1. Bring back time bonuses!!! Up to 30 seconds for the winner and maybe down to 5th place finisher.
2. Variety in stage distances sounds good. A couple 250+ and a couple 130-, like the Alp stage this year.
3. More ITT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In almost every TDF there should be at least 2 of these, and one should usually be a MTT, or at least be hilly. I think that there could be up to 5 TT's, but this wouldn't be as good for the television audience I guess.
4. 3 days each in the Pyrenees and Alps as the standard, but sometimes one may only have 2 or one may have 4 (in an extra special edition!).
5. I do not see a need for more high mountain stages (or MTF's). But there could be more than just the one or two medium mountain stages that they tend to have.
6. Include Mende every 2-3 years.
7. Include cobbles every 2-3 years, but don't make it as selective as 2010, so less than 7 sections of cobbles on the stage.
8. Have a TTT in week one of most years, but usually have it as less than 30 kms. It should never be more than half the amount of the ITT kms (as it most definitely was in '09).
9. Include the Venteoux about every 3 years, but have it towards the end of week 1, not at the end of TDF like in '09.
10. Bring back the Glandon (only used once, but a beast at 11.5 kms, 9.2%), Ju-Plaix and Romme.
11. Don't back end the TDF so much.
12. The TDF is not the Giro - and doesn't have to try to be. Mix up the MTF's and other significant climbs. For example, 3 of the classic finishing climbs are the Alp du'ez, Pladadet, Platteu De Beille - most editions should have 1 of these climbs. There should be one big climb followed by a descent to the finish - so Ju'plaix, Madelleine (epic in 2010), Romme-Columbierre. At least one MTF can be a long climb that is not as steep, such as Courchavel or Latessoire (the Landis crack). Another can be a shorter climb such as Ax-Domaines, Verbier, Arcallis, etc.