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I was scrolling the GC and noticed Antonio has ninjaed his way in the top30.
With the snowstorms still to come, that is.
And then they say the field is bad.I was scrolling the GC and noticed Antonio has ninjaed his way in the top30.
With the snowstorms still to come, that is.
How certain is it that the Finestre option is out? I thought there were rumours about it a few days ago?Not really, because preparing the gravel section of the Finestre in few days is almost impossible.
And a plan C going up to Sestriere from Pinerolo (Val Chisone), then descending to Cesana and climbing again to Sestriere from the old road of Sauze di Cesana is not a "tappone" because both climbs are quite easy (especially Sestriere from the Chisone valley).
Considering it's not happening it's pretty whatever but probably one or two laps is enough (so 2-3 climbs)First possibility: Alba - Pinerolo - Sestriere (from Chisone valley, so the side you usually climb after descending the Finestre) - Cesana (descent on the road they should have used as last climb) - Sestriere (climbing from the old Sauze di Cesana road, which is harder than the normal climb from Cesana).
Second possibility: Alba - Susa - Moncenisio from Novalesa (the old road, clearly not up to the summit because you go back to Susa when you reach the new road of Moncenisio) - Cesana - Sestriere.
Another alternative (impossible because Sestriere should agree to postpone the original stage to 2021, letting at the same time the organization to move the finish to another place) would be the Montoso climb (I live there). I think that this would be hard enough
Holy... Can't believe I only find out about this forum after all these years. I could have been here fanboying so hard for Nibs this entire time.
Well, better late than never. Now I'll just have to go and read all 649 columns to get the inside jokes.
Basically, Contador was the forums main man before he retired, but we were hysterical as *** if he got 2nd in a prep race. Nibali polar opposite. 20th in prep race? Giro in the bag. It's the Slongo way.Holy... Can't believe I only find out about this forum after all these years. I could have been here fanboying so hard for Nibs this entire time.
Well, better late than never. Now I'll just have to go and read all 649 columns to get the inside jokes.
Basically, Contador was the forums main man before he retired, but we were hysterical as *** if he got 2nd in a prep race. Nibali polar opposite. 20th in prep race? Giro in the bag. It's the Slongo way.
Before you make up your mind, that I have completely lost mine, let me firstly state:
That there is song in Slongo.
But Vincenzo Nibali doesn’t always need to hear him.
Because Vincenzo Nibali doesn’t require race radio. Because he already has all of the tactical nous.
Yes, I said nous. Not to be confused with mouse.
His head is already a radio.
And it is largely this nous that leaves most of his rivals’ paranoid. Uptight.
“This is what you’ll get, when you mess with us.” And most of them do indeed get it, when they mess with Vincenzo Nibali. Some may call it something else, but we know it simply as voodoo. “Voodoo economics. It’s just business.”
That cabinet doesn’t just fill itself.
It all became so outrageously entertaining that it got to a point where “we hope, that you choke.” But we probably didn’t need to hope at all. The bidon’s, the virus’, the flat’s, would still happen.
“For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself,” Jakob Fuglsang decried. But he wasn’t the first, and he probably wouldn’t be the last.
When they crash they think, “Oh, it’s only bruises.”
“Bruises that won’t heal.”
But Vincenzo Nibali isn’t only lucky. He is also a superhero.
They say that he descends “at a thousand feet per second”.
“Hey man, slow down”, they cry.
But Vincenzo Nibali is no idiot.
While they shiver, feeling “such a chill”, The Shark only embraces the fear, silently chanting, “Rain down, come on rain down, on me. From a great height.”
You know what you are going to get with The Shark. We know his exceptionally high level, and it is up to his opposition to rise beyond that. There are “no alarms, and no surprises”.
When Nibali enters the mountains in week three, he whispers how he feels.
“I am born again.”
“Either way you turn. I’ll be there. Climbing up the walls.”
