My first stage:
It's supposed to be the 2011 Belgian National Championship held at Hooglede-Gits (real life route).
I tested it as a replacement for Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Gent-Gent or Gent-Lokeren).
It should have had a cobbled section, which I managed to include in the editor just before I saved it, but ingame... only rough road...
Should anyone bother to fix that, go ahead and let me know how you managed to fix it! (the cobbled section should be the final "climb", the section between the last 2 crossroads before passing la flamme rouge/going into the last km)
Edited by Enea Viscido on 03-08-2011 02:54
My next stage will be the training route I used to do myself on training, mostly 3-4 times. (+/- 30 km) Should it be considered good enough, it might serve as a variant NC.
In real life, half of that "criterium" was part of the 2010 reallife Tour de France
Edited by Enea Viscido on 03-08-2011 02:59
concerning my 2nd stage: that bikeroutetoaster cant be 100% accurate. I plotted out my route, and after the steepest 200m climb and its descend, that toaster claims I have to climb again to a much higher point...
I have done that tour at least 1000 times...
Nice challenge, in stagemaking, might be the bridge over the water followed by the bridge to go under the bridge I did to cross the water...
My second stage starts right in front of Eddy Merckx's house (he lives close to me , met him a few times in local bars... :redface. Taking off from the masters home, we turn into a notorious circuit: my personal training circuit. It is flat. Very flat. Only difficulty seems to be the local climb towards the church (Oh no, its a basilica). Very short, yet very steep! Apart from that, there might be windy. Not especially a windy region, yet the circuit takes me past the canal. In this open plain the wind doesnt need to be very strong to be a nasty obstruction... Along with canal routes come bridges. Ground level bridges dont cause much havoc; the elevated ones, to avoid trafic collicions with navel trafic, might be steeper than you think.
In short: this routes takes off pumping up riders since they just said "hy" to the greatest off them all (Eddy); next they get thrown into a route that seems to be favouring the sprinters. Yet... the very short, yet very steep elevations and the wind makes sure it won't be a casual sprint... The strongest will survive...! They will rise the podium, looking onto Eddy's mansion!
(PS: I am looking to add more -agraric- scenery. The editor seems to crash quite often while adding much sceney... Guess my PC isnt rocket science proof...)
(It looks fine to me, adding this one with the same settings as the scheldeprijs in schoten)
, met him a few times in local bars... :redface
