Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2021: Stage 18 (Salas - Alto d'El Gamoniteiru, 162.6 km)

[Breezy1985]

Wanty are wrecking the place

 

[Mayomaniac]

Shades of Portet 2018.

At 10%+ gradients, you can actually just attack early.

I agree, at those speeds drafting no longer matters, so if you wanna go just go. Here the problem os the less steep middle part and the fact that the final km is the steepest of the whole climb, a bit like the Zoncolan from Sutrio.

 

[Scarponi]

After a career defining ride by Roglic yesterday, today a career defining ride for Louis Meintjes.

Riding second wheel ???

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Would be nice for the organisers to spice it up a little by rolling big boulders down the hill for the riders to dodge. Need some excitement.

 

[burning]

Wanty is setting an infernal pace, LOL

 

[MrTea1976]

Who had Wanty as the team to blow things up?

 

[Mayomaniac]

That's quite a selection from Hirt

Hirt is a monster on +10% gradients, remember the Rettenbachferner and the Mortirolo stage that Ciccone won?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Roglic is closer to the back than usual...

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Thank god for Wanty... never thought I'd write that in a Grand Tour

 

[Mayomaniac]

Wanty goes full Liquigas for their version of 2012 Ivan Basso.

 

[Billie]

Jumbo, Movistar, Sky and Bahrain being pulled up the mountain by Wanty

 

[roundabout]

Hirt is a monster on +10% gradients, remember the Rettenbachferner and the Mortirolo stage that Ciccone won?

Yeah, I just kind of wish he does this more often

 

[Scarponi]

Goat track time

 

[postmanhat]

In the future , parents will tell they're children they were watching when Meintjes attacked

I suppose he must have done that before, but I can't remember it?

 

[roundabout]

I think Bernal will go pop first

 

[Sciatic]

C’mon Yates, Mas, etc. . . Can’t you at least test how well Roglic can respond?

 

[Savant12]

Wanty making the stage somewhat exciting.

 

[Scarponi]

Seen bike paths in Sydney wider than that “road”

 

[BlueRoads]

Roglic is closer to the back than usual...

Maybe he's trying to stay with his team but his team can't go faster...

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Roglic is moving up, he was just chilling on Bernals wheel, don't think he's worried at all.

 

[Breezy1985]

Commissars car blocking the whole road for DLC

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Hardest climb of the year... with Meintjes in second wheel two-thirds of the way up.

 

[Mayomaniac]

In the future , parents will tell they're children they were watching when Meintjes attacked

I suppose he must have done that before, but I can't remember it?

When he won Coppi e Bartali years ago?

 

[BlueRoads]

In the future , parents will tell they're children they were watching when Meintjes attacked

I suppose he must have done that before, but I can't remember it?

Let's not get carried away, he hasn't attacked yet.

 

[Scarponi]

Hardest climb of the year... with Meintjes in second wheel two-thirds of the way up.

You have entered peak cycling in some multi verse