Pro-cycling thread

Piece of piss. I recce'd the course before riding back to London for breakfast.

Is much happening right now?

In my life you mean? Well, no... Hence the need to live vicariously trough a bunch of doped up lycra clad alpha males.

Anyhow, steephill had some useful info on Rai broadcast:
14:40Giro d'Italia 2015: Anteprima Giro - 19a Tappa
15:20Giro d'Italia 2015:Giro In Diretta 19a tappa: Gravellona Toce - Cervinia (236 km)
16:10Giro d'Italia 2015: Giro all'arrivo - 19a Tappa
17:15Giro d'Italia 2015: Processo alla Tappa - 19a Tappa

darn, Betancur looks like getting to the mountaintops first

Sweet, an afternoon of procrastinating it shall be.

Predictions for today? Contador to go for Strava KOMs again?

It's a hell of a break. Kyriyenka, Betancur, Chaves. I'd love to see any of them get a stage win.

Depressing Giro this year. Contested by Astana who shouldn't be allowed in and will be won by Contatdor who should have never be invited back to the Giro. It boggles the goddamn mind that a rider can nullify the results of entire GC and be allowed back into to compete again. It's fucking disgusting.

Come on Tim! (Kyri)

Kyriyenka getting this stage would make me unreasonably happy.

I loved the anecdote on Inrng about FDJ having a particularly hard motor pacing session they call La Seance Vasil

Their team scooter is named after him...

http://tourdefranceontv.co.uk/vasil-kiryienka-is-the-man-to-maintain-an-impossible-to-maintain-pace/

Any working stream not in French? I checked SteepHill but al seems to be in French.

The steephill English feeds are working fine for me. This one for example :
http://crichd.tv/update/ss/euro1.php?width=700&height=450

That works, thanks. Not sure why they were all in French, could be Hola changing my IP?

Hola does a lot of stuff to your computer :-/ stealing your bandwith, for instance

No, several of the "eurosport" links on steephill were some french channel for me too.

^^^ That one works though.

Kiri dropped out the back...

I'm so confused. I now know that binary options are the same as 24 options - I've been told that many times now. BUT WHAT ARE THEY. WHAT. What.

Aru's ridden off from Contador to chase Ryder with 7km to go. Fully expect him to blow up as soon as he gets news that Contador's trying to ride across.

I think I'm in love with Arus painface.

Yes. Couldn't help but enjoy today's spectacle though.

Flecha on the Colle delle Finestre, penultimate climb of the day and highest point of the Giro with quite a stretch of sterrata on the way to the top.
Nice bike btw.

It's been a spectacle from start to finish (well, I guess today and tomorrow could be boring). It's a shame the competition for GC hasn't been the most exciting, but it's still been great fun. And even with a stale GC race, Contador has nonetheless kept it exciting by not riding defensively.

Doping history or not, the race itself has been a blast.

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Going to be one hell of a day today. The Finistere is insane.

^ The lower hairpins of the Finestre in 2013 ;-)