GIRO D'ITALIA

13th stage

PALMANOVA - CIVIDALE

Edition: outside of my home now

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What do you ride, senpai?

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Beautiful pics. Town?

Your moth.. cough.. cough..

Thanks

Jalmicco, just a little village

What a nice area

People is gathering

It starts in 45 minutes

Church bells ring as it was a day of holiday and people clap at any random cyclist passing here

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Based ItalyAnon

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>those climbs

Jungels will have to hold on for dear life to not lose any time today

Thank you

Could someone quickly summarize what's been happening? Who's on top form? Any revelations?
Unfortunately I missed the first half of this year's race. I absolutely love the Giro, always found it largely superior to the TdF or Vuelta

My pleasure

Some data

33C and humid as fuck

No wind by now
Weather forecasts says it will remain sunny

But there is a proverb on the mountains near here.. if it rains on Ascension Day (39 days after Easter) it will be bad weather for the next 40 days.. it has rained and the proverb was right till today, so I wouldn't be surprised if weather will get worse in the afternoon

Damn, beat me to it.

Very cool photos OP and looks like a really nice place to live in

Sprinter stages:
Greipel won 3 but quit the Giro yesterday
Kittel won 2
Ewan disappointed so far

Time trials:
Dumoulin won the opening one with 0.01 of a second against Primoz Roglic revelation (ski jumper turned cyclist)
However Roglic won the 2nd one against all odds
Cancellara disappointed and has abandoded the race

Mountain stages:
Movistar looking okay with Amador and Valverde close in top 5 at a minute from leader
Nibali looking decent but is just holding on and not trying much
Steven Kruiswuik is holland's hope for this giro GC
But Bob Jungels is the revelation so far as the leader in the GC, can hold on with the climbers on normal cols. But i think when the big 'Hors categorie' climbs will come, it will be difficult for him

So Jungels pink and white jersey (since he's only 23), officially Greipel still in red sprinters jersey but he abandoned yesterday so i think Ulissi or Demare will take it, Cunego in blue mountain jersey (bit of a surprise)

Well you came just in time for the mountains!

>not on eurosport until 12.45

fucking hell, i dont even cycle but theres something about watching it that is really enjoable

Since you like the pics I'll post a couple of them from the mountainous part of today stage.. because I was hiking precisely there two weeks ago

Cheers lad, nice to see the clear favourites still fighting for the Maglia Rosa, I hope Jungels doesn't go full Dumoulin. It looks like it will be an exciting week-end

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Nice man, I holidayed in Sorrento last year, Italy is truly great.

im guessing these are mainly big vacation houses for groups of tourists who want to hike and bike in the area?

Thanks!

This is the Matajur, the next coming mountain
(There isn't snow there now)

No no that's just a normal village

We don't have organized touristical places in this part of the Alps.. because mountains are not high so no one comes here for them

>mfw finally a mountain stage

the peloton is in the break

99% of this region's rural areas look like that.

Damn Italy is comfy as fuck. When you're driving through, it feels like every village or town you stop at is comfy as fuck with some nice old building to see and a couple of literal 10/10 restaurants

And 99% of the region is rural

Excellent. Big cities a shit.

Italy's a shithole ;)

Come on, lads. You've 3 hours 15 minutes to get this stage finished.

30 man breakaway

will be hard for Etixx to keep Jungels safe today

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>tfw only slovenian flags and not a single italian one
Feels good

...ouch

ouch >.

Narrow as fuck.

It's weird how the Giro has become so "mainstream" with on-screen tweets, riders' profiles etc... I remember when they just had the stage profile at the beginning of transmission and that was it

aye lad, i remember when they had to share bikes and deliver mail on't way round

>always found it largely superior to the TdF or Vuelta

That sounds fedora as fuck, but I do agree.

watch out lad, play nicely or they might google coventry.

Vuelta masterrace

I was thinking 5-6 years ago m8, but I could be remembering wrong

Tour de Pologne is where it's at

Good lad

The city of Fatancur

Bliddy poles, comin ova 'ere, spammin' are message boards

Who here /Betancur/?

