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

[Tuarts]

Oscuro Italiano in the break but I don't think he will last long.

 

[will10]

Oscuro Italiano in the break but I don't think he will last long.

What?

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[Captain_Cavman]

Can I just take this opportunity to note that although I love cycling as a sport, the sight of fat commuter cyclists running lights and generally building up ill will towards cyclists in general by motorists really annoys me.

And my walk to work crosses over several of the new bike lanes, so I can very near run over at least once a week...

Bloody pedestrians wandering about in the bike lanes and acting surprised when a bike suddenly appears to be hurtling towards them. What are they thinking? "Ooh look, they've done this bit of tarmac in red and painted a bike on it. Community-based art perhaps?"

As for motorists who harbour ill-will towards cyclists, these are some of the most ignorant members of society who regularly come out with errant nonsense such as, "Cyclists shouldn't be allowed on the road because they don't pay road tax." or "Cyclists should ride within two feet of the curb." Motorised like this shouldn't be pandered to, they should have their licences removed. And possibly their reproductive organs too.


Cav for the win. By 15 yards or more.

 

[valentius borealis]

But then we have Ryo Hazuki changing the lyrics:

"Kumbaya, my Rujano, kumbaya.... kumbaya, my Rujano, kumbayaaaa"

You'd then get ACF singing "kumbaya, my Kristoff.... kumbaya, ooooh Kristoff, kumbayaaaa".

 

[Kwibus]

Boring afternoon at work... boring stage going on. Nothing interesting to do... argh.

Cav ftw.

Talking about kumbaya... anyone remembers Eek the cat?

 

[boomcie]

But then we have Ryo Hazuki changing the lyrics:

"Kumbaya, my Rujano, kumbaya.... kumbaya, my Rujano, kumbayaaaa"

How about Country Roads - The Rujano version

Almost heaven, Venezuela
Badass mountains, make most people shiver
Life is great there, everyone agrees
Riding in the mountains, in the summer breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place, I be-long
In Venezuela, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

I lose minutes, on silly stages
Riding flat roads, takes me ages
Third best climber, to ever walk this earth
In the Giro, you’ll witness my rebirth

Country roads, take me home
To the place, I be-long
In Venezuela, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

Savio calls me, in the mornin hours I hear him
Race radio reminds me of my home far a-way
And drivin down the road I get a feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads, take me home
To the place, I be-long
In Venezuela, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Oscuro Italiano in the break but I don't think he will last long.

We haven't seen a lot from Oscuro Italiano this year.

 

[Tuarts]

Yeah, I was wondering if he was even in the race.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Bloody pedestrians wandering about in the bike lanes and acting surprised when a bike suddenly appears to be hurtling towards them. What are they thinking? "Ooh look, they've done this bit of tarmac in red and painted a bike on it. Community-based art perhaps?"

As for motorists who harbour ill-will towards cyclists, these are some of the most ignorant members of society who regularly come out with errant nonsense such as, "Cyclists shouldn't be allowed on the road because they don't pay road tax." or "Cyclists should ride within two feet of the curb." Motorised like this shouldn't be pandered to, they should have their licences removed. And possibly their reproductive organs too.


Cav for the win. By 15 yards or more.

Read the high-way code - pedestrians have right of way on duel use cycle paths.

And being on a bike doesn't give you the right to run traffic lights - sad sack amateurs doing crap like that is the reason drivers dislike cyclists, and thus contributes to real cyclists getting knocked off by drivers who aren't as careful as they might be.

 

[kurtinsc]

Bloody pedestrians wandering about in the bike lanes and acting surprised when a bike suddenly appears to be hurtling towards them. What are they thinking? "Ooh look, they've done this bit of tarmac in red and painted a bike on it. Community-based art perhaps?"

As for motorists who harbour ill-will towards cyclists, these are some of the most ignorant members of society who regularly come out with errant nonsense such as, "Cyclists shouldn't be allowed on the road because they don't pay road tax." or "Cyclists should ride within two feet of the curb." Motorised like this shouldn't be pandered to, they should have their licences removed. And possibly their reproductive organs too.


