Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Freewheeling => Racing => Topic started by: eck on 14 August, 2014, 05:33:17 pm
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If you get the chance, try to see today's stage of the Arctic Race of Norway. The route was stunning: it finished at Nordkapp - imagine a combination of the NW of Scotland and the Lecht - Cairnwell section of the Snow Roads.... on steroids! (It's on Eurosport 2 later)
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If you get the chance, try to see today's stage of the Arctic Race of Norway. The route was stunning: it finished at Nordkapp - imagine a combination of the NW of Scotland and the Lecht - Cairnwell section of the Snow Roads.... on steroids! (It's on Eurosport 2 later)
This. :thumbsup:
Despite knowing I never will be fit enough, I so want to do that road on a bike.
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I believe hellymedic has been in that neck of the woods on a bike in years past. Sadly I never made it past Tromsø, and not far out of Oslo with a bike.
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It did look a good place to ride a bike.
Salvatore was considering changing his plans when he crossed over from Sweden to Finland last month, so as to visit Norkapp. But it would have been an extra few 100kms and may have put his start in the German ride in doubt. And I think there northward bit would have been into a polar headwind.
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Started today.
(https://img.aso.fr/core_app/img-cycling-arn-jpg/arn23-generik-v7/3580/0:0,980:1364-980-0-70/e4d2e)
If they started in Alta, and followed tomorrow's (red) route until it met Sunday's (yellow) stage, it would be 100% on the route I rode in 2016. It looks like they go through the 7km Nordkapptunnelen
(https://live.staticflickr.com/8399/29237756085_0cd548a30d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LxD9fR)
And this bit of tundra
(https://live.staticflickr.com/353/31563537524_823a4854b6.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Q6ao3Q)