Tour 2014 route

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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    FJS wrote:
    - The Alsace stages really add an extra mountain range
    Extra you say without 3/4 days in the Alpine Mountain Range.
    Not a fair swap IMO but maybe the French want Tommy to win.
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  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    ddraver wrote:
    Can i take it that Frenchie is in love with what Contador is wearing but utterly revolted by what Froome is wearing even though they wearing the same thing?

    Froome's been in Europe too long. Cav just has a standard outfit for this now

    Must say that Kittel must be melting knickers o'er all Paris today

    isnt that Christophe Riblon on far right end though, who looks even more fed up in this photo :)
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    its like hes thinking, "the invite just said smart casual and Kittel turns up looking like Dolph Lundgren in a snappy suit, this jacket doesnt even fit !!!"
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Froome just looks like a tour guide from the zoo.

    He should have turned up in a safari suit and a pith helmet, waving a blunderbus shouting "I've come to shoot your elephants!"
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Time for a chart or two? The VeloCharts guys have been at work

    http://velocharts.com/post/64861998965/ ... mbs-ranked
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    RichN95 wrote:
    Lots of riders weren't there - Quintana, Rodriguez, Sagan, Nibali, Greipel etc. There's no particular reason why Wiggins would be there.

    Especially since he didn't even take part in 2013 and it's far from certain he will take part in 2014.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Yorkshire stages
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    :P :P :P

    I'm referring to it as T'Tour from now on...
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  • RoadPainter
    RoadPainter Posts: 375
    No map on the stage 3 page, but zooming into the overall route shows that Cambridge-Londres stage looks to go through Braintree & Chelmsford...

    Will Dowsett & Cav be able to go past Blue Egg without stopping?

    http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2014/us/overall-route.html
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Doesnt really have the presence of the True Grand Tour Champions does he?
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    Unrecognizable to this chap:
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    What cat climb is Holme Moss - have they got that level of detail yet?
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Above The Cows wrote:
    Hmmmm, what are those cobble sections on stage 5 going to do to certain teams rider selections I wonder?

    Be interesting to see how each team try and deal with the stage 5 pavé. Nibali might ride Flanders? :?

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/nibali- ... -de-france
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Will we see some interesting attempts for teams to try and get their strong cobble men in a break to nullify any time gaps in the GC battle? This is going to be a cracking stage.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    DeVlaeminck wrote:
    What cat climb is Holme Moss - have they got that level of detail yet?
    Velowire.com says its one of the 25 climbs of the TdF 2014 categorised as 2nd, 1st or hors category. So, yes, 2nd cat.
  • rayjay
    rayjay Posts: 1,384
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Doesnt really have the presence of the True Grand Tour Champions does he?
    froome_zps0ed5d2f2.jpg
    Has Wayne Rooney been on a diet.

    Unrecognizable to this chap:
    froome.jpg
    • rick_chasey
      rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
      With hindsight there were always going to be cobbles. 100 yrs since outbreak of WW1.
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    • rick_chasey
      rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
      RichN95 wrote:
      Froome just looks like a tour guide from the zoo.

      Monaco does that to you.

      In love with the two-tone suit that place.
      _
    • carl_p
      carl_p Posts: 989
      Above The Cows wrote:
      Will we see some interesting attempts for teams to try and get their strong cobble men in a break to nullify any time gaps in the GC battle? This is going to be a cracking stage.

      Can't wait. Only one way to ride cobbles - hard and fast. I reckon at least one GC contender could come a cropper.
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    • Paul 8v
      Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
      RoadPainter wrote:
      No map on the stage 3 page, but zooming into the overall route shows that Cambridge-Londres stage looks to go through Braintree & Chelmsford...

