Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)

[Blazing Saddles]

Here you go.

Stage 14
Saturday, July 19th.
Pau - Luchon, Superbagnères 182.6kms.

Profile.

Map.

Climb.

Finish and Climb.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I'd do that first 89.5km no problem, if they reversed that part of the route and forget the other 93ish k

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

~33%+ more climbing than my one and only ton in May '18.

Tomorrow's stage is quite hilly!😱

 

[mididoctors]

It's the good side of Tourmalet they go up tomorrow, right?

I reckon they are the same this side is fractionaly flatter but longer with a nasty drag approach.... actually I rate it harder thinking about it .

 

[Pblakeney]

Yep, 19km at 7.5% ish before the Aspin, Peyresourde and Superbagnere if I remember correctly

Superbagnere is much, much tougher than the Tourmalet if I remember correctly. It felt a lot tougher than the graphics above indicate.
Yes, I did the Peyresourde before it. Aspin & Tourmalet were on different days but those two alone were bloody tough enough.

 

[Sunny Portrush]

It's the good side of Tourmalet they go up tomorrow, right?

There's a good side???

 

[mididoctors]

Superbagnere is much, much tougher than the Tourmalet if I remember correctly. It felt a lot tougher than the graphics above indicate.
Yes, I did the Peyresourde before it. Aspin & Tourmalet were on different days but those two alone were bloody tough enough.

Did you do both just from the base . The tourmalet is a massive bump in the road.

 

[mididoctors]

There's a good side???

To a hill literally callet the "bad way"

 

[No Ta Doctor]

To a hill literally callet the "bad way"

F@cking hell. 40 odd years I've been watching people ride up that mountain and i never even twigged.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

DK TV2 caught Cort befor the TT today and asked if he was taking it easy with the stage tomorrow.
It went something like
Cort: "TBH I don't even know what's coming tomorrow any more"
TV2: "It's Superbagnères"
Cort: *thousand yard stare*

 

[KingstonGraham]

I reckon they are the same this side is fractionaly flatter but longer with a nasty drag approach.... actually I rate it harder thinking about it .

No, the ugly side through La Mongie is best ridden through downhill as fast as possible. The good side is an absolute stunner.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

F@cking hell. 40 odd years I've been watching people ride up that mountain and i never even twigged.

So having now read this on Wikipedia I'm a little less red-faced:

Some Frenchmen believe that Tourmalet translates into "bad trip" or "bad detour" because in French Tour translates into "trip" and mal translates into "bad"; however, the correct language to translate from is Gascon, not French, because of the mountain's location in the Gascony region. Then Tour becomes "distance", which is spelled "tur" but pronounced "tour" and mal is translated into "mountain". The translation from Gascon to English then becomes "Distance Mountain".[6]

Also, I will never trust anything @mididoctors says again.

Nairo.

 

[mididoctors]

No, the ugly side through La Mongie is best ridden through downhill as fast as possible. The good side is an absolute stunner.

Yeah mongie is minging ....and the better side has good views

 

[DCLane]

Watching it on catch-up and Pog must've been watching the UK hillclimbing videos; no paint, no bar tape, no hoods, etc. We've a bike like that at home. And no radio, presumably to save more weight. They'd even removed the metal bottle cage inserts!

Wonder if we'll see him at local hillclimbs / the national hillclimb championship?

 

[mididoctors]

So having now read this on Wikipedia I'm a little less red-faced:




Also, I will never trust anything @mididoctors says again.

Nairo.

The locals told me it meant bad way