Teams & Riders Vincenzo Nibali discussion thread

[maxmartin]

Am I the only one who thinks there is no way Nibali will do the Giro seriously?! I think he is just beating around the bush and secretly celebration that some contenders will go to the Giro first and come to the Tour worn out.

As I see it, there is no way Nibali choses to do the Giro competitively.

He will not even be on the Giro. But if he goes to the Giro, he will compete. What is the point of showing up and not compete? I don't anyone in recent years has successfully using the Giro as the training preparation for the Tour.

 

[Netserk]

Worked well for Menchov in 2008. Armstrong as well the year after. Rasmussen in 2007.

 

[maxmartin]

haha those people and those time. Cycling is in a brand new era now.

 

[Netserk]

Yep. Faster and faster.

 

[Rollthedice]

Worked well for Menchov in 2008. Armstrong as well the year after. Rasmussen in 2007.

None of them won either race. But Basso was ready to win both in 2006.

 

[Netserk]

None of them were expected to win. All of them did better than the year before. Rasmussen was on the way to win anyway...

The point is that it worked really well for all of them.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Don't think the main Italian GT rider can get away with a training effort in the Giro. Either he rides to win or do his best to help a team mate win.

It would be a disaster hanging around the back of the peloton doing nothing.

 

[Netserk]

Who has talked about him hanging around the back and doing nothing?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Who has talked about him hanging around the back and doing nothing?

Conceptually?

 

[cineteq]

I'm pretty sure LaFlor and Miburo would like to wear a t-shirt with this logo

FSA and Nibali launch limited edition shark components

 

[LaFlorecita]

Cool logo but I've seen those colored stripes before

 

[Netserk]

Cool logo but I've seen those colored stripes before

Hard to pick other colours. If anything Alberto's should've been golden instead of red.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Hard to pick other colours.

he could've done something different with the colors

If anything Alberto's should've been golden instead of red.

and how would that not look like yellow

(edit: and that's a total BS argument - Contador chose those colors, and you're not going to tell me Nibali did not think of Contador's logo when he designed his)

By the way cineteq, did you only just find that, someone sent it to me 3 days ago on twitter

 

[Afrank]

Woo! Nibali v Contador logo war time!

 

[ILovecycling]

Woo! Nibali v Contador logo war time!

Im not really disordered by this, Nibali trolling is so regular that it cant surprise anybody.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Im not really disordered by this, Nibali trolling is so regular that it cant surprise anybody.

Yeah, exactly

 

[cineteq]

Contador chose those colors, and you're not going to tell me Nibali did not think of Contador's logo when he designed his)

It wasn't Nibali, it was Vino

By the way cineteq, did you only just find that, someone sent it to me 3 days ago on twitter

Good for you, I don't have that much time in my hands, I was just being thoughtful.

 

[Netserk]

he could've done something different with the colors

And he did. The order of the colours match the order he won the GTs (the same is the case with Contador, but the Vuelta wasn't red when he won it...). You can't really do it much different if you want to symbolize the three GT wins with colours in a logo.

 

[Miburo]

No cineteq, i'm sorry to disappoint you but i could care less what he puts on his his bik. He won them all so sure he has the right to do it.

He won GT's against 2nd tier GT riders, that's something you as a nibali fan will have to live with not me. That sign of nibali is just a reminder of it.

 

[LaFlorecita]

And he did. The order of the colours match the order he won the GTs (the same is the case with Contador, but the Vuelta wasn't red when he won it...). You can't really do it much different if you want to symbolize the three GT wins with colours in a logo.

this post shows a lack of creativity on your part

 

[Angliru]

he could've done something different with the colors



and how would that not look like yellow

(edit: and that's a total BS argument - Contador chose those colors, and you're not going to tell me Nibali did not think of Contador's logo when he designed his)

By the way cineteq, did you only just find that, someone sent it to me 3 days ago on twitter

Imitation is the sincerist form of flattery (or something like that ).

 

[Red Rick]

Shoudn't Contador use 4 colours now?

 

[Netserk]

this post shows a lack of creativity on your part

Yes that is true, I'm not very creative (true story).

Can you come up with a decent alternative?

 

[The Hitch]

By the way cineteq, did you only just find that, someone sent it to me 3 days ago on twitter

Posting things that were fully discussed ages ago, as if he was some insider who was just breaking the story, is one of cinetools signature moves.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Shoudn't Contador use 4 colours now?

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