Giro D'italia Stage 12 - Castelfidardo → Ravenna 184km

[boomcie]

in dutch it's gaap

I prefer geeuw

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

It's a flat sprinter's stage, so what did you all expect? Three weeks long hellish stages every day? Meet you at the clinic....

 

[thirteen]

we need to put together a multi-lingual dictionary of good words all cycling fans should know...

YAWN is an appropriate place to start what with the excitement of this stage.

maybe we can do a sticky

 

[boomcie]

It's a flat sprinter's stage, so what did you all expect? Three weeks long hellish stages every day? Meet you at the clinic....

I don't think anyone's complaining really. It's OK to admit you're bored though... It would be silly to deny it actually. Sharing ones boredom is therapeutic.

 

[K-0tic]

Well at least you can get some sleep and prepare for the next day

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

I don't think anyone's complaining really. It's OK to admit you're bored though... It would be silly to deny it actually. Sharing ones boredom is therapeutic.

Or contagious, not sure. Regardless, this stage is an awful lot more interesting than revising accounting standards. At least that's what my level of revision suggests.

 

[boomcie]

Or contagious, not sure. Regardless, this stage is an awful lot more interesting than revising accounting standards. At least that's what my level of revision suggests.

Why not both. I don't see the contradiction.

 

[cineteq]

Anybody care to guess at which Km the BOTD will be caught?
At the average speed they're riding: 4Km to go.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Any twitter photos of the road book today? End of the stage looks pretty twisty on a macro level, much in the last 3km?

 

[boomcie]

anybody care to guess at which km the botd will be caught?
At the average speed they're riding: 4km to go.

7
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[krebs303]

Feeds on small, sound off. organizing and deleting photos and some general computer house cleaning. will ramp up the coverage when the break gets caught

 

[wirral]

7 kms to go will be the catch. Yawn in Thai is "how/hao" [using Roman alphabet]

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Any twitter photos of the road book today? End of the stage looks pretty twisty on a macro level, much in the last 3km?

Pretty straight 12km into the town
RH turn at 3km to go
LH turn at about 1.7km to go
LH turn at about 1.2km to go
1.2km straight

Basically a flat C shape

 

[Fus087]

Any twitter photos of the road book today? End of the stage looks pretty twisty on a macro level, much in the last 3km?

There's a 90° right turn at 3000 m to go, a slight left-right chicane at ~2500, a 90° left turn at ~1700, another right-left combination at ~1400, and a 90° left turn at ~1200. The last 1200 m are straight.

 

[Ferminal]

Any twitter photos of the road book today? End of the stage looks pretty twisty on a macro level, much in the last 3km?

Yeh there is a right, a left, then a left again, the final one is ~1200m out. Give me a sec i'll upload it.

 

[Ferminal]

 

[cineteq]

Just 15'' for the break with 15km to go.

 

[Tuarts]

ftfy white text

 

[therhodeo]

HTC don't worry about making friends when they're shoving guys around at the front like that do they?

 

[Captain Serious]

Good to hear Sean Kelly not exaggerating bunch sprint speeds like most other commentators do. He said most finishes are around 60km/h, with some getting up to 65km/h. A couple of years ago, Mark Renshaw said that the fastest Tour sprint finish was 66km/h. It annoys when I hear BS like, "70 to 75km/h; sometimes faster"

 

[Tuarts]

Lmao a BMC lead out train! Now I've seen everything!

 

[will10]

lmao @ BMC

 

[therhodeo]

Lmao a BMC lead out train! Now I've seen everything!

I thought the same.

 

[jobiwan]

Harmon: "That didn't last too long"

 

[will10]

HTC don't have enough guys left...