Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 4: Alberobello – Lecce

[ChewbaccaDefense]

I dont get it. Why dont healthy athletic men race regular bikes rather than e bikes?

It's marketing

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Was that just a circular enclosure or a particle accelerator??

Porsche test track, evidently.

 

[Sciatic]

He was also very good at Strade Bianche. If the team lets him, he's one of the favorites for the stage.

Surely Pidcock and Roglic will be bigger favorites?

 

[Sciatic]

Porsche test track, evidently.

Ah, thank you. Didn't look wide enough for a car track but that makes sense.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Groves sighting, he's been pretty quiet so far

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Ah, thank you. Didn't look wide enough for a car track but that makes sense.

The big circle is also 12.6 k long and has banked corners so it‘s pretty big. It was originally planned as a particle accelerator by the way.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

The big circle is also 12.6 k long and has banked corners so it‘s pretty big. It was originally planned as a particle accelerator by the way.

The interesting things one learns on this forum even during such an uneventful stage, it's much appreciated!

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Just bumped in, missed any action?
(I mean except from the views of which the heliTVs hopefully has been able to deliver)

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Rejoice, today is Robbie McEwen Day, said the commentators.

 

[Potomac]

Just bumped in, missed any action?
(I mean except from the views of which the heliTVs hopefully has been able to deliver)

You've missed an amazing battle!

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Looking very nervous now

 

[Sciatic]

You've missed an amazing battle!

The battle to stay awake?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Just bumped in, missed any action?
(I mean except from the views of which the heliTVs hopefully has been able to deliver)

A big crash earlier because the peloton fell asleep. Other than that it's been pretty quiet.

 

[Potomac]

The battle to stay awake?

exactly

 

[Tricycle Rider]

exactly

Hang in there everyone, only 25km to go. Should be exciting though because they're on a circuit now.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

SKA down

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Crash, and a few riders taking the long way around a roundabout, very nervous peloton now

 

[Red Rick]

Can't wait for complaints about the circuit after the fact again

 

[QueenStagiaire]

That was one crazy narrowing right there

 

[Tricycle Rider]

That narrowing of the road is just a crash waiting to happen, I don't like it

 

[AmRacer]

What's the odds for a Rogla crash?

 

[Boehmand]

This stage finish is complete chaos :O

 

[dgodave]

That was silly.

 

[Divergence]

It is clear, yet again that stages such as this should not be in any grand tour. What is the point? By all means, finish in Lecce but please have some hills before. There is no reason why a guy with a double chin (Groves, Bennet) should be anywhere near the front of a road cycling race with 20km to go. Just go to the velodrome...

 

[Heston]

There is no reason why a guy with a double chin (Groves, Bennet) should be anywhere near the front of a road cycling race with 20km to go.

Sorry what?