The worst of race profiles

[therealthing]

Another shocker from Paris Nice, this time in 2013. A mostly flat course with a few false flat sections. Must be some tricky false flats for them to be classed as a cat. 1 climb.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

There is nothing more irritating regarding the stage profiles than using the different Y (height/elevation) axis for each stage.

Although inconsistent X axis confusion can also be an issue, with most people reading the final TT into Milan as significantly downhill when the average gradient is actually 0.22 %

 

[klintE]

Mur de Huy with 6,6% grade on the Tour of Slovenia

 

[Anderis]

Is this Liege-Bastogne-Liege?

No, this is a pancake flat stage in Tour de Pologne, called "the temple of sprint" here in Poland. :lol:

 

[TromleTromle]

Is it the Mur de Peguere or Mont du Chat ????

Noooo - just a a simple hill on the official le tour profile for ITT stage 20.

Mein Gott Mein Gott

 

[Tarnum]

Today's Tour de Suisse stage had the finish more than 600m lower than the last peak:

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re:

Today's Tour de Suisse stage had the finish more than 600m lower than the last peak:

Had to look twice when I read "classic descent finish in La Punt" in a preview

 

[klintE]

Re:

Today's Tour de Suisse stage had the finish more than 600m lower than the last peak:

Profile is good except someone uploaded not the whole thing.
Only showed 160 km of the course which was 166,7km long :/

 

[Tarnum]

Re: Re:

Today's Tour de Suisse stage had the finish more than 600m lower than the last peak:

Profile is good except someone uploaded not the whole thing.
Only showed 160 km of the course which was 166,7km long :/

It's not someone, it's the official profile. See for instance: http://www.tourdesuisse.ch/en/tds-2017/stage-plan/6th-stage/

 

[RedheadDane]

I think this profile for stage 7 of the Tour of Utah might be slightly exaggerated...

 

[Escarabajo]

What about the smooth gradient to 3711 m of altitude of La Vuelta!

 

[klintE]

real murito

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=150377&c=4&code=stagerace-profiles

 

[Gigs_98]

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real murito

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=150377&c=4&code=stagerace-profiles

Quick reminder, there is someone out there who thought, making the profile like this would be a good idea.

 

[Escarabajo]

Re:

real murito

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=150377&c=4&code=stagerace-profiles

:lol:

 

[Danskebjerge]

The circular method - in this year's Tour of Denmark.

 

[Scarponi]

The circular method - in this year's Tour of Denmark.

It's this and that MTF finish that had a few km downhill that wins it for me

 

[RedheadDane]

There's not way to get a more detailed version of each individual stage?

 

[fauniera]

Well, that's really steep.

Trofeo PIVA (U23)

 

[Robert5091]

Well, that's really steep.

Trofeo PIVA (U23)

and talk about falling off a cliff!

 

[togo95]

Stage 6 of TDU. Apart from the vertical scale labels being messed up, we also have mountain points at the (apparently) lowest point of the circuit.

 

[Ferminal]

lol, generally TDU is a bit better than they used to be, the last km ones have never made sense though.

www.cyclingprofiles.com.au do the best ones for me, they are the only profiles that give you all the information you'd get if you mapped it yourself.

 

[railxmig]

I don't think, that's how Angliru should look like. Actually, they tried to zoom in the last 10km by stretching out the x-axis to the point, that they're the length of 30km.

 

[Netserk]

velowire images resists deeplinking, so it's better to find a different host for the same image

 

[railxmig]

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velowire images resists deeplinking, so it's better to find a different host for the same image

I think i mixed the preview (which showed the profile without problems) wit hthe submited post... thx for correcting the mistake. And i still need to post my Vuelta stage. Wonder, how many mistakes will be there.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Ah yes, I posted a few of the 2007 Vuelta profiles a while back on here, they had that same problem of stretching out the climbs because they were the important part of the stage, but at the expense of making the actual difficulty of the stages unreadable. They did introduce the 2008 parcours with the same profile styles, hence the image you have there, but luckily before the actual race they updated the profile to the type used until 2015, so we got a more realistic and readable profile: