2016 Strade Bianche, March 5th, 176 km, 1.HC

[jens_attacks]

Do not trust any weather forecast. I will be sure when the race goes live

 

[Gigs_98]

Last year before the tdf stage to zelande we had discussions if echelons will be possible because the weather forecast wasnt that bad, so nothing is sure before the race starts.
What interests me is how much rain has to fall to make the gravel roads, muddy roads, because I have absolutely no idea about that. Maybe a little bit of rain will be enough to cause carnage, but maybe it has to rain buckets or it will get hardly more difficult. I just don't know.

 

[Eshnar]

Chaves is out. Durbridge in.

 

[TommyGun]

Last year before the tdf stage to zelande we had discussions if echelons will be possible because the weather forecast wasnt that bad, so nothing is sure before the race starts.
What interests me is how much rain has to fall to make the gravel roads, muddy roads, because I have absolutely no idea about that. Maybe a little bit of rain will be enough to cause carnage, but maybe it has to rain buckets or it will get hardly more difficult. I just don't know.

I guess small amounts of rain will only have the effect of settling the ground and preventing dust from flying around, like what can happen in Roubaix. The racing conditions might actually be better with slight rain than dry weather.

 

[jens_attacks]

^^^ absolutely

We need serious rain

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Re: Re:

Jep, and Cancellara has a good chance of winning the race, so nobody will call for a neutralisation.

I remember him in the cobble stage of the Tour 2014. That didn't look so good.

Rain in Roubaix please.

 

[Carols]

In it's brief history this has always been an awesome race regardless of the weather. Finally tomorrow it is here ).

 

[Nirvana]

Re: Re:

Jep, and Cancellara has a good chance of winning the race, so nobody will call for a neutralisation.

I remember him in the cobble stage of the Tour 2014. That didn't look so good.

Rain in Roubaix please.

In a Paris-Roubaix with rain i absolutely want to see Nibali and Fuglsang.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Re: Re:

Jep, and Cancellara has a good chance of winning the race, so nobody will call for a neutralisation.

I remember him in the cobble stage of the Tour 2014. That didn't look so good.

Rain in Roubaix please.

In a Paris-Roubaix with rain i absolutely want to see Nibali and Fuglsang.

Benoot and Boom will dominate all in heavy rain

 

[DBotero]

ammattipyöräily ‏@ammattipyoraily 5 min.

#StradeBianche Weather forecast, Siena, March 5

 

[Rollthedice]

Nibs will turn into the mighty mud shark, attack from 50k out and will be caught just before the final short climb by a group consisting of Valverde, Sagan, Stibar and Kwia. Bala drops them all and wins.

 

[Jspear]

It's interesting to see that Cancellara is the favorite with the poll. I'd like to see him win. He's gonna need to get to the last wall alone.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

With bad weather and given that he seems to be in a decent shape so far, Nibali could well contend for the win.

Looking forward to see where Cancellara's at as well.

 

[RedheadDane]

Well... I just hope Eurosport doesn't pull their ridiculous we can't show it, coz then we'll be late to show Bundesliga stunt as they did last year.

 

[Kwibus]

Re:

It's interesting to see that Cancellara is the favorite with the poll. I'd like to see him win. He's gonna need to get to the last wall alone.

It's interesting most of all, because since they added a bit more climbing to Strade Bianche he has never been able to really shine in this race.

 

[Brullnux]

Re: Re:

Jep, and Cancellara has a good chance of winning the race, so nobody will call for a neutralisation.

I remember him in the cobble stage of the Tour 2014. That didn't look so good.

Rain in Roubaix please.

In a Paris-Roubaix with rain i absolutely want to see Nibali and Fuglsang.

Benoot and Boom will dominate all in heavy rain

Then just have Boom, Nibali and Fugslang on the same team. Complete domination

 

[Brullnux]

Well it finishes at 15:30 CET right? Or 14:30 CET? 15:30 CET and we may get rain on the last couple of sectors.

 

[Taxus4a]

Cancellara would need to explote the race from far to have one option with this final and this kind of rivals. But of course I will like to see him destroying the race

 

[Eshnar]

http://www.biciciclismo.com/es/stra...la-tierra-blanca-previa-y-dorsales-05-03-2016
ETIXX - QUICK-STEP
1 STYBAR Zdenek
2 BRAMBILLA Gianluca
3 JUNGELS Bob
4 LAMPAERT Yves
5 MARTIN Tony
6 TRENTIN Matteo
7 VAKOC Petr
8 VERMOTE Julien

AG2R LA MONDIALE
11 BAKELANTS Jan
12 BONNAFOND Guillaume
13 DUPONT Hubert
14 HOULE Hugo
15 MINARD Sébastien
16 MONTAGUTI Matteo
17 SERGENT Jesse
18 TURGOT Sébastien

ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI - SIDERMEC
21 BANDIERA Marco
22 CECCHINEL Giorgio
23 DALL'ANTONIA Tiziano
24 FRAPPORTI Marco
25 RATTO Daniele
26 SELVAGGI Mirko
27 TVETCOV Serghei
28 VIGANO Davide

