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Date Posted: 17:54:38 09/04/04 Sat
Author: Susan
Subject: Re: ToB Mountains ...
In reply to: Burkni 's message, "ToB Mountains ..." on 01:21:51 09/03/04 Fri

>Despite spending a great deal of my life in
>Britain, I have hardly been outside the inner
>London area, so I am forced to ask:
>
>How hard are the 'mountains' of the ToB?
>Do the hillier stages have more of a
>classic-like feel or do they approach
>the medium mountain stages of e.g. the TdF?
>
>thanx ...

They aren't really mountains like the Alps, but you can still have pretty steep roads going up hills. There are no HC climbs but they put together a queen stage with several climbs they categorized 2 and 1.

You can see the stage profile here:
<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/sep04/tourbritain04/?id=stages/tourbritain042">http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/sep04/tourbritain04/?id=stages/tourbritain042</a>

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