/cyc/ - Giro d'Italia - stage 12 - Forlì - Reggio Emillia

Current standings.

>General (Maglia Rosa)
1. Dumoulin
2. Quintana +2:23
3. Mollema +2:38
4. Pinot +2:40
5. Nibali +2:47
6. Amador + 3:05
7. Jungels + 3:56
8. Kangert +3:59
9. Pozzovivo +4:05
10. Zakarin + 4:17

>General (Maglia Bianca)
1. Jungels
2. Formolo +2:23
3. Yates + 3:02

>Maglia Ciclamino
1. Gaviria - 191
2. Stuyven - 160
3. Greipel - 129

>KOM (Maglia Azzurra)
1. Polanc - 44
2. Fraille - 44
3. Quintana - 35

>Intermediate Sprint
1. Teklehaimanot - 37
2. Zhupa - 29
3. Brutt - 28

>Combativity
1. Gaviria - 34
2. Stuyven - 29
3. Fraille - 26

>Breakaway
1. Teklehaimanot - 361
2. Brutt - 350
3. Andreetta - 342

>General winning team
1. Movistar
2. Astana + 3:39
3. UAE + 9:42

>Super Team
1. QuickStep - 265
2. Dimension Data - 218
3. Trek - 203

>Fair Play classification
1-19 everyone else - 0~45
20 AG2R - 150
21 Movistar - 210
22 Bahrain - 1035

Withdrawals (LIST OF THE WEAK AND WEARY)

>Did not start in stage 1
31. Stefano Pirazzi (ita – Bardiani-CSF)
39. Nicola Ruffoni (ita – Bardiani-CSF)

>Withdrawals in stage 4
42. Rohan Dennis (aus – BMC)
155. Pavel Kochetkov (rus – Katusha-Alpecin)

>Did not start in stage 5
5. Javier Moreno (spa – Bahrain Merida)
17. Alexandre Geniez (fra – AG2R La Mondiale)

>Withdrawals in stage 9
185 Wilco Kelderman (nld – Team Sunweb)

>Outside time limit in stage 10
57. Matteo Pelucchi (Ita – Bora-Hansgrohe)

>Did not start in stage 11
196 Giacomo Nizzolo (ita – Trek-Segafredo)

>Withdrawals in stage 11
141. Nathan Haas (aus – Dimension Data)
194. Laurent Didier (lux – Trek-Segafredo)

>tfw no 10km 10% downward finish

G'day lads, looks like a comfy stage again today. Peloton doesn't seem interested enough in the break for anything to happen any time soon.

>tfw missed last two days

BIG TOM

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>That comfy landscape

>>75983044
Couldn't have posted here yesterday anyway, should've just watched the reruns.

>>75983059
Scenery is comfy as fuck, freeway isn't. Literally the dullest kind of road.

>>75983083
I bet you have more exiting roads in Romania then in the Netherlands.
And scenery as well.

>>75983113
Our roads are probably the worst in the EU. That said, we have some really comfy scenery on the sides to make up for it. Whatever freeways we do have are just as dull as everyone else's. We just don't have that many.

Oh hey, we just got off the damn freeway. Comfy roads incoming.

NO MORE EXCUSES

>Two flats at the same time

Incoming excuses.

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>NO MORE EXCUSES

>>75983216
>Two wheels, kek

>>75983199
>Our roads are probably the worst in the EU

Can't be worse then Belgian roads.

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Decent effort, pretty round 0's.

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Post roads that you regularly ride. This is only 30 minutes from Dublin city centre

>>75983243
Pretty sure Bulgaria has better roads than we do. Not like I give a fuck, don't drive so ain't breaking my own car on them.

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>>75983315
The Dutch Belgian border is rather well known as either a moment of relieve or utter terror.

>Almost drive into Sanchez

Man, while everyone seems to hate motos nowadays, all these fucking cars trigger the shit out of me.

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>>75983311
It's fun dodging tourists.

>>75983330
Why are Belgian roads like this

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>>75983390
They decided to spend their money on an insane amount of lights.
At least you can see the holes since they are well lit.

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>>75983330
You call those holes in the road? This is the road that goes around our capital, just as an example.

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>>75983216

>>75983460
I take back my words.
>>75983493
GC CONTENDER

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Alpecin still calling it:
>Doping for the hair

>>75983416

belgians are always drunk at night, they need the lights or there would be 10x more car accidents

t. Juan Claude Van Den Broeck

>>75983523
The cycling community literally stopped trying.

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>This was today's recipe from our commentators

They do one for every stage from whatever area the peloton's passing through.

This stage is gonna be long and dull, isn't it?

http://www.velonews.com/2017/05/giro-ditalia/van-garderen-maybe-not-grand-tour-rider_438724

He sounds like a broken man. I know it's a meme around but I can't help but feel bad for the guy.

>>75983627
Only 50-ish km left, mostly flat. It's mostly done really.

What the fuck is Movistar doing with Amador being 40 seconds behind Quintana? 4D chess or team insubordination?

