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I'm sure inrng did a post on this last year, but can't find it, but most Italian road surfaces are laid to cope with heat rather than rain, so are always slippy when wet.
Check out YouTube for the stage in the 98 Giro which Bartali won after all the GC favourites crashed on a wet descent. That was a cracking last half hour of a stage, very similar to today's.
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Yeah I vaguely remember reading something like that. Weird, because when it rains it fucking tips it down in Italy. Maybe the roads need to allow more run-off or something. Or maybe since it's warmer, the roads aren't as aggregate-y as ours - they don't need to deal with ice so much. Except up those tall hills. Oh I don't know. Bunga bunga.
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I thought it was due to the infrequency of the rain meaning all the dust build up in the interim make it ride like on oil once wet.
bashthebox
Sumo
Christ, the roads have been smeared with lard today on the Giro.