Tour de France 2021 route rumors

[Forever The Best]

Most of the mountain stages are way too easy, people will arrive to the final climbs very fresh. I like Signal d' Uchon at stage 7(?) and the Ventoux stage tho.
Also, how many ITT kms we have?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Most of the mountain stages are way too easy, people will arrive to the final climbs very fresh. Like Signal d' Uchon at stage 7(?) and the Ventoux stage tho.
Also, how many ITT kms we have?

58, almost evenly divided over the 2 TTs.

 

[Forever The Best]

58, almost evenly divided over the 2 TTs.

Lol. Endurance is dead.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

No Bales?

Prudhomme has no Bales.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Are the (presented) profiles already on the Tour website?

 

[gavia88]

wow, this is even for ASO standard horrible

 

[Matt92]

Atrocious route.

 

[Mayomaniac]

And of course the butthurt French don't mention the actually iconic Luz Ardiden stage...

 

[Forever The Best]

Are the (presented) profiles already on the Tour website?

Only some of the stages have a profile. The flat stages don't have a profile for example.

 

[BlueRoads]

You know what? I think this is a good route. Yes, I know, I'm not the one to ask about these kind of things, but I think it is a well-balanced route, not going for any extremes, but having a bit of everything. And just because the mountain stages are not extremely hard, does not mean they don't test the riders. The riders can do something on most of these stages if they want to, and someone not a complete mountain goat has a good chance.

 

[Red Rick]

Only some of the stages have a profile. The flat stages don't have a profile for example.

We never get those until like 3 weeks before.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Only some of the stages have a profile. The flat stages don't have a profile for example.

Incredible that ASO still won't properly disclose the route until a month or so before the start. Add it to the long, long list of things the Giro does better than the Tour.

 

[Kainabru]

At least Giro will get nice GC field. I can't imagine pure climbers going to the Tour.

 

[hrotha]

Not as much of an insult to me personally and to cycling as a whole as some routes from recent years, but still pretty bad. Of course, I don't think any GT with so few ITT kilometres should get a passing grade.

Stage 17 would have been awesome in the 90s. Now you just can't put that climb at the end and expect it not to come to the last few km as usual.

 

[Red Rick]

How flat/hilly are the ITTs?

 

[roundabout]

Not a single stage with available profiles with over 4000 meters of climbing at a glance

 

[roundabout]

How flat/hilly are the ITTs?

both should be quite flat I recon

 

[gavia88]

there are barely any stages for GC action.

Mur de Britagne ---> a kind of preview of who is good and not, but nothing more
time trail
signal d'uchon -----> the only good surprise, interesting if they put in some more hills, maybe it can even trigger some GC action. Only, next 2 days seems to be more important
Grand Bornand ----> decent. Not original. let see if riders complain about head wind again like last time
Tignes ----> well, impossible to make a decent stage desing to Tignes from the North anyway
Ventoux ---> well, there are some apetizers and nice camera shot, before the final climb
Quillan ----> maybe on that last hill some action?
Andorra ----> by lack of other opportunities, they have to atack on baixalis
Saint Gaudens ---> horrible stage desing ---> action very unlikely
Portet ----> alles draait om de slotklim
Luz Ardizen ----> after all those hard and long stages I can imagine Aspin is really too much
time trail

-not even 1 really hard stage
-I barely see tricky stages, where ambush is possible
-I don't see any stage were attacking before the last climb or hill seems favourable
-except singal d'Uchon not even 1 new climb
-a lot of copy past from previous stages
-extremely light mountains, not even compensated by spreading out the difficulties over multiple stages
-no places to attack early

 

[Mayomaniac]

Not a single stage with available profiles with over 4000 meters of climbing at a glance

But but the Tour is the biggest race and sooo hard.

 

[Red Rick]

there are barely any stages for GC action.

Mur de Britagne ---> a kind of preview of who is good and not, but nothing more
time trail
signal d'uchon -----> the only good surprise, interesting if they put in some more hills, maybe it can even trigger some GC action. Only, next 2 days seems to be more important
Grand Bornand ----> decent. Not original. let see if riders complain about head wind again like last time
Tignes ----> well, impossible to make a decent stage desing to Tignes from the North anyway
Ventoux ---> well, there are some apetizers and nice camera shot, before the final climb
Quillan ----> maybe on that last hill some action?
Andorra ----> by lack of other opportunities, they have to atack on baixalis
Saint Gaudens ---> horrible stage desing ---> action very unlikely
Portet ----> alles draait om de slotklim
Luz Ardizen ----> after all those hard and long stages I can imagine Aspin is really too much
time trail

-not even 1 really hard stage
-I barely see tricky stages, where ambush is possible
-I don't see any stage were attacking before the last climb or hill seems favourable
-except singal d'Uchon not even 1 new climb
-a lot of copy past from previous stages
-extremely light mountains, not even compensated by spreading out the difficulties over multiple stages
-no places to attack early

I guess the final climbs themselves are probably decent climbs for like 5-10km attacks

That is the only good thing I can think of.

 

[fuiers]

People complain every day. Tough life.

 

[Descender]

I came with low expectations and am still disappointed.

 

[Red Rick]

But but the Tour is the biggest race and sooo hard.

I can dig up that Strava file were Kuss was doing 80W for like an hour becuase the peloton decided no break today

 

[sir fly]

You know what? I think this is a good route. Yes, I know, I'm not the one to ask about these kind of things, but I think it is a well-balanced route, not going for any extremes, but having a bit of everything. And just because the mountain stages are not extremely hard, does not mean they don't test the riders. The riders can do something on most of these stages if they want to, and someone not a complete mountain goat has a good chance.

Balanced, I agree.
TT/MTF proportion should reduce (if not eliminate completely) "phoney war" stages.

Shortcomings are there too.
About half an hour of time trialing more.
HC climb and descent here and there.

We'll see what the riders will make of it.

 

[Red Rick]

People complain every day. Tough life.

And that, my friend is why CN is here, lest we have to complains to our wives/husbands, girl/boyfriends or walls.