/giro/ Stage 16: Down, Up, Down, Up, Down-up Edition

Welcome back! Good rest day lads?

50km out Yungle in the Jungle, Nibbles, Christbike, Valverde and Zakarin up the front... GC breakaway madmen!

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Are we using this thread?

looks like it.

Where are you watching? Eurosport are just spamming advert breaks to get them over and done with...

Cyclinghub on phone and Eurosport on TV.

Anyone think this group will make it? Clearly they think they have a chance, but can totally see them all attacking each other and then getting tired

abandoned my shitty thread

Cannondale working hard to secure Uran's 12th place.

kruijswijk looks very confident.

Thanks Eurosport. I didn't want to eat h the climb anyway

Is it just me who hears "Christbike" every time? pic related

we climb cat 2 now

Uran dropped from 2nd group?

parcheggio.

Dear Eurosport. Why do you keep putting all these skeletal men riding bikes up a hill in the way of the adverts?

>tfw missing today

why do you hate me?

Nibali paying off Russians

Nibbles in trouble again. No worries for Kruijswijk

Lucky their meme currency is cheap

>tfw drinking every time the commentator refers to Nibali as 'The shark of Mesina'

>tfw drinking every time Sean Kelly talks about the turd week

>2AGAN

i never liked renaat. just send wuyts!

based kruijswijk

why is he so good

Or why are others so bad

He's good because the others are men. If Quintana, Froome or Contador were here, he'd be dropped.

>Sean Kelly
when i started watching eurosport cycling i really thought he is some arab or similar because how poorly he is speaking english

he'll be back in action in the tour, friend

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Where's peloton?

Kek

Get in prison right now.

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You hearing this ?

Here too

>nibbles

STILL 9KM TO GO

NIBBELS GETTING HURT

/cyc/ brings the bants

He's a good descender though desu senpai

>hen i started watching eurosport cycling i really thought he is some arab or similar because how poorly he is speaking english
His English is perfect, his accent is a mixture of something called "culchie",Irish and French.
You bigot.
Appalled

Fucking kek

Also, is Kruijswijk the lester of cycling?

he's completely out of shape, he simply isn't a threat to anybody.

its a very short descent, approx 2,5k

then another 6k slow climb

Probably an AZ

Except for on descents, where he will nibble.
Are you underestimating how much can be nibbled in 2.5k? Your lack of faith disturbs me.

another minute for nibali.

Apparebtly he nibbled nothing.

Valverde will win this stage.
Screenshot this.

Playing the long game, saving the legs, all he needs is one bidon from the car and he's still on for the stage win

kek

dat astana sticky bottle

I think he's nibbling backwards now

Nibbles nibbles in mysterious ways

>the state of italian cycling

sad actually.

>Implying nibbles wont nibble 1'46 on just one descent

>kruijswijk
>giving 4 seconds to Valverde

what happened italia?

>calcio too

holy shit Kruijswijk's got this. Amazing form

god why does cannondale suck so fucking hard

fuck vaughters

doping controls got harder

Herency for Berlusconi age

such a classy lad.
Still more of a Dumoulin fan though

valverde seems like such a nice guy always liked him

Is a Dutchie actually going to win the Giro for the first time ever?

Didn't Breukink win any GC?

not in a grand tour.

Don't jinx it nig

>great recent successes in F1, cycling, tennis, swimming and darts
>still not going to the Euros
>tfw

yay a dutchie doping'd faster than some other dopies

big whoop

Take the doping talk elsewhere.
Every sport has dopers at the top, doesn't make the spectacle less enjoyable.

it kills the spectacle

then go watch korfbal and fuck off

No it doesn't. Enjoy watching whatever sport you believe to be clean.
This is supposed to be a comfy thread.

doping made the sport way more entertaining

the racing today is pretty good but its not stuff you'd want to look up on youtube to watch in a couple years

the lance armstrong TdFs are awesome to rewatch

an inconvenient truth.

t.USA USA USA

go suck on lance's uniball, clueless man

its amazing how doped up cyclism and euro trance go so well together

youtube.com/watch?v=vW-wJ3fuVzs

>euro trance
what the fuck maat

>Euro-Trance emerged as a hybrid of Hard Trance and Eurodance music and was most popular between late 1998 and 2000. It usually has around 140-145 bpm, a bass which is generally quite heavy, many breakdowns and big rifts, and often uses female vocals. These elements make Euro-Trance to be less sophisticated and complex than other Trance sub-genres and this fact is accentuated by its commercial sound with a primitive lyrical content and renderings of classic Happy Hardcore anthems. This is why most Euro-Trance compositions result in happy sounding melodies. Many people associate this genre with Techno, but gradually Euro-Trance music moved away from this genre and developed a synth sound of its own.

>go suck on lance's uniball, clueless man

i guess you didn't grow up with ullrich, pantani, museeuw and bartoli etc. those days cycling was a far more spectacular, deal with it.

Eurobeat > Eurodance

>tfw waiting for Initial D doshinjins with characters using bikes instead of cars

This. There's some really weird thing developing in dutch sports. We're always diehard fans for our footbal team, but they disappoint more with each year. Meanwhile we're starting to become a lot more succesful in other sports though like: athletics, gymnastics and the ones you already mentioned.

Tell me, what kind of meme magic is going on right now?

Netherlands relevant in rugby for when?

i don't give a shit about lance winning
the racing was amazing in those days

Who knows...with odd magic like this in a few years?

who /elite/ here?

rip

I can get down to about 36 when I up my mileage.
33 would be scary for me desu.
What's your FTP and max heart rate?

Would you consider fucking my wife so I can at least have a good my wife's son?

how many dank memes do you have to offer?

What is "FTP"? And my HRmax is 198, though the highest I've ever seen it get to is about 187

functional threshold power
the absolute highest wattage you can sustain for an hour

I'd be available to discuss the terms on my boypussy.

>be a fan of Basso
>love Liquigas
>love Cannondale, was on the fence between 2 bikes, so I chose the 'Dale
>see the rise of Nibali and Sagan, follow their career pretty closely
>all is gone

Slut team desu senpai

I don't know, but in stationary bike workouts the most calories I've ever burned in a one-hour increment was about 600 (average HR was about 160)

I'm in

that can't be right
i am pretty unfit currently and can sustain ~260Watts for an hour and that already leaves me at ~900, with my

> i am pretty unfit currently and can sustain ~260Watts
wat

Fuck me and my 200

>tfw can't compare my FTP with anons because no powercranks.

You can have a pretty reasonable estimative if you have a Ant+ speed meter, stationary roller and a USB dongle for your PC.

that is for my fat body who can do nothing btut cardio.
shit streength, no sprinting muscles at all.
i am also quite fat currently, so this doesn't even come out at 2.8W/KG

2.8 is more acceptable but it still is very VERY decent for a out of shape person, user.