What's your favourite Asturian final mountain for next Vuelta?

[Asturiano]

L'Angliru:

Gamoniteiru:

Cuitu Negru:

 

[Asturiano]

Farrapona:

Cubilla:

Coto Bello:

 

[Taxus4a]

Naranco, but with San Lorenzo and Cruz dce Linares before amongs other climbs.

Other way Gamoniteiru... but it is not easy to put there all that the Vuelta need.

I was in Farrapona, and I was surprising about how much things is possible to put is such very little space, but anyway it is difficult

 

[Asturiano]

Jitu Escarandi:

LOOK AT IT, IT'S REALLY BEAUTIFUL (by Montero):
http://www.39x28altimetrias.com/haciaeljituescarandiytresviso.html

 

[hrotha]

Gamoniteiru looks very good. Cuitu Negru is just terrible.

 

[jens_attacks]

i'll say it

cobertoria + finish at branillin

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Thinking somewhere out of left field:

La Marta + Puerto del Palo + Pozo de las Mujeres Muertas + Acebo.

Or from Galicia, Coto de Frades + La Bobia + Alto de Bustantigo/Sierra de Carondio

 

[roundabout]

i'll say it

cobertoria + finish at branillin

No doubt that a race like that will also have finishes in Cerler and Valdezcaray

 

[Red Rick]

Can't really judge when I've yet to see a couple being raced. Of the new ones only Gamoniteiro and Jito de Escarandi look particularly awesome

 

[jens_attacks]

No doubt that a race like that will also have finishes in Cerler and Valdezcaray

add a finish at navacerrada and that's it. we got the mountain stages of the next vuelta. but yes i want abantos and cerler back as soon as possible. hopefully the vuelta organizers will listen my beautiful retro ideas again


won't happen though, again there will be 10 MTF's which i always like to be honest

a MTF on cobertoria will be cool and liked by guillen and co

 

[Liquigas]

Why should they go again to Asturias??

Catalunya has some cool climbs which the Vuelta has never visited, why going every year over the same climbs??

They could do an stage starting in Barcelona with the finish here:

Or something like this with a descend finish:

 

[jsem94]

So many possibilities.

 

[Asturiano]

Why should they go again to Asturias??

Of course, Asturias is not the only place you can visit big mountains but I think there are not many places in Spain you can choose a mix of:

- Extreme steep climbs
- The possibility of creating big stages with consecutive climbs with no kms of flat field
- Bad weather conditions (rain, fog)
- Beautiful scenary

 

[hrotha]

Ridiculously steep climbs are overrated and, frankly, getting kinda boring by now.

 

[Asturiano]

Ridiculously steep climbs are overrated and, frankly, getting kinda boring by now.

No way.

 

[Arredondo]

Ridiculously steep climbs are overrated and, frankly, getting kinda boring by now.

Yeah, Valdezcarray and Peyragudes were full of action

 

[hrotha]

Yeah, Valdezcarray and Peyragudes were full of action

Maybe that had something to do with that behemoth in the last mountain stage which everybody knew would decide the outcome and people were saving energy for.

 

[Arredondo]

Maybe that had something to do with that behemoth in the last mountain stage which everybody knew would decide the outcome and people were saving energy for.

I never found any evidence that 'not so steep' climbs delivers more attractive racing. I don't think there is a clear conclusion which type of climb is better for the viewer, i think it depens on the kinds of riders competing and the fact that the WT points are so important. People don't want to take many risks (and lose their place in GC)

 

[Netserk]

It's a balance. Too steep and tactics are meaningless, too shallow and there's too much draft.

Technical descents and high altitude are always good though.

 

[Arredondo]

It's a balance. Too steep and tactics are meaningless, too shallow and there's too much draft.

Technical descents and high altitude are always good though.

I'm agree with the fact that technical descents are underrated. Look at the stage to Monte Grappa in 2010 at the Giro. The finish was not on the climb itself, but after a long descent, but it was a beautiful fight between the favourites.

 

[Asturiano]

Do you believe we are creating walls in Asturias to be climbed by cyclists?.

Well, maybe.

 

[Asturiano]

 

[Red Rick]

What is that thing?

 

[Taxus4a]

No doubt that a race like that will also have finishes in Cerler and Valdezcaray

Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Ibeas de Juarros, were main characters for echelons in the Vuelta, last year, and this year... both of them are sorrounding Sierra de la Demanda, (my town in between them, and they are about 50 kms away each other... so, to came to Valdezcaray or this part of Spain in general, take more interest that only the climb to Valdezcaray.

Anyway, you could climb Valdezcaray just after alto de Pradilla, that was climbed in the Vuelta in the stage of Burgos before the echelons... it is no an step climb, but it is nice.

 

[Liquigas]

What is that thing?