2011 Giro Presentation on Saturday
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And me please!"I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)0
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More Strada Bianchi too apparently!
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larry@cycleitalia.com wrote:
RCS/ RAI Trade in Italy offered a DVD of the 2010 Giro sold in Italy along with La Gazzetta dello Sport as part of their Hall of Fame DVD collection for 2010. Amazingly, there's an ENGLISH commentary soundtrack on it! This may be why Bromley/WCP do not have DVDs of the event though RAI Trade/RCS have done a poor job of making the DVD available outside of Italy. I brought one home, not knowing for sure if it would play on any of the players we have here but luckily for me it does play just fine on one of them. I'll be heading to Italia next month and will try to pick up any copies of this I can find. They're cheap enough, less than $20 US so I'll get as many as I can find as I've heard others lamenting the lack of video record of what was surely the most exciting of the 2010 Grand Tours.TakeTheHighRoad wrote:Any ideas when the DVD of this year's race will be released? I want that memento of a great race
Put me down for one too
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Finestre on stage 20! Nice.
3,798-meter high Großglockner pass :shock:Contador is the Greatest0 -
Except the stage finishes at 1908 m.Le Blaireau (1)0
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frenchfighter wrote:Finestre on stage 20! Nice.
3,798-meter high Großglockner pass :shock:
The mountain itself is 3798 meters high, the pass considerably less.0 -
larry@cycleitalia.com wrote:
RCS/ RAI Trade in Italy offered a DVD of the 2010 Giro sold in Italy along with La Gazzetta dello Sport as part of their Hall of Fame DVD collection for 2010. Amazingly, there's an ENGLISH commentary soundtrack on it! This may be why Bromley/WCP do not have DVDs of the event though RAI Trade/RCS have done a poor job of making the DVD available outside of Italy. I brought one home, not knowing for sure if it would play on any of the players we have here but luckily for me it does play just fine on one of them. I'll be heading to Italia next month and will try to pick up any copies of this I can find. They're cheap enough, less than $20 US so I'll get as many as I can find as I've heard others lamenting the lack of video record of what was surely the most exciting of the 2010 Grand Tours.TakeTheHighRoad wrote:Any ideas when the DVD of this year's race will be released? I want that memento of a great race
Excellent times can you pick one up for me please?0 -
frenchfighter wrote:Getty
Blimey, Ballan is tall.0 -
I didnt realise until I just got a text from an italian friend who tells me the course is a tribute to the "heroes" of the risorgimento. How stylish, how italian, I luv em.The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
Just looking at some details on the Zoncolan stage, trying to work out the approach.
I know it's a few days old, but this article was confusing me somewhat, I was sure the route this year went up from Ovaro, and I think it's the same (harder) side for next year too.
I think the article is just wrong, in case it confused anyone else.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/2011-gi ... e-zoncolan0 -
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le patron wrote:Just looking at some details on the Zoncolan stage, trying to work out the approach.
I know it's a few days old, but this article was confusing me somewhat, I was sure the route this year went up from Ovaro, and I think it's the same (harder) side for next year too.
I think the article is just wrong, in case it confused anyone else.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/2011-gi ... e-zoncolan
It is the Ovaro side: http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Girodit ... 4_plan.jpg
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larry@cycleitalia.com wrote:
RCS/ RAI Trade in Italy offered a DVD of the 2010 Giro sold in Italy along with La Gazzetta dello Sport as part of their Hall of Fame DVD collection for 2010. Amazingly, there's an ENGLISH commentary soundtrack on it! This may be why Bromley/WCP do not have DVDs of the event though RAI Trade/RCS have done a poor job of making the DVD available outside of Italy. I brought one home, not knowing for sure if it would play on any of the players we have here but luckily for me it does play just fine on one of them. I'll be heading to Italia next month and will try to pick up any copies of this I can find. They're cheap enough, less than $20 US so I'll get as many as I can find as I've heard others lamenting the lack of video record of what was surely the most exciting of the 2010 Grand Tours.TakeTheHighRoad wrote:Any ideas when the DVD of this year's race will be released? I want that memento of a great race
One for me too.
