/cyc/ - Giro d'Italia stage 4

>le skeleton man

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/othersport/802153/Chris-Froome-cyclist-knocked-off-bike-hit-and-run

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>>75799468
fucking cagers

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>Quintana attack

I am ready to be disappointed.

Pinot to win a 10 man sprint.

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Press F to pay respect

>>75799626
Heh , nothing personal mr. bones

*unsheats car*

>>75799512
>Pinot

This just in: Quintana saving himself for TDF

Nibali hype

It's Pinot time

>>75799626
Confirmed for no Tour win.
Mentally damaged.
El Imbatido for Tour win with pawn Quintana as 2nd

>all these ads

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>>75799626
>team is named sky
>riders only hit the ground

>>75799847
EUROSPORT , THE HOME OF CYLING™

Eurosport get all the ads out of the way in the first 2 hours, so they can have the final hour or so completely free of adverts.

You KNOW this by now.

>>75799740

Of course. He knows none of the plebs in this race can beat him so he will use minimal effort. Froome is his only challenger.

>>75799468
>>75799626
Environmentally friendly coral reefs made from cages when? Automated cages mandatory on public roads when?

>>75799626
>thinking you can kill the skeleton king.

You only rustled his bones.

>>75799906
BUT sunday, they gave an ad with like 24km to go, while they promised us no ads in the last 30km's.

>>75799934
>i want this ride to end

>>75799906
>final hour
Come on, now. This is nowhere close to the truth.

Dennis might have abandoned

Let's all watch today and find out when their last ad is.

And if you're on Eurosport player they have an uninterrupted feed with no commentary.

>>75799989
Should we make bets on how many kms are left before their last ad?

>>75800001

But it is mountain finish so last 15km takes 45min

Eurosport could have all the ads they want right up until the end if only they hadn't bought exclusive rights.

Let those of us with far superior national broadcasters keep watching that and we wouldn't mind at all.
I also blame the greedy RCS in equal measure.

RIP WW!

The live data on Giro site is pretty cool desu.

Also
>tfw new wheelset arrived yesterday

>>75800017
Stay mad

Shit, man. 6 years since Weylandt died. Time sure does fly.

>The Finish: the profile says plenty. This is a long climb, the equivalent of the Galibier from Valloire and a lot to contend with for the fourth stage. The slope bites right from the start in Nicolosi and then gradually becomes more exposed as they climb higher. This is the route via “Salto del Cane” and not the same they used in 2011, the road is a bit smaller and more irregular. The pitch changes along the way but there’s nothing savage, this is more a grinding test of VAM for 45 minutes. Just after 1km to go the road dips down before rising back up to the line at 3% for the last 300 metres

tfw no Valverde to destroy everyone in the last 300m

>>75800001
last ad will be just before the ascent of the Etna.
>>75800034
RIP Wouter.

Zakarin stage

>tfw there will never be a proper chimpout where a rider pushes the other off the road

Based Van Rensburg shutting the door

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How was your ride today, /cyc/? Mine was very slow and very comfy.

>>75800061
>being a bootlicker for a global media corporation
Doesn't get more pathetic than that.

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>>75800118
also spotted some top tier qts

>>75800118

I am leaving now. Just doing an hour with some hills. Tell Nairo not to attack until I return.

>>75800118

Just under an hour. Four seasons was the theme

too many commercials

>>75800122
Said media corporation provides top-tier content from large portion of my favourite sports.

>>75800118
Ride to work was cold as it was still -1°C. Hopefully it's a bit warmer as I ride back home soon.

Summer when? Wasn't global warming supposed to be a thing?

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>>75800170
STOP watching euroshit

>>75800170
What a weird and childish comment this was then >>75800061 and the same goes for a comment you made to me over the weekend.

As I wrote, your precipus Discovery Networks can show however much cycling they want, just don't muscle out local broadcasters and buy exclusive rights.

>>75800168

Always a lot of commercials when they air a couple hour long stage. I think it helps the commentators too.

>>75800222
fuck off burger , because your tv is absolute shit doesnt mean that we also have to have dogshit

What team is van rensburg from

:DDDDDD

>>75800240

TV here does not air the Giro.

>bum chums

This descent is so comfy.

