5 minutes on that stage, only to finish 5 minutes down anyway cause he truly got old as ***

 

[sir fly]

I'd put another tt instead of one of the pancakes to the Adriatic.
Looks demanding.

 

[Bavarianrider]

What an utter piece of ***. GT cycling is finally dead. I am out. That is it. Congrats to all of you who advocated for this. You won, You have destroyed what we loved. Thank you and goodbye. This is the end. The curtain has fallen.

 

[Red Rick]

What an utter piece of ***. GT cycling is finally dead. I am out. That is it. Congrats to all of you who advocated for this. You won, You have destroyed what we loved. Thank you and goodbye.

That's not how you treat Fedaia (FEDAIAAAAA!!!!)

 

[Red Rick]

To be fair though, a lot of okay stages can be better than a few great ones. Especially if the great ones mostly come down to the last climb anyway. Also it's easy to ignore the problems when the high is this f*cking high. Just look at it

How can something so lifeless look so sexy?

I'm just not the biggest fan of throwing all eggs on one stage that can be incredibly variable in outcomes, and the sad thing about this stage is if someone loses 5 minutes there's also no real great places to go crazy in subsequent mountain stages.

 

[Mayomaniac]

It has to be said that RCS had a really hard time finding towns willing to host the start or the finish of a stage because of the Covid related economic situation, so I'm actually willing to cut them some slack this one time.

 

[Red Rick]

Yeah I could never top that Bavarian

 

[Brullnux]

A lot of uphill finishes is my main takeaway. It's like a very good Vuelta route. Seems with the economic issues RCS have gone for guaranteed (if limited) entertainment

 

[ice&fire]

Yeah I could never top that Bavarian

He'll be back when the 2022 routes are announced

 

[Red Rick]

He'll be back when the 2022 routes are announced

@Descender does it better

 

[roundabout]

It has to be said that RCS had a really hard time finding towns willing to host the start or the finish of a stage because of the Covid related economic situation, so I'm actually willing to cut them some slack this one time.

Grado - Gorizia ITT and switch places of that stage with the stage to Zoncolan so from Sunday to Saturday.

Still obviously far from perfect, but seems like the easiest way to add an ITT working with the same start and finish locations.

 

[Rollthedice]

Nibali to win 5 minutes on that stage, only to finish 5 minutes down anyway cause he truly got old as ***

Hello, Goodbye Pink Mud

upload photo and get url

 

[Escarabajo]

Tappone time:

The final mountain stage is also nice, not super great, but still good:

That's it for me. Especially stage 16. This stage has me salivating. Why can't we have something like stage 16 at the Tour? riders will be gasping for oxygen that day!!!

 

[Escarabajo]

seem like shorter stages than usual (purely from the distances in the presentation without checking the total)

Anyway

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Canale
Sestola
Montalcino
Bagno
Cortina
Sega di Ala
Alpe Motta

More indifferent about other stages

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Cortina
Cortina
Cortina
Sterrato
Sterrato
Sterrato
San Bernardino

 

[Netserk]

Hmm. Somewhat lackluster mountain stages with a bonanza of uphill finishes. But nothing terrible (all things considered). For Giro standards, about average if not just below that. Montalcino and the overall pacing is good though.

EDIT: Okay, there are two good mountain stages, and they went with the best options there (but Tre Cime would have been great). Another ITT or longer first stage would have been nice. Even just a 24 km opening ITT would have made a difference.

 

[Escarabajo]

Zoncolan is basically just going to be an attritional climb that makes attacks impractical at the best of times, I'm just glad they're getting it out of the way before the more classic mountain stages in the last week.

Actually Zoncolan from this side is better than from the other side. I have seen Zoncolan being raced from the otherside several times and at the end the result are seconds and barely minutes. I prefer lower gradients with longer kilometers IMHO.

Monte Zoncolan

Sutrio > Monte Zoncolan: 12.63 Km - High mountain

www.la-flamme-rouge.eu

 

[Mayomaniac]

Grado - Gorizia ITT and switch places of that stage with the stage to Zoncolan so from Sunday to Saturday.

Still obviously far from perfect, but seems like the easiest way to add an ITT working with the same start and finish locations.

Yeah, that would work out really well, I'd have zero complains with that one.

 

[topcat]

Fine route. No moaning lads.

 

[Carols]

What an utter piece of ***. GT cycling is finally dead. I am out. That is it. Congrats to all of you who advocated for this. You won, You have destroyed what we loved. Thank you and goodbye. This is the end. The curtain has fallen.

Goodbye!!!!

 

[Escarabajo]

That's a very lackluster third weekend. Route looks fine otherwise, albeit not particularly special and a bit low on TT mileage.

The third weekend is the seconds hardest stage and the TT.