What's your favourite point ?

[PaPong]

What's your favourite point on the route of racing ? Where would you be on the route and why? for example:

- somewhere on Mont Ventoux or L'Alpe d'Huez
- Mur de Huy, Flèche Wallonne
- Patenberg, Tour of Flanders
- Paris Roubaix, Arenberg Forest or Carrefour de l'Arbre or the velodrome
- the last difficult turn on the Milan-San Remo

My favourite point is a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vcTAix3mU0

in such places a mythology of the cycling is formed I was there during the race it is a legedary and difficult point

 

[Netserk]

 

[Red Rick]

That guy is awesome, do we know his name? He's actually a reason I want the old RvV back

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Monte Grappa during a MTT:

Giro dell'Emilia:

Grand Prix de Wallonie (La citadelle de Namur):

 

[barmaher]

Gotta say I love the finish of the Strade Bianche.

 

[DFA123]

What's your favourite point on the route of racing ? Where would you be on the route and why? for example:

- somewhere on Mont Ventoux or L'Alpe d'Huez
- Mur de Huy, Flèche Wallonne
- Patenberg, Tour of Flanders
- Paris Roubaix, Arenberg Forest or Carrefour de l'Arbre or the velodrome
- the last difficult turn on the Milan-San Remo

My favourite point is a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vcTAix3mU0

in such places a mythology of the cycling is formed I was there during the race it is a legedary and difficult point

For me it would be one of the great mountain finishes in a grand tour. I have seen the Vuelta on Angliru and that was pretty interesting - watching all the suffering on the riders as they crawl past at about 10km/h, most of them weaving all over the road.

Watching a cobbled section or climb in the middle of the race isn't so good because you get no context and the peloton will often be together, so it's much more of a fleeting moment (same in sprints).

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Gotta say I love the finish of the Strade Bianche.

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Yep, spectacular end to the race.

Perhaps a Giro finish in Assisi will do the trick.

 

[scholar]

There's something very special about the Taaienberg, particularly in Het Volk. It's partly because of Boonen's attacks there, and partly because an attack there has come to symbolize the start of the season after the break, and in a way to herald the year's most interesting racing.

 

[Albert Fishwick]

Outside the bar at the foot of the Cauberg as the riders make the turn.

 

[May0maniac]

Tre Cime di Lavaredo is always fun, even if i have to admit that in 2013 it wasn't that much fun because of the weather conditions.

 

[ILovecycling]

this is so freakin great

 

[Swifty's Cakes]

Being at the race is more about the atmosphere than seeing the action so either with the Dutch on Alpe D'Huez or with the Basques on Hautacam.

Worst would be anywhere in England, the marshalls at the Tour this year were dreadful little Hitlers.

 

[ILovecycling]

Being at the race is more about the atmosphere than seeing the action so either with the Dutch on Alpe D'Huez or with the Basques on Hautacam.

Worst would be anywhere in England, the marshalls at the Tour this year were dreadful little Hitlers.

worse than in France?

 

[Swifty's Cakes]

worse than in France?

I have not yet seen a marshall in France try and tell a moto-gendarme where he can and can't go. To be fair to the cop he completely ignored her.

 

[Red Rick]

this is so freakin great

I think there have to be more pictures with him in it

 

[Netserk]

I think there have to be more pictures with him in it

There are. Also on the new course.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

There are a great many spots in the sport that are really evocative, I'll just name a few that come to mind, I'm sure I'll add more later.

Txakurzulo, about 1km before the summit of the Urkiola, a tight right hander where the road opens up to a long and steep straight at 14% where the Basque fans always pack the road, even when the climb is completely irrelevant like in the 2011 Vuelta al País Vasco when it was about 25km into the stage:

Steiler Wand von Meerane, the most iconic climb of the Eastern Bloc, which in the heyday of the Peace Race and the DDR-Rundfahrt was a sea of people by the roads, sat on rooftops, hanging out windows. It was the Eastern Kapelmuur.

Mondim de Basto, the town at the base of the Alto da Senhora da Graça, specifically the very first ramps of the climb, which are always where the crowds begin, and there's a real atmosphere and a sense of theatre, it really helps build the anticipation for the climb and, in recent years, has really given the feeling that here, the Volta starts for real.

Serrai di Sottoguda, by far my favourite spot in all of cycling. The greatest sight in the world of the sport. The glorious, beautiful gorge, the jawdropping waterfalls, the awe-inspiring rock face with the road carved through it... and the knowledge that nothing but brutal slopes are to follow. It is the end of the first act of the Passo di Fedaia, the undisputed best climb in the world, and signifies the start of business at its best. It is almost a personal insult to me that there have been 15 posts in this thread without the Serrai di Sottoguda being mentioned.