Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2021 stage 11: Perugia – Montalcino 162 km

[King Boonen]

So interesting that flatter/rolling sections cause much bigger splits and issues than uphill bits.

Putting power down on flat gravel can be harder than on climbs I find. The bike slips around much more if your pedalling technique isn't good. On climbs your weight is further back so the rear wheel doesn't move as much.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Even if Evenepoel loses 2 minutes today, his Giro is still far from over. And having Almeida there to make sure he is not losing more than that is a good choice in my opinion, as Almeida himself is too limited in the high mountains (And already far behind in GC) to fight for the podium or win.

 

[Eclipse]

Wow even Buchmann hitting it this is great stuff

 

[SafeBet]

Bardet cooked or with a mechanical. Losgina pot of ground.

 

[Rollthedice]

A bit of rain and Yates wakes up.

 

[Panda Claws]

I just have the feeling that he himself will not see it like this after today.

Still odd how he lost four minutes on an early stage though. That really looked as if he did not even try to limit his losses.

 

[trevim]

All portuguese riding well: Oliveira, Almeida and Guerreiro!

(I guess we can debate a bit on Almeida though xD)

 

[perico]

Soler is fun to watch.

Remco gonna need more than a TT to pull this gap back.

 

[limak_]

Please do not attack each other, work together

 

[MrTea1976]

This is a brutal one for the legs for the next few days.

 

[Escarabajo]

Martinez has been dropped!

 

[Panda Claws]

Might not be bad for Evenepoel if the focus can shift to trying to get podium rather than trying to get the win.

 

[Velolover2]

12 riders in the favorite group.

 

[Bonimenier]

1min02 at the 10km mark according to Dutch Eurosport

 

[SafeBet]

Amazing team performance from EF today.

 

[limak_]

Can see no point Vlasov doing this strong pulls one after another..

 

[Brullnux]

Higher speeds so bike handling skills become more important? That would be my guess.

Yeah I think uphill is still a watts challenge, we rarely see sterrato really impact what happens on the Finestre, that's mainly just the difficulty of the climb. But once it's rolling there's a wide range of skills involved, which finds some people out

 

[HelloDolly]

Nibali doing very well today

 

[Eclipse]

This is a brutal one for the legs for the next few days.

It's not like tomorrow is particularly gentle either

 

[BlueRoads]

Bahrain is really strong in this race, considering that Landa and Mohoric are already out.

 

[WKA311]

When are we expecting the Ciccone attack?

Edit: As soon as I wrote this lmao

 

[limak_]

Amazing team performance from EF today.

They were in Ineos wheels' most of the day

 

[RedheadDane]

Nibali doing very well today

It's that bionnic arm!

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Almeida is more or less keeping pace with the favourites group

 

[ppanther92]

Bahrain is really strong in this race, considering that Landa and Mohoric are already out.

True, they came so well prepared into that race. Sad a bit, actually.