The Aviva Tour of Britain has established itself as the main alternative preparation race for the World Championships (the other being the Vuelta a España). The parcours is tough and often ridden very hard with the domestic teams wanting to show their pedigree whilst the top WorldTour riders looking to get some hard day’s racing in the legs to help rebuild their form. Team Sky always want to fare well being the teams, main, home race but the top tip could well be ORICA GreenEDGE’s Yates brothers looking to take control of the race on their home roads of stage 2. Here are more details of all of the climbs from each stage. Interactive profiles and full stats available on the climbs page.
#AvivaToB2015 stage 1 starts with 2 hill climb courses. Will @Dan_Evan5 KOMs be safe? 34km remaining from final climb pic.twitter.com/zviLwz408W
— VeloViewer (@VeloViewer) September 1, 2015
#AvivaToB2015 despite the reputation of some of these stage 1 hills the max gradients only just touch 10%. pic.twitter.com/JugYedMeFb — VeloViewer (@VeloViewer) September 1, 2015
#AvivaToB2015 in terms of the stats, stage 2 has the toughest climbs along with an uphill finish in Colne. pic.twitter.com/lVMbxhQMBS
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#AvivaToB2015 Stg 2: Bleara Moor maxes out at 17% but that final km to the finish presents opportunity for time gaps. pic.twitter.com/DHiU3WhIU6 — VeloViewer (@VeloViewer) September 1, 2015
#AvivaToB2015 Stg 3: A steep start to the final climb (Dingleton, 24km downhill to finish) could provide a launchpad pic.twitter.com/M96nQwSTHI
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#AvivaToB2015 Stg4: Redstone Rigg features some very steep but short ramps but most likely a sprinters stage. pic.twitter.com/91uImSMHX3 — VeloViewer (@VeloViewer) September 1, 2015
#AvivaToB2015 Stg5: Potentially the final opportunity for the GC on the summit finish at Hartside. Up & down all day. pic.twitter.com/b6Re5Rfpcc
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#AvivaToB2015 Stg5: The Hartside MTF is Alpine in road size, quality and steady gradient: http://t.co/jAvCC50VC4 pic.twitter.com/FQ6CO50oGi — VeloViewer (@VeloViewer) September 1, 2015
#AvivaToB2015 Stg6: My backyard through the lovely @peakdistrict but this day has breakaway written all over it. pic.twitter.com/cGARzARsQ2
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#AvivaToB2015 Stg7: There are 3 categorised ‘climbs’, the first of which tops out at about 25m above sea level (?!) pic.twitter.com/jS1eSJvfb7 — VeloViewer (@VeloViewer) September 1, 2015
#AvivaToB2015 Stage 8 is a flat but spectacular new circuit in London. pic.twitter.com/nFoRLwEmtU
— VeloViewer (@VeloViewer) September 1, 2015
lamby says:
fair well → fare well 🙂