Giro Stage 2 2021 Stupinigi (Nichelino) - Novara **Spoilers**
TheBigBean
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Stage
179km from Stupinigi (Nichelino) to Novara. Stage is flat with one minor mountain classification in the middle.
Can't find a map.
It crosses the Po Valley. This unbroken plain is the largest in Southern Europe.
Favourites
*** Ewan
** Groenewegen, Merlier, Gaviria
*Viviani, Nizzolo, Sagan,
Food
Novara is one of the places allowed to produce Gorgonzola (a cheese).
Animal of the day
179km from Stupinigi (Nichelino) to Novara. Stage is flat with one minor mountain classification in the middle.
Can't find a map.
It crosses the Po Valley. This unbroken plain is the largest in Southern Europe.
Favourites
*** Ewan
** Groenewegen, Merlier, Gaviria
*Viviani, Nizzolo, Sagan,
Food
Novara is one of the places allowed to produce Gorgonzola (a cheese).
Animal of the day
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The Giro website is as good as anywhere to pinch stuff from. All their profiles and maps download here. (Not the case come the Tour and those lovely folks of the ASO)TheBigBean said:Stage
179km from Stupinigi (Nichelino) to Novara. Stage is flat with one minor mountain classification in the middle.
Can't find a map.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
What's the bird? Looks like something Bittern or heron related.0
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Was just going to ask the same thing[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]0
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agree completely re Giro website - videos are really groovy as wellblazing_saddles said:
The Giro website is as good as anywhere to pinch stuff from. All their profiles and maps download here. (Not the case come the Tour and those lovely folks of the ASO)TheBigBean said:Stage
179km from Stupinigi (Nichelino) to Novara. Stage is flat with one minor mountain classification in the middle.
Can't find a map.
.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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It was labelled as a bird in the Po Valley, so unfortunately I can't help.elbowloh said:What's the bird? Looks like something Bittern or heron related.
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On Eurosport the day's break is Marco Fu, who seems to have potted Ganna on the way to a maximum.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0
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Easiest break in history as 3 pro conti riders are allowed to go with no complaints...0
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Easiest break in history as 3 pro conti riders are allowed to go with no complaints...0
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I think it's a juvenile squacco heron, but not 100% sure.elbowloh said:What's the bird? Looks like something Bittern or heron related.
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Novara also has lots of rice fields around it – so an appropriate dish for today would be risotto (from the area) with green asparagus (in season), and a Barolo wine (also local).TheBigBean said:
Novara is one of the places allowed to produce Gorgonzola (a cheese).
What I recall from travelling in the area, there is often mist in the mornings, the water from the rice fields having evaporated into the air the day before, and then having turned to mist in the cool of the night.
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It's depressing seeing a rider who is about 20kg lighter than you sitting on the front of the bunch tapping out higher watts than your FTP.0
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So who's getting to wear blue tomorrow?0
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Throw your power meter away @Pross ."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 pm1
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What does ptp say? Wisdom of the crowdskingstongraham said:So who's getting to wear blue tomorrow?
"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 pm0 -
I was thinking that Barolo might be more appropriate for tomorrow, as today's stage seems to skirt around the main wine producing areas?jimmyjams said:
Novara also has lots of rice fields around it – so an appropriate dish for today would be risotto (from the area) with green asparagus (in season), and a Barolo wine (also local).TheBigBean said:
Novara is one of the places allowed to produce Gorgonzola (a cheese).
Anyhow, this is such a boring stage, I think it's a good time to introduce a "Drink of the Stage" segment. For which, I have two offerings: one for the start and one for the finish. Good luck with finding the first, but I bet a few folks will have a bottle of the second in the house.
“El cichetin del Niclin” is the Nichelino basil liqueur.
But for the finish, at the Caffè dell’Amicizia, a café in town centre, one Gaspare Campari came up with this:
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Only have power on the turbo, I wouldn't have a clue what I do otherwise. I don't ride a bike much these days anyway. It's more how easy the pros looking churning out an effort that would be a proper effort for me.mididoctors said:Throw your power meter away @Pross .
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Marengo is in the break and less than an hour down the autostrada, is where the Battle of Marengo (That bloke Napoleon again) took place, near the city of Alessandria. (can be seen on the stage map.)"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
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On an aside the po valley is the easiest cycling terrain I have ever ridden .Pross said:
Only have power on the turbo, I wouldn't have a clue what I do otherwise. I don't ride a bike much these days anyway. It's more how easy the pros looking churning out an effort that would be amididoctors said:Throw your power meter away @Pross .
proper effort for me."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 pm1 -
Ignore"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 pm0
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I had to look up "El Cichetìn del Niclìn"; seems it's relatively new, only appeared in Autumn 2018, a 30% amaro (bitter) liqueur based on a grappa from a local distillery, with basil flavouring and extra sugar.blazing_saddles said:
Anyhow, this is such a boring stage, I think it's a good time to introduce a "Drink of the Stage" segment. For which, I have two offerings: one for the start and one for the finish. Good luck with finding the first, but I bet a few folks will have a bottle of the second in the house.
“El cichetin del Niclin” is the Nichelino basil liqueur.
Photo is advertising it for Xmas 2020 (thus her hat)
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Chicken Marengo, invented for Napoleon to celebrate his battle victory - when it's prepared well, one of my very favourite dishes.blazing_saddles said:Marengo is in the break and less than an hour down the autostrada, is where the Battle of Marengo (That bloke Napoleon again) took place, near the city of Alessandria. (can be seen on the stage map.)
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Not a lot happening with 42km to go.0
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WTF happened there"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 pm0
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The sprint for the 40 km banner, not the intermediate sprint banner! Ooops!0
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I'm glad I didn't get around to renewing my E/sport subscription this morning and am watching this on THE MIGHTY S4C therefore not kicking myself for having wasted money on it....
The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Ganna can TT. Ganna can climb. Now Ganna can sprint.
Potential new Indurain given the chance.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Raining bidons in the litter zone. Someone on the outside gets a shower as a bidon connects with a telegraph pole0
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She looked like somebody’s grandma!thejimmymethod said:Raining bidons in the litter zone. Someone on the outside gets a shower as a bidon connects with a telegraph pole
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
3kms passed safely"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