It’s in the bag. We know it. They know it. It’s in the bag. It’s the air that Vincenzo Nibali can breathe in over 2,000 metres that others can’t. Shark Of Messina, “Breathe. Keep breathing.”
Vincenzo Nibali is like OK Computer; he might not impress you too much on the first day that you encounter him, but after three weeks you will inevitably label him with five stars.
(Discarded B-Side; but still published, if for nothing more than to push Red Rick’s button )
Nibbles never lets us down. Well, actually that’s not quite true. We were let down once. We were “disappointed people”, when Nibali was “clinging on to bottles”.
But even if that was useless, it was undeniably hysterical.
Don't believe all our gospel.
There has only ever been one main man on this forum.
Vino
Still hoping Rujano wins the Giro tbhFinally someone who really understand something!
Not that the Nibs hype train is the thing of the year, but Vino is for fine connoisseurs much like the Sassicaia Armstrong used to love.
That was a funny read. Didn't think much in the beginning. Stumbled across the words paranoid and uptight thinking "hey it's like in them radiohead songs", read further and realized that might not have been a coincidence.Before you make up your mind, that I have completely lost mine, let me firstly state:
That there is song in Slongo.
But Vincenzo Nibali doesn’t always need to hear him.
Because Vincenzo Nibali doesn’t require race radio. Because he already has all of the tactical nous.
Yes, I said nous. Not to be confused with mouse.
His head is already a radio.
And it is largely this nous that leaves most of his rivals’ paranoid. Uptight.
“This is what you’ll get, when you mess with us.” And most of them do indeed get it, when they mess with Vincenzo Nibali. Some may call it something else, but we know it simply as voodoo. “Voodoo economics. It’s just business.”
That cabinet doesn’t just fill itself.
It all became so outrageously entertaining that it got to a point where “we hope, that you choke.” But we probably didn’t need to hope at all. The bidon’s, the virus’, the flat’s, would still happen.
“For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself,” Jakob Fuglsang decried. But he wasn’t the first, and he probably wouldn’t be the last.
When they crash they think, “Oh, it’s only bruises.”
“Bruises that won’t heal.”
But Vincenzo Nibali isn’t only lucky. He is also a superhero.
They say that he descends “at a thousand feet per second”.
“Hey man, slow down”, they cry.
But Vincenzo Nibali is no idiot.
While they shiver, feeling “such a chill”, The Shark only embraces the fear, silently chanting, “Rain down, come on rain down, on me. From a great height.”
You know what you are going to get with The Shark. We know his exceptionally high level, and it is up to his opposition to rise beyond that. There are “no alarms, and no surprises”.
When Nibali enters the mountains in week three, he whispers how he feels.
“I am born again.”
“Either way you turn. I’ll be there. Climbing up the walls.”
It’s in the bag. We know it. They know it. It’s in the bag. It’s the air that Vincenzo Nibali can breathe in over 2,000 metres that others can’t. Shark Of Messina, “Breathe. Keep breathing.”
Vincenzo Nibali is like OK Computer; he might not impress you too much on the first day that you encounter him, but after three weeks you will inevitably label him with five stars.
(Discarded B-Side; but still published, if for nothing more than to push Red Rick’s button )
Nibbles never lets us down. Well, actually that’s not quite true. We were let down once. We were “disappointed people”, when Nibali was “clinging on to bottles”.
But even if that was useless, it was undeniably hysterical.
Holy... Can't believe I only find out about this forum after all these years. I could have been here fanboying so hard for Nibs this entire time.
Well, better late than never. Now I'll just have to go and read all 649 columns to get the inside jokes.
Sneaky good sprint result again. Now he just needs to come out of the slipstream and take the stage win. Treks mountain support isn´t good anyway. Time to give him a sprint train.
Thank F**k you didn't say this in the Remco thread.
He will never be a top sprinter though. He was beaten by two Bardiani men, a guy named old assholes and a Rick.
Well we've seen Quintana in green, so I don't understand why Vincenzo cannot take a flat stage.