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Aug 29, 2010
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Seriously, WTF is this???

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Aug 29, 2010
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airstream said:
Hm, in the book Tyler described that stage as the hardest he rode. There's nothing special at the profile.

I'm hugely dissappointed in the Pyrenees. ASO had to do MTF on really classic long ascent, PdB, Tourmalet or Hautaca. This idiotic traditionally uneventful Ax-3 is a ridicule. The rest part is ok.

Plateau de Beille classic? It was first used in 1998 and it's never proven to be a great climb...
 
Mar 24, 2011
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Descender said:
Seriously, WTF is this???

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It's a masterpiece. The worst possible way to design a stage from Annecy to Semnoz, really.
Gotta admit Proudhomme knows perfectly how to f*ck up a route.
 
Aug 29, 2010
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That Semnoz stage is mind-boggling... seldom has a single stage been so bad on so many different levels. It is by far the worst mountain stage of the TdF, the shortest, and it is the last one. It will probably **** up the LGB stage the day before, which, while improvable, gives the riders chances to create havoc. Having Semnoz the following day they probably will refrain...

I can't seem to be able to find the profiles. Anybody care to help me?
 
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Descender said:
That Semnoz stage is mind-boggling... seldom has a single stage been so bad on so many different levels. It is by far the worst mountain stage of the TdF, the shortest, and it is the last one. It will probably **** up the LGB stage the day before, which, while improvable, gives the riders chances to create havoc. Having Semnoz the following day they probably will refrain...

I can't seem to be able to find the profiles. Anybody care to help me?
profiles of what?
On the site there are only those of the mountain stages.
 
Aug 29, 2010
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Eshnar said:
profiles of what?
On the site there are only those of the mountain stages.

Profiles of dog's noses. :D

So they're still not uploading the profiles of all stages at the presentation... meh.
 
Dec 27, 2010
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Can we give a week's ban to anyone who gives this route 10/10? Just so they learn their lesson?
 
Mar 24, 2011
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Descender said:
Profiles of dog's noses. :D

So they're still not uploading the profiles of all stages at the presentation... meh.
After all they're Le Tour. Why should they bother? The average fanboy doesn't watch profiles anyway.
 
Jun 7, 2010
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Eshnar said:
It's a masterpiece. The worst possible way to design a stage from Annecy to Semnoz, really.
Gotta admit Proudhomme knows perfectly how to f*ck up a route.

I don't know. It's difficult to design a stage to the difficult side of Semnoz without a lot of flat before.
 
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roundabout said:
I don't know. It's difficult to design a stage to the difficult side of Semnoz without a lot of flat before.

I don't think so. You can easily make a hard stage reducing the flat kms before the last ascent simply by climbing it several times, a là Alpe d'Huez.

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Apr 30, 2011
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Descender said:
I don't think so. You can easily make a hard stage reducing the flat kms before the last ascent simply by climbing it several times, a là Alpe d'Huez.

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Have I seen something similar before? :p

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Descender said:
I don't think so. You can easily make a hard stage reducing the flat kms before the last ascent simply by climbing it several times, a là Alpe d'Huez.

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Well, technically in this suggested route the distance from the top of the penultimate climb to the bottom of the last climb is longer than the corresponding distance in the actual stage...
 
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Netserk said:
Have I seen something similar before? :p

Similar, but not the same. ;) That's not the hardest side, the one they're using and the one roundabout was referring to.
 
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Magnus said:
Well, technically in this suggested route the distance from the top of the penultimate climb to the bottom of the last climb is longer than the corresponding distance in the actual stage...

That was not the issue at hand.
 
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Descender said:
I don't think so. You can easily make a hard stage reducing the flat kms before the last ascent simply by climbing it several times, a là Alpe d'Huez.

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Hehe. That's really creative.

But that's probably the only option.
 
Oct 11, 2010
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2x up Alpe d'huez is a straight up gimmick. I had really hoped it was just a vicious rumor. Dumb dumb dumb.
 
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I like it. Coming from the south, it's probably the best way to ensure that there's at least a chance that it won't be 70+ people in the main group starting the last climb
 
Apr 16, 2009
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Are the posters who rated this Tour as very bad the only ones posting? LOL. Look at the scores. Is not the best but is not as bad as it sounds.
 

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