>>75800258
not for losada

So who is /best boy/ at this year's Giro lads?

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no ban pls

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Those brakesqueals after turn-in always make me nervous.

Lovely scenery

Adam Yates strikes me as cunt.

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Based Matt Stephens being an interviewer for eurosport

Quintana attack when?

>>75800370
it's gonna happen this year. just you wait.

Can't wait to watch another significant breakaway get swallowed by the peloton with 1750m to go

>>75800370
pseudo """"attack"""" on the one of the last stages so nobody asks "why did you never attack"

hes a hack desu

>>75800378
thats what they said last year

why is quintana at the giro?

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Dumemelin whinging like always.

Man I want Big Tom/Sunweb to be good so badly, but I just don't think they have the team.

>>75800393
So he has an excuse for the Tour.

>>75800393
He realised Froome is unbeatable so he just avoids him.

>>75800216
It's not my fault Discovery spends a ton of money on the rights. You keep complaining about Eurosport mostly because they don't have commentators you like in your country and they have a few ads, that are run at times when there is no action.

If you want your local public broadcasting agency to show cycling to you maybe you should pay more taxes so they have enough money to pay for the rights.

>>75800409
he probably shouldn't bother going to the tdf
froome has it sewn up for at least another three years

>>75800118

Had my first ride of the year today after a winter of drinking like a fish and smoking like a chimney.

Had to borrow my housemates bike as both tyres on mine are fucked. Had a few mechanicals along the way and nearly got forced off the road by a herd of sheep fleeing an exuberant pupper.

Absolutely murdered by the big climb but the cobwebs have been thoroughly blown and the time wasn't as shit as I thought it might be. Quite a pleasing effort altogether,

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>>75800370

>>75800308
>Based

>all those people lining the street

Does anyone in Sicily have a job?

wtf I love israel now

>>75800534

Hello newfriend

Goddamn Eurosport sucks, fuck those ads. Luckily I have it in my tv player without need for a VPN, but still.

Also Etna when?

>>75800550
Yeah it's pretty awful.
>come back from ads
>commentators talking about some road feature we didn't see because of the ads

>>75800550
Now. Bit of a climb now, then a short descent and then final climb.

Yes, well.

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>mfw Etna erupts.

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>>75800591
errrr

>euroshit

show me the fucking giro REEE

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>>75800597

CANNONDALE SWARM

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hehehehe

A 5 minute ad at 26 km to go

FUCK YOU EUROSHIT

THANKS JUAN

Flecha sounds like borat

>Flecha's Recon
WTF is this shit
Just show the race goddamnit

>>75800393

Because he is the true GOAT and he's gonna do the double

>>75800620

I'd go full vigilante if this happened to me.

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>>75800620

>Zakarin

>>75800714
Too much of those distractions on top of all the commercial breaks. Interviews, graphics, Flecha. It's not supposed to be an ADHD sport.

>zakarin
Is the new >pinot

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here we go

top lel

Absolutely habbening

Zakarin ROFL

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>>75800620

the fuck was that?

>Crushweak

WHAT HAPPENED?? Just got home

>Crashwijk

Admittedly that turn was very poorly marked

Next person to complain about the coverage will have a serious crash on their next ride

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Post your face when the Colombian manlet will be blown away today.

>>75800768
Autist riders

>>75800768
Also

>Pinot

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>>75800771
STOP WATCHING EUROSHIT

Dubs and etna erupts

>>75800794

I literally have no choice you waffle monkey

Do it for scarponi

>>75800800
>800800

I am ready

Jesper Hansen will win it today

>40 year old grandpa on the attack

>>75800800
Etna erupts constantly smarthead

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>>75800800

>>75800800
Nice

>no excuses

>TVG

NO
MORE
EXCUSES

>TJ
>excuses

>>75800800
Wow

>The city of BMC

>TJ
errytime

>>75800800
wew

>>75800824
>>75800825
>>75800826
>>75800828

>this /cyc/ hivemind

Disgusting desu

>>75799921
>>75799468
>>75799482
Let's be honest here, Froome was probably in the middle of the road, like 90% of fucking cyclists.

who /Polanc/ here?

>20 seconds

Looking forward to seeing Tejay riding for Cannondale and Vaughters in the near future.
Literally the perfect match.

