The worst of race profiles

[Samu Cuenca]

I've just seen this profile for the first stage of the RideLondon Classique. Looks like a dream course for Purito with all these walls.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

I've just seen this profile for the first stage of the RideLondon Classique. Looks like a dream course for Purito with all these walls.

With walls like that in his home town to train on, i'm surprised Alex Dowsett hasn't been challenging up the Mur de Huy!


This looks like some tough 10+ km climb until you look down at the numbers along the bottom and realise it's only 1,1km long!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1529803643330908160

View: https://twitter.com/TourDeJose/status/1529803643330908160?s=20&t=HcMlrasKoHKYVf_zjiCo7Q

 

[Samu Cuenca]

With walls like that in his home town to train on, i'm surprised Alex Dowsett hasn't been challenging up the Mur de Huy!


This looks like some tough 10+ km climb until you look down at the numbers along the bottom and realise it's only 1,1km long!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1529803643330908160

View: https://twitter.com/TourDeJose/status/1529803643330908160?s=20&t=HcMlrasKoHKYVf_zjiCo7Q

Though sometimes it can make sense to break down a climb like that if it's quite irregular.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Reading José's tweet in conjunction with looking at the profile probably helps with that confusion too.

 

[Izzyeviel]

I've just seen this profile for the first stage of the RideLondon Classique. Looks like a dream course for Purito with all these walls.

The really sad thing is that when they had the mens course, they were only a few hundred metres away from using a 25% climb - Nightingale lane in Richmond

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The really sad thing is that when they had the mens course, they were only a few hundred metres away from using a 25% climb - Nightingale lane in Richmond

The Women's Tour this year literally rides past the base of one of the only steep climbs in East Anglia - twice.

 

[Mosul]

I like the way this Giro Valle d'Aosta profile includes the name of every street on the route. That way you will never get lost.

 

[ashhutch1997]

The Women's Tour this year literally rides past the base of one of the only steep climbs in East Anglia - twice.

As someone who lives in Gloucestershire, I can tell you that they could literally done an epic LBL style stage in the Cotswolds, proper walls on good roads. But instead it looks like from the map that they completely avoid any climbs on this year's TOB stage to Gloucester...

 

[Mayomaniac]

I like the way this Giro Valle d'Aosta profile includes the name of every street on the route. That way you will never get lost.

When you allow your child with ocd to fix your stage profiles...

That said, they use the super awesome Col d'Aarlaz-Tzecore-Col de Joux combination on stage 4, so at least for me they can do whatever they want with their profiles.

 

[Anderis]

At first I thought it was PCS who got creative with this climb profile, but then I realised it's actually the race organisers who set the KOM there. It looks funny anyway:

 

[Samu Cuenca]

At first I thought it was PCS who got creative with this climb profile, but then I realised it's actually the race organisers who set the KOM there. It looks funny anyway:

Which race is it?
I guess they thought the climb would be too short, if they put the KOM after only 200 meters.

 

[Anderis]

Which race is it?

Tour of Denmark, yesterday's stage.

Not sure why they would need a longer KOM, are there any UCI rules about that? Any practical reason? Why not start earlier and end on the steep part, then?

 

[Monte Serra]

Challenging puncheur stage in the Simac Ladies Tour:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1563812521848487938

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/TourDeJose/status/1563812521848487938

 

[Red Rick]

Challenging puncheur stage in the Simac Ladies Tour:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1563812521848487938

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/TourDeJose/status/1563812521848487938

"yeah she's great at low altitdue but can she also climb at negative altitude"

 

[Izzyeviel]

2017 stage 7 Tour of Utah

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The Tour of Iran-Azerbaïdjan is back this week, and when I saw this profile I got all excited because I saw they were finishing in Kaleybar and I know they've climbed Arasbaran-Aynaloo before and that's a legit HC monster and one of the toughest climbs of world cycling climbed outside the top level (24,3km, 7,6%). Then reality hit.

Also notice how the x-axis makes the 7% climb look to be similarly steep to the final one.

 

[tobydawq]

The Tour of Iran-Azerbaïdjan is back this week, and when I saw this profile I got all excited because I saw they were finishing in Kaleybar and I know they've climbed Arasbaran-Aynaloo before and that's a legit HC monster and one of the toughest climbs of world cycling climbed outside the top level (24,3km, 7,6%). Then reality hit.

Also notice how the x-axis makes the 7% climb look to be similarly steep to the final one.

There's no image.

 

[staubsauger]

It says 35 kilometres at 2% gradient!

http://tourofiran.ir/Data/Files/Event/35/Profile/Stage_3/_c5.jpg

Pretty sure that race gets canceled anyway, due to the national uprising.

 

[laarsland]

Steepest wall ever midway through the fourth stage of this year's Tour of Taiwan.

 

[Escarabajo]

Challenging puncheur stage in the Simac Ladies Tour:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1563812521848487938

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/TourDeJose/status/1563812521848487938

Hold on a second, there is a mountain going backwards, like is the riders will fall off!!!
It would be hard to keep the balance.

 

[Kaptain Kool]

Hold on a second, there is a mountain going backwards, like is the riders will fall off!!!
It would be hard to keep the balance.

Maybe those minus numbers are gravity levels?

 

[Sandisfan]

Steepest wall ever midway through the fourth stage of this year's Tour of Taiwan.

Mountaineering Cycling.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

From today’s Tre Vali Varesine, I can’t even with this.

 

[rallybanana]

Is this some sort of new scheme to improve fan participation? Interpret the clues and design your own race profile. Anyway this is my entry. Do I win anything?

 

[Finn84]

From today’s Tre Vali Varesine, I can’t even with this.

If you don't look at the values on the left, it looks like Giro queen stage.