Giro d'Italia Stage 11: Lucera - L'Aquila (262km)

[El Imbatido]

12.50 is the gap

 

[sportzchick]

bring on the radio ban

and whilest we at it lets ban cars, trains and buses and go back to horses and carts.......

 

[issoisso]

Report on twitter that the race officials did not communicate the gap till it was 8 minutes..

so this is what life will be like with no radios

That's exactly how Bakelandts won the Tour de l'Avenir when he can't climb for toffee.

 

[issoisso]

and whilest we at it lets ban cars and go back to horse and carts.......

Radios have made racing far, faaaaaaar duller than it was before radios.

They need to go.

 

[Kender]

and whilest we at it lets ban cars, trains and buses and go back to horses and carts.......

nah they didn;t have horse and carts... the riders had to repair their own punctures back in the day

 

[dresch]

allo my son

No way! How goes it?

 

[Jamsque]

I don't think race radios make nearly as much difference as some people think.

 

[sportzchick]

Radios have made racing far, faaaaaaar duller than it was before radios.

They need to go.

stage 7 was the best stage in a while and we had radios then

it makes no difference whatsoever

plus for safety sake it wouldnt be a good idea

 

[RedheadDane]

Well... I'll disaggree with the live-reporters on site! It is a breakaway! The Maglia Rosa group has been broken away!

 

[Teddler]

radio not informing them till it was 8 mins is somewhat of an excuse, but still how didn't they go oh **** sastre and wiggins are now 8 minutes up the road lets chase. They let them get another 10 minutes awful from vino cuddles etc

 

[taiwan]

Report on twitter that the race officials did not communicate the gap till it was 8 minutes..

so this is what life will be like with no radios

Some fruity exchanges to go down in various languages tonight, then! :0

And some feverish hand gesturing, seeing as it's the Giro.

 

[Kender]

it's sometimes hard getting up at 12:30am to watch some cycling, but todays stage, and indeed every stage but one in this years giro has been better wake up juice than a bottle of V

 

[tgsgirl]

basso, evans, nibali, vino, scarponi and garzelli v sastre and wiggins!

basso, evans, nibali, vino, scarponi and garzelli v sastre, arroyo, tondo, kiserlovski, kiriyenka, agnoli, Pozzovivo and wiggins

 

[sportzchick]

Some fruity exchanges to go down in various languages tonight, then! :0

how I love to be a fly on those walls

 

[blaxland]

Come on! Keep it going!!!!

I think aything around 8 mins is good.

 

[issoisso]

stage 7 was the best stage in a while and we had radios then

From A -> B does follow that ~B -> ~A


You fail logic forever.

it makes no difference whatsoever

Look, I realize your knowledge of the sport isn't in-depth. No problem with that at all. But please don't make broad statements. Especially when they're clearly disproven by simply watching racing before and after radios were introduced.

plus for safety sake it wouldnt be a good idea

As shown in the several experiments of stages without radios, there is no difference in terms of safety.

Especially when the radio ban we want is banning DSs from talking to riders, not banning the organizers from informing the riders of safety hazards as they already do.

 

[tgsgirl]

That's exactly how Bakelandts won the Tour de l'Avenir when he can't climb for toffee.

You really don't like Bakelandts, do you?

 

[auscyclefan94]

basso, evans, nibali, vino, scarponi and garzelli v sastre, arroyo, tondo, kiserlovski, kiriyenka, agnoli, Pozzovivo and wiggins

still no match...

 

[Anonymous]

well after last nights toc stage the giro had a hell of lot to live up to, but this is quiete exciting

 

[tgsgirl]

Group Vino / Evans down to 27 men.

 

[issoisso]

You really don't like Bakelandts, do you?

I do like Bakelandts. He's one of my favourite riders. It's a fact that he won Avenir only because a radio malfunction meant the peloton wasn't aware he was in front until it was far too late to do anything about it.

He got a massive lead, then lost chunks of time in the only mountain stage but held on to win.

 

[davidw]

Live chat, now with live updates

I whipped up a little code that takes some live updates from twitter and posts them to the live chat:

http://bikechatter.com/chat

Stop by and say hi, and discuss the stage - it's a lot more convenient than forums like this one (you don't have to sit there hitting reload), or twitter, which is sort of like shouting into a windstorm.

 

[Kender]

race radios allow DS's to tell their riders all the crash at the same time... only explanation for Team Ground

 

[R.0.t.O]

Of course the time gaps are so big that they're lagging behind the action by quite a lot of km's so it's difficult to judge really whether the chasers have picked it up enough yet. We'll see when they arrive at the top of that climb. There's obviously a certain amount of panic in the bunch but not so much that Vino, Basso, Cunego are pulling on the front themselves yet.

To me it looks like this will only neutralise the previous losses in terms of guys like Wiggins and Sastre - they're still not going to win the GC. It will give the Liquigas guys some nice cards to play in the final week now they have a couple of extra guys up in the standings. And if this stage hasn't been interesting enough already, it is building to a major shoot out between Evans, Vino, Nibs, Basso, Cunego et al near the end - they're going to come into a lumpy finale with very few riders around them. There's a long plateau at the top of this climb which will make it very difficult for riders dropped off the MR group to come back.

 

[tgsgirl]

I do like Bakelandts. He's one of my favourite riders. It's a fact that he won Avenir only because a radio malfunction meant the peloton wasn't aware he was in front until it was far too late to do anything about it.
He got a massive lead, then lost chunks of time in the only mountain stage but held on to win.

Alright, didn't know that. I like him too, he's been having a good year so far.