Allowed and no allowed routes in pro road cycling.

[Taxus4a]

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Scheldeprijs

Ok, thanks, I read forst time S... s and it is the same that the race we talk here, so I was confused.
I didnt Know a lot about that race, except this is the race where Boonen give the victory to Cavendish for a mistake in the sprint.

Maybe this 2 races is Antwerpen are the most unknow for me of the traditional races of cycling.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Re: Re:

Scheldeprijs

Ok, thanks, I read forst time S... s and it is the same that the race we talk here, so I was confused.
I didnt Know a lot about that race, except this is the race where Boonen give the victory to Cavendish for a mistake in the sprint.

Maybe this 2 races is Antwerpen are the most unknow for me of the traditional races of cycling.

We do not speak of the S**********s.

Schaal Sels is a traditional bike race near Antwerp with cobbles and a tricky rouleur's course.
The S**********s is a traditional invocation and ritual involving bikes conducted by Belgian satanists.

 

[WheelofGear]

Do the red dirt roads of Australian have a special name? I'd love to see the peloton ride on some of those.

It should be mandatory for Tour Down Under to feature at least one stage with red dirt roads (in the lack of a better name) every year.

 

[Taxus4a]

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Do the red dirt roads of Australian have a special name? I'd love to see the peloton ride on some of those.

It should be mandatory for Tour Down Under to feature at least one stage with red dirt roads (in the lack of a better name) every year.

There is no epecial problem in that to organice, wide road and nice surface, it is just an sportive isue to do it, but usually teams dont want more risk in a non historic race.

It would be nice.

 

[Taxus4a]

Another really narrow road in Colombian championship 2016 in Tunja:

https://www.google.com/maps/@5.5358852,-73.3599904,3a,75y,201.53h,69.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sjrKzeMZy3IQLgbkKZwiEEA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DjrKzeMZy3IQLgbkKZwiEEA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D78.055519%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656

 

[VO2 Max]

The answer to the question is really another question: "what can you justify as safe via a risk assessment?"

That mud track may be fine after a few week's of baking hot weather, but a little bit of rain and it's hopeless, especially for the guys near the back. There are a few sections of well-packed sandy beach near here which you could comfortably run a secteur of a road race on when the weather's appropriate - could be a lot of fun scrapping for the right line through the sand with the types of wind we get, but if it rains on the night before your race you can forget it. Again, in terms of getting cars through - the question is, can you justify that it can be done safely?

 

[42x16ss]

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Do the red dirt roads of Australian have a special name? I'd love to see the peloton ride on some of those.

It should be mandatory for Tour Down Under to feature at least one stage with red dirt roads (in the lack of a better name) every year.

There is no epecial problem in that to organice, wide road and nice surface, it is just an sportive isue to do it, but usually teams dont want more risk in a non historic race.

It would be nice.

The problem is, roads like that are in the middle of nowhere, are often dead straight for over 100kms, have corrugated surfaces, are subject to wind, trucks, snakes, kangaroos, buffalo etc, the heat can kill, neutral water trucks would be needed, there would be no crowds or anywhere for teams to stay at the end of stages.

Shame, because if it was done properly it would be great.