Tour route 2018

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• ddraver Posts: 22,647

  October 2017

  Posh baked beans FTW...

  We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
  - @ddraver

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• Dorset_Boy Posts: 4,007

  October 2017

  Prepare for some serious cyclist fashion fails this morning!

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• Dorset_Boy Posts: 4,007

  October 2017

  Froome wins Velo d'Or 2017 - that'll annoy the locals!

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• jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,521

  October 2017

  As my kids always say in the car "are we there yet??"

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• jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,521

  October 2017

  Just tuned in... man in suit talking.
  
  
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• Dorset_Boy Posts: 4,007

  October 2017

  Double Mur de Bretagne by the looks of things

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• Dorset_Boy Posts: 4,007

  October 2017

  15 cobbled secteurs on way to Roubaix, 21.7 kms.

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• RichN95. Posts: 25,273

  October 2017

  Dorset Boy wrote:

  Froome wins Velo d'Or 2017 - that'll annoy the locals!

  The locals are the ones who vote for it.

  Twitter: @RichN95

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• Dorset_Boy Posts: 4,007

  October 2017

  Nibbles starts his rain dance!

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• RichN95. Posts: 25,273

  October 2017

  ddraver wrote:

  Posh baked beans FTW...

  A rest day of posh sausage and beans will make some journalists happy.

  Twitter: @RichN95

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• RichN95. Posts: 25,273

  October 2017

  Dumoulin will be booking his holidays for July

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  One ITT?
  
  come on guys.

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• Dorset_Boy Posts: 4,007

  October 2017

  Annecy to Grand Bornard for the Etape - second climb will be tough with 6 kms @ 11% average!

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• Dorset_Boy Posts: 4,007

  October 2017 edited October 2017

  St 12 Bourg St Maurice to Alpe d'Huez will be a monster day: Madelaine, Croix de Fer & the Alpe :shock:

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  Stage 1 - crosswind fest.
  
  stage 2 - snooze
  
  stage 3 - 35km TTT (meh)
  
  Stage 4 -& 5 - sprint?
  
  stage 6 - Bretagne (hill sprint)
  
  stage 7 - sprint
  
  stage 8 sprint
  
  stage 9 COBBLES

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  No Alpine stages to even reach 180km.
  
  :roll:

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  Alps: 3 back to back.
  
  Stage 10: Annecy - Le Grand-Bornand, 159 km << very high.
  
  Stage 11: Albertville - La Rosière Espace San Bernardo, 108km < now becoming standard super short stage
  
  Stage 12: Bourg-Saint-Maurice Les Arcs - Alpe d’Huez, 175km < classic Alpine stage.

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• jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,521

  October 2017

  Rick Chasey wrote:

  No Alpine stages to even reach 180km.
  
  :roll:

  Its the new way of racing... short and hopefully sweet.

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• Dorset_Boy Posts: 4,007

  October 2017

  St 17 - just 65 kms!

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  Pyrenees.
  Stage 14: Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - Mende, 187km << Cummings won there right?
  
  
  
  Stage 15: Millau - Carcassonne, 181km
  
  
  
  Stage 16: Carcassonne - Bagnères-de-Luchon, 218km << finally, a long(ish) Mountain stage.

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  Yes, stage 17 looks bananas. 65km including mountains.
  
  ITT on stage 20 (so not a normal TT) has a steep hill in it (21%).

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  ITT only 31km?
  
  :roll: :roll:

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  Time bonuses available on all stages apaz.

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  Rick Chasey wrote:

  Time bonuses available on all stages apaz.

  
  
  Not quite right.
  
  Time bounses late on in stage on stages 1-9.
  
  (watch the breakway catch happen at x kilometres, where x is 1km before the time bonus sprint).

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• rick_chasey Posts: 55,960 Lives Here

  October 2017

  So 30kms of ITT, which itself has a big climb in it.
  
  Snooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooze.

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• ddraver Posts: 22,647

  October 2017

  Well the 2 Alps stages are basically my playground last summer...

  We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
  - @ddraver

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• timoid. Posts: 3,133

  October 2017

  I guess Doumoulin will give it a miss

  It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

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• timoid. Posts: 3,133

  October 2017

  I was hoping for Ventoux after a (now false) leaked version of the course.
  
  I guess we cant have the Alpe and Ventoux in the same year.

  It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

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• ddraver Posts: 22,647

  October 2017

  Some weird time bonus thing toward the end of the first 9 stages to encourage attacking.
  
  Much as I don't like them, a proper TT would have been more likely to work but hey...

  We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
  - @ddraver

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