Stage 11 - *Spoiler*

LangerDan
LangerDan Posts: 6,132
edited May 2008 in Pro race
P!ssing rain, a couple of riders off the front and DiLuca trying to head after them

Oh and Mauricio Soler of Barloworld and Rik Verbrugghe both packed today.
'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'

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  • Pirahna
    Pirahna Posts: 1,315
    The weather looks minging
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    It looks like Wales in the winter...
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    It seems everyone's favourite non-sprinter is in the leading group aswell :wink:
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    At least those LPR robots have livened things up. Otherwise, it would be as dull as the weather.
    Are we going to get Plan de Corones this year, or is the persistently awful Italian weather going to scratch a number of the high mountains? :(
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    At least those LPR robots have livened things up. Otherwise, it would be as dull as the weather.
    Are we going to get Plan de Corones this year, or is the persistently awful Italian weather going to scratch a number of the high mountains? :(

    I suspect because Corones-Kronplatz is a TT this year, the weather will be less important - no bunch racing, only 12km to keep clear and far less time to get cold.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Soler dropped out huh :(

    Hopefully he'll perform in the TDF instead.
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Leipheimer's in a bit of trouble here.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Bettini working for Visconti again.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Van_Heerden
    Van_Heerden Posts: 128
    Visconti and Sella both gone down!
    "The grass is always greener on the other side - unless Jens Voigt has been riding on the other side in which case it's white with the salty, dried tears of all the riders whose souls he has crushed."
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Leipheimer's in even more trouble now :shock: Just crashed with the maglia rosa and Piepoli and Sella and Pfannberger.
  • Pirahna
    Pirahna Posts: 1,315
    That road surface doesn't look too clever
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    See how Sella just nonchalantly tipped his bike into the ditch - none of this flinging it over barriers malarkey!
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    See how Sella just nonchalantly tipped his bike into the ditch - none of this flinging it over barriers malarkey!

    probably not on the moon juice like the other chuckerrs :p
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Sella was my PTP pick for today - at this rate I think I'm going to owe afx237vi points by the end of the Giro.

    (afx - Any chance of an advance of some points? I'm good for it and I can handle it...... :cry: ..)
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    In the words of some Texas dude: No gifts :D
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    would be great to see a rider from CSF win a stage or two.. they have worked really hard in most stages and always seem to be right up there at the finishes.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Not so lucky for Fortunato, eh?
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    edited May 2008
    O Fortuna
    velut luna
    statu variabilis,
    semper crescis
    aut decrescis


    A *bit* of an anti-climax, that one.
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  • Pirahna
    Pirahna Posts: 1,315
    How unlucky was that!
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Doobz wrote:
    would be great to see a rider from CSF win a stage or two.. they have worked really hard in most stages and always seem to be right up there at the finishes.

    They'd have to learn not to crash in the last km.!
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    EPIC FAIL
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  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Wow, that was as bad luck as Savoldelli yesterday. Right at the end, and this time it screwed two riders. Too bad.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Leiposuction obviously not working, today. :roll:

    The crashes keep on coming. How many today? I lost count.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Leiposuction obviously not working, today. :roll:

    The crashes keep on coming. How many today? I lost count.

    Levi finished with the main group, didn't he? The rosa looked to be at the tail end of the group.

    Is it me or is the picture quality from the Giro dire?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Yes, he and Visconti got back on. I think he suffered a bit before the crash, though.
    The Giro pictures from all bar moto 1 were awful. They must clean the lenses with an oily rag.
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  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Yes, he and Visconti got back on. I think he suffered a bit before the crash, though.
    The Giro pictures from all bar moto 1 were awful. They must clean the lenses with an oily rag.

    He keeps getting into poor positions (not necessarily anything he could do about it) and getting screwed on time/effort. It was ridiculous how they ruled against him the other day with that stupid crash where he and others lost time within the crash-distance from the finish. He'd be up on the leaderboard without that.

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