42x16ss said:Just for sh!ts and giggles I'd like to see the Vuelta go to a late March start, Giro starting in late May with the biggest classics (northern classics and Ardennes) taking the Tour's spot, then put the Tour in the Vuelta's September slot
That way everyone gets to see the best races (the classics ) and the Tour gets a stacked field, with everyone that's had a poor season so far going to the Tour hungry.
Do you want to kill the classics too? What makes Ronde and Roubaix (to not talk of the Ardennes) more beautiful is the uncertainty of the weather, the cold, the rain, etc. I'm dreaming for years of a Roubaix in the rain, and if in April we don't get that since 2002 imagine if it was in summer (ok, this year in Le Tour we got rain, but that was once in a lifetime shot).