Suggestions for next year's TdF

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  • fjellrunner
    fjellrunner Posts: 64
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Perhaps on the final day into Paris we could start each rider at his time after the yellow jersey, make it about 200km, whoever crosses the line first wins the whole thing. Not a time trial, if you catch someone you can sit on his wheel or work with him.

    My missus agrees with this. She loves the idea of the first across the line in Paris being the winner.
    We agree that the Giro has more exciting racing, with it's strada bianca and hills they can hardly get up.
    So what about TT with 30 second gaps?
  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    Riders that fall over should be forced to use kiddy stabilisers for the next stage. The Shlecks could, of course, be allowed to ride with 'em throughout the tour.

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    A doping stage should be allowed... riders would have to tow an intravenous drip on wheels along with them. This one made by Specialized doesn't conform to UCI rules as it is too aero:

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    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

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  • rdt
    rdt Posts: 869
    Final stage to start in Rome, at the Colosseum, where the arena contains starving tigers, lions, leopards and crocodiles. In reverse GC order, at intervals corresponding to their GC time gaps, riders successively enter the Colosseum on their bikes, until, eventually all riders (or what's left of them) are in the arena. The last rider alive wins, if they can then make it to Paris within 24 hours, no medical assistance permitted.
  • Pretre
    Pretre Posts: 355
    rdt wrote:
    Final stage to start in Rome, at the Colosseum, where the arena contains starving tigers, lions, leopards and crocodiles. In reverse GC order, at intervals corresponding to their GC time gaps, riders successively enter the Colosseum on their bikes, until, eventually all riders (or what's left of them) are in the arena. The last rider alive wins, if they can then make it to Paris within 24 hours, no medical assistance permitted.

    +1! :D:D
  • woody1545
    woody1545 Posts: 322
    TT up Mont Ventoux, on Raleigh Choppers?



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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    I have this nagging suspicion that not everyone on this threqad is taking it entirely seriously :?
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  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    A stage through Kabul
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    I think I've found it....

    Team TT on this:

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    Could always make it a mountain or downhill TT if that wasn't already exciting enough for the punters...
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    I think I've found it....

    Team TT on this:

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    Could always make it a mountain or downhill TT if that wasn't already exciting enough for the punters...

    And they have to have finished all of the beer in that barrel before they finish. It offers a tactical conundrum. Do you ride the course and then drink at the end or do you drink as you go along?
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Steelem buys the bikes for everyone....from some blokes mum!! :D
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    RichN95 wrote:

    And they have to have finished all of the beer in that barrel before they finish. It offers a tactical conundrum. Do you ride the course and then drink at the end or do you drink as you go along?

    Does everyone have to drink their fair share, or would there be a couple of riders nominated to take one for the team, so to speak? Could be a job with LA for Landis after all....
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  • simonaspinall
    simonaspinall Posts: 645
    White van man challenge

    Car key-ing special stage along the monaco 911 strip
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:

    And they have to have finished all of the beer in that barrel before they finish. It offers a tactical conundrum. Do you ride the course and then drink at the end or do you drink as you go along?

    Does everyone have to drink their fair share, or would there be a couple of riders nominated to take one for the team, so to speak? Could be a job with LA for Landis after all....

    It's like any team trial - some riders do more than others. And if someone falls off you have decide whether to wait or leave them.

    Landis and Wiggins are the first names on the team sheet.
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  • paulcuthbert
    paulcuthbert Posts: 1,016
    How about a "Door Zone TT"? You have to ride as close to parked cars as possible, and dodge the randomly opening doors. Every time you hit one it's a 1 minute penalty
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    paulcuthbert wrote:
    How about a "Door Zone TT"? You have to ride as close to parked cars as possible, and dodge the randomly opening doors. Every time you hit one it's a 1 minute penalty

    I think there's definitely scope for a "city centre cycling" stage or two, with the door zone tt, kerb jumping, red light and kerb hopping, pedestrian avoidance, pavement mounting, bollard slalom etc. Roads open to normal traffic, of course.
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  • richred_uk
    richred_uk Posts: 167
    On a serious suggestion - I'd love to see the time bonuses come back for stage wins and intermediate stages - means that there's always a chance someone can shoot up the GC by good peleton positioning and means the GC contenders always have to be alert and pushing for the front.
  • Monty Zoncolan
    Monty Zoncolan Posts: 341
    edited July 2010
    Keep the race as is until the final stage - then last lap of the Champs Elysee on foot.
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    - Downhill time trial with no chain.
    - Long hilly stage ridden on fixed - all riders to stick to one gear only no bike changes to change gear.
    - Blindfold time trial - DS shouts directions from the following car.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Tom Butcher wrote:
    - Downhill time trial with no chain.
    - Long hilly stage ridden on fixed - all riders to stick to one gear only no bike changes to change gear.
    - Blindfold time trial - DS shouts directions from the following car.
    I like the blindfold time trial. Should suit Frank Schleck well. Well it wouldn't make all that much difference to him at any rate.

    And I can also imagine the shout "GO STRAIGHT! I SAID GO STRAIGHT!" at Cavendish :wink:
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  • woody1545
    woody1545 Posts: 322
    Can the final stage on the Champs Elysee be combined with a 'La Tomatina' style Tomato fight?

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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Tom Butcher wrote:
    - Blindfold time trial - DS shouts directions from the following car.
    I thought they did that anyway. :roll:
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    There should probably be a Full English/Pie and chips challenge TT, probably uphill. Start the day with a monumental full English breakfast, lunch stop for a massive pie and chips with the works. Should probably work in a huge slab of really heavy fruitcake somewhere as well. Think of it as a "taking cycling back to the grassroots" type of thing.
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  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    No race bloody radios so breakaways can just keep going.

    And for comedy value, how about an alley cat style stage where riders have to race a cross a city centre at timed intervals collecting punch holes on a card and having to down a pint at each point before being given the address of the next one?

    Also like the idea of a downhill ITT in the alps, lets see how fast these blokes can really go.
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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    A stage (with a very wide finish) where everyone is timed individually, none of this same time as the group you're in nonsense.
  • simonaspinall
    simonaspinall Posts: 645
    Rampaging wilderbeast run stage.

    Gladiatorial chariot stage with the spikes on back wheels

    Unicycle in a Circus bigtop

    On a more serious note...Be nice to see a few finishes in Velodromes
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  • glauciaregina9
    glauciaregina9 Posts: 259
    Combine a stage with the Pamplona bull run
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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    I like the idea of a "commuting" stage - In the morning everyone is given a Brompton - they then have to ride it to the nearest TGV station, fold their bike, get the next train to a set location. On the train, they have the choice of sitting and resting or standing and jostling for the door to get out the quickest. Once out, unfold bike and ride to finish line.

    A la Smithfield folding race, think that everyone should be made to wear suits, shirts and ties, but a Footon "nude" suit - bleurgh!
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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Hold a stage in the UK. The local council can be relied on to tar and stone the roads the day before.
  • woody1545
    woody1545 Posts: 322
    You know how Eurovision is hosted in the country of the previous years winner? Well instead of moving the tour, the final stage on the Champs Elysee could be themed in honour of the previous years winner.

    So if Contador wins a Spanish theme:

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    or if Lance wins a Yank theme like a hotdog eating competition before the race:

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    If a Frenchman wins we could keep it the same but that seems a bit far fetched.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    symo wrote:
    Also like the idea of a downhill ITT in the alps, lets see how fast these blokes can really go.
    There is a downhill race at Alpe d'Huez; the Tour could do the same route.

    http://bikeracing.suite101.com/article.cfm/worlds_craziest_downhill_mountain_bike_race

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