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I think Ricks comment about a stage to the moon springs to mind"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0
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Can't see anyone doing the Giro & Tour and coming well out of the latter.
Time for the riders to pick their sides.
Anyone got any figures to suggest the Giro is slowly clawing some popularity back from the Tour with these bizzare and extreme routes?0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:
?mididoctors wrote:I think Ricks comment about a stage to the moon springs to mind
you said that the 2010 giro was obscenely hard and wouldn't be surprised if the 2011 giro included a lunar stage"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:Can't see anyone doing the Giro & Tour and coming well out of the latter.
Time for the riders to pick their sides.
Anyone got any figures to suggest the Giro is slowly clawing some popularity back from the Tour with these bizzare and extreme routes?
that route is going to totally spanner you irrespective of how you ride it
stage 11 looks to be a orrible little 100 miler
certainly more popular here I would say... but the extremity may backfire"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
mididoctors wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:
?mididoctors wrote:I think Ricks comment about a stage to the moon springs to mind
you said that the 2010 giro was obscenely hard and wouldn't be surprised if the 2011 giro included a lunar stage
Had to search that.
Better memory than me!
Certainly is going to ruin them.that route is going to totally spanner you irrespective of how you ride it
stage 11 looks to be a orrible little 100 miler
certainly more popular here I would say... but the extremity may backfire
As much as last year's Giro was quality, and it really was (it felt very old skool - or at least, how I imagine it), it's hard to see the wider TdF-only public paying attention to a race which ultimately turns away the world's biggest and best.0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:[ it's hard to see the wider TdF-only public paying attention to a race which ultimately turns away the world's biggest and best.
perhaps that's a good thing?"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
mididoctors wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:[ it's hard to see the wider TdF-only public paying attention to a race which ultimately turns away the world's biggest and best.
perhaps that's a good thing?
How would it be a good thing?0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:mididoctors wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:[ it's hard to see the wider TdF-only public paying attention to a race which ultimately turns away the world's biggest and best.
perhaps that's a good thing?
How would it be a good thing?
keeps the race more nerdy and proper for true cycle geeks
the tour is such a circus"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
mididoctors wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:mididoctors wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:[ it's hard to see the wider TdF-only public paying attention to a race which ultimately turns away the world's biggest and best.
perhaps that's a good thing?
How would it be a good thing?
keeps the race more nerdy and proper for true cycle geeks
the tour is such a circus
Ah the Tour's more exciting because it matters and everyone cares. I only start to care about the Giro once I've put in a week or two effort in watching it.
Also - I could live with every race getting the same kind of coverage the Tour gets.
Ultimately, to use an entirely inapropriate and quite innacurate analogy - the Giro is like watching the UEFA cup (or Europa League) final in a 5-4 belter, and the Tour is a 1-0 or 2-1 Champions League Final. One may be more entertaining football, but since they're not the best, you ultimately don't care as much.0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:mididoctors wrote:
Ah the Tour's more exciting because it matters and everyone cares. I only start to care about the Giro once I've put in a week or two effort in watching it.
Also - I could live with every race getting the same kind of coverage the Tour gets.
Ultimately, to use an entirely inapropriate and quite innacurate analogy - the Giro is like watching the UEFA cup (or Europa League) final in a 5-4 belter, and the Tour is a 1-0 or 2-1 Champions League Final. One may be more entertaining football, but since they're not the best, you ultimately don't care as much.
guess I used to like the exclusivity of it all back in the day.. but I am a snob.
I like a change of pace on the coverage thing..everything at high level is just a flat line of noise...
look at footie way way way to much hype to the point you just don't care about any of it.
sometimes you have to get down to get backup"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
Is the Giro heading to Passo San Baldo?
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