Pro-cycling thread

But seriously, he is a shadow of the Quintana we've seen in the past.

The moral consternation caused by Dumoulin's dicky tummy may end up being my favourite part of this Giro.

Nibali is such a moaning woman.

Yeah man, fuck women. The only place for women in cycling is on the podiums!

Are jovial comments now considered full blown misogyny?

One non-gender specific person's jovial comments are another's everyday sexism. You (presumably) wouldn't use terms like 'black', 'gay' or 'spastic' to denigrate someone, so why use gender?

Well certainly the first week anyway, God it was dull.

dull first week > dull final week (like we always get at the tour)

Yes, this third week has been brilliant and sets up a knife-edge TT. But those Sardinian stages, then a rest day, then Etna which was a damp squib. What the fuck is a squib? Then two sprint stages, the race didn't get going until Blockhaus.

One of the best week long races I've ever seen.

It's a firework or a short, satirical, sarcastic literary composition from the 19th century.

A squib is a small explosive, like we thought Quintana was. Now we realise he's just a small diesel

Ha!

I'm not sure what people expect from Quintana. That was a powerful group of climbers in the GC, and he is leading because he has been consistently the best climber throughout. Take out the TT and he would be out of sight. His weakness is his time-trialling and he'll most likely lose this Giro because of it, but he's clearly the best climber in the race.

Quintana is supposed to come into his own in the 3rd week. Yet on that final climb, Pozzovivo and Zakarin crested it first and were only caught de to Zakarin's terrible descending. Unless everyone in this race has upped their level significantly (and that is a possibility) Froome is going to run away with the TdF for years to come.

I'd argue Landa was.

Quintana does better as it gets steeper. He not going to put much time in to people on ramps less than 15%.

Pleased to see Pinot get the win today, he's been excellent for most of the Giro, bar the two stages after the rest days.

I really wouldn't like to call it tomorrow, everyone is tired and it'll come down to who can squeeze that list bit out.

Dumoulin clearly has the edge there...

You think he's some kind of king of the mountains?

Well I was going to say with the exception of Landa, but they haven't really gone head to head in the race. Perhaps if he hadn't gone down we would have a clearer picture, but Landa is wearing blue courtesy of breakaways.

I hope to god Sky put Landa as the principle in the Vuelta. He's a much better prospect of a win than a tour-weary Froome. However knowing them they'll burn him up in the tour as a super-dom.

It got interesting from stage 9 on. And there were 3 guys from my home country riding for top spots, so it was a bit more exciting for me than many others here I guess.

And by saying they have 't gone head to head I mean they weren't competing together for the GC, not racing together on climbs. I mean neither would have been marking the other and looking to put time into the other.

Not imagining it, just fabricating it whilst wetting your pants and your 'observation' was couched in some weird adversarial fanboy throwdown to a bunch of internet strangers who have no stake in the game.

Sounds legit.

Glad Landa got his win yesterday after being frustrated for the GC then mugged twice at the line, I really can't see why he shouldn't get exclusive team leader rights on another GT.

I've enjoyed the race, I'm just being curmudgeonly for fun. I wish I'd not agreed to start my new job on the 22nd though.

Calm down dear. You replied to that post already three hours ago.