This giro is going to be easy to remember . It's the one where they would start each day ...then MvdP would attack
"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
15km to go of the first climb, 22 riders up the road with quality in there. Yates, Valverde, Kelderman, Carthy, Martin, Arensman, Bouwman, Ciccone, Formolo among them. 40 second gap.
Ineos have 7 at the front of what's left of the peloton. Single line currently.
Valverde Martin welco Yates carthy trying to drag a big group away ...ineos grovelling behind containing the gap... Peloton and multiple busses forming
"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
A lot of riders have already used up a lot of energy and are beginning to run dry.
Ineos are going deep ..but they are there . Formolo looks like he needs a holiday
"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
"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
Yates look so unstressed compared to many ...take away that GC pressure
"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
Nan peters has been holding that 50 m off the back of the front group for an age
"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
Yup. That's the one. I think there will be quite a few spells out of the saddle even on a compact 34 with a specially bought 32 cassette.
By the way you can normally swap out the 34 for a 33 inner ring, which gives you a little bit more...
33:32 @ 70 rpm is around 9 km/h... Which might be more manageable... Works out to around 240 watts for a 70kg rider on 11%, 255 ish on 12%... so depends a lot how fit you are (obviously......) but you might be able to get up, after all you can do 50 rpm if you really need to.
"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
"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
What is? I'm watching surreptitiously on my phone with the volume switched off.
Nobody saw how the split happened, and the second group just can't make any inroads into it, even with Yates, Carthy, Martin.
Ah. Okay thanks. I popped to the bathroom and when I got back saw a front group missing Valverde Poels and DSM. It took a while to figure out that what the TV was showing was a chasing group.
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Ineos have 7 at the front of what's left of the peloton. Single line currently.
Big names are Yates, Kelderman, Martin, Carthy, Fortunato, Hirt, Valverde, Arensman, Ciccone and Formolo.
33:32 @ 70 rpm is around 9 km/h... Which might be more manageable... Works out to around 240 watts for a 70kg rider on 11%, 255 ish on 12%... so depends a lot how fit you are (obviously......) but you might be able to get up, after all you can do 50 rpm if you really need to.
Martin going from the break with censored descending.
Decent gap between the two suddenly. Second group not working at all.
Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet
Antwan Tolhoek, Sam Oomen, Tom Dumoulin, Thymen Arensman, Remco Evenepoel, Benoît Cosnefroy, Tom Pidcock, Mark Cavendish, Romain Bardet