Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 10: Lucca – Pisa (Time Trial)

[Devil's Elbow]

Why is it a terrible viewing experience??? What makes it worse to look at than a normal time trial?

The one good thing about the TT is that it's meant to be honest in its results. The weather turning it into a tombola takes that away. Also doesn't help that a lot of big names (understandably) don't go all out in this weather.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Just going by the pictures and the feelings it kinda looks like the riders between McNulty and Carapaz had the worst conditions as they basically rode with the rain while the guys before had less rain and for the last guys (mainly Ayuso and Del Toro) it had already dried significantly especially on the descent, which helped a lot although they arrived in rain.
But hard to say overall, at least no one had to leave the race.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Roglic takes 70 seconds or so back on del Toro, that went really well for him.
Overall a pretty good result given he started the day with a small crash.

Such an open Giro, every day someone else looks like the strongest.

 

[Red Rick]

Ayuso blew up a little? It seems like he was cornering considerably faster than Del Toro but he barely gained time in the final kms.

 

[BigCoward]

Bernal suffered a crash in the first segment

Must have crashed 5 times, the amount of people who've mentioned it without reading other posts.

 

[pelotonIQ]

Ayuso has more experience, having been a professional for four years, and this is his fourth GT.
Ayuso had mediocre time trials in his first GTs.

Del Toro's problem today was pressure and inexperience in the rain.

Like I said for the 3rd time now. It's because UAE never cared to fine tune Toro's TT setup. If you watched the stage you could see that Toro wasn't comfortable riding aero, always breaking his posture every 10-15 seconds. Lastly I never said that Toro is bad, I don't know where you got that feeling from

 

[AnotherArmChair]

What you gonna do Ayuso ??? what you gonna do ?

You cant atatck the pink jersey

 

[Red Lobster]

So much for the race of truth.

 

[Rackham]

He barely won anything? He also was never out of contention;

He did best out of all the GC guys and took considerable time a quite a few riders (Bernal, Carapaz, Del Toro). In these conditions, it's good enough.

And putting time into Ayuso (you know, his main rival according to pre race betting odds) is always good as well.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

16-17th century

I didn't catch the name of the aqueduct, was it the Medicean Aqueduct or another one?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

The one good thing about the TT is that it's meant to be honest in its results. The weather turning it into a tombola takes that away. Also doesn't help that a lot of big names (understandably) don't go all out in this weather.

You can‘t see the watts being pushed in the dry, here at least you could view what was happening (corners), from a viewing perspective this was better.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Well, congrats to Hoole, glad he got to keep his hair!

 

[pastronef]

Primoz had better conditions at the finish. when Ayuso and Del Toro came to the line if was pouring down

 

[noob]

It's not the first time Ayuso and Tarling doesn't pace themselves just saying

It's not just the rain. It's pacing as well.

 

[Red Lobster]

Gee ending up the GC winner here?

 

[ice&fire]

What you gonna do Ayuso ??? what you gonna do ?

You cant atatck the pink jersey

Tease someone else to attack and follow

 

[AmRacer]

What you gonna do Ayuso ??? what you gonna do ?

You cant atatck the pink jersey

Suck Roglic's wheel

 

[Netserk]

GC riders:

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

It also rained for Ayuso. Like I said UAE never fine-tuned Torito's TT setup because currently they view him more as a domestique than a GC leader.

You know that, or just guessing?

Would seem very unprofessional if they prioritised tarting up the bike over maximizing its performance.

 

[theyoungest]

A bit of luck for Roglic, which was warranted of course. He had the best circumstances of the GC contenders. Ayuso, Tiberi, and Yates did great, the others, not so much.

Hoole had quite a bit of luck as well, but we'll take it. Finally a decent Dutch time trialist again, it's been a while.

 

[search]

Vine's ride is up on Strava now. In the part with the bike change he lost around ~23s to Hoole. so it likely didn't cost him the win.

 

[Rackham]

Primoz had better conditions at the finish. when Ayuso and Del Toro came to the line if was pouring down

Ayuso had better conditions in the middle, on the descent as well.

No one in the top 10 gets to really play the "other guys had better conditions" card.

 

[Red Rick]

Rest day tends to make recovery from the previous stage a non issue. I'm very sceptical that Tarling is a shoe in here. He didn't even impress me that much in his stage 2 win. This TT is wide open to me.

I would like to continue my rant on Tarling being overrated.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Gee ending up the GC winner here?

Yeah, but he was unlucky that it started to rain before he made it to the finish.

 

[nightowl]

Wow Del Toro was super cautious with cornering. Watching him I’m honestly shocked he didn’t lose more time to Ayuso