>Best Mountain Stages
>Amazing landscape
>Most competitive
>Most enjoyable for neutrals

Not fedora at all, just facts

>Most competitive
Tour and Vuelta always have better competition desu.
>>Most enjoyable for neutrals
That would be the Vuelta,imo. Purito style finishes on almost every stage, lots of attacking.

giro, featuring:
an epic sterrato stage 5 years ago
lesser gc contenders
lesser sprinters
sprinters leaving after 5 stages

it's the phrasing.

>I enjoy the Giro most of all.
not fedora

>I've always found the Giro to be superior to the Tour
>The plebs who started watching in 2012 are fine with their French, over-produced, advertising parade and that's all well and good, but I like my cycling a little purer. I'm sure you understand
fedora as fuck.

Alright, you're probably right on the competitiveness, but I still think the Giro is the most enjoyable out of the three. I respect your opinion though

Sorry, I wasn't trying to enforce my beliefs on others, just my humble opinion. Maybe start some sort of debate while we all watch the race

>air raid siren
remember that time me tried to massacre each other in all out warfare famalams? top bantz!


Still fedora as fuck m8.

>Sorry, I wasn't trying to enforce my beliefs on others, just my humble opinion

Ok, ok, I'll stop posting...

No mate, it's just banter. Don't take it personally .

>Vuelta
>Lots of attacking

Yup, Valverde's extended sprints are so fascinating.

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if we didnt point out when you're being fedora as fuck, you wont learn. we are helping you. the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

Cheers lads, I'll try harder next time

>youtu.be/7nbxa3Teey
>youtu.be/nPj2sR5CInA
Best attacking of all grand tours.

>youtu.be/IqC8KTnBcKM
Funniest moment of the past few years.

>youtu.be/WIFMTmpvmGw
One of the best displays of tactics and attacking in modern history.

It's more than just shitty valverde sprints.

>>youtu.be/nPj2sR5CInA
I was just watching that video, no joke

True. It has 15 Rodriguez sprints each year too.

Good lad. Prepare for Bertie to be even better. The tour will be good this year, for once.

I hope so, one last victory before retirement. I still can't believe he won't be around next year

2 more years. He's postponed retirement.

Nice! Wasn't aware of that at all

based fucking tom

i was so fucing hyp during taht finish.

thread was epic aswell

Town looks comfy

Yeah, one of the best moments.

Porzus is about to begin, prepare your asses

16%

mamma mia

Here we go. Astana putting the pressure on.

its the daily nibali showing near ish the front! here we go! /nibble/ when?!

Friendly reminder that I love Italy

>this beautiful road they're on
>tfw later I have to ride through bad neighborhoods to get to nice backroads

CUT MY RIDE INTO PIECES

Was that a 36 ring that Nieve was running? Looked smaller than a 39

Junglel looking a bit tired back there

normally always up front with nibbles and valverde

if team sky's training scheme is so good, and their marginal gains all add up, how come the whole team are shit apart from except for about 6 of them for 3 weeks per year?

why didnt they simply put another fading domestique on froome's training plan and aim skeletor II at the giro?

>Jungels still in the peloton

is 2016 the year of the absolute madman?

>how come the whole team are shit apart from except for about 6 of them for 3 weeks per year?
That's when they go on the full programme. Also, they don't care about the Giro. They thought landa could go solo.

>English hooligans in a cycling thread
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Team Sky are tour de france babbies. Their whole season is aimed towards peaking during the tdf. They've recently gotten more interested in the classics but tdf is still their main objective

>people who take photos with an ipad

>how come the whole team are shit apart from except for about 6 of them for 3 weeks per year

because that's not remotely true

Stannard usually does okay in the classics
Poels won LBL this year, friendo

worry here

Nonsense. They've sent Wiggins, Porte, Uran to try to win the Giro. They signed Konig to help Porte. They signed Landa. They signed Intxausti to suport Landa.

Landa, Henao, Konig, Intxausti would have been as strong a top 4 as is in the race.

who /doping/ here

mostly the italians ;^)

Only for my hair

Yeah because Brits dont dope.

t.sky postal

Who on the GC's gonna apply some pace just before the descent? Is it worth it when Nibbles can nibble any decent?