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Escarabajo said:Armchair cyclist said:This one bears transferring from the Vuelta a Burgos thread
klintE said:
San glorio looks like an average 45% climb hahaThis legendary thread has been quiet for too long. I was looking for something else when I came across some old Vuelta a Palencia profiles which most definitely belong here.
Tick the boxes for "scenic landscape", "x-axis creativity", "hilariously-placed GPMs" and "incorrectly-placed altitude":
Like, I see the what they were aiming at but they probably shouldn't have given the task to their intern with one hour of photoshop experience.This legendary thread has been quiet for too long. I was looking for something else when I came across some old Vuelta a Palencia profiles which most definitely belong here.
Tick the boxes for "scenic landscape", "x-axis creativity", "hilariously-placed GPMs" and "incorrectly-placed altitude":
This legendary thread has been quiet for too long. I was looking for something else when I came across some old Vuelta a Palencia profiles which most definitely belong here.
Tick the boxes for "scenic landscape", "x-axis creativity", "hilariously-placed GPMs" and "incorrectly-placed altitude":
And meanwhile the riders decided to stay down where it's flat, rather than go riding up those weird mountains in the background.
The sticks were there so they could attach their caribiners to them before ascending!But they did ride straight through the sticks holding the mountains. I guess that wouldn't have been possible or maybe even a bit dangerous with first category sticks.
Have you learned it yet?(and I still don't know how to insert pictures)
Have you learned it yet?
That okay. Your text-style race profiles are a thing of beauty.
Same!
Stage 4
another pinchy climb at around 50km too I see, as well as a few really hard climbs early on. steep, recovery, steep, recovery steep. A good opportunity to blow the peloton apart early (esp if you have a hot air balloon or climbing rope) .From the Tour of Oman thread: that climb at 31km is rather precipitous.
Looks like they’ll need their ropes and harness for that one!From the Tour of Oman thread: that climb at 31km is rather precipitous.
That's my own profile, not an official profile the software I use is pretty glitchy.With credit to Devil's Elbow's thread for Tour of the Alps
Measurement claiming to be accurate to within 5 femtometres. Impressive.