Giro D'Italia 2013

Double negative alert!

And of course it was going to get cooled off. Racing wasn't on for GC. Racing was only on for Cav to sprint. Would have been different if GC racing was on, ala Sky doing Movistar last year, into the cross wind.

They never saw them go down though, did they......

Knees didn't hear the message to go back for Brad and was also trying to get other teams to wait once he heard about the crash

http://www.christianknees.de/cms/

I was near the front, looked around – but Bradley was nowhere to be seen. So I went to the guys from Omega Pharma-QuickStep and FDJ and told them that someone was missing. That “someone” happenened to be my captain, and he was held up by a mass crash (having previously had to change his bike due to a mechanical problem.)

Wurf of Canondale Pro writes a daily blog. Intersting.

http://cameronwurf.blogspot.it/

Bloody good read

I know. But I chose to give him a break as he races for 6h a day. I know how little I could be arsed after doing so.

Bouhani looks like a proper cry baby who seems obsessed with getting Cav's wheel rather than playing his own game.

I wonder how much longer Goss's team-mates are willing to put up with giving him textbook lead-outs only to see him roll in 3rd (at best).

Bouhanni was upset with Goss for blocking his move to get to the front men, just as the sprint was kicking off. Lots of argy bargy in yesterday's sprint, and not sure whether Goss was intentionally blocking but Bouhanni's surge almost got him there.

Should be honest and say I've got both Bouhanni and Goss in my work fantasy cycling team but would rather Bouhanni got the points as everyone else has Goss as well..

Anyway all sprinters are whiny fucks when things aren't going their way just look at Tyler Crashah at the tour last year, trying to board the Argos Shimano bus and Cav in any year when he feels he's sinned against...

These things happen and the more sprinters who feel the need to burst Cav's aura of invincibility the better as far as I'm concerned..

^ trupost

Bouhanni was upset with Goss for blocking his move to get to the front men, just as the sprint was kicking off. Lots of argy bargy in yesterday's sprint, and not sure whether Goss was intentionally blocking but Bouhanni's surge almost got him there.

Should be honest and say I've got both Bouhanni and Goss in my work fantasy cycling team but would rather Bouhanni got the points as everyone else has Goss as well..

Are you're confusing Goss with Viviani? Goss was on the other side of the road at the end of the sprint and Bouhanni had a pretty clear run with 200m to go. If he needs more room than what he got at the 200m mark that he needs to HTFU or work on his jump.

"It was all going very well until 500 metres from the line when Dominque Rollin had Murilo Fischer and Nacer on his wheel," Guesdon said. "Unfortunately, Murilo lost Rollin's wheel to Viviani and so Nacer lost contact with his lead-out man and that made it very hard on that finale."

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOEsWQ6M78"]Giro
d'Italia 2013 Tappa/Stage 6 Official Highlights - YouTube[/ame]

Of course there are inconsistencies, it's racing, man.

this

Bouhanni looked fourth in line behind Cav, Vivianni and Goss, he would have to go some to come round all four, needs to work on his positioning and timing rather than having a hissy fit

So now I am up front inside 30km to go champing at the bit to crank up the tempo a little and behind is a big crash. Immediately our green machine locomotive Fabio Sabatini came up and pulled me off and told the other teams to stop riding, its not a situation you use to your advantage as it will certainly come back and bite you on the **** one day when you have a troubled moment in the race. For the next 10km it was a bit of a stale mate as around 140 riders found there way back to front.

140 riders behind on a sprint stage, that's why they slowed

So what's the consensus then: Team Sky or Omega Pharma Dubstep FTW?

I don't think Cav is gonna win overall, if that's what you mean? He doesn't like pink.

sky

Just trying to import the OFDubstep into common parlance. I'm hoping for wiggles.

Are you're confusing Goss with Viviani? Goss was on the other side of the road at the end of the sprint and Bouhanni had a pretty clear run with 200m to go. If he needs more room than what he got at the 200m mark that he needs to HTFU or work on his jump.

"It was all going very well until 500 metres from the line when Dominque Rollin had Murilo Fischer and Nacer on his wheel," Guesdon said. "Unfortunately, Murilo lost Rollin's wheel to Viviani and so Nacer lost contact with his lead-out man and that made it very hard on that finale."

Giro d'Italia 2013 Tappa/Stage 6 Official Highlights - YouTube

Nah, when you get to the overhead, you're already past the section where, Goss is squeezing Bouhanni into the railings (intentionally or not) and there's a bit of head butting, shoulder barging going on, before it opens up and that's where the overhead starts, and Bouhanni gets a bit of space to try and go round Goss.

see this video for what I'm talking about,
http://vimeo.com/65894973

Did Wiggins just push Uran over on that climb?

*loves a conspiracy

sean kelly is on it this year. never heard him crack so many jokes before

hats off to Merida for a Sidi-level bad advert

Lots of crashes, wish I could watch this live.

hats off to Merida for a Sidi-level bad advert

that is not even close to sidi-level bad. that blue energy drink thing though is pretty close though.

Nibali the super-descender...

What a crashfest.

Lanes as patched up as England's finest.

Niballi attacks and decks it.