Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 17: San Michele all’Adige – Bormio, 155 km

[Boehmand]

Bilbao dropped from the first break group and is in the Pedersen group 46 seconds behind.

Either Bilbao is on a horrible day - or my wishful thinking is it means a Caruso move isn't far off

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Bilbao dropped from the first break group and is in the Pedersen group 46 seconds behind.

Either Bilbao is on a horrible day - or my wishful thinking is it means a Caruso move isn't far off

Bilbao hasn't been in great shape in this race and I also think he's dead after yesterday, but we'll see.

 

[pastronef]

who would have chased if Polti weren't clowning around?

 

[SafeBet]

Del Toro still has Yates, Majka, Arrieta and Baroncini with him.

 

[pastronef]

wtf there's an entire town on the mountain pass

 

[dgodave]

Ski towns so often look terrible. Like this one.

 

[danielzu]

Fail from astana that ulissi is only second at this KOM

 

[Pippo_San]

Looks like Simon Yates will go all in in this stage seeing the massive TVL presence in the front group

 

[SafeBet]

Has Fortunato mathematically secured the maglia azzurra?

 

[pastronef]

Ski towns so often look terrible. Like this one.

I don't ski but I wouldn't ride up there either

 

[ice&fire]

Ski towns so often look terrible. Like this one.

Ski towns we see in July look way terribler than than this one

 

[QueenStagiaire]

The Mortirolo is over an hour long- Bernie Eisel

 

[DarkBlue]

Cycling News saying Plapp has abandoned

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Fail from astana that ulissi is only second at this KOM

He was already dropped on Tonale so I doubt he'll survive Mortirolo anyway.

 

[pastronef]

Cycling News saying Plapp has abandoned

yes RCS confirmed a few minutes ago

 

[SafeBet]

The Mortirolo is over an hour long- Bernie Eisel

Well it probably would be for Eisel now.

 

[search]

The Mortirolo is over an hour long- Bernie Eisel

Eisel is not a bad expert, I think (although not as good as Aldag), but he tends to rate the difficulty of all those climbs from his perspective as a sprinter type of rider.

 

[dobrien]

Got to love Brandon McNulty driving in the break to protect his 14th place rather than helping his leader lol

Just picking on this particular post, could be any one of the posts regarding Brandon; do people here think he's just doing this for sh*ts and giggles, or maybe, just maybe, he's riding because the DS is telling him to ride? (notwithstanding the fact that UAE DS often appears to be ingesting hallucinogens, but that's not the point..)

 

[pastronef]

the Giro-E is somehow cringe

 

[SafeBet]

Just picking on this particular post, could be any one of the posts regarding Brandon; do people here think he's just doing this for sh*ts and giggles, or maybe, just maybe, he's riding because the DS is telling him to ride? (notwithstanding the fact that UAE DS often appears to be ingesting hallucinogens, but that's not the point..)

Yeah I don't get this either. He's been a solid domestique on multiple occasions.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Stevie K looks full of beans today

 

[pastronef]

every time Brian Smith says -Mortirolo- I hear -MOTOROLA-

 

[yaco]

Cycling News saying Plapp has abandoned

Needs to build more resilience combined with more professionalism to get the most from his ability.

 

[Heston]

Vine abandon.

UAE crumbling.

 

[Landeirovic]

Vine DNF