Teams & Riders Vincenzo Nibali discussion thread

[Rollthedice]

The band of brothers for the Giro: Squalo, Antonio, Ciccone, Conci, Elissonde.

 

[Rollthedice]

Apparently Vincenzo's first win as a junior took place in Solarino (Siracusa) in 1998, at 14 years of age. Since he's there with Trek now, the mayor promptly made him citizen of honour.

 

[Red Rick]

That is a proper retro kit.

 

[Salvarani]

Nibali is pretty funny lol.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/nibali-enthusiastic-about-2020-goals-despite-turning-35/

He could have a great season if he finds his best form.

 

[Black Betsy]

Will he show his trophies to piti? Lol

 

[Red Rick]

Will he show his trophies to piti? Lol

"Vincenzo, show me what you got"

"Hair"

 

[sir fly]

Nibali is pretty funny lol.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/nibali-enthusiastic-about-2020-goals-despite-turning-35/

He could have a great season if he finds his best form.

Who rules the home strait?

 

[Rollthedice]

Happy New Year to all! Here's for some good times ahead:

 

[Sestriere]

Weird seing him in Trek colours. But excited to see what he can do, he wasn't happy at Bahrain last year and was still pretty good. With the current line-up for the Giro I think he has a good chance to even win it.

 

[Red Rick]

This is Nibali dissing Bahrein while also dissing Rohan Dennis about how to diss Bahrein.

 

[Rollthedice]

In other news Antonio got married.

 

[Red Rick]

In other news Antonio got married.

The remora does not swim solo

 

[Rollthedice]

Journalist: "Giulio, what can you learn from Vincenzo [Nibali] and what can he learn from you?"
Giulio Ciccone: "Vincenzo can teach me how to go faster, how to handle the pressure, how to better perform in the ITTs. Me? I can only teach him some folk songs in my dialect"

First training camp starts on 11th, Mallorca.

 

[RedheadDane]

Folk songs can be very useful knowledge.

 

[starlord]

He will sing them to Roglic during the trophy presentation.

 

[Carols]

He will sing them to Roglic during the trophy presentation.

I think Roglic is riding the Tour, not the Giro.

 

[Rollthedice]

The threat to Rohan Dennis

TT and TTT dat @TrekSegafredo #squalodellostretto @Bontrager @trekbikes https://t.co/l764OZ5jFH

 

[Mayomaniac]

The threat to Rohan Dennis

TT and TTT dat @TrekSegafredo #squalodellostretto @Bontrager @trekbikes https://t.co/l764OZ5jFH

According to La Gazzetta they already gave him a TT bike to train at home, Bahrain only gave him one shortly before the Giro.
A few other interesting things:
He'll start his season in Algarve because he dislikes having to deal with the jetlag and big temperature differences will make you get sick easier. He has never been at altitude this early and won't do an early recon of the Olympic RR, he'll be traveling to the Olympics early enough, so it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Rollthedice]

Also from Gazzetta, Slongo says they'll work on increasing workloads, greater care of explosiveness and maximum strength that, physiologically, are lost a little bit. Work in the gym will also increase throughout the year.

Nibali didn't use disc brakes on his road bike not because he didn't like them, but because of weight issues. In this sense Trek found high performance solutions that convinced him.

"With the way I ride my bike maybe it becomes a bit more 'dangerous' - smiles Nibali - in the sense that the disc brake takes you even more to the limit. But, especially in the wet, it can help you a lot. "

 

[Red Rick]

He was one Mortiyolo descent attack from winning the damn Giro, and now he's getting better rain breaks?

 

[fauniera]

Better late then never. Giro 2020 suits him better anyway.

 

[Red Rick]

Ohwell.

Maybe they can also teach lil Antonio to descend in the rain without training wheels.

 

[Rollthedice]

He was one Mortiyolo descent attack from winning the damn Giro, and now he's getting better rain breaks?

He tends to crash on wet descents (Rio, Angliru stage, Giro 2013, Firenze) so I think Mortirolo was a wise decision. Looking back I think he lost the Giro on Lago Serru, a combination of finding himself in the wrong place with the wrong companion on a not-so-good day.

 

[christopherrowe]

Also from Gazzetta, Slongo says they'll work on increasing workloads, greater care of explosiveness and maximum strength that, physiologically, are lost a little bit. Work in the gym will also increase throughout the year.

Nibali didn't use disc brakes on his road bike not because he didn't like them, but because of weight issues. In this sense Trek found high performance solutions that convinced him.

"With the way I ride my bike maybe it becomes a bit more 'dangerous' - smiles Nibali - in the sense that the disc brake takes you even more to the limit. But, especially in the wet, it can help you a lot. "

I think that's a pretty bike.

 

[Red Rick]

He tends to crash on wet descents (Rio, Angliru stage, Giro 2013, Firenze) so I think Mortirolo was a wise decision. Looking back I think he lost the Giro on Lago Serru, a combination of finding himself in the wrong place with the wrong companion on a not-so-good day.

Both Lago Serru and Courmayeur were tactically bad. And before the Carapazbestgetoveritcrew gets onto this, yeah he was the best those 2 days, but throwing away 50s to Majka who got rofldropped every other mountain stage means it was incredibly tactical. Courmayeur was just adding insult to injury and I don't know what Nibali was doing there.

Nibali was clearly on his worst day on Lago Serru, but he severely overestimated Roglic, and tbh the first signs of that were already there on the stage where Dumoulin crashed and Nibali lost additional time due to Pucchio.