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Just read the mountain race discussion over at Krawallagen's thread. I have some ideas for great climbers races, but no time to do them. So I will just put the ideas out there and whoever feels like they are cool can design them. 1: Susa - Col du Mont Cenis - St Michel de Maurienne - Telegraphe - G...

Setting a form is even stressfull. With another curve, i won´t be easier.. Want to display the curve for the next month in a nice way? How about something like this: Topform on the 12th, old form curve like we have now Marco Pantani 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ...

Someone should make this thread sticky and the one from last year unsticky.

There rarely is a team scoring significantly with 4 or more riders, so the rule hardly makes a difference. Winning with 5 different riders takes a freak of a team. Or you'd have to win from a breakaway with a lesser rider once or twice. But anyway, the rule really is almost insiginificant. Wookie : ...

I call it "Winter Sanremo".

How long was Bolkow-Bolkow in its first edition? 132 or 99? Have we turned a long race into a short one somehow?
Same for Coppa Mosella. "Classics" with 165 or 178 km seem odd to me.

Uff, you scared the hell out of me there. But it's just one of my stupid rules. Best three scorers of each team count towards the team ranking, which for you are: Michele Pizzolorusso (Ariostea) : 25 Andrea Cassarini (Ariostea) : 25 Aldo Aldelio (Ariostea) : 6 Ancho Anev (Ariostea) : 6 So Anev's res...

Individual: Luiz Carvalho (Gnoien Cycling) : 40 Wildon London (Sport) : 30 Ronaldo Aroljo (Sport) : 29 Sebastien Marconnet (Bahnfahrer) : 29 Francis Mourey (Harzer Woelfe) : 27 Laurent Lexcuse (Socca team) : 26 Arvo Hinta (Nozalteam) : 26 Jordan Douchez (RC Hypo) : 25 Hugo Marxer (Team FL) : 25 Cami...

After 3 of 5 races: Individual: Ronaldo Aroljo (Sport) : 29 Sebastien Marconnet (Bahnfahrer) : 29 Laurent Lexcuse (Socca team) : 26 Hugo Marxer (Team FL) : 25 Camilo Maceo (Wookie) : 25 Leonardo Alighieri (Petit Singe) : 25 Jordan Douchez (RC Hypo) : 25 Frida Kahlo (Alkworld) : 25 Jawad Azizi (NoPik...

Yeah... Zaugg...
I'm thinking about giving it a try myself next year, maybe I can win it if Zaugg can.

RSF TdF 2012 Pyrenees stages leaked to iBanesto!

Let me think about it.

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On a more serious note: We will have both Milano-Torino and Piemont on the calender. We'll see how it turns out.

Schlonz. Nice tour, I like it from the start. You get a bonus point for using the same scale on all your profiles, although it does not quite work out on the 12. I hope you have that rest day after stage 6 and not before it. Because then you would be in the same dilemma like VAC. Stage 6 is superb, ...

Profiles, how is that a seperate point? It's included in point 3. High altitude makes spectacular stages look boring. But I can shut up now, because you are here commenting on the tours opposed to what you said earlier. You could resist to write something for almost six hours, not bad, not bad,... :...

Ok, Honshu. Balanced tour, conservative tour. Has the same problem like CdlP: No superspectacular stages. It's a good tour still, but to win the competition you need to have three things: 1. Exotic setting. Why? Because Roby told so. I'd be happy to have a Tour of Siberia or anywhere else in the wor...

Two tours, same area, same roads? Hilarious. :lol: Don't really know yet what to say about Honshu, not sure what to think of it. VAC, nice Volcano, but why on the day before the ITT? You say: "In the GC it should become very interesting as the favorites have to calculate how much power they can give...

Závod míru, Wyścig Pokoju, Corsa della Pace, Friedensfahrt, Peace Race or as the French call it: Course de la Paix. The most important bike race in central europe had many names. I will refer to it as CdlP out of lazyness. Others refer to it as the "Tour de France of the East", because it was the se...

Not sure. I fear a climbersfest. The final laps are too easy for the classics. It would be a great race if the finish would be the 6 2 0 4 from the early laps.

Milano-Torino/Piemont (depends on the course of Piemont)
Lombardia
Japan-Cup
Züri-Metzgete

I could add Paris-Tours, but it's a pure sprinterfest now. I could add Beghelli but hardly anyone will ride it. Maybe I should leave it at four races.

Why is this

0 -2 1 1 1 -2 4 -3 -1 0 0

?

So, what about the Züri Metzgete? Thinking about it thoroughly I kind of liked the race, even though there was this Rogenmoser incident. We could push it to the last October weekend so it doesn't conflict with the real races in the first half.

Alkworld and Wookie were both no-shows on saturday. In my opinion they should be punished for choosing South Alps over the most prestigious of RSF competitions. Final standings: Individual: Ludvig Quist (Wookie) : 75 Tom Whity (Team GasGas) : 59 Julio Cortazar (Alkworld) : 55 Djelloul Ziane (Strohhu...

Timing & Positioning. Goss jumped too late and Greipel was too far away. Cav got it right. I have a feeling the Italians decided to settle for a sprint with two laps to go. On the last lap they tried to get to the front in full force (6-7 guys) before the tight right hander. They didn't quite make i...

Ghisallo downhill: No, that's not what I meant. I was thinking about these parts:


-5 -9 -1 -5 -2 -5 -3 1 0 2 0 -5 -9 2 -11 -5

9%, 11%, is it really so steep and the next Km almost flat?

Two odd things: 1. Downhill from Ghisallo: -5 -9 -1 -5 -2 -5 -3 1 0 2 0 -5 -9 2 -11 -5 It doesn't look steep anywhere in the Gazzetta profile and it doesn't look steep here http://www.salite.ch/7000/7327.gif 2. Flat section between Ghisallo and Villa Vergano. It's perfectly flat in the Gazzetta prof...