Hardest one day race?
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I'd go with that. Maybe Roubaix on a grim day for the battering the cobbles inflict, but then again it's fast n flatter that a witches tit.
Flanders isn't that hard a course IMO: short cobbled sections, short hills and on the steep + cobbled sections, the entire peletons in the same, slow, clattery boat.
Flanders isn't that hard a course IMO: short cobbled sections, short hills and on the steep + cobbled sections, the entire peletons in the same, slow, clattery boat.
LBL is in the top 3 ... i think it tips Lombardi as the colder conditions every now and again can catch it out. However a few of the Last Milan San Remo's in the blizzards for close to 7hrs IMO harder to race .
Out of your Liege , Roubaix's , MSR, Flanders , each of monuments is very rare to be won by a s
t kicker , and only at the end of the year can you judge the hardest due to the weather conditions .
You cant rule out a queen stage of a GT ... especially the recently announced 2017 Giro route, with its gigantic 240kms stage climbing the Motorolio & Stelvio twice . This will be harder for the grupetto making the time cut than the winner.
Out of your Liege , Roubaix's , MSR, Flanders , each of monuments is very rare to be won by a s
t kicker , and only at the end of the year can you judge the hardest due to the weather conditions . You cant rule out a queen stage of a GT ... especially the recently announced 2017 Giro route, with its gigantic 240kms stage climbing the Motorolio & Stelvio twice . This will be harder for the grupetto making the time cut than the winner.
Sandersports said:
LBL is in the top 3 ... i think it tips Lombardi as the colder conditions every now and again can catch it out. However a few of the Last Milan San Remo's in the blizzards for close to 7hrs IMO harder to race .
Out of your Liege , Roubaix's , MSR, Flanders , each of monuments is very rare to be won by a st kicker , and only at the end of the year can you judge the hardest due to the weather conditions .
You cant rule out a queen stage of a GT ... especially the recently announced 2017 Giro route, with its gigantic 240kms stage climbing the Motorolio & Stelvio twice . This will be harder for the grupetto making the time cut than the winner.
Yes, when I did the LBL sportive this year, I thought the weather was sOut of your Liege , Roubaix's , MSR, Flanders , each of monuments is very rare to be won by a s
t kicker , and only at the end of the year can you judge the hardest due to the weather conditions . You cant rule out a queen stage of a GT ... especially the recently announced 2017 Giro route, with its gigantic 240kms stage climbing the Motorolio & Stelvio twice . This will be harder for the grupetto making the time cut than the winner.
t. Then as I was getting battered the following day I thanked my lucky stars I wasn't doing it in the weather the pro's got!!That's a good point on the proper tough GT days. Brutal.
Sandersports said:
Don't forget the Les Ingham or the Jock Wadley .... The title of being a local hitter in a free jersey rivals that of a Monument winner demanding a 1m Euro salary !
hahaha! https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/8...No idea how I managed to get round that! Oh - they cut the 2nd hill, that's how.
Edited by okgo on Friday 28th October 10:11
What about Strathpuffer? 24 hour mountain bike race in the highlands. In January.
I think it's Paris-Roubaix because you only win it if you're tactically astute. I'm not saying that tactics play no part on the other races, just that given the number of pave sections you have to be at the front and alert at all times if you want to win it. You could argue Flanders is the same I guess.
MSR is long but the winner is usually a protected sprinter, LBL is tough but again tends to still be a big group with five kms to go.
That all said, some of the wiggle sporrives are pretty tough....
MSR is long but the winner is usually a protected sprinter, LBL is tough but again tends to still be a big group with five kms to go.
That all said, some of the wiggle sporrives are pretty tough....
Craikeybaby said:
What about Strathpuffer? 24 hour mountain bike race in the highlands. In January.
Has to be this surely, 17 hours of darkness, sometimes in snow and ice in the Highlands ( last year was a mudfest, my bike has never recovered)Nothing on a road bike can compare.
Craikeybaby said:
What about Strathpuffer? 24 hour mountain bike race in the highlands. In January.
Yeah, the Puffer is grim. It's also a lot of type 2 fun at the same time.Although a sportive, rather than a race, I think the Fred Whitton Challenge is up there, certainly for us mere mortals at least
http://www.fredwhittonchallenge.co.uk
http://www.fredwhittonchallenge.co.uk
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