Back in the glory days of appreciation threads, depreciation threads, and "I love Alberto"The first pages of that thread are quite an experience, well, the whole thread is, but the start captures the chaotic nature quite well I feel.
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Back in the glory days of appreciation threads, depreciation threads, and "I love Alberto"The first pages of that thread are quite an experience, well, the whole thread is, but the start captures the chaotic nature quite well I feel.
It's literally been only one season where he showed up once exactly tbh.Nice, and the second post questions whether a thread is deserved, just like for GVA.
I'm not at all a Nibali fan either. I liked him a little until 2012 when he screwed Sagan in MSR, then he stopped showing up more than once a year i. 2014 and I stopped caring about him.
It's literally been only one season where he showed up once exactly tbh.
Why are you all such Nibali-fans? And how many of you are there (that is here)?
Millions I think...he's a rider who can ride a bike and race a bike. Bots may ride a bike, others race for them by using radio communication and building super teams. Nibali never had that, really, he is a throwback to the glorious era of cycling, from after WW2 to the mid-80s, when one rider could slam his fist on the table and shake things up.Why are you all such Nibali-fans? And how many of you are there (that is here)?
Millions I think...he's a rider who can ride a bike and race a bike. Bots may ride a bike, others race for them by using radio communication and building super teams. Nibali never had that, really, he is a throwback to the glorious era of cycling, from after WW2 to the mid-80s, when one rider could slam his fist on the table and shake things up.
The best/worst, heal/hurt thread shows how few just look at the big picture for the '14 Tour (Froome, Contador DNF) but forget how he destroyed the script in Sheffield and on the cobbled stage. We just argued about 57 seconds in '20 when Il Squalo had put two and a half minutes on his foes. Really?
That's greatness. He beat them before the race even started...Sun Tzu...but yes, Carapaz thanks him for a bad gamble. That shouldn't take anything away from his triumph in '14.
Vincenzo Nibali can win one-day races, he has won plenty and some of the big ones. Multiple times. A monument win is the ultimate proof of a rider being good at racing a bike. No "live to fight another day" like in the stage races: today is the day.
Let's make a list of GT winners who won a monument, or two, or more....
Carols is Red Rick?!
I am not. I'm such an outsider.
Why are you all such Nibali-fans? And how many of you are there (that is here)?
Knowing how to ride his bikeNah. She hates Richie Porte. He has warmed to him, at least fractionally.
Hmmm...I am not as big a Nibali fan as many of these guys, but here are some words/terms that can be related to the great man:
Rain
Voodoo
Sticky bottle
Trophy cabinet
Shark (obviously)
Mythical third week
DESCENDING
Sprinting
Knowing how to ride his bike
Breaking collarbones in descent is just part of the strategy sometimes
Paying for my kebab in my dream
His trophy cabinet.Why are you all such Nibali-fans?And how many of you are there (that is here)?
It's his trophy cabinet!!
Nibali is talented, has balls and a personality.
This is already way better than I feared. He will be fine for the Giro.
Yeah was less climber friendly than I thought.Yeah I'm impressed, will be pretty good at Giro.
If it was Martigny though... well can't help it.
Yeah I'm impressed, will be pretty good at Giro.
If it was Martigny though... well can't help it.