Giro del Trentino *spoiler*

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  • junglist_matty
    junglist_matty Posts: 1,731
    Bouet not far behind! 500m to go.... +3m20s at the moment!
  • junglist_matty
    junglist_matty Posts: 1,731
    junglist_matty wrote:
    Bouet not far behind! 500m to go.... +3m20s at the moment!

    Nibi has the GC... Unlucky Bouet!
  • junglist_matty
    junglist_matty Posts: 1,731
    junglist_matty wrote:
    junglist_matty wrote:
    Bouet not far behind! 500m to go.... +3m20s at the moment!

    Nibi has the GC... Unlucky Bouet!

    Finishes +4m42
  • junglist_matty
    junglist_matty Posts: 1,731
    Was an exciting finish, but not a good result, always bad to see a win due to a technical issue.... If Wiggo didn't have to put a massive effort to catch up, that would have been very interesting!
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Go on then who is going to be the first to start a thread 'chain gate 2.0'
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,182
    Sorry about the premature interjection :oops:
    It's never happened to me before.

    Best performance from Cuddles for some time?
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Well I bet he'd rather have chain gate in April rather than May or July that's for sure :wink:
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Big big shame for Wiggins. And would like to have seen the fight between him and Spaghetti Man Mr Nibbles.

    But that's bike racing.

    At least Bouet clung onto a podium spot.
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    Sorry about the premature interjection :oops:
    It's never happened to me before.

    Best performance from Cuddles for some time?

    Yep was working hard but looking like the Cadel of old on that climb and just pushing in his usual style
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Tough luck Wiggins.

    Well done Nibali.
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Go on then who is going to be the first to start a thread 'chain gate 2.0'

    Don't really think there's anything to discuss.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    The air's going to be Sky blue around Wiggo right now
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Wiggins couldn't get back as there was no powermeter on the spare bike.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Cheap Pinarello for sale on eBay, tonight.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Tough luck Wiggins.

    Well done Nibali.
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Go on then who is going to be the first to start a thread 'chain gate 2.0'

    Don't really think there's anything to discuss.

    You cant say that & then post 'Wiggins couldn't get back as there was no powermeter on the spare bike.'
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Big big shame for Wiggins. And would like to have seen the fight between him and Spaghetti Man Mr Nibbles.

    But that's bike racing.

    At least Bouet clung onto a podium spot.

    Not sure - could be Nibs teammate Fabio Aru?
  • powerbookboy
    powerbookboy Posts: 241
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    The air's going to be Sky blue around Wiggo right now

    I don't know why. He lost about 30 secs to the mechanical, another minute after that on the climb.Think he and us learned something useful today.

    Is it me or does he look heavier than last year? I think he's got another 2kg or so to lose before Tdf. Are they tapering him for both, assuming he'll be able to take the Giro not at 100%? Risky...
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    I'm wrong! Here is provisional list...

    UNOFFICIAL GC / GENERALE UFFICIOSA
    1. Nibali
    2. Santambrogio +0.08
    3. Bouet +0.44
    4. Aru +1.16
    5 Wiggins +1.40
    6 Niemiec + 1.45
    7 Pirazzi +2.15
    8 Evans +2.18
    9 Locatelli +3.05
    10 Rolland +3.22
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Wiggins couldn't get back as there was no powermeter on the spare bike.


    In Nibali World maybe - I reckon Wiggins can judge his own pace just fine... :) That was a hell of a hold up he had there
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    He looked really good just about to come back to the group then as they went through the little tunnel Nibs attacked, wonder if it was more about management for Brad from that point on
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    powerbookboy wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    The air's going to be Sky blue around Wiggo right now

    I don't know why. He lost about 30 secs to the mechanical, another minute after that on the climb.Think he and us learned something useful today.

    Is it me or does he look heavier than last year? I think he's got another 2kg or so to lose before Tdf. Are they tapering him for both, assuming he'll be able to take the Giro not at 100%? Risky...


    Looks the same to me tbh...
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Tough luck Wiggins.

