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@Velocio
Never been up it?
It's not steep at all. The Zig Zag Road (that's the name of it) basically takes what would be a bloody steep straight on attack and makes it just a meandering road with a cafe at the top.
I always found Ranmore harder to be honest (going up Whitedown Lane). But that's because it's just a straight on attack on the steep side of the hill. It's too short for the road race though... it would be over in moments and there would be no room for spectators.
Box Hill... it's barely a pimple on the landscape when you consider these guys have come back from the Pyrenees and Alps. This is effectively a fairly flat sprinters stage, and looping around Box Hill is just likely to bore them a little rather than tax them. Though that will be why the attacks will be there, to take advantage of the other riders dropping their guard as they go in circles.