2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 6: Mola Di Bari - Margherita Di Savoia

[SafeBet]

Technical overview:
A shortish (169 kms), flat stage with long sections along the coast (with high chance of wind). The riders will pass a first time through the finish before having two laps in a 16 kms long circuit (by Eshnar)


Main contenders:
**** Cavendish
*** Degenkolb, Viviani, Bouhanni
** Goss, Ventoso, Gavazzi
* Nizzolo, Chicchi, Blythe, Modolo, Bole, Belletti, Dehaes


Sprinter teams can't f*ck this up.

 

[icefire]

Soft breeze in the weather forecast. Anyway, the final loop would kill any chance of crosswind splits. I'd rather watch a replay of Scheldeprijs.

 

[maxmartin]

Cav and wish for the cross wind

 

[the sceptic]

This is gonna be boring. Might tune in for the final 15 minutes though.

 

[Viking]

Yeah, this one has "Cavendish" written all over it. Maybe Viviani or Bouhanni can make it look close.

 

[Escarabajo]

Next stage please!

 

[iZnoGouD]

This stage has Machado written all over it

 

[maxmartin]

This stage has Machado written all over it

are u serious?

 

[cineteq]

Can anybody open the stage 7?

 

[Old&slow]

Tomorrow is one of the few stages in this Tour to be excited about. Finally see an exciting sprint stage after to many boring mountain and classic stages.

 

[maxmartin]

Can anybody open the stage 7?

you go ahead open one.
It will be very interesting, are they going to all out attack W? or race conservatively to save the energy for ITT next day?

 

[Carols]

Snoozer...Cav.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

169k of that?

Seriously, shorten this flat stuff to 80k.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

you go ahead open one.
It will be very interesting, are they going to all out attack W? or race conservatively to save the energy for ITT next day?

I would think they want to make Wiggins suffer as much as possible before the TT.

By "they", I mean Uran and Henao.

 

[maxmartin]

I would think they want to make Wiggins suffer as much as possible before the TT.

By "they", I mean Uran and Henao.

that would be comical

 

[saneguy]

Non-event stage this one. Cav will probably take this one. Doubt if Cross-winds will make a huge impact.

 

[SafeBet]

Weather should be sunny. Maybe some headwind but nothing scary.

 

[ILovecycling]

that would be comical

Wiggins will bite a dust on friday(imo Scarponi,Betancur and Hesjedal will attack),shame I cant follow it tomorrow.
Today?zzzzzzzz...Cav

 

[wirral]

Technical run-in with tight bends, narrowing of roads, lots of road paint and hump-backed bridges a la Giro?

 

[Netserk]

Next stage please!

This. I'm not gonna watch today. What a load of crap.

 

[Der Effe]

It's a bank holiday and then they put you up with this. Couldn't be worse.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

wtf, are we in July?

Anyway Chicchi FTW.

 

[SafeBet]

It's a bank holiday and then they put you up with this. Couldn't be worse.

What bank holiday? It's a normal day in Italy



Anyway I've got a feeling Gavazzi might take this, dunno why.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Not even a single categorized climb? Maybe even Pirazzi won't attack today then?

 

[Netserk]

It's also a holiday here in Denmark.