Tour de Suisse 2024, June 9 - 16

[Red Rick]

Not gonna lie it's pretty cool the women do the same MTT as the men on the same day

 

[Mayomaniac]

Did somebody noticed something in the face of Bernal when he came in at the finish line? He looked fresh, or relatively fresh. Watch it again. I went looking for his interview after the race and He said that He is only defending the podium and he was marking Skjelmose. So no more risks for him. He is done. Hopefully he will do a good time trial tomorrow and to an altitude camp.

Honestly, Bernal is looking good for a Tour podium.

 

[Eagle_Alps]

It's 10km 8%, in fact, the TT is the same last 15km of stage 7 with the same exact climb and finish line. Both look like climbing a similar level but they haven't been able to attack each other and almeida has mostly been working for Adam. The climb is hard enough for big differences just depends who recovers better.

The bottom of the climb is not the same. In the TT, they are not doing the loop to the salt mines and the wineyard mur of Antagnes. The first 4k are flat. It is exacltly the same as the 2022 Romandie final TT (maybe 100m less, depending on the placement of the start ramp and finishing line)
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-romandie/2022/stage-5
Vlasov won. Geschke surprise 2nd. Mäder 3rd.
"Favorite" Rohan Diva Dennis totally imploded.
The wide roads are steeper than they look with long streches of 10-11%.

 

[search]

back then, some teams switched bikes after 5-6k btw, and Yates said that this is also their plan for today.

 

[dercuforever]

Is Yates such a horribly bad TT:er that Almeida can take 30 seconds on such a short ITT?? Even if uphill.

Almeida did great in ITT last year. He could do it.

 

[Netserk]

* del TORO ROMERO Isaac UAE TEAM EMIRATES	16:00:00
* SANCHEZ MAYO Pelayo MOVISTAR TEAM	16:01:00
KELDERMAN Wilco TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE	16:03:00
GALL Felix DECATHLON AG2R LA MONDIALE TEAM	16:05:00
* ONLEY Edgar Oscar TEAM DSM-FIRMENICH POSTNL	16:07:00
* PIDCOCK Thomas INEOS GRENADIERS	16:09:00
MAS NICOLAU Enric MOVISTAR TEAM	16:11:00
* RICCITELLO Matthew ISRAEL - PREMIER TECH	16:13:00
* SKJELMOSE Skjelmose Mattias LIDL-TREK	16:15:00
BERNAL GOMEZ Egan Arley INEOS GRENADIERS	16:17:00
GONCALVES ALMEIDA Joao Pedro UAE TEAM EMIRATES	16:19:00
YATES Adam Richard UAE TEAM EMIRATES	16:21:00

 

[xuziqiangnuctech@outlook.]

TOP 7 GC riders start with TT bike in women's race and they all change bike hundreds meters after timepoint 1.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Honestly, Bernal is looking good for a Tour podium.

Really? I think there's prolly 7-8 riders off the top of my head with bigger chances: Pog, Almeida, Yates, Carlos, Roglic, Remco and Jonas.

 

[Red Rick]

TOP 7 GC riders start with TT bike in women's race and they all change bike hundreds meters after timepoint 1.

Let's see if the men do the same thing.

I think it's an interesting data point about how much better TT bikes are on the flats compared to road bikes.

 

[Netserk]

Let's see if the men do the same thing.

I think it's an interesting data point about how much better TT bikes are on the flats compared to road bikes.

It's weird that they don't switch to a road bike with tri-bars.

EDIT: But then again, in 2018 neither Rogla nor Bernal rode with tri-bars.

 

[Red Rick]

It's weird that they don't switch to a road bike with tri-bars.

Yeah this seems like the exact middle scenario for it. I wonder how much this is affected by the fact that probably no road riders trains on a road bike with tri bars.

TT bike might also just be a comfort pick for the first 5km cause you just wanna sit in the right position and not go over threshold anyway

 

[YavorD]

Really? I think there's prolly 7-8 riders off the top of my head with bigger chances: Pog, Almeida, Yates, Carlos, Roglic, Remco and Jonas.

I would add Jorgenson and Ayuso. I know, Jorgenson is unknown for 3 weeks races, but that kinda applies for Bernal (after his back problems and injury) as well. Heck, I even rate Hindley very high.

 

[yaco]

Watching the women's ITT suggests the men's winner will complete the course between 34 and 35 minutes.

 

[xuziqiangnuctech@outlook.]

It's weird that they don't switch to a road bike with tri-bars.

EDIT: But then again, in 2018 neither Rogla nor Bernal rode with tri-bars.

Perhaps a more comfortable position can give the rider a better climbing performance than a more aggressive position, at least for women.

 

[Netserk]

Watching the women's ITT suggests the men's winner will complete the course between 34 and 35 minutes.

Vlasov did it in 33'40" two years ago.

 

[xuziqiangnuctech@outlook.]

The pacing would be super interesting and important. Vollering is 28s faster than anyone else, just only 3.2k from timepoint 2 to finish.

 

[YavorD]

How much of a difference TT bike brings over 5km flat? 3-4 sec/km?
If so, I wonder if it's really faster to change bikes

 

[Red Rick]

Cavendish with the fastest T1 split so far in an MTT.

What a time to be alive

 

[Netserk]

Cavendish with the fastest T1 split so far in an MTT.

What a time to be alive

It's Sir Frodo Cavendish now!

 

[shadowrider]

How much of a difference TT bike brings over 5km flat? 3-4 sec/km?
If so, I wonder if it's really faster to change bikes

I think 5 km on a TT bike over 5 km flat will give an advantage of 15-20 seconds, as you wrote. If the bikechange has to be done already in the climb (after a few hundreds of meter), at low speed, a bicycle change is beneficial. Especially for TT-specialists (gaining more time during those 5 flat km) and GC-riders. pocketclimbers could choose to ride a (climbing)bike from start to finish.

 

[hfgon1]

Cavendish with the fastest T1 split so far in an MTT.

What a time to be alive

And finally ended up being slower than Vollering earlier this day.

 

[Salvarani]

Honestly, Bernal is looking good for a Tour podium.

I got laughed at for saying this a few months ago..

 

[noob]

The power in that river omg

Everything this race is too pretty. I can't even write cause I don't want t to miss a second of the views

 

[Red Rick]

Did Mäder do this full ITT on TT bike 2 years ago?

 

[Potomac]

Is anyone else having problems viewing?