| rharrison |
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| 29/06/2008 09:55 |
Alpe d'Huez
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I will be riding Alpe d'Huez in a couple of weeks and have seen postings on the internet where people have recorded their times to ride the climb. Is there an obvious start and finish point?
| scm |
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| 29/06/2008 18:07 |
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Re: Alpe d'Huez
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I think I've read somewhere that you can hire a transponder to time your climb, and presumably it knows where to start and finish its timing. It may even have been on here that I'd seen it so the search facility may reveal the thread.
| barrybridges |
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| 30/06/2008 13:00 |
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Re: Alpe d'Huez
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Not really.
The climb starts pretty much as soon as you turn off the roundabout at the bottom - on the tour they use a point about 50 metres up the road, but it's an obvious place to use as the start point.
There are 2 end-points.
The 'finish' is marked clearly with a banner hanging over the road as you pass through the town and shops at the top, but the professional climb was extended by a couple of switchbacks several users ago (and for that reason you should do it too!). When you go under the banner, you'll turn left and go underneath a small round bridge, and then the race finishes when you reach the 'actual' top of the climb (you'll end up in a car park type area with some shops and chalets around you).
Pantani's time was taken to the full finish, I believe, not the 'tourist' finish. In practice there's not much between the two.