Giro del Trentino **SPOILER**

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Live feeds here:

    http://www.steephill.tv/giro-del-trentino/#live
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    The difference in cadence here is huge. Sly turning very fast.

    Looks like a nice climb so far.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Holy crap, that is some drop at the top of that mountain... with people sitting on the guardrail :shock:
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Poz with 15-20 secs on Szymd at the top. Very narrow descent
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Scarponi smoooooked

    Poz has 16 secs on GC over Szmyd so looking good
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    GREAT win. Class racing.

    Cunego third but Poz takes GC. Good ride by The uber domestique, showing up Basso.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Rujano coming in soon...Im disappointed
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Poz?

    Pozivivo?
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Looking forward to the Giro now.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Guessing Basso won't be riding the Giro?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    iainf72 wrote:
    C'mon Sly!

    Pozzovivo lopped off the front, Szymd chasing.

    Merged into the existing thread.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Guessing Basso won't be riding the Giro?

    Maybe 5mins down. But according to him the stopwatch doesnt matter....
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    2010 Tour of Romandy

    36

    Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo

    0:13:24


    A month later he won the Giro. I think he'll decide based on how he feels he's going. First race back, won't have the rhythm yet.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    iainf72 wrote:
    2010 Tour of Romandy

    36

    Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo

    0:13:24


    A month later he won the Giro. I think he'll decide based on how he feels he's going. First race back, won't have the rhythm yet.

    He hasn't finished a race this season and looks fat.

    Also, procycling put him and the Giro on the front cover > it's bound not to happen.
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    2010 Tour of Romandy

    36

    Ivan Basso (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo

    0:13:24


    A month later he won the Giro. I think he'll decide based on how he feels he's going. First race back, won't have the rhythm yet.

    He hasn't finished a race this season and looks fat.

    Also, procycling put him and the Giro on the front cover > it's bound not to happen.

    Basso? meh.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Saw this on Twitter from Friebe:
    Interesting about Pozzovivo on RAI: gets dropped on purpose before long descents 'cos he gets so much flak for his bike-handling in bunch
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Haha, thats pretty good. They drop him or he drops off?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Haha, thats pretty good. They drop him or he drops off?

    Probably a bit of both.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Haha, thats pretty good. They drop him or he drops off?

    Probably a bit of both.

    He'll be stopping at the top of climbs to eat an ice cream next.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Basso? meh.

    You'd love him if he won meaningless training races....
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    iainf72 wrote:
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    Basso? meh.

    You'd love him if he won meaningless training races....

    :lol: One thing that surprises me about you Iain - you claim a sprint and sprinters to be pretty dull, and then you Fanboy over mr Boring Ivan Basso himself...
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    Next year, the Giro del Trentino will tackle the North face of the Eiger.
    What a beast.
    I bet the big roulers enjoyed that.

    Can we do it again? :)
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,243
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Next year, the Giro del Trentino will tackle the North face of the Eiger.
    What a beast.
    I bet the big roulers enjoyed that.

    Can we do it again? :)

    Taylor Phinney has posted his ride details to Strava. There was a 4.1km stretch where he averaged 7.7km/h. :shock: The average gradient for that stretch was 17%. That's bonkers.
  • Noclue
    Noclue Posts: 503
    Good stage that and a monstrous climb. Good to see some of the smaller races getting TV time props to Eurosport, shame they didn't have the Basque tour this year though.
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  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    I agree Noclure. They showed boring old track racing instead.
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,314
    Even after watching it on Eurosport, I'm still trying to get my head around that climb.

    There are just so many aspects involved - I'm not really so much into the science of it (I hate my sport being reduced to mathematical equations)- more like how it correlates to my understanding of riding up f@£k-off climbs as a cyclist.
    Having said that, you can't ignore the numbers.
    As far as I could tell, the bulk of riders hit the base of the Veleno pretty much together (even with the extremely narrow lanes, that's, what, 30-50 secs difference from the front of the bunch to the back?).
    In one 8.5km climb (and a bit), Dom Pozzovivo put up to 10 mins into the first 50 riders. The next 30-odd were spread over the next 10 mins, with the "bunch" coming in over 20 mins (in the first 80, only one group finished with more than 3 riders within 20 mins of the winner - I've never seen the front of a race so fragmented).
    Dom Pozz says he was on a 34 x 29 gear for most of it. He looked to have a good cadence: not "twiddling", but not grinding, either. So (without the obvious doping reference) what gear was everyone else on? 20 minutes lost in 8.5km?!! - surely running up in your socks is quicker?!!

    Sorry to blather - I'm not even sure what my point is, or if there is a single question I want answered more than another: but there are 100's of stories from that climb today amongst the people involved that I'd love to hear (like the Taylor Phinney one).
    And get this: a Colombian finished last!
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Surely the most important factor is that Pozzovivo looks like he weighs about 6 stone soaking wet.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    afx237vi wrote:
    Surely the most important factor is that Pozzovivo looks like he weighs about 6 stone soaking wet.

    Same height and weight as me says wikipedia. (well, fractionally shorter).
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Just watched the stage on the Sky Plus, not sure I like these super steep climbs. It's like watching a stage in slow motion! I wanna see riders going FAST! And with all the riders strung out it was like watching a TT! Also pretty obvious who was going to win the stage from a long way out. Still, I watched it all!

    Starting to miss cobbles...
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Surely the most important factor is that Pozzovivo looks like he weighs about 6 stone soaking wet.

    Same height and weight as me says wikipedia. (well, fractionally shorter).

    So your not really Darth Vader then, more like Yoda? :wink:

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