>>75983805
I bet they don't even know themselves.

What a boring piece of shit, when are we getting more climbs?

>>75983824
Stay comfy, Anon.

>>75983627
>VN: Are you suffering from an illness or any physical problem?
>TVG: I don’t really want to make excuses.
>excuses.

It's a never-ending meme, I feel a bit bad for him, but it's the American hype around him that assumed out of nowhere that he is a big tour rider, and he believed it himself.
He is a decent small tour rider and domestique but no true GC contender.

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>>75983824
You will not like stage 13 I guess.

Stage 16 will be right up your alley.

Leaving from Rovetta, it is the Queen Stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia.
Snow permitting, the riders climb the Mortirolo early on before a double ascent of the Passo dello Stelvio wickedly invites them.

First they tackle the 2,757 metres monster from the Bormio-side before descending via the famous 48 hairpins on the Trafoi-side. (this kills the pinot)

The second ascent is via Switzerland and the Umbrailpass before plunging down to Bormio.

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>>75983932
>before descending via the famous 48 hairpins on the Trafoi-side. (this kills the pinot)

The meme descent to end all meme descents.

>>75983932

Jesus. RIP Tom

>>75983970
That looks so frustrating. Can't keep any speed.

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>>75984017
Stage 21 is an individual slight downhill time trial though.

And when he was still fat he did win the Queen stage of last years TdF riding alone in the rain.

He isn't as natural a climber as Quintana but he should be able to keep close.

>>75984066
Someone will fall over that tiny edge.

>>75983390

To capture that cobbled classic feel

>>75983932
That one's Tuesday, right?

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>Fucking niggers with smoke on the sides again

>>75984178
Yes, Monday is rest day

Get hype

Place your bets /cyc/.

Sam Bennett today

>>75984262
EWAN
W
A
N

>Dat BORA train

I want to see that again when they have Sagan on the team.

>That clean air giving Bora marginal gains.

>>75984262
I'll go with the Gorilla. Lotto's still in front.

>>75984262
>>75984269
>Two commentators here
>One picks Bennett the other Ewan

Prophetic?

>albania

U wot

Why does the steam always cut out with 1k to go??

GAVIRIA WINS LOL

Colombiawinslol

C O L O M B I A

IS THE REST OF THE WORLD EVEN FUCKING TRYING??

>"He just cums at the right time"

Holy fucking shit, based Gaviria once again. Wonder what would happen between him and Sagan now. He already beat the Gorilla again.

>Yates infant of Ewan.

>The city of Australia.

No manlets sprinters

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ice cold

>>75984335
That's at least the second time this has happened.

>>75984363
>Check Gaviria's height
>5'11
>

>Dat Richezze assist tho
Argentina is white!

>>75984420
>5'11
I have no clue what that means but holy shit, he's so damn tiny compared to the grills on his sides.

>>75984474
Thank you for that. Kept wanting to post that same thing, but couldn't spell the guy's name for shit.

>>75984510
I _think_ that is how you spell it, really

Who is the whore with the arm tattoo?

>>75983805
>>75983814
Amador was in the break that went all the way yesterday and got back ~90 seconds.

>>75984627
Well yeah, but why did he push for the break? At least Ten Dam came back after dicking around in the break for a while.

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>>75984292

Who knew Albania had any professional athletes

Jakub
MARECZKO


>>75983199
There was that Top Gear episode about your road once.

>>75983523
It literally is. The bottle says you can't use it if you're under the pro-sports no-dope regime as it will show up in the hair.

Fuck a Dutchman leading, well atleast Quintana isn't winning anymore

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Hey /cyc/ - get in here for Amgen Tour of California!

> The winner of the 2017 Amgen Tour of California could be decided on the final 15 switchbacks to the finish atop Mt. Baldy. It’s been called the “Queen Stage” and compared to the epic stages of the European Grand Tours. The training ground for many local Southern California riders, the race will return to the mountaintop finish that thrilled fans in 2011, 2012 and 2015. Only a handful had done the entire route, but after the race contested the climb in 2015, this is now one of hottest Strava segments in the U.S.

Watch on Eurosport, NBC Sport or http://microsofttourtracker.amgentourofcalifornia.com/

>the unbearable whiteness of cycling
Is everyone that isnt a charcoal nigger white?

Baldy? Awwww yeah

>>75990137

Mt baldy is fucking awesome, who is /ourguy/ for the GC? Majka?

>>75990357
I'm pro-Majka.

>>75990298
What are you quoting?

>>75990513
jewgle it

Kennaugh is kill

Azerbaijan theme music is so comfy

>>75983970
>tfw no Initial D Italian Stage

>>75983970
>taking the day off to see this madness
Looking forward to the 5 hour drive, should I make a sign for /cyc/?

T A L A N S K Y

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>Cannondale wins something

>>75987327
That's a road built during our commie days by our fearless leader. Think they also complained about the lack off freeways as well after leaving the capital. Also those dirt roads they get stuck on, aren't as uncommon as you might think.