Where the fuck is it?

http://www.strava.com/activities/76531584 “” 2,600 m in a scant 75 km.

Alternatively, try:  http://www.strava.com/activities/95609284 “” 3,300 m in 135 km.

Where the fuck is it?

 2,600 m in a scant 75 km.

Alternatively, try 3,300 m in 135 km.

Wasn’t it you who posted the incorrectly titled art photo of the Galibier? That was great fun.

http://www.rapha.cc/the-hidden-alps

I prefer your black and white photo, but either way, it looks like an awesome climb.

BTW, it has been a year since you ran the ‘where is this climb?’ competition… tiem for another?

Collin :

I had no idea, but I had a Climbone a bird could perch on. Christ I need to get over there to ride up mountains. That photo looks like a much more glorious route than this little gem in SoCal:

Nice picture, lovely colours and nice bracketing, but, and bear with me here for a moment…….

Where the fuck is it?

roadslave :

What’s the next challenge?

How many times did “Chepe” Gonzalez crash in the 2000 Giro?

Steephilltv looks like a parked domain to me, but I know what you’re saying… I watched a lot of World Cup matches at the office on a site like that, streaming them from all over the ‘net. The quality left a lot to be desired, but it was something, at least.

That’s because Marko mistyped the URL. It’s http://www.steephill.tv/ but beware; it’s a lottery to see which ones end up working. I’ve had the best luck with Flemish feeds, but many either don’t work or are restricted to geographic areas. You’ll have to work your way through the list to find something that works OK.

Steephilltv looks like a parked domain to me, but I know what you’re saying… I watched a lot of World Cup matches at the office on a site like that, streaming them from all over the ‘net. The quality left a lot to be desired, but it was something, at least.

Thanks for the Universal Sports link! I totally forgot about them. I can hook my laptop into the TV, so I’m more than willing to pay to watch a good race, as long as I can do it on my time (say after work or whatever) and not just “live”.

PS, the photo at the top of the page is beautiful.

Universal Sports sells packages online, such as this year’s Giro for about US$10: Universal Sports Premium

YouTube has a lot of older races back to the 60’s and 70’s (or at least the last 10 minutes): YouTube

Cervélo’s recent 2009-10 video podcast is also interesting: Beyond the Peloton

I get the “pleasure” of being a Comcast “customer” here in my city, and the Versus channel only showed the Tour of California and the Tour de France this past year. Everything else is off of their radar I guess.

Is there a cycling website where you can pay to watch all of these races? I guess you could torrent old races, but I’ve never gotten into that whole mess.

Not that I’m complaining but I just so happen to be watching the 2000 Giro at home and Di Luca was really tearing it up and Phil and Paul were creaming themselves over him so I did not think him an appropriate fit for question seven.

Well, Di Luca had always bee a great racer, winning loads of one-days and one-week stage races. He wasn’t considered a real GT threat, though. In 2005, fresh off his Liege win, he rode high in the GC and it wasn’t until he hung with the best on the Finestre that people considered him a threat for the overall at the Giro. Of course, he won in 2007.

2005 was a great year, though, and Di Luca was the only rider to make the UCI ProTour Leader’s jersey look good. That was the jersey he wore during the Giro, and I believe he won the overall that year.

Another reason I loved that season was it marked the height of the Bianchi’s third Golden Era. Those EV model bikes were stunning. My VMH still has her EV4 as Bike Number 2, and my old EV2 still serves as my rain bike. The FG Lite did not differ from the EV4 in any material way that I could tell, and sported a flash paint job. Especially Danilo’s white version which he rode during the Giro.

@Marko
Ah, old eagle-eye. A few of our readers have beat you to it, though. We did a soft launch of that to store all the XTranormal videos (one more coming) for embedding. The full launch will come when KRX-10 uploads all his old-school video archives, which he is in the process digitizing.

Do you have a link to that shot that you could post?

You can do a continuous climb here from 240m to 2400m with 27km of the climb paved and closed to cars. A bastard of a climb though. I got heat exhaustion trying to ride up it after the Ventoux stage of the Tour in ’09. It was 110 degrees, and I made it about halfway before running out of water and having an “Oh fuck” moment. I destroyed my knee riding up it with three feet of snow lining the road in January. Just myself and snow plows up there. Twas a glorious day that one.

Since the jersey issue seems open still, are you thinking he was wearing the points jersey? I am at a loss on that one. Because that’s not correct.

Jose Rujano riding for Selle Italia

@Cyclops
Salvodelli had already podiumed and won the Giro, so you missed on the second half of your calls – but good on naming the Finestre.

@Nate
So close, but what’s with the question mark on the Brikos?

That was one of my favorite Giros and a great example of why the Giro is the Velominatus’ Grand Tour. Dirt roads, Loads of Rule #5, Rule #10′ and almost too much Rule #9*.

Can nit wait for the 2011 Giro. The topography of that country just lends itself so well to an exciting GT. Nibbles is going to be fun to watch progress. Basso, of course. Porte could be back. Cadelephant should prove he can win a GT and that he can still ride hard without the bands. And then figure in the known dopers who want to do well, not to mention the unknown dopers, and you’ve got yourself a bike race.

So, we still have one question unanswered.

*Used for dramatic effect. Obviously we all now there is no such thing as too much Rule #9.

There was an epic photo of The Killer ascending the Finistere in the 2006 Bianchi catalog.