Cav for the win. By 15 yards or more.

I'm not a "real" cyclist like many of you here. My background is in other sports, but I have been a cycling fan since Lemond (well... more of a TDF fan for most of that time, only followed the rest of cycling for about 4-5 years).

But I've started getting into triathlons (mostly as a way of getting into shape) so I've begun experiencing the joys of sharing a road with motorists while on a bike.

I'm constantly amazed at how jerkish many people are when someone is on a bike. Not just in terms of driving... drivers are so self centered in general even when dealing with other cars that I dont' expect much better when I'm on a bike. But as you pass me going down a hill (at about 30-40 mph for me)... do you really think honking the horn is necessary? Does rolling down your window and yelling assanine comments accomplish anything?


And I live in one of the east-coast hubs of cycling in the Greenville/spartanburg area. I keep thinking that if it's this bad in an area with a bit of a cycling background, how bad is it elsewhere in the US?

 

[kurtinsc]

Read the high-way code - pedestrians have right of way on duel use cycle paths.

And being on a bike doesn't give you the right to run traffic lights - sad sack amateurs doing crap like that is the reason drivers dislike cyclists, and thus contributes to real cyclists getting knocked off by drivers who aren't as careful as they might be.

I don't know how it is in other places, but in my area cyclist can treat traffic lights as stop signs. Motorcycle riders can as well. Has to do with the sensors that trigger the light to change not recognizing objects the size of a bike/motorcycle.

I don't think many motorists know that law though.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

I don't know how it is in other places, but in my area cyclist can treat traffic lights as stop signs. Motorcycle riders can as well. Has to do with the sensors that trigger the light to change not recognizing objects the size of a bike/motorcycle.

I don't think many motorists know that law though.

Ok, well in central London the lights are on timers rather than sensors, given the roads are in constant use from all sides.

Commuter cyclists seem to ignore them as they please, then expect other rode users to be respectful when it suits them. As I mentioned before, the real losers from this are proper cyclists who follow the rules, but get treated with the general disdain of drivers sick of navigating around the whims of the former type of cylist. I have more than 1 relative with broken bones from cyclist meets car accidents, so i'm extremely sensitive to the issue, but frankly I reserve some blame for other cyclists who don't follow the rules of the road and iratate drivers with respect to cylists.

 

[The Hitch]

Dont know if this has been mentioned but they go through Pantanis home town. I saw some Il Pirata signs yesterday, hope to see some today as well then.

 

[wirral]

Shouldn't really say this, but I wish Harmon wouldn't apply the Dutch throaty 'r' to every continental rider with an 'r' in his name from Italians to Spaniards to Belorussians. It's annoying. and incorrect.

 

[Captain_Cavman]

Read the high-way code - pedestrians have right of way on duel use cycle paths.

And being on a bike doesn't give you the right to run traffic lights - sad sack amateurs doing crap like that is the reason drivers dislike cyclists, and thus contributes to real cyclists getting knocked off by drivers who aren't as careful as they might be.

A duel use cycle path! well I never, I like the sound of that. Is this what you boys get up to in the big smoke?

Petacchi to give up close to the line and roll in 6th.

 

[Parrulo]

i will go with cav for this one (ya what a surprise )

 

[Ferminal]

Lucky we have a Zoncolan thread.

 

[The Hitch]

Seems like its just Golas doing a itt the whole stage with the others following.

 

[Fourier]

I like those MCippollini bikes, any other bike couldn't pull off that colour scheme from Farnese-Vini.

 

[SpannerBender]

Am I losing it or was that a camera shot with added glasses? Random

 

[Mellow Velo]

You must feel great when you DS tells you to get into today's break and you know that the HTC train will be on your arse, all day.
Snoozefest par excellence.

Better off on those lovely beaches.......

 

[The Hitch]

Turns out they are not going through Pantanis home but rather a villlage 3k to its North East. Still should bring out the fans. It comes at 50k to go so in about 5-10 minutes.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

This stage is so exciting!!!

Or..
well
maybe not

 

[TourOfSardinia]

sbadiglio

that's Italian for YAWN

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

in dutch it's gaap