What kind of gt stages would you like to see more of ?

[Charlyghoul]

Well reading through the ban TTT’s thread I didn’t realise so many people enjoyed them.
I don’t really enjoy to watch them and think they favour the better funded teams and gc riders a bit too much. I think they’re better on more technical courses though.

What kind of stages would you like to see more of? Or less?
Did the final stage of this years tour show a bit more variety would be good ?
Here are some for me.

* I’d like to see longer individual time trials, at least one long one in most gts.

* more mountain time trials (maybe even courses with a big climb to start, a descent that is technical but not too dangerous and a big climb to finish)

*What about more stages finishing with a number of laps of a circuit? This would be good viewing for both the host town and tv.
What about a circuit race instead of a prologue or usual sprinters stage now and then ?

What are your ideas?

 

[scribers]

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[Charlyghoul]

You realize with very new thread pushes a good thread off the edge?

What do you mean?

 

[jono]

Grid start.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

* more mountain time trials (maybe even courses with a big climb to start, a descent that is technical but not too dangerous and a big climb to finish)



What are your ideas?

Please no. GT's are already weighted in favour of climbers/ GC riders we don't need more stages that favour them. However, I'd like to see ITT's on Gravel or cobbles......that would sort some riders out - and those with poor skills wouldn't have team mates to bale them out......

 

[Eagle_Alps]

Classic style puncheur stages with murs and technical parcours. If done right, it can lead to relentless hard riding and nail biting finales!

 

[Eagle_Alps]

A GT should have at least one TT of almost one 1 hour. Contemporary "prologue-length" TTs remove one important element of TT racing: managing your effort!

Go hard at the start? How not burn yourself out too soon? Add a reasonable mur towards the end and those who miscalculated will bonk hard.

When to drink/feed? Nowadays it's just all-out. Don't even need a bidon... boring.

 

[SHAD0W93]

I’d like to see an even mix of 7 each: flat/dirt/cobble, hilly/medium mountain, and mountain stages along with 3 TTs (1 each: 30-50 km flat, 20-40 km hilly, and a MTT or 30-40 km TTT). If seven each is too much, they can drop down to six each.

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[Gwbert]

Basque Country type stages with goat tracks

 

[houtdffan]

Very long itts (1of ~70km and another of ~45, plus an 8 km prologue and a mtt, plus an 80 km ttt) and 1-2 mountain stages of similar difficulty to morzine 1983 or sestrieres 1992

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Stages containing a monster climb (around 30-40 km from the line) followed by a descent and a lesser climb at the end. Those combos can deliver great GC action i.e.: Finestre + Sestriere, Mortirolo + Aprica, Stelvio + Cancano.

 

[YavorD]

Just use the finale of that Avenir stage with some decent climbs in the first 130km and I'm happy.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

I want to have more short TT/prolouges in Grand Tours and then atleast one really long on pretty flat terrain. A 6-15 km TT to start the GT and then a ~50 km one late in week one or in week 2 would be great.

 

[E_F_]

Descent finishes!

 

[Wyndbrook]

Safe finishes.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

When medium mountain/hilly classics style stages work, they can work very well. Fetishising maximum average gradient for maximum duration isn't needed more than twice in a 21 stage race.

 

[Brullnux]

More flat stages, ideally inland. There have been too few of these this year.