Best use would have the finish at Méribel, so doing Loze 1½ times.Courchevel sometimes does so it'll be a short downhill
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Best use would have the finish at Méribel, so doing Loze 1½ times.Courchevel sometimes does so it'll be a short downhill
Risoul, Verbier and Prato Nevoso? Are you good my man? Those are just your pretty unspectacular cat 1 MTFsBest Giro climb Risoul
Best Tour climbs Verbier and Prato Neviso
Best vuelta climbs Collada de Beixalis and Aubisque
I think he was trying to be cute with foreign climbs.Risoul, Verbier and Prato Nevoso? Are you good my man? Those are just your pretty unspectacular cat 1 MTFs
Risoul, Verbier and Prato Nevoso? Are you good my man? Those are just your pretty unspectacular cat 1 MTFs
He missed Arcalis for the Tour.Oh I didnt even realize that....
Best climb in the race forshureHe missed Arcalis for the Tour.
Surprised with 0 votes for Mont Ventoux, most legendary climb in cycling.
Cyclists don't f*ck with the Ventoux. Simpson died there, the GOAT was given oxygen at the top and even the new Cannibal almost cracked there this year.
What is nice about the lower slopes? I take it you mean the forest section?The Ventoux is only nice in the lower slopes, the top is just ugly. I know many people have a thing for this "moonlike landscape" and I think on the German cycling website radsport-news it was recently voted the best cycling climb, but I think it's ugly and depressing.
I think the obvious patchiness of the road surface is best.What is nice about the lower slopes? I take it you mean the forest section?
Don't let Bavarianrider see this.I think the obvious patchiness of the road surface is best.
The one thing I hate about Ventoux is that it's always in Tours with 2 or more ITTs/TTsDon't let Bavarianrider see this.
When it comes to looks the Giau is not that great, the side from Cortina is a lot better, but still not in the same league as Valzarego/Valparola, Sella or Fedaia.My favourite is Alpe d'Huez. Couldn't name any other.
Only looking at beauty, though, my top 10 will be made entirely of Dolomite climbs.
I believe they did in 1967 Giro, but from an easier side: ( link to Eshnar's Giro below )By the way did the Giro ever finish all the way on top of Blockhaus?
Wasn't one of Mercx's first big wins a giro stage finishing at the real Blockhaus. I might be mixing up things but I think that was the story behind one of the stage finishes from Eshnars 100th anniversary Giro for the race design challenge.By the way did the Giro ever finish all the way on top of Blockhaus?
1967 and 1968, was supposed also in 2009 but then they finished at the Majelletta, just like in every other occasion bar 2006 where they finished at Passo Lanciano, citing the risk of avalanches/presence of too much snow at the top.By the way did the Giro ever finish all the way on top of Blockhaus?
I fully expected those 3 to dominate and Italian clibms in general to dominate.Not much love for Zoncolan here and it was probably as assumed that Finestre, Stelvio and Mortirolo tops the poll. In addition Italy dominates in both the poll and the number of climbs mentioned in the thread (the four mentioned above, Gavia, Fauniera, Giau, Fedaia, Sella, etc).
Who pays for Angliru? Keep in mind Angliru is 15 minutes from Oviedo, the capital of Asturias, every year the Government of Asturias pays 200,000 euros for 2 stages in Asturias in that central area where the majority of the population (and voters) is concentrated,Yeah fondness and potential get a bit convoluted I guess, but this is about favorites.
I guess for some climbs it does make sense when you have to find people to pay for a finish but then I wonder who the hell pays when finishing on the Angliru or Gamoniteiru .
I think very much the same thing wrt passes vs MTFs, and it annoys me to no end that race organisers seem to do 95% of their novelties by just finding "new" MTFs.