Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)

[Alex321]

Does anyone else ever wonder how the likes of Andrew Feather (and other regular contenders for the UK hill climbing title) would get on in the TDF?

Few of them regularly ride the sheer distances involved in the TDF. Several of them have ridden some of the epic TDF climbs, with good times. But they haven't done so after a day with several other similar climbs and 150+km.

 

[mididoctors]

I haven't fact checked it. But I was told around 2012 that Mark Cavendish rode the tourmalet in that years tour faster than the quickest guy in the etape.

He was in amazing shape that year .

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I haven't fact checked it. But I was told around 2012 that Mark Cavendish rode the tourmalet in that years tour faster than the quickest guy in the etape.

Mark is only slow compared to the best world tour pros. He’d whip the arse of everybody here in a hill challenge.

 

[phreak]

As an aside, Chris Boardman who was notoriously bad at climbing in the Tour, and was often in the auto-bus at the back on the long ones, won four consecutive UK hill climb championships in the 1980/90's

I'm sure I read that Andre Greipel won a few hill climb championships as well.

 

[Jameshow]

I'm sure I read that Andre Greipel won a few hill climb championships as well.

Cav won a stage on Alpe D'huez one year too....🤣

 

[cisamcgu]

Andre Greipel was the junior hill climb champion in Germany one year

 

[Dogtrousers]

Andre Greipel was the junior hill climb champion in Germany one year

Here's a video of him putting out prodigious watts in a hill climb event. I don't know if he won it.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/E4cVXhnufCY?si=fotw3F2zqSBY3ZCU

 

[Animo]

Watts are watts and hill climb courses (UK at least) tend to be pretty short. When the nationals were on The Struggle I believe there was some grumbling that the course was too long.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Watts are watts

I have got the kg of a pro, and the watts of a hamster

 

[No Ta Doctor]

I have got the kg of a pro, and the watts of a hamster

I've got the kg of two pros and the watts of a dwarf hamster

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm more pf a gerbil myself.

 

[mjr]

Geraint Thomas Cycling Club: Is G still on track for the Tour de France after Suisse? | Watts Occurring

Episode webpage: https://crowdnetwork.co.uk/podcasts/the-geraint-thomas-cycling-club/

Media file: https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/pr...hone.fm/COMG9763380601.mp3?updated=1750719843

Hint: he thinks they were a bit cautious about him at Suisse.

 

[mididoctors]

Watts are watts and hill climb courses (UK at least) tend to be pretty short. When the nationals were on The Struggle I believe there was some grumbling that the course was too long.

Got a big flat( ISH) bit in the middle. ...stop your moaning

 

[Jameshow]

Watts are watts and hill climb courses (UK at least) tend to be pretty short. When the nationals were on The Struggle I believe there was some grumbling that the course was too long.

Didums if it goes up hill it's a hill climb!
Greenhow or crag vale!!

 

[T4tomo]

Seixas wont be riding Le Tour despite his brilliant showing at The Dauph. DAG2R dont want to push him too far too soon. Probably sensible given hes only just stepped up to pro racing, despite his obvious talent...