Submitted by sydear on Mon, 03/07/2006 - 12:33pm
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how are the category climbs on the TDF sorted??
hight %age??
come on some one must know!?!?!?
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how are the category climbs on the TDF sorted??
hight %age??
come on some one must know!?!?!?
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Apparently the cat of the hill is from the old days when cars where crap. Your car was allocated a catagory, and it was said to be able to get up those hills.
As to what its all about these days - no idea. I only remember pointless things (o:
Yep, thats the legend I was told as well
I think thats how they used to work it out in the 40s and 50's If a car could get up in its 4th gear then its a 4th category climb etc. I dont know whether its based on much fact but it sounds good.
Nowadays I think they have a formula which takes into account a combination of gradient and length and rarely just one. I am looking forward to having a crack at one or two Big Hors category climbs in France in acouple of weeks. I believe the Joux Plane is H cat and is just outside Morzine. I have also been told that LA blew on that climb a few years back !
found this
this may hel explain???
Km 35.5 - Col des Pandours - 7.8 km climb to 4.1 % - 3 Category
Km 50 - Col de Valsberg - 3.6 km climb to 5.2 % - 3 Category
Km 187.5 - Côte de Kédange-sur-Canner - 1.2 km climb to 5.9 % - 4 Category
Km 212.5 - Côte de Kanfen - 1.9 km climb to 4.5 % - 4 Category
Km 215 - Côte de Volmerange-les-Mines - 1.4 km climb to 6.5 % - 4 Category
with the car theory the cat 1 would be the hardest then??
the Hors is the baddest??
Gr8 Climbs 2 bust ur lungs on!!!
http://perso.orange.fr/l.maison/jouxplane/english.htm
4TH easiest - 1st hardHors
4TH easiest - 1st hard
Hors is unclassified which means beyond or harder than 1st. In the polka dot competetion they get more mountains points for cresting a higher categorized climb then for a lesser one.
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