    Well done Nibali.
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Go on then who is going to be the first to start a thread 'chain gate 2.0'

    Don't really think there's anything to discuss.
    If you want a contentious issue we could discuss how much quicker Wiggins's mechanical would have been fixed if there had been radios in the race.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    RichN95 wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Tough luck Wiggins.

    Well done Nibali.
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Go on then who is going to be the first to start a thread 'chain gate 2.0'

    Don't really think there's anything to discuss.
    If you want a contentious issue we could discuss how much quicker Wiggins's mechanical would have been fixed if there had been radios in the race.


    See. Sky can't win without the technology.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • oneof1982
    oneof1982 Posts: 703
    Wiggo only lost c.20 seconds on the actual bike change, but it looks like he had been messing about with his gears for a bit before that.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    So....who wants to see the Wiggins bike toss-with-precision-parking, again...?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1uZ2M9f6Iw

    You want panache? THAT was panache :wink:
  • junglist_matty
    junglist_matty Posts: 1,731
    powerbookboy wrote:
    Is it me or does he look heavier than last year? I think he's got another 2kg or so to lose before Tdf. Are they tapering him for both, assuming he'll be able to take the Giro not at 100%? Risky...

    Agreed.... He's definitely not as lean as he was in the TDF last year....If your into conspiracies / rumours / talkers, their reasoning is that last year Team Sky were on Aicar (loose muscle weight whilst keep power), but UCI now have a test for Aicar so Wiggo's not on it
  • danlikesbikes
    danlikesbikes Posts: 3,898
    RichN95 wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Tough luck Wiggins.

    Well done Nibali.
    Danlikesbikes wrote:
    Go on then who is going to be the first to start a thread 'chain gate 2.0'

    Don't really think there's anything to discuss.
    If you want a contentious issue we could discuss how much quicker Wiggins's mechanical would have been fixed if there had been radios in the race.

    Personally no I don't want the issue was just posing the question as to who & how long as I'm sure the chain gate issue first time round was done to death as was Fab's slowing the peloton so that Frandie could get back on.

    Looks like someone has already though in road general - viewtopic.php?f=40013&t=12917352
    Pain hurts much less if its topped off with beating your mates to top of a climb.
  • gingermagician
    gingermagician Posts: 326
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    So....who wants to see the Wiggins bike toss-with-precision-parking, again...?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1uZ2M9f6Iw

    You want panache? THAT was panache :wink:
    Sheer class 8)
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    junglist_matty wrote:
    powerbookboy wrote:
    Is it me or does he look heavier than last year? I think he's got another 2kg or so to lose before Tdf. Are they tapering him for both, assuming he'll be able to take the Giro not at 100%? Risky...

    Agreed.... He's definitely not as lean as he was in the TDF last year....If your into conspiracies / rumours / talkers, their reasoning is that last year Team Sky were on Aicar (loose muscle weight whilst keep power), but UCI now have a test for Aicar so Wiggo's not on it


    Wont go into one re such conspiracy theories but the Cologne lab have been able to detect AICAR since 2011, according to reports.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    junglist_matty wrote:
    powerbookboy wrote:
    Is it me or does he look heavier than last year? I think he's got another 2kg or so to lose before Tdf. Are they tapering him for both, assuming he'll be able to take the Giro not at 100%? Risky...

    Agreed.... He's definitely not as lean as he was in the TDF last year....If your into conspiracies / rumours / talkers, their reasoning is that last year Team Sky were on Aicar (loose muscle weight whilst keep power), but UCI now have a test for Aicar so Wiggo's not on it
    Of course the rumours and conspiracies tend to overlook the blindingly obvious. In this case it's that the first high mountains stage of the Giro is still four weeks away.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,891
    RichN95 wrote:
    Of course the rumours and conspiracies tend to overlook the blindingly obvious. In this case it's that the first high mountains stage of the Giro is still four weeks away.

    Just stirring, but.... one of Sky's marginal gains was the peaking all year round brought in by the swimming coach.

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