USAPCC Stage 1: Salida to Crested Butte 159.9km (23/8/2011)

[luckyboy]

the final climb is about 5% average. It's like Sierra Nevada but 15km shorter

I don't think its that long is it? Something like 2km long

 

[hrotha]

Homage to Aldo Raine with the gruppo compatto comment.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Or Alejandro Valverde or Samuel Sanchez or Joaquim Rodriguez.

You totally forgot Stijn Devolder

 

[jobiwan]

Gesink getting to the front! Go for it son!

 

[thirteen]

33.8km/h average. Even I can get those averages with our local tour group

at that altitude?

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

About 3 kilometers.

What a bloody waste of time.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I don't think its that long is it? Something like 2km long

No I'm pretty sure it was 5km long. Maybe the steepest part is 2km long.

 

[thirteen]

What a bloody waste of time.

and yet we're still watching...

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

No I'm pretty sure it was 5km long. Maybe the steepest part is 2km long.

Less than that on shacktrack.

 

[luckyboy]

No I'm pretty sure it was 5km long.

The final climb on this stage? The profile in the first post makes it look about 2km long..

 

[jobiwan]

The final climb on this stage? The profile in the first post makes it look about 2km long..

That's in miles!!

 

[jens_attacks]

man i think colorado is a good destination if you go there just to trip on ayahuasca or magic shrooms.

 

[The Hitch]

Can we sue the advertisers. They say this is for the riders "simply the most grueling test of their lives".

The TDF presentation was harder than this.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

2.3 miles is, 3.5km?

Ok so I made it a kilometer.5 too long

 

[luckyboy]

That's in miles!!

Oh yeah.

Man this miles stuff is weird.

Well, 3.8km isn't as bad as I thought then.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Only hope in that profile is the flat section in the middle.

Over 5% grade in the main so HOPEFULLY there should be 5 minutes of proper racing for our troubles.

 

[Havetts]

1 kilometer = 1,6 miles.

 

[thirteen]

man i think colorado is a good destination if you go there just to trip on ayahuasca or magic shrooms.

colorado is awesome, but the best place for those you noted above is Joshua Tree

 

[jobiwan]

Oh yeah.

Man this miles stuff is weird.

Well, 3.8km isn't as bad as I thought then.

At least you don't have to live here! I'd love to live on the metric system!!!

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Can we sue the advertisers. They say this is for the riders "simply the most grueling test of their lives".

The TDF presentation was harder than this.

It's not hard, but it's certainly grueling.

 

[Havetts]

At least you don't have to live here! I'd love to live on the metric system!!!

Metric system is so much easier, 1=1 .

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

1 kilometer = 1,6 miles.

nearly .

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Almost right. 1.6 km = 1 mile

 

[goggalor]

How is it 13.8 km to go?? It was 12.2 five minutes ago! Are they going the wrong way.


Euguhghghg what a drag

 

[Captain_Cavman]

1 kilometer = 1,6 miles.

Hmmm, try it the other way round.