Freighter
December 3, 2022, 1:16am
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I don’t understand the desire for gravel in Zwift. Given that we don’t have to worry about crashing or being run over by cars the road surface is the exact same minus the dust and speeds deferential. Let‘s have the same duration but less distance on our rides, said no one.
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Check this one out. The roads coming off of the Alpe are loosely based off of Col de Sarenne and D448 that comes out of the side of the IRL Alpe d’Huez.
On top of roaming and racing around the US, I’ve been lucky enough to spend months of my life in Marinilla, Colombia (where Froome is cu…
Not just gravel but with a 50km/h headwind.
DieselDanny:
I can only speak for myself … although I would love to have the replica of some iconic climbs like Stelvio, Zoncolan, Galibier, Finestre or Angliru, I understand that maybe that would require a lot of dev resourses.
So I only ask for something more simple; give us some way to go down the Alpe, Ventoux and the Radio Tower by a different road that was used to get up to the top. In other words, give us some variety … climbing the Alpe, Ventoux and the Radio Tower and always have to do an U turn gets boring.
And I agree with James @gloscherrybomb that we need more clims like the Epic and the climbs in Innsbruck. Climbs that take 15-30min to get to the top … its a nice way to get a hold of your 20min power (and estimate FTP).
Well around Innsbruck you could easily build out more roads and climbs very simply. Starting point just take the Stage 1 Haute Route Dolomites 2017. You could have the planned route or the actual route on the day which was changed because of heavy rain and snow. (the coldest ride I’ve ever done).
It would be easy to do more from the current ADZ by just building in some of the epic cols nearby the real Alp D’Huez.
They could put a new course “Extreme Pretzel” - about 100km and 4100m+.
There are resources for the Japan world extensions, so giving Watopia and Innsbruck more would be nice.
This has been talked about for 4ish years by now. It would be “easy” on the AdZ as there is multiple options IRL to leave the mountain without returning the infamous route.
