Tour of Denmark 2024, August 14 to 18

[Samu Cuenca]

Have they tried to give the race sponsors' name as a name to the national team? Bit cheeky...

It's always been called the PostNord (previously PostDanmark) team, or at least for as long as I can remember.

 

[Danskebjerge]

The national Danish team did well considering they only had one day to practice the TTT. But when you take the strength of the riders, they could have won the stage if they had prepared perfectly.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

It's always been called the PostNord (previously PostDanmark) team, or at least for as long as I can remember.

I'd not noticed it before: always see it listed just as a national team. But I suppose the Aus team in TDU has usually gone by AIS or something, so I maybe shouldn't have been so surprised.

 

[tobydawq]

Wow, they're really testing the riders here. Maasdeltatunnel go home!

I can't wait for the VAM and aSLP calculations after this stage.

 

[tobydawq]

Stage 2 » Ringkøbing › Vejle (231.3km)

Nice scaling job by LFR... Good job chosing the Y axis to be between -200 and 400 metres in a country whose highest point is 176 metres above sea level.

 

[WheelofGear]

I was looking at De Lie's palmares and I was thinking how are they gonna drop him? He can survive most hilly parcours.

He seem to prefer shorter races over the really long ones but I don't think the hills are hard enough to make a difference.

 

[Squire]

Nice scaling job by LFR... Good job chosing the Y axis to be between -200 and 400 metres in a country whose highest point is 176 metres above sea level.

I like when the scaling is somewhat uniform across the board, so I can instantly tell that this is not quite Liège–Bastogne–Liège, which it would have looked like on first glance if you got your Danish Y-axis.

 

[tobydawq]

I like when the scaling is somewhat uniform across the board, so I can instantly tell that this is not quite Liège–Bastogne–Liège, which it would have looked like on first glance if you got your Danish Y-axis.

It's very similar to LBL.

2021 Vejle stage:
1: Remco Evenepoel
2: Tosh Van Der Sande +1:29

2022 LBL:
1: Remco Evenepoel
2: Quinten Hermans +0:48

 

[WheelofGear]

It's very similar to LBL.

2021 Vejle stage:
1: Remco Evenepoel
2: Tosh Van Der Sande +1:29

2022 LBL:
1: Remco Evenepoel
2: Quinten Hermans +0:48

The hilly classic we were promised. Instead we have to settle with Copenhagen Snoozefest.

 

[Danskebjerge]

There has never been a bunch sprint on the Vejle stage. And at least from 2015 to 2023, the time difference between the winner and the 40th rider to cross the finish line has never been less than 1 minute.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Nice scaling job by LFR... Good job chosing the Y axis to be between -200 and 400 metres in a country whose highest point is 176 metres above sea level.

And there was even a bridge today, offering the riders to prevent from going sub zero level...
And I think they can manage not to dive deep in Vejle Fiord on your displayed stage 2.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

The hilly classic we were promised. Instead we have to settle with Copenhagen Snoozefest.

I'm still hoping for a much hilly one day race in Eastern Jutland.

Still strikes me to this day, that when I, now many years ago, took my first trip to the holiest "Hellingen" in Flandrian proper and pulled full gas, that, apart from the hairy cobble sections, I could lure my local bike group out into something more grueling in my local proper at the time - of which wasn't even the Vejle area.

My hope is a rainy and cold Danish hilly harbinger festival of spring.
Through the years I've fantasized of tons of routes that will both accommodate logistics (not disturbing public traffic too much) and something that won't be too dangerous.
And in fact many routes not even touch the Vejle area.
The art is also to make a race exciting over the distance, so that you don't kill all the excitement before the closing stages, but at the same time have a route that can make a natural separation, so that it is not coincidence that prevails.
I'm sure such a Danish hilly harbinger would be a success from day one.
But it requires a little more combined strength as a counterweight to "a Danish snoozefest version of Grote Scheldeprijs"...

Well, off topic - looking pretty much forward for tomorrow

 

[WheelofGear]

Hidden climbs between the three hill sprints and the final circuit

Høllundvej (1000 m, 5.2-5.3%, the actual climb):

Skibetvej /Skibsbakken (1100 m, 5%) :

 

[Danskebjerge]

There will be a semi tailwind later. Here at the beginning, the wind direction doesn't favour the breakaway.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Hidden climbs between the three hill sprints and the final circuit

Høllundvej (1000 m, 5.2-5.3%, the actual climb):

Skibetvej /Skibsbakken (1100 m, 5%) :

Skibetvej with a nice hairpin!

 

[WheelofGear]

Refgårde looking nice as a descent although I'd have preferred it to be the main climb on the loop.

 

[WheelofGear]

They better not show that drone shot of Kiddesvej while they are riding Østengaard, Chr Wintersvej og the Vejledal descent.

 

[Danskebjerge]

They better not show that drone shot of Kiddesvej while they are riding Østengaard, Chr Wintersvej og the Vejledal descent.

Østengård is always treated miserably by the producers.

 

[WheelofGear]

Østengård is always treated miserably by the producers.

Do you remember last time they skipped the start of Christian Winthersvej and showed it as a 1.8% climb? If they do that again, we are going to sue them as an audience.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Do you remember last time they skipped the start of Christian Winthersvej and showed it as a 1.8% climb? If they do that again, we are going to sue them as an audience.

Yeah. 😆

The worst thing is when they cut between groups without paying attention to the specific locations. I hate it.

The best version of Gl Kongevej was - I believe - the first one when we saw the breakaway almost go from the bottom to the top. Great pictures.

It will be interesting to see how they will cover the stretch from Chr Winthersvej to Petersmindevej. I hope they'll show us both ascends and the descend between them.

 

[WheelofGear]

Sprint train into Østengaard

 

[WheelofGear]

Crosswinds?

 

[WheelofGear]

Fine graph of the hill this time.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Østengård was cool. Toudal will never forget that move.

 

[WheelofGear]

Let's see the break FFS