Rate the 2011 tour de france route (new thread)

[auscyclefan94]

RATE the 2011 (yes, next year) Tour de France (yes that race in july) Route out of 10.

Also you can make a comment on this thread if you like! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!


It is really that easy and straightforward. You click on the icon next to the number of what you have rated the route out of 10!!!!


If you like I will send you a PM with a well done sticker if you achieve to follow each of these steps!

Good Luck!!

 

[Marcus135]

4/10 the course is growing on me if ACF goes at this rate maybe i will be able to rate it everyday all the way till July

(can i have one of them stickers? )

 

[Moncoutie]

7. Its growing on me, Im getting to quite like it.

 

[Moondance]

Still 7 out of 10 for me.

Seriously though people, was the last one really that hard to understand?

 

[Anonymous]

Still 7 out of 10 for me.

Seriously though people, was the last one really that hard to understand?

To be fair it was.

"rate the epic fail" implied that you were rating how badly it sucked. Simply "rate the tour" was obvious, 10 is good, 1 is bad, but "rate the fail" implies that you are rating its failure so 10 is complete failure, 1 is no failure.

My wife has an english degree (shes a teacher) and she said it was unclear and very poor english. If one of her students had made it she would have made them re-do it. And she teaches 13-16 year olds!

 

[S2Sturges]

7. Its growing on me, Im getting to quite like it.

Yeah ,but the Passage Du Gois is a made for television carnage just like the last time the riders went over it, the first 15 were fine, everyone else in contention lost the Tour that day.. I rated it at 6 simply because of that stupidity..

 

[Roland Rat]

After this can we rate ACF's attempt at the "rate the fail/rate the tour" threads please?

 

[sublimit]

After this can we rate ACF's attempt at the "rate the fail/rate the tour" threads please?

His previous poll 2 out of ten because it was unclear, current/ latest 7 out 10 and a big improvement. Though the fonts were erratic so i have penalized him for that

The Tour route - 7 out of 10. I'd like to have seen a mountain ITT. The last stage looks very long for a crit but thats nitpicking I suppose.

 

[trompe le monde]

After this can we rate ACF's attempt at the "rate the fail/rate the tour" threads please?

You know, some countries give a rating system for schools in that earning a 1 means best in class whereas a 10 would mean cement-filled dunderhead or something to that effect. In some Eastern European countries earning a '1' is still considered the best grade you can get.

So there is still a bit of ambiguity involved, as I'm not entirely sure where the standard lies.

As for the poll, I vote a pragmatic five as I'm not entirely sure what a 10 means.

 

[Jan the Man]

4/10

Same old same old.

 

[Winterfold]

If one of her students had made it she would have made them re-do it. And she teaches 13-16 year olds!

Then I think it is a bit unfair to hold ACF to such a high standard.

I am impressed that a colonial education system can educate 8 year olds to the point where they can do a reasonable impression of 12 year olds.

 

[Ferminal]

6.5.. rounded up to 7.

Of course that is the route, the racing determines whether the end result is a 2 or a 9.

I like the Gilbert finishes in the first week, breaks the sprinting monotony up. But I think twelve days is too far to go before a truly decisive GC stage. I am relatively indifferent towards the TT situation, kind of happy for a TTT because it's just a short bit of fun with rather no impact (again, preferred to a sprint stage).

But it's very difficult to give it a high score, this is the minimum I would expect from the Tour (compared to 2008/2009/2010), it's good, without being outstanding. It still appears too conservative, too formulaic, there's nothing which makes you go "Wow".

 

[ttrider]

Was going to give 7/8 then saw the rumoured giro route...... this pales into insignificance to that monster!

 

[Diabollorider]

In my opinion, it will the best tour de France since 10 years if Alberto Contador do this tour 2011.

 

[Archibald]

My wife has an english degree (shes a teacher) and she said it was unclear and very poor english. If one of her students had made it she would have made them re-do it. And she teaches 13-16 year olds!

is this why he wished us "Good Luck"?

 

[staubsauger]

tour de who???

oh well you mean this bicycle tour in france that still believes it's better than il giro?

poor baguettes it ain't so, zomegnan beat you again.

 

[The Hitch]

The route is good but we have to remember that they are supposed to be celebrating thew centinery of the alps, so they are supposed to have more alpine climbs then usual. Baring this in mind im a tad dissapointed.

My biggest worry is that after the celebration of the Pyranees and the ALps they will go back to crap routes with 1 hc (within 50k of a finish) in the whole tour.

As for the polls, while i made room (as always )for ACFs mistake and figured out what he actually wanted was a grade out of 10 for the tour route, "rate the epic fail" does imply that you are rating how big a failure the Tour is.

Seeing as i understood both polls i would like 2 stickers. Real ones. A image in a PM does not count as a sticker.

 

[JA.Tri]

6/10

TTT is ok as long as route is safe. Hope for a fun fast blast with little effect on overall GC.
Wish there was more ITT.
Mountains should be fun/carnage but BUT race seems to place too much weight on hill climbing.

As has been previously noted on this and other threads the racing will to a large extent depend on the racers.

 

[Descender]

2/10

41km of ITT in the Tour de France?? Are you kidding me????

And what an "homage" to the Alps they did... Alpe d'Huez stage only 109km long??? meh, meh and more meh!

 

[Moondance]

To be fair it was.

"rate the epic fail" implied that you were rating how badly it sucked. Simply "rate the tour" was obvious, 10 is good, 1 is bad, but "rate the fail" implies that you are rating its failure so 10 is complete failure, 1 is no failure.

My wife has an english degree (shes a teacher) and she said it was unclear and very poor english. If one of her students had made it she would have made them re-do it. And she teaches 13-16 year olds!

D'uh! It was Australian.

BTW, it would've been obvious what the rating system was once you'd seen ACF vote 2 on his own poll.

 

[The Hitch]

2/10

41km of ITT in the Tour de France?? Are you kidding me????

And what an "homage" to the Alps they did... Alpe d'Huez stage only 109km long??? meh, meh and more meh!

Whats the difference? theres 3 mountains in that stage. Comes after 2 and a half weeks of riding. If you had an extra 100 km in there they would just soft peddle it anyway.

It will be a stage i want to watch from the start.

 

[Henrik]

8/10

More mountaintop finishes and cobbles needed for a better score.

 

[Parrulo]

i give it 6. but the moment the giro route is revealed this will become a -10. cus if the rumours from the giro are right. . . o god o god liquid awesomeness is on our way.

 

[Mellow Velo]

6/10, or there abouts.
Looks to me as if Prudhomme is determined to load all of the key GC stages into the very back end of the race, in order to build to an exciting finale.
However, in doing this, the danger of having no serious mountain stage until almost the start of week 3, is evident.
Unless one of those uphill finishes in week one and the Massif Central stages in week two exceed expectations, for a lot of folks, the dullfest damage will be irreparable, before the contenders have even entered the fray.

However, he does seem to have got things right, in terms of a scenic route, avoiding the terminally endless plains of North Eastern France, in favour of Brittany and the central hills.

 

[Descender]

Whats the difference? theres 3 mountains in that stage. Comes after 2 and a half weeks of riding. If you had an extra 100 km in there they would just soft peddle it anyway.

It will be a stage i want to watch from the start.

The difference is, Alpe d'Huez after 100km is not the same as Alpe d'Huez after 200km. Riders will be much fresher and differences will be smaller. Especially considering that climb is not particularly long or challenging.