Stage 19: Friday, May 25: Treviso-Alpe di Pampeago. 198km

[mastersracer]

get the baby stroller out of that corner!

 

[Mellow Velo]

Zeits follows Pauwels with a spot of off roading on the same corner.

 

[Eshnar]

What? When, in a stage as hard as that one, in the last week of the race, with the first riders so close together in the GC, they all just ride together to the finish line... I'm sorry, the day I accept that as being something I'll stop watching cycling.

How come you're still here?

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

When 6 riders arrive together I take it 'something' happened.
It wasn't a great stage but it was fine.

If you are happy with one good stage. Ok, then this giro is good. But what would you say then about 2010 and 2011?

 

[dgodave]

Not enough palazzi on these mtn stages.....
.

 

[Eshnar]

If you are happy with one good stage. Ok, then this giro is good. But what would you say then about 2010 and 2011?

I'm sure I said some posts before that it's crap.
PS
I'm not happy.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Liquigas going backwards on the descent. Quelle surprise.

 

[MrRoboto]

Does anyone here remember the stage last year to Gardeccia? Contador, who had the race won, attacked on the third to last climb with over 50km to go. Epic, exciting, wonderful stage. Say what you will about tactics, but professional bike racing is for the spectators. When you are 15km from the third to last stage in a GT and nothing memorable has happened then the race has been a failure. Whether it is the organizers or the riders, there has been little excitement so far in this Giro.

Bring back Contador!

You mean, Arroyo and Rodriguez attacked, and then Nibali attacked on the descent.

 

[hrotha]

11 km to go and we still have time to talk about the Giro at large because not much is happening. Yep. One for the ages.

 

[fluffkitten]

Now four up front.

 

[Fetisoff]

Seems like 90% of the forum members want to bring the EPO back, so that we can have epic attacks sticking from 100km from the finish, moreover the same members would then proceed to the "Clinic" subsection and ***** about riders being dirty

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Does anyone here remember the stage last year to Gardeccia? Contador, who had the race won, attacked on the third to last climb with over 50km to go. Epic, exciting, wonderful stage. Say what you will about tactics, but professional bike racing is for the spectators. When you are 15km from the third to last stage in a GT and nothing memorable has happened then the race has been a failure. Whether it is the organizers or the riders, there has been little excitement so far in this Giro.

Bring back Contador!

Absolutely agree.

 

[hrotha]

Seems like 90% of the forum members want to bring the EPO back, so that we can have epic attacks sticking from 100km from the finish, moreover the same members would then proceed to the "Clinic" subsection and ***** about riders being dirty

Jesus Christ, this again?

CHARLY MOTTET WAS AN AGGRESSIVE RIDER

 

[Descender]

How come you're still here?

I've been wondering that for some time now... patience has a limit.

 

[vcampbell]

None that I am aware of. Though, the UCI has a rule for everything, so maybe they do? But, no one is going to enforce it.

Yes, two minutes ago I visited UCIs website, but it's too many page to read now.

 

[SafeBet]

Kreuziger and Cataldo with 2 minutes on Maglia Rosa.

 

[Hawkwood]

You know in my country the commentators are not really precise, and one of them are saying that it is illegal. I asked this, because I'm curious that there are some rule about it, or not?

I think Indurain was penalised for taking a bottle from a rival team-car in his last Tour.

 

[Eshnar]

Seems like 90% of the forum members want to bring the EPO back, so that we can have epic attacks sticking from 100km from the finish, moreover the same members would then proceed to the "Clinic" subsection and ***** about riders being dirty

EPO and attacks are really different.
We're just asking something we had last year, the year before, and so on.
Before EPO races were won by hours.

 

[Lexman]

so i ask the question again : will the leaders stay away for the stage win?

i give them now some chance, given how the GC riders ride ...

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

pre-epo days wasn't as controlled racing either. different times.

 

[mastersracer]

Seems like 90% of the forum members want to bring the EPO back, so that we can have epic attacks sticking from 100km from the finish, moreover the same members would then proceed to the "Clinic" subsection and ***** about riders being dirty

there were attacks before 1990...

 

[will10]

Lol, Rabo riding?

 

[SafeBet]

Why is Garate pulling?

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

I'm sure I said some posts before that it's crap.
PS
I'm not happy.

May i missed something. I had the impression you like that BS. Now i am relieved.

Just had a look at the Vuelta route. Omg, you are right... no GT´s this year.

 

[rghysens]

I think Indurain was penalised for taking a bottle from a rival team-car in his last Tour.

That was because it was in the last km's of that stage, not because it was from a different team. btw, that bottle (given by the gewiss team) was empty (Indurain threw it away immediately).