Giro d'Italia 2013, stage 18: Oderzo - Val Di Zoldo 161 km

[MrTea1976]

It's bedlam.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Absolute carnage, peleton is like down to 25 guys already.

 

[KZD]

Frigo, Gee and Pinot in the front of the race. APP and Zana bridging.

 

[HelloDolly]

Frigo, Pinot and Gee

Like a posse from Lord of the Rings

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Unless the peloton really softpedals in the valley, hard to see a group this small making it.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Front group should sit up a bit and make the gap bridgeable to get some more riders up there.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Haig trying again. May he outwit and outsprint Pinot. Forum's worst nightmare.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Just a reminder that Bora didn't bring Fabbro or Zwihoff in this Giro so they could bring Palzer instead. Palzer who pedals around in the grupetto doing nothing in his stupid helmet

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Who was meming Palzer getting outclimbed by Denz two days ago?

Well you can now add Ackermann to the list of sprinters dropping the Red Bull climbing specialist uphill...

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Just a reminder that Bora didn't bring Fabbro or Zwihoff in this Giro so they could bring Palzer instead. Palzer who pedals around in the grupetto doing nothing in his stupid helmet

damn you were quicker

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Not looking great for the riders trying to bridge. Their best hope is having ugly wives, because they won't make it across on the climb.

 

[DenisMenchov]

Surely Stojnic can move to a WT team after this Giro performance?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Ineos increase in pace for the descent surely?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Ineos increase in pace for the descent surely?

There's a long false flat downhill after the KOM before we hit the descent proper.

 

[Faserr]

Who was meming Palzer getting outclimbed by Denz two days ago?

Well you can now add Ackermann to the list of sprinters dropping the Red Bull climbing specialist uphill...

He is sick.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Maybe they read the forum and got tired of everyone calling them boring.

Our nonsense had an effect!

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Ineos deciding to rip it up with just two guys left for Thomas?

Meanwhile Barguil with a meme attack.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Are Ineos going for the KOM points?

 

[HelloDolly]

Ineos are not following attacks

They are testing Roglic

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

is this a jumbo bluff? in the armstrong face pull vibes.

make them pull with 2 riders thinking they are doing damage. its alp d'huez 2001 all over again

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

He is sick.

Fair enough, although it's a bit hard to sepperate his sick form from his healthy form based on what he has done so far in his WT career.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Just a reminder that Bora didn't bring Fabbro or Zwihoff in this Giro so they could bring Palzer instead. Palzer who pedals around in the grupetto doing nothing in his stupid helmet

Red Bull helmets shoud be banned alongside that stupid new Specialized helmet and that POC mushroomhead helmet that EF are using...
Yeah, Fabbro would be a lot better. He might struggle a bit on multi-mountain stages and gets sick a bit easy, but at least he isn't just there to please the sponsors.

 

[DenisMenchov]

Team UAE racing the smartest again, McNulty, Vine and Formolo just casually riding in the group. They'll be really strong in the end of the stage.

 

[Gratemans]

Team UAE racing the smartest again, McNulty, Vine and Formolo just casually riding in the group. They'll be really strong in the end of the stage.

If anyone had said this before this Giro, they'd be called batsh*t crazy. Things can change pretty fast in cycling.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

It seems so short ago that the German sprinters were often the worst climbers in the peloton. Now we have Ackermann and Mayrhofer making it into 50-rider pelotons.