/cyc/ Dauphine mountain time

There are sustained 8% sections just to get to the official start of the Mont du Chat with 25km to go. Once the climb begins it feels gentle for a moment but this only lulls riders into a false sense of security because the 9% slopes appear, then 10% and soon 12% and more, eight kilometres of double-digit gradients. This is steep by any measure and to make it harder the road surface is what we could call vintage, not dilapidated but just that old gravelly feel that rolls slow. It’ll be everyone for themselves here, the slope is such that drafting doesn’t matter much. The profile doesn’t show it but there is a flat section two thirds of the way up, a welcome relief but it only means the slope is going to rise even more to compensate.

Damn, that mountainside shot was cool.

Anyone else disgusted by Froomy squirming up the mountain?
Also with that descending Quintana would easily lose 30s or more.

Bardet a shit

Good stage

Is contador dead forever? :(

>>76429765
Was a fun stage

>>76430428

He can't be : (

He'll be better in July

>>76430428
He'll take a fresh blood bag in two weeks.

Fuglsang is goat