>>75800839
And that justifies using your cage as a weapon?

Fellow students here? How do you guys study when the Giro is on? Do you study in the morning/evening then?

>>75800852
i just dont study from 4 -5

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>>75800838
>no 75800827

Nibbles attack when

>>75800852
I wake up early and go to the library. I can't revise for shit when I'm home

ROLLAND
O
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A
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>>75800852
I always study at night

Pinot and FDJ looking good bros, this could be his year

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>>75800863
Nibbles is already attacking. Nibbles attacks in mysterious ways.
We cannot understand how he works. We can only /Nibble/

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>>75800852
Just finished my studies last week, coming monday I will start working. This week I can get comfy with you guys but after that im going to have to avoid news and watch stages in the evenings.

Does anybody actually dislike TVG or is he just a delicious meme?

>>75800851
The guy probably simply passed him without leaving space and Froome crashed because he lost control. I bet he wasn't even touched by the car.

>>75800880
I can watch a lot at work since I'm often confined to my desk and I share an office with one other guy. Some days are too busy to watch anything, but often you can just lean back and take calls while watching on mute.

>>75800887

Nobody likes him or dislikes him. He just exists.

>>75800887
TVG is an /ourguy/

>>75800880
Fear not lad, I managed to duck out the office early today and tuned in with 25km to go. I watched all of every stage for the last 2 years whilst neet. Trying hard to adjust...

>le froome descending meme

When will this bullshit die ?

>>75800906

When somebody gets killed.

>>75800906
I hate it sooooo much

thank god there's no skytrain to stop this exciting group ride

>Landa

>>75800906
>>75800911
>>75800912

It's been repeatedly demonstrated that it's not even the fastest descending position. Some fred is going to die an untimely death trying to do what he saw on TV

>Landa
hit by a car?

During summer when you see all the tourists on their rented bikes in the Copenhagen traffic, I do wonder if those retards on twitter who lust for cyclists' blood have a small point.
Maybe it's just non-cyclists who somehow think having their debut in one of the most bike-traffic heavy European cities is a good idea.

I never see that kind of bad cycling behavior from normal Danish commuters.

>>75800880
I work full time and study for a degree part time so I get no time for much else during term. I can usually get away with watching a stage at work though. One bit of coursework left and I'm done for the year and will actually have time to ride my bike again.

>>75800923

It is faster

stream please?

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>>75800906
Never

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>>75800938
Except you're wrong

Pinot not playing these silly games. He sits waiting. Ready to cause pain.

>>75800947
http://www.ustream dot tv/channel/TkBJTT2rvKa

>>75800938
Is that why no-one who's actually known for their descending does it?

>>75800956

thanks lad

>>75800966
the differencre with the froome position is that it still allows for some pedalling

Polanc is starting to crack

>>75800931
Lot of shocking cycling when commuting in London. A mix of a very young/under-developed cyclign culture, lack of cycling training and infrastructure that's often badly designed means you see people doing all sorts of retarded shit.

Why do teams ride with "co-leaders"? It clearly doesn't work, you need proper roles for riders. Then they get cocky and fuck up

>inb4 Quintana makes an attack and then bonks before the finish line

>64 cadence

>>75800996
Yeah, and we certainly have both of those to a great degree here.
Still sometimes surprising to see a tourist standing with their bike in the middle of a massive intersection while cars rush by.
It really shouldn't be possible, exactly because the bike infrastructure is so good. If they just followed the flow...
It seems left turns (right turns for you) is the biggest issue.

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>>75801026
angry vegan in the distance

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

>>75800957

Well Sagan does. And there are other reasons not to like comfort and safety or just sticking to what you're used to. Also most of the time they don't TT on descents.

>>75801037
kek

Pee-air Pooland on pooicide watch

>>75800951
>>75800938
>>75800906
You infidels don't know shit.

THIS is the faster position in descent. With the caveat that only a complete madman would ever use it.

Calling geraint thomas for surprise win.

Where the fuck Pinot? nervous.jpg

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>>75801053
Well fuck, forgot pic.

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dat landscape

Quintana attacks with 200m to go

>Quintana attack

>>75801067
I think 10th or 11th in the front group.

