Pro-cycling thread

This is brutal

This is brilliant, 45K to go!

massive pull from dennis this. tao must be feeling good

Lfgss GC winner happening before our eyes?

Sunweb must have had a plan for this.

Dennis looks like he could ride off for a stage win if he was allowed.

I'd be pleased if I did it in a day, frankly

Moto embarrassment...

Oh wow. Looks like he's fucked. But not as much as that motard...

Oof and there's still 45km to go!!

Kelderman going out the back

I said this would happen!

Kelderman gone.

Dennis is a beast.

Is there a time bonus at the finish?

RD looks incredible. Good lord this is great.

O'Conner looks like he's going bike packing

Dennis came 2nd in the tour de suisse last year, so does have some climbing pedigree.

Reading the cycling news feed ! Man go Tao .

It's not disappointing this stage.

Not jealous of these boys going down the other side.

Can Tao take 3 minutes in the last 44k?

jesus, this thing is never ending

Keldermann may be able to rejoin on the descent, but still a massive climb to come

Is this for real, or some sort of netflix series? Scenario is insane

Ideally I wouldn't be going into meetings for the rest of the day in 20 minutes. Amateur-level diary management.

Apparently, "The intermediate sprint at kilometre 196.4 comes with 3, 2 and 1 seconds, while time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds are awarded to the first three riders on the line."

(From https://www.cyclingstage.com/giro-2020-route/stage-18-italy-2020/ )