      Will Dowsett & Cav be able to go past Blue Egg without stopping?

      http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2014/us/overall-route.html
      I was thinking the exact same thing!
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    • jimmythecuckoo
      jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
      Richmond Racer wrote:
      Time for a chart or two? The VeloCharts guys have been at work
      http://velocharts.com/post/64861998965/ ... mbs-ranked

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    • frenchfighter
      frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
      FJS wrote:
      The Alps are a bit meh. No obvious cross-wind stage


      Vous connaissez donc bien les dangers de ces trois étapes dans le Nord. Quels seront-ils pour la première entre Le Touquet et Lille ?
      Gadret: S'il y a du vent, ça peut bordurer après les monts, dans les Flandres. Il faudra vraiment être vigilant à cet endroit-là

      He is a local.

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    • banana_boy
      banana_boy Posts: 52
      Can anyone tell me please where I can get the full routes of each stage? The le Tour website is hardly worth the 'paper' it's written on giving only useless information on the start/finish towns (which we can look up ourselves) and profiles of climbs (which we can look up ourselves). Or am I right in remembering that they only publish that information much closer to the time?
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    • Crozza
      Crozza Posts: 991
      greasedscotsman wrote:
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      Looks good! :D

      I thought they always resurfaced the particularly bad roads just before the TDF each year :wink:
    • FJS
      FJS Posts: 4,820
      Banana Boy wrote:
      Can anyone tell me please where I can get the full routes of each stage? The le Tour website is hardly worth the 'paper' it's written on giving only useless information on the start/finish towns (which we can look up ourselves) and profiles of climbs (which we can look up ourselves). Or am I right in remembering that they only publish that information much closer to the time?
      Yes, it's normally published around May, in detail for every stage. The Yorkshire stages are already published in detail: http://letour.yorkshire.com/. You can also work out the route details of the mountain stages using their elevation profiles, which are already published
    • Richmond Racer
      Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
      I know its not route-related per se...

      ...but apparently Purito said on Catalonian telly this morning that he's targeting the Giro. So looks like no cobbles for Purito.
    • above_the_cows
      above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
      What with the resurrection of Frenchie's 'Pretty Camargue Horse'TM on another thread, I'm getting so excited for this! I know it's months away and we I have the Classics to get excited about first as well as the Giro and of course who could forget the Tour of Qatar but I am super excited already.

      I'm trying to decide whether to head down to stage 5 and be there for the cobbled carnage in person or whether or not it just makes more sense to watch it at home on the telly...?
      Correlation is not causation.
    • greasedscotsman
      greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
      Above The Cows wrote:
      I'm trying to decide whether to head down to stage 5 and be there for the cobbled carnage in person or whether or not it just makes more sense to watch it at home on the telly...?

      Nah, don't go, it will be rubbish... :wink:
    • frenchfighter
      frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
      For all you Boonen fans (myself included) you will be pleased to know he will be racing the TdF with a particular goal of taking the cobbled stage. Good news for Uran, but hopefully he gets let off the leash.
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    • ddraver
      ddraver Posts: 26,697
      greasedscotsman wrote:
      Above The Cows wrote:
      I'm trying to decide whether to head down to stage 5 and be there for the cobbled carnage in person or whether or not it just makes more sense to watch it at home on the telly...?

      Nah, don't go, it will be rubbish... :wink:

      I ve a nasty feeling a hot girl committed me to doing the RVV sportive next year at the weekend...
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    • greasedscotsman
      greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
      ddraver wrote:
      greasedscotsman wrote:
      Above The Cows wrote:
      I'm trying to decide whether to head down to stage 5 and be there for the cobbled carnage in person or whether or not it just makes more sense to watch it at home on the telly...?

      Nah, don't go, it will be rubbish... :wink:

      I ve a nasty feeling a hot girl committed me to doing the RVV sportive next year at the weekend...

      Isn't that in April? Isn't this about the cobbled stages of the TdF?
    • Richmond Racer
      Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
      ddraver wrote:
      greasedscotsman wrote:
      Above The Cows wrote:
      I'm trying to decide whether to head down to stage 5 and be there for the cobbled carnage in person or whether or not it just makes more sense to watch it at home on the telly...?

      Nah, don't go, it will be rubbish... :wink:

      I ve a nasty feeling a hot girl committed me to doing the RVV sportive next year at the weekend...



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