Giro 2018 Stage 17: Riva del Garda - Iseo - 155 kilometres, *Spoilers*

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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    How does it go from sopping to bone dry so quickly?!?
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,438
    Debuscherre dropped
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Was that little Kenny off the back?
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,909
    riders just losing the wheel at the back on the flat. sheer fatigue
    "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
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,438
    larkim wrote:
    How does it go from sopping to bone dry so quickly?!?

    Well, the peloton is moving... They've moved somewhere where it hasn't rained...
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Thanks Bob. I thought they were all on turbos.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,438
    Definitely raining at the finish though.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    I could really do with LL Sanchez' Oakleys. I'm boogerd if I can find replacement lenses for the old Radarlock
    Correlation is not causation.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,438
    larkim wrote:
    Thanks Bob. I thought they were all on turbos.

    :D

    It did seem like quite a silly question.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    It is wee weeing down.
    Fear the finish folks.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    it did seem to go from monsoon output on the tarmac to as dry as you like without any in between. But I guess it's warmer in those foreign climes.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,909
    brambilla gesink clip off
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,909
    stybar heano bridging
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Weeeeeeebar!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,909
    finish line bucketing down!
    "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
  • Rain at the finish is mad. Brave/crazy attack late on could work.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,257
    It is wee weeing down.
    Fear the finish folks.
    I remember a stage once when loads of riders were taken down slipping on the painted adverts at the finish when it rained hard
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,438
    larkim wrote:
    it did seem to go from monsoon output on the tarmac to as dry as you like without any in between. But I guess it's warmer in those foreign climes.

    The splitscreen there clearly showed heavy rain at the finish and no rain at all where the riders are, 5km away (probably less as the crow flies)... it's really not that controversial.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,909
    sprinter teams have nothing in their legs left.
    "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: 18,909
    ouuff bennet nearly caught Viviani on the line...but not to be.
    "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
    giphy.gif
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,479
    Bennett pipped by Viviani after coming through late and being forced slightly off his line by another rider. Horrible run in to the line in the pouring rain.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,909
    bonkers stage. brutally fast for no good reason after all that
    "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: 18,909
    bennett getting back rub support off his GF
    "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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Weird stage. It was like watching the whole thing backwards in terms of excitement.
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    RichN95 wrote:
    It is wee weeing down.
    Fear the finish folks.
    I remember a stage once when loads of riders were taken down slipping on the painted adverts at the finish when it rained hard

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jeB9_VmkNc
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    so all remains as was on GC?
  • JTUK
    JTUK Posts: 67
    Bennett gutted by that result but he had no lead out unlike Viviani
  • JTUK
    JTUK Posts: 67
    so all remains as was on GC?

    No change on the GC
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    JTUK wrote:
    so all remains as was on GC?

    No change on the GC

    Thanks