Live Tour Coverage - Tonight at 11.25pm

hippy

Yeah.. so either make sure you have good
coffee near work the next day or tape it!

hippy

Walrus

I stayed up for Sunday's coverage of the transition stage (). Tonight's will be much better, but Lance is riding last, so it'll be a late one!

mfhor

Well, if they're tuff enuf to do it, I'm tuff enuf to stay up and watch . . . (snore).

The advantage of taping it I suppose is that you can FF thru all the slugs, inadvertantly speeding them up L'Alpe, and enhance your champion's grimping and grinding.

M "22/32, 26" wheels and all day to do it" H

Marx SS

Up late for this 'lil black duck.

Graident is up, up , up all the way isn't it?

flyingdutch

Basso can either win or lose it right here, right now

Maybe Mayo can make up 45 minutes :-)

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stu

> Graident is up, up , up all the way isn't it?
>

who would have thought it would be so hard to find a real map???
well it is, so this is the best I can do


total ascent 1125m
Date: 21/7/2004 Distance: 15.5km
This Time Trial up the famous L'Alpe d'Huez (Hors Categorie) starts with a
flat 1.7km stretch but then it's the 13.8km climb at an average grade of 7.8
percent, with 21 switchbacks to the summit.

makes the 1/20 look easy

jazmo

I'm going to try my best to stay up for this. I'll try not to fall asleep. Hopefully the fact that Lance is riding last will keep me up.

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byron27

taken by itself its not so bad (so bad, relative, to say, getting your fingernails pulled out with electric pliers). The Alpe is a heartbreaker because it is usually the last climb of a stage, after climbing the galabier and the madeleine. That said, the first two switchbacks are nasty, nasty but its not too bad after that. The switchbacks are great to get a rest for a couple of secs and because it is back and forth up the mountain the visual impact is not so terrifying.I was quite surprised. I had more trouble getting up to chamrousse just outside of grenoble (used for the ITT in 2001) than the alpe.

Ventoux is like that. No switchbacks and a clear view to the top....great .

Anyone have any times for their ride up the alpe?
I did 51 minutes in 2001, and it was the best fun ive had for ages. So was riding back down!!

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GDS

>Yeah.. so either make sure you have good
>coffee near work the next day or tape it!

I'm pulling a sickie )

G.

ritcho

So if the winner completes the time trial in 38 minutes and the cut-off is 33%, or about 12.5 minutes, giving a cut-off time of about 50.5min. You almost made the cut-off! That's fast all right, well done!

Another way to look at it is to think of the required watts/kg. It's more or less proportional to speed on a steep slope. I think I would need about 50% cut-off time (at least) as an estimate on that basis...

Ritch

adam

"byron27" <byron27.19q9ub@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote in message
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>
> taken by itself its not so bad (so bad, relative, to say, getting your
> fingernails pulled out with electric pliers). The Alpe is a
> heartbreaker because it is usually the last climb of a stage, after
> climbing the galabier and the madeleine. That said, the first two
> switchbacks are nasty, nasty but its not too bad after that. The
> switchbacks are great to get a rest for a couple of secs and because it
> is back and forth up the mountain the visual impact is not so
> terrifying.I was quite surprised. I had more trouble getting up to
> chamrousse just outside of grenoble (used for the ITT in 2001) than the
> alpe.
>[snip]
> byron27

I saw a ITT in Grenoble in September up to the Fort de la Bastille,
called Prix de la Bastille. This is the hill where the bubble cable cars,
(the telegraphique I think it's called), goes.Very short maybe 3km but
average gradient 20% with some really nasty switchback up to 28%.
You could hardly walk up it. Seemed like a small club race but plenty
of big names from the past holding records - Armstrong, Ulrich etc.
A funny sight was watching all the fast french guys light up a smoke as
soon as they'd crossed the line at the top!

Adam

DRS

"stu" <ted@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Graident is up, up , up all the way isn't it?
>>
>
> who would have thought it would be so hard to find a real map???
> well it is, so this is the best I can do

I found these:

gradient profile:
http://www.letour.fr/2004/us/profil...00&Language=ANG
TdF map overview: http://www.beyond.fr/map/mptdf2004.html
TdF map detail (stages 15-18): http://www.beyond.fr/map/mptdf03e.html

I couldn't find a detailed map of the actual route. From the SBS web site:

"This Time Trial up the famous L'Alpe d'Huez (Hors Categorie) starts with a
flat 1.7km stretch but then it's the 13.8km climb at an average grade of 7.8
percent, with 21 switchbacks to the summit."

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cfsmtb

Apparentely there is approx 1 000 000 spectators up on the L'Alpe d'Huez!

Bikesoiler, whilst sitting on lounge, has informed me that's almost the equivalent of 10 x MCG's plonked up on the slopes of Mt Buller. Hmm, whats the actual capacity of 'G there days?

Happy viewing.

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stu

> Hmm,
> whats the actual capacity of 'G there days?
its about 80000 at the minute
but when its finished again in late 2005 will be 95000(i think)