Giro 2018: Stage 8, PRAIA A MARE - MONTEVERGINE DI MERCOGLIANO 12 May 2018 / Saturday / 209 km *Spoi

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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Suddenly looks like it could all come back together
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    Phenomenal food for the whole stage here.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    Froome looks so awful on the bike doesn’t he?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    1'20"
    "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
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Froome looks so awful on the bike doesn’t he?

    You've only just noticed :shock: :shock: :wink:
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    Froome looks so awful on the bike doesn’t he?

    "frog on a skateboard" cycling podcast IIRC
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    1'09"
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    The wet glistening arms highlight the arms more.

    I swear his front wheel travels about twice as far as his back wheel *sway sway sway*
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,702
    Breakaway breaking up, but none of them have enough time.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    edited May 2018
    they might just do it.. MS stalling it behind.
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    So Tom ought to be right at the sharp end for this one right?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    So Tom ought to be right at the sharp end for this one right?

    you'd think... no sign so far... long way to go.
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    59" fdj
    "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
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    I can't help thinking the GC guys will be so close by the ned they'll fancy an attack to grab the bonus seconds
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    ag2r trying to block the chasing peloton...
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    inseine wrote:
    I can't help thinking the GC guys will be so close by the ned they'll fancy an attack to grab the bonus seconds

    MS trying to finesse it so that doesn't happen
    "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
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Haig man of the match again
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    ellison is almost useless as someone to follow. tiny...
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    someone is going to jump across 38 secs
    "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
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    inseine wrote:
    I can't help thinking the GC guys will be so close by the ned they'll fancy an attack to grab the bonus seconds

    MS trying to finesse it so that doesn't happen

    It'll be fun if they get them insight, but I appreciate many riders don't want that
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    I’m. Not. Laughing.




    Honest ;)
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    crash...poels and froome
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    edited May 2018
    That there is no change in pace shows the threat they think he is....
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,531
    Froome does a Menchov
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    I'll say this for frog on a skateboard boy, it's always easy to spot him, even when he doesn't fall off up hill.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    sky get him back in.
    "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
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Froome does a Menchov

    Ah Denis, what a legacy!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    That there is no change in pace shows the threat they think he is....

    i think they are all scared of a sprint at the top except pinot
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,644
    Reminded of Stef Clement “he’s always almost having an accident”
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    froome nervous.
    "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