favorite rides, 2012

[Parrulo]

Matteo Rabottini stage 15 Giro D'Italia

Rides alone in the pouring rain, freezing cold. Crashes on the descent, picks himself up, calmly remounts and carries on. Last 600 metres gets overtaken by one of the best climbers in the business. Most people would've given up, not this dude, fights back. Epic Win.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvtNmlTCZP4

If only Carlton Kirby could've called this one!

i find it highly unlikely that kirby could have done better then the gazzetta duo, that is about as good as it get's in terms of commentating.

 

[dlwssonic]

Contador Fuente de.
Cavendish on stage 18 of the tour, that was one crazy *** sprint
Gilbert WC
Cummings Vuelta stage
Taylor Phinney worlds/Giro
Andrey Amador Giro
Cadel Evans Dauphine
Ballan Eneco/Ronde

 

[will10]

Terpstra in the Dutch Nationals was pretty special.

 

[RHRH19861986]

Tiernan-Locke in queen stage of Tour Med and in stage 2 of Haut-Var
Sagan in the Tirreno stage where he went setting pace for Nibali to chase Rodriguez
De Gendt Paris-Nice
Boonen Roubaix
Iglinskiy Liege
Vinokourov Olympics RR
Rodriguez Lombardia
Tony Martin Beijing

 

[ferryman]

We all thought the Vuelta was over. Nah. Etapa 17. The return of the King.

 

[The Hitch]

Must be hard to pick with so many great dutch victories to choose from

Westra Mende surely would have been exciting for the dutchies.