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Mayomaniac

Mayomaniac

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-Be Mauro Vegni
-Giro has a problem with high altitude stages in mid May because of bad weather.
-Bernina Pass, the Rettenbachferner and the Kaunertaler Gletscherstraße, all climbs rather close to the Italian border, are kept open all year aroud.
-Never try to get local authorities to pay for a Giro stage with those climbs.
-Bad weather happens and of course you have no real plan B.
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OlavEH

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Mayomaniac said:
-Be Mauro Vegni
-Giro has a problem with high altitude stages in mid May because of bad weather.
-Bernina Pass, the Rettenbachferner and the Kaunertaler Gletscherstraße, all climbs rather close to the Italian border, are kept open all year aroud.
-Never try to get local authorities to pay for a Giro stage with those climbs.
-Bad weather happens and of course you have no real plan B.
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No plan B is the worst. And there also shitloads of climbs in Italy which makes it possible to create great stages without high altitude climbs. They don't need to make perhaps the 2 or 3 most important mountain stages dependent of climbs well above 2000 meters. And sometimes also over 2500 meters.
 
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pastronef

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OlavEH said:
No plan B is the worst. And there also shitloads of climbs in Italy which makes it possible to create great stages without high altitude climbs. They don't need to make perhaps the 2 or 3 most important mountain stages dependent of climbs well above 2000 meters. And sometimes also over 2500 meters.
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this is what has always baffled me. when you print the roadbook, you MUST add a Plan B, so that teams and riders already are aware of what comes in case of bad weather.
instead RCS waits for the evening before, or even 10 a.m. on the morning of the stage to wonder what to do. it's obvious the teams and riders will want to easiest way out of it, instead of riding in 1 degrees and seeking shelter inside tunnels ffs
 
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OlavEH

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pastronef said:
this is what has always baffled me. when you print the roadbook, you MUST add a Plan B, so that teams and riders already are aware of what comes in case of bad weather.
instead RCS waits for the evening before, or even 10 a.m. on the morning of the stage to wonder what to do. it's obvious the teams and riders will want to easiest way out of it, instead of riding in 1 degrees and seeking shelter inside tunnels ffs
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Yeah. Sometimes there might be no real plan B (unless going around and making most of stage flat). And if that is the case, they should rather drop that stage and do something else. Like a Gavia - Mortirolo - Aprica stage can be changed to Trivigno - Mortirolo - Aprica. While other high mountain stages might not have any feasible replacement options making the stage anywhere close to equally tough.

Edit: I'm willing to make one clear exception and that is Stelvio. I'm not sure if there is a clear alternative to this. But they should anyway put it in every 3-4 years.
 
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pastronef said:
this is what has always baffled me. when you print the roadbook, you MUST add a Plan B, so that teams and riders already are aware of what comes in case of bad weather.
instead RCS waits for the evening before, or even 10 a.m. on the morning of the stage to wonder what to do. it's obvious the teams and riders will want to easiest way out of it, instead of riding in 1 degrees and seeking shelter inside tunnels ffs
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