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As we have christmas we should maybe start earlier with planning the january...

I start to draw TDU...butr i have problem with stage 2

My Tour de l'Estérel 2011 is coming soon ! (next week)

Edith: correction: And I hope you won't have the time to do it. No need to clog the calendar with another fixed tour. Which then takes away possible places for nice (edit 2 and maybe sometimes not so nice ones too) new tours like Crimée, Kerala, New Zealand and Abruzzo (ok old), Guyane and 100anni compilation.

Not a 100% sure if i find enough time, but i try my best to design Langkawi. They have nice google earth cartes implemented...

Robyklebt wrote:Edith: correction: And I hope you won't have the time to do it. No need to clog the calendar with another fixed tour. Which then takes away possible places for nice (edit 2 and maybe sometimes not so nice ones too) new tours like Crimée, Kerala, New Zealand and Abruzzo (ok old), Guyane and 100anni compilation.

That's not a fixed tour, just a proposition of Estérel v2.0 !
And, I already did 4stages last month, I just have to finish it. And if you don't want it as Tour de L'Estérel, I can change the name

Is there room for Vuelta al Tachira 12. - 23. ?

(as long as they release the profiles in time and we find somebody to draw it)

Ok, we have:

01/01 GP Letzebuerg RSF Classic same profile as last year?

12/01 - 23/01 Vuelta al Tachira 2.2
17/01 - 23/01 Tour de San Luis 2.1 maybe we chose San Luis over Tachira, don't we?

18/01 - 23/01 Tour Down Under PT AUx said he draws it - what's the problem with stage 2?

22/01 H. H. Vice President Cup 1.2 no profiles yet. guess it's pancake flat. but who knows. not so important. but if we get the profiles we could well ride it
23/01 Emirates Cup 1.2 ~ " ~

23/01 - 01/02 Tour de Langkawi 2.HC boring profiles, but a growing race of growing imprtance. nonetheless overlaps with Sachsen + Bongo and some others. Do we need it?

25/01 Dubai Grand Prix 1.2 see Vice President + Emirates Cup

25/01 - 30/01 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo 2.1 we still have no gravel roads implemented. So skip it again? Div 5/6?Then we could do Langkawi.

26/01 - 30/01 Tour of Wellington 2.2 not so imprtant, is it?

26/01 Ras Alkhaimah Grand Prix 1.2 see Dubai

28/01 - 06/02 Vuelta Ciclista de Chile 2.2 overlapping with Sachsen, Besseges, Calabria. Not very important race. But no need to be ruled out categorically.

28/01 Mumbai Cyclothon 1.2 see Ras Alkhaimah

29/01 - 02/02 Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria 2.1 no profiles yet. overlapping with RSF Olympics + Besseges. How to deal with it?

30/01 Tour de Mumbai II 1.2 what's that?

30/01 GP d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 1.1 must be

Amissa Bongo is all on paved roads from what I remember.
Chile of course needs to be ruled out categorically. Except as a D5+6 race.

Ah, if we do the pre Tour down under criterium again, the one called down under classic=cat 1 please. It's a criterium.

btw for purely egoistical reasons (back on the 7th) I support noPiks NZL proposal. And why not a nice little chinese prep race on the 7th?

NZ Tour surely a good alternative in January but maybe more at the beginning of the month.
A 4-5 days tour for the first january week should be fine too.

Tour Down Under 18.-23. at 10,15,18,21,23 h ?

Sachsen Pavés 25.-28. at 9,14,18,20,22 h ?

It's no criterium in the sense of how you explained it some days ago in a neighbour thread, Roby. It's just a non-UCI-sanctioned raced. The winner isn't pre-defined.

And you think, you just don't like South America

EDIT: ah, it was Tour du Faso that runs over gravel roads partly.

Sachsen Pavés 25.-28. at 9,14,18,20,22 h ?

It' one or two days longer this time. See viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1022

Yeah, no pre determined winner at the down under classic, but still a criterium. Not all have predetermined winners after all... and it deserves cat 1!

Luna wrote:

Sachsen Pavés 25.-28. at 9,14,18,20,22 h ?

It' one or two days longer this time. See viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1022

I think there are two half-stages the 5th day ???
then 24.-28.

Yes, Roby, agree with cat 1. Don't agree with criterium = worthless. Some races simply have a boring city circuit. Even the Giro had one in 2009, when Lance got so frightened that he convinced the peloton not to contest it really. Anyway, racing through a town with narrow curves and bends isn't really what it comes out of it at RSF. But don't care.

lesossies wrote:

Luna wrote:

Sachsen Pavés 25.-28. at 9,14,18,20,22 h ?

It' one or two days longer this time. See viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1022

I think there are two half-stages the 5th day ???
then 24.-28.

Yeppp

0..0..0..0...0...0...0%...0%...0.... ohhh wake up Gala! So i'm now on the way to make Tour de Langkawi as you can hear *schnarch*. Even if its not very interesting. Its Cat. 2.HC so quite important, you can do what you want with it. But it will take some time.

please,... PLEASE - no olympia in january. Is anyone interested in Olympia? Cant believe... just ride Olympia once in 4 years... why not? even the world championships dont interest everyone...nearly noone i guess. it's just too much in my opinion.

Quick wrote:please,... PLEASE - no olympia in january. Is anyone interested in Olympia? Cant believe... just ride Olympia once in 4 years... why not? even the world championships dont interest everyone...nearly noone i guess. it's just too much in my opinion.

just change some small details, and a WC or olmypia are very interessting. but since 3 years we said that we have to change something....

Welcome back official races!

Still think NZ would be nice from the 8th or so...

I'm sorry but the homepage for Langkawi didnt work the last days for me where i wanted to go on so now i will have problems to finish the tour before january. If somebody wants to take over its no problem for me

For TDU, I see there are only 7 riders per team. How do we deal with that, was any decision made on that topic ?

atthis weekend i give you TDU 2011.

05.01.2011 Cana-Cana Cycling Race

km 124 : 10 stars cobble!

at the 17th Down Under and San Luis will start
you really think another tour is suitable ?