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Giro Stage 2 2021 Stupinigi (Nichelino) - Novara **Spoilers**

TheBigBeanTheBigBean Posts: 18,520
edited May 2021 in Pro race
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.





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Novara is one of the places allowed to produce Gorgonzola (a cheese).




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  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,675
    edited May 2021
    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 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)

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • elbowlohelbowloh Posts: 7,078
    What's the bird? Looks like something Bittern or heron related.
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  • DeVlaeminckDeVlaeminck Posts: 8,455
    Was just going to ask the same thing
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  • MattFalleMattFalle Posts: 11,644
    blazing_saddles said:

    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 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)

    agree completely re Giro website - videos are really groovy as well
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • TheBigBeanTheBigBean Posts: 18,520
    elbowloh said:

    What's the bird? Looks like something Bittern or heron related.

    It was labelled as a bird in the Po Valley, so unfortunately I can't help.
  • No_Ta_DoctorNo_Ta_Doctor Posts: 12,212
    On Eurosport the day's break is Marco Fu, who seems to have potted Ganna on the way to a maximum.
    “Road racing was over and the UCI had banned my riding positions on the track, so it was like ‘Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab, what do I do now? I know, I’ll go away and be depressed for 10 years’.”

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  • bobmcstuffbobmcstuff Posts: 10,630
    Easiest break in history as 3 pro conti riders are allowed to go with no complaints...
  • bobmcstuffbobmcstuff Posts: 10,630
    Easiest break in history as 3 pro conti riders are allowed to go with no complaints...
  • No_Ta_DoctorNo_Ta_Doctor Posts: 12,212
    elbowloh said:

    What's the bird? Looks like something Bittern or heron related.

    I think it's a juvenile squacco heron, but not 100% sure.
    “Road racing was over and the UCI had banned my riding positions on the track, so it was like ‘Jings, crivvens, help ma Boab, what do I do now? I know, I’ll go away and be depressed for 10 years’.”

    @DrHeadgear

    The Vikings are coming!
  • jimmyjamsjimmyjams Posts: 600
    TheBigBean said:


    Novara is one of the places allowed to produce Gorgonzola (a cheese).

    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).
    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.



  • ProssPross Posts: 36,392
    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.
  • kingstongrahamkingstongraham Posts: 23,970
    edited May 2021
    So who's getting to wear blue tomorrow?
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,671
    Throw your power meter away @Pross .
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  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,671
    kingstongraham said:

    So who's getting to wear blue tomorrow?

    What does ptp say? Wisdom of the crowds
    "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_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,675
    jimmyjams said:

    TheBigBean said:


    Novara is one of the places allowed to produce Gorgonzola (a cheese).

    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).
    I was thinking that Barolo might be more appropriate for tomorrow, as today's stage seems to skirt around the main wine producing areas?

    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:





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  • ProssPross Posts: 36,392
    mididoctors said:

    Throw your power meter away @Pross .

    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.
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,675
    edited May 2021
    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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  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,671
    Pross said:

    mididoctors said:

    Throw your power meter away @Pross .

    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.
    On an aside the po valley is the easiest cycling terrain I have ever ridden .
    "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
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,671
    edited May 2021
    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 pm
  • jimmyjamsjimmyjams Posts: 600
    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.

    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.
    Photo is advertising it for Xmas 2020 (thus her hat)


  • jimmyjamsjimmyjams Posts: 600
    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.)

    Chicken Marengo, invented for Napoleon to celebrate his battle victory - when it's prepared well, one of my very favourite dishes. :)
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    The Androni kit is amazing. There's ten sponsors on the shorts alone
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  • TheBigBeanTheBigBean Posts: 18,520
    Not a lot happening with 42km to go.
  • mididoctorsmididoctors Posts: 14,671
    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 pm
  • Dorset_BoyDorset_Boy Posts: 6,123
    The sprint for the 40 km banner, not the intermediate sprint banner! Ooops!
  • MattFalleMattFalle Posts: 11,644
    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.
  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 22,935
    Ganna can TT. Ganna can climb. Now Ganna can sprint.
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  • thejimmymethodthejimmymethod Posts: 458
    Raining bidons in the litter zone. Someone on the outside gets a shower as a bidon connects with a telegraph pole
  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,675
    thejimmymethod said:

    Raining bidons in the litter zone. Someone on the outside gets a shower as a bidon connects with a telegraph pole

    She looked like somebody’s grandma!
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  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,675
    3kms passed safely
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