ASTANA PRO TEAM
31 NIBALI Vincenzo
32 AGNOLI Valerio
33 CAPECCHI Eros
34 FUGLSANG Jakob
35 GRIVKO Andriy
36 KOZHATAYEV Bakhtiyar
37 SCARPONI Michele
38 SMUKULIS Gatis

BARDIANI CSF
41 COLBRELLI Sonny
42 ANDREETTA Simone
43 BARBIN Enrico
44 BOEM Nicola
45 PIRAZZI Stefano
46 ROTA Lorenzo
47 STERBINI Luca
48 TONELLI Alessandro

BMC RACING TEAM
51 VAN AVERMAET Greg
52 BOOKWALTER Brent
53 CARUSO Damiano
54 DE MARCHI Alessandro
55 DRUCKER Jean Pierre
56 OSS Daniel
57 PHINNEY Taylor
58 QUINZIATO Manuel

CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE
61 REBELLIN Davide
62 DE LA PARTE Victor
63 GROSSHARTNER Felix
64 MIHAYLOV Nikolay
65 MROZEK Marcin
66 OWSIAN Lukasz
67 PATERSKI Maciej
68 PONZI Simone

LAMPRE - MERIDA
71 ULISSI Diego
72 CATTANEO Mattia
73 FERRARI Roberto
74 MODOLO Sacha
75 MORI Manuele
76 NIEMIEC Przemyslaw
77 XU Gang
78 ZURLO Federico

LOTTO SOUDAL
81 BENOOT Tiesj
82 DEBUSSCHERE Jens
83 DE CLERCQ Bart
84 LIGTHART Pim
85 MARCZYNSKI Tomasz
86 MONFORT Maxime
87 ROELANDTS Jurgen
88 VALLS Rafael

MOVISTAR TEAM
91 VALVERDE Alejandro
92 AMADOR Andrey
93 ARCAS Jorge
94 QUINTANA Dayer
95 SOLER Marc
96 SÜTTERLIN Jasha
97 VENTOSO Francisco J.
98 VISCONTI Giovanni

NIPPO - VINI FANTINI
101 BOLE Grega
102 BISOLTI Alessandro
103 CUNEGO Damiano
104 DE NEGRI Pier Paolo
105 FILOSI Iuri
106 GROSU Eduard Michael
107 NIBALI Antonio
108 STACCHIOTTI Riccardo

ORICA GREENEDGE
111 DURBRIDGE Luke
112 EDMONDSON Alexander
113 HAIG Jack
114 HOWSON Damien
115 JUUL JENSEN Christopher
116 KEUKELEIRE Jens
117 MEIER Christian
118 YATES Adam

SOUTHEAST - VENEZUELA
121 BELLETTI Manuel
122 BUSATO Matteo
123 MARTINEZ Daniel
124 POZZATO Filippo
125 SANZ Enrique
126 TEDESCHI Mirko
127 TROSINO Mirko
128 ZHUPA Eugert

TEAM LOTTO NL - JUMBO
131 GESINK Robert
132 BATTAGLIN Enrico
133 LEEZER Thomas
134 LINDEMAN Bertjan
135 ROGLIC Primoz
136 ROOSEN Timo
137 TEUNISSEN Mike
138 VAN ASBROECK Tom

TEAM NOVO NORDISK
141 DE MESMAEKER Kevin
142 HENTTALA Joonas
143 KAMSTRA Brian
144 LOZANO RIBA David
145 MEGIAS LEAL Javier
146 CLANCY Stephen
147 PLANET Charles
148 VERSCHOOR Martijn

TEAM SKY
151 FENN Andrew
152 GOLAS Michal
153 KENNAUGH Peter
154 KNEES Christian
155 NORDHAUG Lars Petter
156 KWIATKOWSKI Michal
157 PUCCIO Salvatore
158 MOSCON Gianni

TINKOFF
161 SAGAN Peter
162 BENNATI Daniele
163 BLYTHE Adam
164 BOARO Manuele
165 BODNAR Maciej
166 GATTO Oscar
167 MCCARTHY Jay
168 TRUSOV Nikolay

TREK - SEGAFREDO
171 CANCELLARA Fabian
172 COLEDAN Marco
173 DEVOLDER Stijn
174 IRIZAR ARANBURU Markel
175 BERNARD Julien
176 POPOVYCH Yaroslav
177 REIJNEN Kiel
178 STUYVEN Jasper

 

[Martin]

Showers predicted for tommorow.
This race has to go to somebody who knows how to ride on dirty wet roads.
Stybar is my favourite.. and second place will go to Sagan, obviously.

 

[TMP402]

Exciting to see how Moscon does.

 

[Taxus4a]

I think is easy to see the rain, but just at the end, and I think we dont see moody roads.

http://www.foreca.es/Italy/Siena

I think is even no time to people as Nibali, who perform better than others in the rain, to note the efect.

Anyway I dont know the finish time, not the same 16:00 than 17:00.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Rain or Sun, it will be a great race in any case. Still think GVA is the key man, but I hope to see Nibali and Kwia in the mix with aggressive racing from a distance.

 

[Ricco']

The finish is predicted to be between 15h11 and 15h39 CET.

 

[Brullnux]

Re:

The finish is predicted to be between 15h11 and 15h39 CET.

Hoping for 15:39 then.