>>75801067
It's above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen today so he's not really fancying it.

QUINTANA BRUTAL ATTACK!

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>Quintana atttack
it's habbening

Nibali isn't skelly enough

>quintana almost goes for it

lol

>quintana baiting us AGAIN

>Quintana moving back so he can keep Pinot in check

that's smart

>>75800966
>leaving out superman position

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who /pozzovivo/ here?

gonna crash out on stage 10

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>>75800966
>Using pedals

Come on polaaanc \o/

>>75801107
I unironically enjoy this meme.

>echelons on a climb

well this has been shit

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>>75801103
In Dome we trust

NIBBEL NIBBEL NIBBEL

Nibali.

>NIBBLES

>>75801107
>tfw it's been almost a year already

>nibLELs

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>>75801068
thats some speed

Rob and Sean died just as Nibali made his attack

F

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I fucking love nibali

Polanc \o/\o/\o/

I cyclism the only sport where supporters cheer for everyone?

>>75801155
i dont cheer for quintana

>>75801068
>VERY fast cyclits descending at incredible hihg speed

polanc can do it

PINOT PINOT PINOT

Wat

dumoulin!

>zakarin

who cares of zakkarin goes away and wins
he will just crash out and take a comfy nap in some valley again

>>75801167
>>75801155
me neither

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think polanc is donezo

>>75801167
>>75801197
You would if you saw him pedaling up a mountain beside you.

Z A K A R I N

god I hope Polanc makes it bros

>>75801200
i'd call him a manlet tbqh

Based Polanc

come on polanc

Based ride from Polanc

lifelong /polanc/

P O L A N C

>>75801155
>footy is on at someone's house while I'm there
>constant booing

bunch of apes tbqh

He actually pulled it off, awesome

lel cant believe Polanc did it

>>75801200
youre probably right

/pol/ wins again

Polanc you beauty

JUNGELS IS MASSIVE

Well done Polanc.

Nothing again from Quintana.

Great win for Polanc

Fine ride by Jesper Hansen. He showed more aggresive riding in one kilometer than Fuglsang has shown in ten years.

I think quintana is about to attack

>>75801245
Wicked wicked

>>75801250
Paris is a long way away

>>75800001
>>75799968
final 26km. zero advert breaks.

Awesome win.

So I'm new to cycling and this is the first world tour I've watched, why is Quintana such a meme lads?
Well done Polanc, great effort from that lad

>>75801232
Not everyone is like that but yeah, football fans tend to be.

>>75801276
because hes 1m tall and weighs 42 kgs

>>75801276
You'll see when he makes an attack.

>>75801276
Because he is eternally cucked by le skeleton man in the tdf

>>75801276
Because he never ever attacks. He's supposed to be a grimpeur, a scalatore.
>>75801284
You mean 39.

This stage has only enforced my belief in Pinot

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Zakarin returning to maglia rosa race

>>75801315
he is a known doper, you know.

>>75801284
>>75801285
>>75801289
>>75801291
Thanks for the insight lads. Who are the good boys of the peloton for me to support?

>>75801324
Like everybody, you know.

>>75801342
luca paolini

>>75801342
most people desu

evil:
most of astana and sky

>>75801362
only people from sky that are /ourguys/ are vroome and moscon

>>75801362
Everyone in England inserts Sky's dick in their arse while screaming >muh marginal gains. I guess I'll find my best boy soon.

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*blocks your haus*

>>75801404
cant wait for this, etna just wasnt steep enough.

>>75800307
eh, watch backstage pass and he comes off quite the opposite

>>75801456
Not bad for a first mountain stage. It's only the 4th race, this isn't the vuelta

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>>75801488
>tfw sprint stages all the way until blockhaus

>>75801521

Thursday and Saturday are up hill finishes on small climbs. Dumoulin will surely attack

>>75801404
Inb4 bad weather and stage cancelled.

You know it.

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Oh fug.

Only me left.

Now. We. /Nibble/.

>>75801874
*nibbles your post*

>>75801897
*nibbles your ear*

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>>75801913

>>75801276
He was hyped to be the next big thing but it's been 5 years now and he hasn't really delivered, can't keep up with Froome and the Sky train of Doome