Giro. Only one with a real fight for the GC victory. Only attacks from just about every GC rider. Action from a number of climbs out multiple times. Relative suprise winner. Dutch winner. Crap incedent. The emergence of Gaviria. Dumoulin almost losing it by missing the split. Lots happened. Best 2 week race this year
Giro. It's between the Giro and Vuelta for me. The Vuelta takes the cake for Spanish flat being not at all flat, and for using the Angliru. The Giro skipped it's most brutal climbs this year, but it still had the biggest and highest mountain stages. I take the Giro here, cause toward the end almost everyone was fading, and because the Vuelta did not have a true multi mountain roller coaster.
Giro. It was by far the most balanced route. I crapped a lot on the route when it came out, and I still believed it could've been a lot better, but it was also the only balanced route. It had a variety of finishing climbs, hardly depended on uphill finishes alone, and was quite diverse in the use of its mountain stages. The Asiago stage should've used another side of the Monte Grappa, but the finish was very interesting. 2 ITTs with this length worked well. The Tour was a thing I don't want to think about again. The Vuelta was pretty good for a Vuelta in recent years, but still depended too much on on the same sort of finishing climb and MTF's only. It lacked a true, true queen stage, and the queen stages overall were way too short. They did nicely on some of the medium mountain stages, though it turned out they not hard enough to make much happen (might as well blame Sky for that). Some more variety in mountain stages would have been nice.