Basics - Attributes & rider type
Attributes
Each rider has 13 attributes that indicate his level on a variety of terrain and with different types of energy. Attributes go from 50 (minimum) to 85 (maximum):
- Flat: speed on flat terrain.
- Mountain: speed on ascending terrain for moderate effort.
- Medium Mountain: speed on ascending terrain for intense effort.
- Hills: speed on ascending terrain for very intense effort.
- Time-trial: speed in long time-trials (20 km and +).
- Prologue: speed in short time-trials (-20 km).
- Cobblestones: speed on cobblestone sectors.
- Sprint: speed at maximum power (finishes).
- Acceleration: speed for changing pace (sprints or attacks).
- Downhill: speed on downhill slopes.
- Baroudeur: combative temperament of the rider. Ability to create breakaways or to go it alone.
- Stamina: energetic potential for long distance effort.
- Resistance: energetic potential for intense effort.
- Recovery: potential for recovery between two stages from effort expended.
Type of Rider
This applies both for the real teams in the game and the fictitious teams, and is based on the capacities of the riders, expressed by seven types:
- Time-trial: effective in races against the clock and, more generally, on flat routes.
- Climber: effective on mountainous routes.
- Puncher: effective on hilly routes.
- Northern classics: effective on flat routes with cobblestone sectors.
- Baroudeur: effective on flat routes and in long breakaways.
- Stage races: effective in stage races, with a good balance between mountain and time-trial.
- Sprinter: effective in bunched finishes, usually on the flat, where blistering pace does the talking.