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Genuine question; I have only ridden in France and Spain and the drivers are fucking amazing there. I would hate to travel to another country and have same level of driving as Kent lanes, is this me being wrongfully stereotypical about Italian drivers?
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I rode in Italy, Tuscany dahlink, everyone was lovely.
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France and Spain the driving is much better than Italy.
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I haven't ridden in Italy since, I think 2008, so my experiences are well out of date. I always found the vast majority of Italian drivers to be very courteous and tolerant of cyclists. The urban areas are worth avoiding if you can, but in the mountains and the countryside there were very few idiots.
I found Spain much worse, personally, lots of aggro there.
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Italian drivers are pretty good at sharing the road IMO.... I’ve only ridden in the Dolomites though, so is a pretty cyclist heavy region. I can imagine urban areas would be less so, as with any other country.
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Only ridden in Lombardy but drivers were much better than the UK when I was on the bike, when in a car driving in urban areas, not so much
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This stage is mostly in Switzerland until the top of the Splügen?
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I have very fond memories of today’s stage route. Rode most of it back in 1998. I remember the long drag to the foot of the first climb, riding up the first climb at a steady tempo with my mate, and his mate saying, “can you knock it back half a notch lads so we can gap the rest?” We knocked it up half a notch and poor Terry hung on for too long and blew his doors off. After the descent of the San Bernardino the valley road to the foot of the Splugen was completely dug up so we had to ride along what was essentially a dirt track with large rocks scattered around. The Splugen was amazing, the stacked hairpins and the views on the way up, then the most bonkers descent with tunnels cut into the rock face and hairpin bends in them that were unlit. A great day out on the bike.