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You can miss all that out using roads. It’s paved from the top of the Finestre, you descend, then turn right and climb up to Sestriere, then descend down to Cesana Torinese, turn right again and follow that road all the way back to Susa. It’s mainly downhill.
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I've climbed up the gravel side, descnded the road side stopped at a cafe and then I think we rode up Sestriere. Does that make sense? I dunno, I was having fun that day, the missus less so.
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Found it. ALPI4000 Day 3
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Allow me to remember, I took the KOM of Tao on that climb, I'm sure he was just warming up for better things however.
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Binned it twice on the descent into Sestriere on the Assietta. Once was being distracted by enduro motorbikes coming up and the second was totally my fault. I'd really enjoyed the climb to the Finestre, as slow as I was (there was also a gran fondo coming up with me which was fun to watch from inside it). The two crashes took me a while mentally to get over tho, knocked my confidence on dirt for a little bit.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Vfr7Bdxxk
The checkpoint in Sestriere was at the start of the section that had caused people the most anguish when choosing their equipment. The Strada dell’Assietta is an old military road along the top of a mountain ridge, and when combined with the gravel descent of the Colle delle Finestre, it meant doing about 40 km of dirt and gravel roads that were mostly above 2000 meters elevation. Everyone knew that it would be unpaved, but many people were not prepared for just how rough it would be on a road bike. Even the fastest people took 3 hours to traverse the short distance, but many others took a lot longer due to punctures and having to walk up and down some of the steeper sections.
https://ridefar.info/races/transcontinental-race/tcr-no3/