Giro 2023: Stage 20: Tarvisio – Monte Lussari 18.6 km ITT Half Flat, Half Cliff ***Spoilers***

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Helmet change too for Puccio.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Helmet change

    "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: 43,463
    Healy starting, wonder if he’ll try to get in a break?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pross said:

    Helmet change too for Puccio.

    Very calm

    "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
  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 911

    Time limit has been increased to 50% according to DK commentary, source Bernie Eiesel

    I could have seen some of the more worldly wise members of the peloton using it as an excuse for not trudging all the way down to Rome and back if it hadn't been.
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    Cake is just weakness entering the body
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pross said:

    Healy starting, wonder if he’ll try to get in a break?

    Interested in his time and so is he by the looks of 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
  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 781
    Pross said:

    Even the flat section is a bit technical. Not sure why they’ve put a centre line on a road that is barely the width of a car.

    It's a bicycle path and occasionally bike paths on the Continent have a dividing line so you don't wander left and right but mostly stay on your side - I've seen such in France, Germany and Italy, but it seems to be a local authority decision rather than a general requirement, because it is not common.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    edited May 2023
    I’m guessing Bigham will have done an assessment on the likely impact of helmets etc.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    GCN should look at the post that BS put on here yesterday with all the technical rules. That covered who was allowed to do the pushing and they only found out about the 25m rather than 500m change zone this morning.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    jimmyjams said:

    Pross said:

    Even the flat section is a bit technical. Not sure why they’ve put a centre line on a road that is barely the width of a car.

    It's a bicycle path and occasionally bike paths on the Continent have a dividing line so you don't wander left and right but mostly stay on your side - I've seen such in France, Germany and Italy, but it seems to be a local authority decision rather than a general requirement, because it is not common.
    Yeah they mentioned in commentary just after I posted that it was a bike path. Certainly better than most in the UK!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    It's a second wave of acid Tecno
    "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: 43,463
    Mollema can’t drop Bettiol
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Gloag had a tough giro
    "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: 43,463

    Gloag had a tough giro

    He enjoyed that and would have taken the lead if he hadn’t been getting the crowd going.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Derek Gee channelling Poulidor’s entire career in a single race from the stats Dan just read out.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Champion only visible rider for cofidis ...did he win the scooter ?
    "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: 43,463
    Not sure why Matthews went so deep, he must have an outside chance tomorrow
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Riccitello smashes it. Champion in shock.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    That helmet needs banning...good flag paint scheme though
    "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
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    I like the breaks ..I watered the garden
    "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: 18,908
    edited May 2023
    The bike change has been success tbh better than the grid start ..

    the TTT with individual times was a good change too what race was 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: 18,908
    Paris nice
    "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: 11,435
    I'm drinking aperol spritz in a suntrap beer garden and watching on my phone. Left a pork shoulder on the smoker at home.

    Pretty great tbh. Lovely MTB ride this morning too.
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    What time are Roglic and G off? Just after 4pm?
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    gweeds said:

    What time are Roglic and G off? Just after 4pm?

    Yeah I think G is 16.14 UK
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613

    gweeds said:

    What time are Roglic and G off? Just after 4pm?

    Yeah I think G is 16.14 UK
    Much obliged

    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Butrago dropped chain
    "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: 18,908
    De Plus looks nervous
    "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: 18,908
    That camera on a pole ?
    "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