Giro d'Italia stage 6: Orvieto-Fiuggi, 216km

[just some guy]

If Peter Sagan was here I would have tipped him but he is not.....

Can we discuss riders that are here , would make more sense

 

[meandmygitane]

Don't think a sprinter can contest this, to be honest, unless the climb from 10km to go is really, really slow and no serious attacks are made.

The last km is remininscent of this years World's in Copenhagen, maybe a bit easier, 3,4% with last 500m 4% but the parcours as a whole seems more difficult. In abscence of a Gilbert or Cancellara.... I don't have a clue, I'm gonna go with Kiryienka!

 

[barn yard]

giovanni visconti will win this doing a front wheel no hands wheelie from 19.3km out, while simultaneously gorging himself on a full sized wheel of vintage parmesan cheese.

 

[Scirea]

Couple of sprinters could be there at the end. Petacchi, Gatto, Taborre, Montaguti, Modolo...

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

if they make it a hard race before final k's it will be a much reduced sprint

 

[Kwibus]

This is a stage which is really really hard to predict. A lot of things can happen as the profile allows all kinds of situations. So I'm not going to predict anything

 

[No_Balls]

I think Contador will lose some time here (probably minutes) the road up to Fiuggi is a bit dirty and he isn´t good riding on dirty roads.

 

[just some guy]

I think Contador will lose some time here (probably minutes) the road up to Fiuggi is a bit dirty and he isn´t good riding on dirty roads.

Did ok yesterday

 

[greenedge]

Yeah but Contador used up Porte and Morkov. Pity some riders are'nt here but that should go on worst line up thread. I shall go Ventoso, Petacchi, Pineau, Le Mevel and suprise someone fro OPL, or another team, but specifically OPL. Just a thought.

 

[Barrus]

I think Contador will lose some time here (probably minutes) the road up to Fiuggi is a bit dirty and he isn´t good riding on dirty roads.

If he didn't lose time yesterday, I doubt he will today on the sole basis of dirty roads

 

[No_Balls]

If he didn't lose time yesterday, I doubt he will today on the sole basis of dirty roads

Irony, mate. Catch up with uptalk of yesterdays stage and do the math

 

[Sasquatch]

I think Lampre will want to work for Petacchi, HTC for Cavendish and Movistar for Ventoso and a couple of others. I don't think the sprinters teams will let many go up the road and will keep them within a couple of minutes. Then they will ramp the pace up and hope that their sprinters hold on. Some of the sprinters will be eyeing this as a good stage to win as it should drop Cav.

If Cav gets dropped I think Sivtsov may go alright here.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Ventoso or Petacchi. Cav won't make this or he will be stuffed as going hard up a 4.4% rise for quite a few km's and the final km will take it's toll on him.

 

[Fus087]

Where is the finish line? I have relatives there and if they go all the way up to the town sguare it's pretty small. My relative's bar is right there... Bar Martini

According to the Giro Road Book the run-in will be on the via Anticolana (passing through the galleria Monte Porciano with 5 km to go), viale dello Sport, via Prenestina, with the finish on the via 4 Giugno, at the junction with via Rettifilo and Corsa Nuova Italiana.

 

[Moncoutie]

Impossible to predict this stage, would like to see a breakaway take it. Like the shout for Kiriyenka, would love to see him go well today.

 

[Sylvester]

I think Contador will lose some time here (probably minutes) the road up to Fiuggi is a bit dirty and he isn´t good riding on dirty roads.

Yeah, and I don't expect much of Euskaltel either. It will be quite hot and as we all know, they tend to fall when things get hotter (that's when they only contest the very rainy editions of Paris-Roubaix), besides, Nieve means "snow" for a reason and IGOR Anton has a Russian name, you do the math. Glad they didn't bring Cold-o Fernandez as he would suffer even more today.

but obviously you all dnot konw rujano performs very well in extreme heat he won a 50°c medium mountain stage once in the vuelta a honduras which was ridden hard from the start he punctured twice and while changing his tyres for the second time his director saw they melted and were like glued to the asphalt but still rujano continued with his bike on his shoulders and he won with five minutes of advantage so you better watch out for ANDRONI POWER today what a hero!

 

[Cimber]

Yeah but Contador used up Porte and Morkov.

Not really. Porte crashed before the dirt sections. And Mørkøv and co. did their work prior to the dirt sections. Besides Gustov Bertie was alone for the majority of the dirt sections. Also he did pretty decent in last years cobbled Tour stage, so I would be very surprised if he loses time (unless he has mechanical issues or crashes)

 

[will10]

Kiryenka is a great shout, perfect stage for him if he gets the OK from the bunch.

 

[Raceoftruth]

Kiryenka is a great shout, perfect stage for him if he gets the OK from the bunch.

Bang on with this. Possibly to close in gc still.

 

[mortand]

I'm going with Mikael Cherel for this one. I have a feeling he's not too far away from a win, seeing his eagerness and aggressive riding in the lumpy stages in Romandie. This stage have a profile that's similar to the Romandie stages, and if he's still in that kind of form - and maybe times his sprint slightly better - he could be an outside bet. He was in the gruppetto yesterday, but I can't decide if that's a sign of his form wearing off or he's just targeting this stage.

But really, this one could go to anyone with an uphill punch.

 

[taiwan]

Bang on with this. Possibly to close in gc still.

Yeah I don't think they'd let him away if they could help it.

 

[Finbouy]

Another vote for Petacchi unless a break pops out with Visconti in it (which I doubt)

 

[meandmygitane]

If it's Kiryienka I think he will attack the last few kilometres, after the breakaway is catched, on the last climb while the favorites stare-contest each other.

Reduced bunch to come in +10s.

I do agree that his GC-position may be against him however.

Remember Kiriyenkas amazing attack in Vuelta al Pais Vasco this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZp_NEtS4M
Don't think the other teams would have wanted him to attack and steal the victory there either

 

[just some guy]

and they have started -

 

[search]

I've seen three different profiles for today's stage so far, does anyone know which one is correct?