Arctic Race of Norway 2022 (August 11-14)

[Samu Cuenca]

Do they need the swords to chop up Martin Salmon?

Or was that the Tour of Norway?

That's this race.

 

[gerundium]

Yes the talk has been a TT.
I have never been up there but i guess some kind of criterium stage should be possible too?
Could bring back the old classic of stage 1a and stage 1b in the same day, which modern cycling seems to have abandoned?

i don't think this is allowed anymore in current UCI rules

 

[Mayomaniac]

i don't think this is allowed anymore in current UCI rules

You are allowed to do it, at least in smaller races.
You can't have half stages in gts anymore.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

You are allowed to do it, at least in smaller races.
You can't have half stages in gts anymore.

Half stages are only forbidden for WT races, so they could make it happen. It‘s pretty bad for TV audiences though.

 

[ice&fire]

Yes the talk has been a TT.
I have never been up there but i guess some kind of criterium stage should be possible too?
Could bring back the old classic of stage 1a and stage 1b in the same day, which modern cycling seems to have abandoned?

There are two hills with antennas at the top. They can use Unipublic's guide to stage design!

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

It seems odd that this:

i don't think this is allowed anymore in current UCI rules

Is a reply to this:

Could bring back the old classic of stage 1a and stage 1b in the same day?

rather than this:

Do they need the swords to chop up Martin Salmon?

 

[OlavEH]

The last stage in Trondheim is nice. The climbs are in the same part of the city where I lived for over 8 years until last September, and passes only a few hundred meters from where I worked. And have included a couple of short but very steep hills.

First Brubakken, only about 150 m, but 15+ % climb with the steepest ramp over 20 %.
Then Blussvollbakken, 400m of 11-12 % but it gradually gets steeper. And it's a 90 degree turn just before entering the hill.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Time to sticky this thread I think

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Conditions are miserable, 12 degrees, strong winds and rain

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Conditions are miserable, 12 degrees, strong winds and rain

iconic view

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Yep, not great weather today, at least the chopper is up I guess

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Culverwell probably getting less sympathetic support today, riding as GB, than he had on Sunday riding under a Guernsey flag.

 

[RedheadDane]

Can someone send that rain a bit south?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Zingle wins by multiple bike lengths

 

[RedheadDane]

A Zingle attack in the finale took the win.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

He might not have a partner, but he had a lot of power in that weird sprint.

 

[Lequack]

Pogacar wished for this weather in the Tour.

 

[Samamba]

Zingle didn't have the most impressive result in the youth categories (he was good, just not wow), but he's having an amazing season.

 

[yaco]

It was a deceptively hard and technical final - A stagiare in Gleb Syrista from Astana finished 2nd. A strange final.

 

[Scarponi]

Flying to Stockholm and Helsinki next week from Australia. Is this miserable weather normal even i summer for this part of the world haha

 

[Põhja Konn]

Flying to Stockholm and Helsinki next week from Australia. Is this miserable weather normal even i summer for this part of the world haha

It is completely normal to have that kind of summer weather around at least the northern Baltic Sea area. However, that doesn't mean it is a prevalent weather every summer . Although at least shorter periods of that type of weather do occur in every summer. I live about 200k south of Helsinki and here it only takes the wind to turn into "right" direction - usually northwest - for daily max temperatures to plummet below 20C. Specially in early summer when the Arctic hasn't yet warmed up and the air flowing from there is freezing cold. In July and early August the cooling effect of the Arctic is not that dramatic, but when circumstances play out in a suitable way, a prolonged period of around 15 C summer weather with cold winds, cloudy skies and drizzling cold rain is entirely possible even in July.

This summer has been much better than that though. And currently forecasts show 30C heat here early next week, but I haven't checked if that reaches the northern shore of the gulf too.

 

[tobydawq]

Can someone send that rain a bit south?

No thanks. Finally we get a bit of summer.

 

[RedheadDane]

No thanks. Finally we get a bit of summer.

We already had a +30 degree heatwave!
And at least that was while I was on vacation, so I could stay indoors. Now I have to go outside.

 

[Ludwigzgz]

Conditions are miserable, 12 degrees, strong winds and rain

Miserable???

Please, send us these "miserable conditions" to Spain
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