Tour de Suisse (2.UWT), 9-17 June 2018

[Netserk]

Stage 1 (TTT):

Stage 2:

Stage 3:

Stage 4:

Stage 5:

Stage 6:

Stage 7:

Stage 8:

Stage 9 (ITT):

Startlist: https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-suisse/2018/startlist/

 

[tobydawq]

Damiano Cunego will obviously win.

 

[Netserk]

BMC will dominate. I think Kelderman will podium, as the only challenger.

 

[Red Rick]

What a dumb route

 

[roundabout]

Klausenpass is a solid hour of climbing from that side. Only hope that someone would want to test themselves there

 

[Netserk]

Dem mountains! 😎


Stage 4 final climb:

Stage 5 uphill finish:

Stage 7 uphill finish (finish at ~3km to go):

 

[Red Rick]

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Damiano Cunego will obviously win.

That would be insane and I would love it.

It would be the tribute to the biggest outrage in the glory days of this forum.

 

[alexix7]

Start times for TTT someone please ?

 

[Laplaz]

Route is not really good. Did they want Küng to win this?

 

[DNP-Old]

When you thought the Dauphine had an awful route and then Suisse manages to out *** them by a mile. Dennis would have won this in his sleep had he not been removed from the startlist. Porte and Van Garderen will do so instead.

 

[roundabout]

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Start times for TTT someone please ?

http://www.tourdesuisse.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/user_upload/TTT_Startliste.JPG

 

[alexix7]

Last teams could have rain according to weather forecast.

 

[Red Rick]

What is the profile of the penultimate climb of stage 5?

 

[Netserk]

Until the 6km mark of this:

Then from ~8km to ~5km of this:

Roughly. A little bit of descent inbetween the two parts.

 

[Red Rick]

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Until the 6km mark of this:

Then from ~8km to ~5km of this:

Roughly. A little bit of descent inbetween the two parts.

Ok, thanks. So that first part would be like 8km at 7.5% or something, with a km at 9%? I think it's the best place to attack early but it's still a pretty iffy decision and for it's too easy a climb to have that purpose in the race.

There's a total of 3km where climbers can duke it out mano a mano. In a race with 18km of TTT and 35 of ITT. It's pretty stupid.

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: Re:

Until the 6km mark of this:

Then from ~8km to ~5km of this:

Roughly. A little bit of descent inbetween the two parts.

Ok, thanks. So that first part would be like 8km at 7.5% or something, with a km at 9%? I think it's the best place to attack early but it's still a pretty iffy decision and for it's too easy a climb to have that purpose in the race.

There's a total of 3km where climbers can duke it out mano a mano. In a race with 18km of TTT and 35 of ITT. It's pretty stupid.

Well it's not like you can't attack on the first mtf at all, it's simple rather difficult to get a gap on those gradients. I expect a big gc showdown there anyway.

 

[silvergrenade]

So, this is how the biggest favourites be preparing for the tour?
Seriously bad route.

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

Until the 6km mark of this:

Then from ~8km to ~5km of this:

Roughly. A little bit of descent inbetween the two parts.

Ok, thanks. So that first part would be like 8km at 7.5% or something, with a km at 9%? I think it's the best place to attack early but it's still a pretty iffy decision and for it's too easy a climb to have that purpose in the race.

There's a total of 3km where climbers can duke it out mano a mano. In a race with 18km of TTT and 35 of ITT. It's pretty stupid.

Well it's not like you can't attack on the first mtf at all, it's simple rather difficult to get a gap on those gradients. I expect a big gc showdown there anyway.

Yes you can attack on the MTF alone. Then you can fail to take time cause the climb is so ***.

 

[alexix7]

Does Tissot timing working for you ?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

T T T
why why why?

 

[silvergrenade]

This is Team Sky B Team

 

[tobydawq]

The mighty Gaviria couldn't even follow his team for 6 kilometres.

 

[Samamba]

Re:

This is Team Sky B Team

Interesting to see what Sivakov can do here. Parcours really suits him with a lot of TT km's and long, but not too steep climbs.

 

[tobydawq]

Very encouraging ride for Movistar in perspective of the Tour. Half a minute better than Sky 😉

 

[Laplaz]

Re:

This is Team Sky B Team

More like C Team