Giro 2018: Stage 6, CALTANISSETTA - ETNA 10 May 2018 / Thursday / 164 km *Spoilers*

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    F@ck off Kirby.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Ah, an Israeli feed; an improvement.

    Despite my lack of Hebrew.
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  • craigus89
    craigus89 Posts: 887
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    F@ck off Kirby.

    This.

    I am not speaking in hyperbole when I say that I chose to watch foreign language feeds that I don't understand over Eurosport and Kirby. I gain more insight from the change in pitch and volume of the French/Italian commentators than from what Kirby says.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    the article don wrote:
    If Sky and Froome pummel everyone today in an AX3 Domaines display of dominance then I predict The Clinic, most of the internet and possibly the very fabric of space-time will melt.

    If they were paying attention, QS this season should have already made them melt(s).

    Have you got some intel you want to share???
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Only their results sheet, which is the favourite piece of evidence for those guys, right?

    We know no-one is doping when no-one is winning, right?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited May 2018
    Craigus89 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    F@ck off Kirby.

    This.

    I am not speaking in hyperbole when I say that I chose to watch foreign language feeds that I don't understand over Eurosport and Kirby. I gain more insight from the change in pitch and volume of the French/Italian commentators than from what Kirby says.

    You are not alone my friend.
    Currently have Italian Swiss lads lulling me through my siesta.

    The good news is that with Kirby on now, I'm guessing Hatch will be up for the finale.

    Rick: There is a link for both the channel I'm watching and Giro hosts Rai, on this very thread.
    Pucker HD, too.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Froome had some sort of mechanical and having to make his way back to the peloton. uAE to drop the hammer in 3...2...
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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Just what he needs, put in an effort right before the climb.
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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Fenton back in with judicious use of the Bora hansgrohe car. Looked pretty chill as they were making the bridge, so should be all good.
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Could be the last couple of kms are in cloud, or even wet.
    Etna currently shrouded in dark cloud and the cloud coming slowly lower, now down to a bit below 1800 m; moderate rain predicted at that level or already falling.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Yay! Hatch returns.
    Perhaps now, Ben o'Connor can be recognised as van Rensburg. :roll:
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • whatleytom
    whatleytom Posts: 547
    larkim wrote:
    Just what he needs, put in an effort right before the climb.

    Bike change for the motor has to be done somewhere :?
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  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Yay! Hatch returns.
    Perhaps now, Ben o'Connor can be recognised as van Rensburg. :roll:

    Please, please, please don't let Kirby do the Zoncalan. I don't think I can stand the number 'engaging with gradients' he'll manage.
  • norvernrob
    norvernrob Posts: 1,448
    PoweredByIdris wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Yay! Hatch returns.
    Perhaps now, Ben o'Connor can be recognised as van Rensburg. :roll:

    Please, please, please don't let Kirby do the Zoncalan. I don't think I can stand the number 'engaging with gradients' he'll manage.

    At least nobody will be ‘going puppy paws’ up Zoncolan.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    2'20" to the break with less than 30km to go. They need to get a move on here...
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Anyone else watching on Eurosport adfree via headphones. I seem to only get commentary through one headphone with race ambient noise through the other... very disconcerting...
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    dish_dash wrote:
    Anyone else watching on Eurosport adfree via headphones. I seem to only get commentary through one headphone with race ambient noise through the other... very disconcerting...

    I've just checked. It's like I have a helicopter buzzing by my left ear.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    dish_dash wrote:
    Anyone else watching on Eurosport adfree via headphones. I seem to only get commentary through one headphone with race ambient noise through the other... very disconcerting...

    Haha - I had that on with only my left headphone in. Was wondering why the commentary had gone missing.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    And if I put my ear next to the speakers of my laptop, Sean Kelly is only coming out the right side.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    edited May 2018
    Now testing the Dutch adplus stream... And the adverts are at least in stereo.

    But at least I've learnt how you pronounce Tag Heuer, it's only taken 35 years.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    dish_dash wrote:
    Anyone else watching on Eurosport adfree via headphones. I seem to only get commentary through one headphone with race ambient noise through the other... very disconcerting...

    That's for all the ABK fans no?
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    so it's not just me... I've switched back to the ad version for a bit of relief...
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    dish_dash wrote:
    Anyone else watching on Eurosport adfree via headphones. I seem to only get commentary through one headphone with race ambient noise through the other... very disconcerting...

    That's for all the ABK fans no?

    It was a good option to have earlier, it's true.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    dish_dash wrote:
    Anyone else watching on Eurosport adfree via headphones. I seem to only get commentary through one headphone with race ambient noise through the other... very disconcerting...

    That's for all the ABK fans no?

    It was a good option to have earlier, it's true.

    Maybe... though we not have kirby and kelly back and it's doing my head in...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Astana gunning it hard.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Astana really turning up the pace. I hope they have found a soft field for Superman.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Formolo, Meintjes, Brambila done for.
    Poels too.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    froome looks not too bad.
    "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 pm
  • hanshotfirst
    hanshotfirst Posts: 403
    mididoctors wrote:
    froome looks not too bad.

    must be all those drugs and inhalers and hidden motors he ate last night
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Right. This one works for me, Pross.
    UK Eurosport 1.

    http://www.liveonlinetv247.info/eurosport.php

    This has been great so far, thanks very much :D
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