Giro 2019, Stage 16: Lovere - Ponte di Legno 194 km *Spoilers*

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,863
    Roglics giro going down the road up ahead
    "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: 21,815
    Brown shorts descent coming up.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,863
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Brown shorts descent coming up.
    I feel scared watching it
    "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
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,253
    Callipers or discs for this?
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Please, not Nibali. Anyone, anyone but Nibali.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,560
    mididoctors wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Brown shorts descent coming up.
    I feel scared watching it

    OMFG - visibility crap, rain falling, streams all over the road...
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    amrushton wrote:
    Callipers or discs for this?
    :lol:
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,863
    Roglic looks miserable
    "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
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,470
    mididoctors wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Brown shorts descent coming up.
    I feel scared watching it

    Having descended it in the rain i can confirm that your emotions are valid.
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,583
    Surely no-one is going to take a chance going down this. Tyre grip is limited no matter how good you are at picking lines.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,863
    ddraver wrote:
    amrushton wrote:
    Callipers or discs for this?
    .
    :lol:


    Fixed no brakes east coast style
    "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
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,268
    mididoctors wrote:
    Roglic looks miserable


    For once is him and not cycling fans to look miserable... :lol:
    left the forum March 2023
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Newspapers for the descent making a comeback.

    No heat in a digital download.
    I dunno, an iPad would probably give good insulation...
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,261
    Miracle if noone falls coming down that.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,253
    lopez doing a good job of getting down
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    gsk82 wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Brown shorts descent coming up.
    I feel scared watching it

    Having descended it in the rain i can confirm that your emotions are valid.
    I descended from Samoens 1600 (other side of the valley to the Joux Plane) in weather like this and there was steam coming off my rims from braking... It was quite scary.

    And that descent is much wider and steadier than this, as it's a ski station access road.

    Can't imagine riding it at speed like this.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,253
    Lopez still has a team mate at the front with Ciccone
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,261
    amrushton wrote:
    Lopez still has a team mate at the front with Ciccone

    Ciccone doing a good job of pretending not to understand
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    amrushton wrote:
    Lopez still has a team mate at the front with Ciccone

    Ciccone doing a good job of pretending not to understand
    Yeah, he wants to win...

    Carthy looks cold. I'm getting cold just watching this.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,863
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    Roglic looks miserable


    For once is him and not cycling fans to look miserable... :lol:


    I feel a bit sorry for him. She'd load of talent .missed opportunity. He livened up the tour last year too.
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,583
    Not sure what Ciccone is doing, Hirt isn't going to work so he can either press on and hope to beat him or keep messing around and get caught by the group behind. Hirt is never going to work with two team mates just behind so waving your arms around is pretty pointless.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,815
    Roglic in his basic kit, pulling.
    Caruso adds his weight to Rosa train, but the gap has been halved.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,863
    Caruso kicking in the vtech. Watt city
    "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
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,359
    Ciccone/Hirt.

    Pop corn time.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,196
    Yates, Mollema, Roglic working well together - that gap has gone down a lot.

    Nibs working though and has Caruso to help.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,583
    Dodgy time check to Roglic / Yates? Deficit halved to 45 seconds
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,863
    Roglic mollema Yates coming back
    "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: 16,863
    Movistar and Bahrain close to messing this up
    "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: 16,863
    Italian TV bike to rescue of nibali
    "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
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Some very cold looking riders here.

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