Tour route 2019

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  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The Giro route was announced today.
    It includes 7 summit finishes and 3 ITTs.
    https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/raci ... ute-192184

    "Hmmm, that gives me an idea..."
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    Half man, Half bike
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    The Giro route was announced today.
    It includes 7 summit finishes and 3 ITTs.
    https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/raci ... ute-192184

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    Already not quite as beautiful as conceived.
    Current state of Stage 20's Passo Manghen road.

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    They've had some terrible weather in the Dolomites. A good number of roads have suffered from subsidence, landslides etc.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    GavinBay wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:
    ......I want to know when the Tour is going to tackle the Granon again.......

    I almost fantasise over that thought :)

    The Granon is my local hill and is indeed all out km per vertical gained the toughest climb in France.

    12.2km 1,040 vert for the actual.

    It's also a very very tricky descent, although I'm at 326 out of 4,164 not bad for an old English fart :)

    I've been up the Granon circa 38 times according to my Strava, of which 20 are cyling, the others are ski touring as well as running, as this year was unable to ride the Defi as my back wheel was fecked so I entered the running event :?

    I'd love to see a unique stage in that they cycle to the top and then change over to MTBs for the long descent down into the valley on the other side :D

    There is no reason why they could not use it as a stage finish as there is plenty of room up there with the old barracks and parking area and they've finished on the Izoard (last year) and the Galibier before and had all the logistics and infrastructure down in the valley.

    But the legend is that Hinault does not want to go near it again as it was on the Granon where he was well and truly spanked.

    The Granon is the hardest climb I've ever done, made worse by being attacked by horseflies at the bottom and then the cold at the top. I also admit to slaloming up it in places, that section about 4k from the top that claims to be 11.1%, yuck, I nearly came to a stop. Didn't find the descent too bad although maybe that was because I was relieved to be going down :lol:

    And a Tour where they go over the top and down to the Clarée would be awesome.
    Correlation is not causation.

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