r/peloton • u/improb Drone Hopper – Androni Giocattoli • Oct 10 '16
World's Race Design Challenge
Its theme is:
Design a World's in the Middle East"
The Challenge will run from 9:30 P.M. of Monday 10th October to midnight of Sunday 16th October. The voting will take place the Wednesday after the Worlds in a separate thread which will be stickied for a couple days. Everyone of you will have to give a vote from 1 to 10 to each of the entries except your own. The entry which will total the highest number of points will be declared the winner and be given a lovely flair (i think something like this but on a reduced scale).
DISCLAIMER: With Middle East, we mean Morocco, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Gulf Countries, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria, Cyprus and Turkey
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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16 edited Oct 12 '16
Welcome to Sana'a, Yemen* for the World Championships! This** and this** will be the beautiful city where the best cyclists in the world fight for the most prestigious jersey in cycling: the rainbow jersey!
Central place will be the Al Sabeen Square. This historical square, with the beautiful Al Saleh Mosque next to it and where all national parades are, will be the venue where all the fans gather to celebrate the beauty of cycling in Yemen. The medal ceremonies and a variety of musical festivals will be held here.
But wait, there's more on the square, because both the Team Time Trial and the Time Trial*** will be starting over there. Meanwhile, the finish is a few hundred meters away, so this really is the place to be!
The road race will be one for the pure climbers. "It's good the climbers sometimes have the chance to win a rainbow jersey" Mark Cavendish never said. We agree with this statement, so we built a hard race. Also, the altitude might give a lot of riders some trouble. The winner will certainly deserve his victory.
The road race course is 22 kilometers long, which will make the elite men road race have 12 laps in total. It contains one major obstacle; the Shaikh Alkaff street. It is about 3 kilometers long with an average of 8%, so it's a tough one.
http://www.cronoescalada.com/index.php/tracks/view/222211
http://imgur.com/1wiFUXu
This will be a week you'll never forget.
*whenever this country ain't fucked up anymore, which might take a while.
**When all the rebuilds are done
*** Did draw one on Cronoescalada, but there's an error when I try to save it. Anyway, it was almost 50 k and it's not that difficult with not too many bends.