Giro d'Italia 2014 - no discussion of current day stage, see spoiler rules in Charter

neris · 20-02-2014 7:21pm

WerethoBike wrote: »

Hello,

It shall be of interest what re surface amendments shall be done to the Howth Rd & Dublin Road, being approx the last 10 Km into the city/

Wait and see

if their going down the east wall road they,ll need to change to mountain bikes if they dont resurface that road. Its been as rough as hell for years now

bazermc · 21-02-2014 11:06am

NeedMoreGears wrote: »

That roundabout at the Point is going to be fairly "technical" with the train tracks on it, not to mention two tiny roundabouts at Portmarnock and Baldoyle

Especially if it is a wet day.

That roundabout could cause a massive crash.

neris · 21-02-2014 6:22pm

theres going to be traffic chaos in dublin when the giro gets here especially if its a warm day. Traffic out to howth is normally manic that time of year and if the roads are closed no one will be getting in or out of howth, portmarnock and malahide. Im sure be the same up round balbriggan and skerries. Also anyone know if the,ll stop the darts on the day? theres a level crossing in Baldoyle just before the turn onto the coast road

Bikerbhoy · 21-02-2014 6:37pm

neris wrote: »

theres going to be traffic chaos in dublin when the giro gets here

Its a Grand Tour...... coming to "Our City".... who cares ???

drogdub · 21-02-2014 7:09pm

neris wrote: »

. Also anyone know if the,ll stop the darts on the day? theres a level crossing in Baldoyle just before the turn onto the coast road

Probably depends on whose in the break. If jesper juul Hansen, now that he is declared Irish were to be in the break, then maybe a train could be scheduled to pass through the level crossing

Bikerbhoy · 21-02-2014 7:20pm

drogdub wrote: »

Probably depends on whose in the break. If jesper juul Hansen, now that he is declared Irish were to be in the break, then maybe a train could be scheduled to pass through the level crossing

...... Would be even better if Chris Juul Jensen was in the break.

billyhead · 21-02-2014 8:06pm

What sort of field will take part in this. Will all the big guns such as Cavendish, Quintana, Wiggo, Nibali, Cancellara, Greipel be involved. I know Froome wont take part anyway and obviously our top riders like Martin and Roche will be their

drogdub · 21-02-2014 8:58pm

Bikerbhoy wrote: »

...... Would be even better if Chris Juul Jensen was in the break.

Oops true

Shedite27 · 21-02-2014 9:15pm

billyhead wrote: »

What sort of field will take part in this. Will all the big guns such as Cavendish, Quintana, Wiggo, Nibali, Cancellara, Greipel be involved. I know Froome wont take part anyway and obviously our top riders like Martin and Roche will be their

Biggest names last year were Wiggins, Nibali, Cavendish, Evans, Uran, Hesjedahl, Gesink and Sammy Sanchez. Be another while yet before they officially announce who will enter which race this year.

morana · 21-02-2014 9:23pm

drogdub wrote: »

If jesper juul Hansen, now that he is declared Irish were to be in the break, then maybe a train could be scheduled to pass through the level crossing

I missed that juul jensen as declared for ireland! it takes 2 years before he can play for us if he has.

Darkglasses · 22-02-2014 12:25am

billyhead wrote: »

What sort of field will take part in this. Will all the big guns such as Cavendish, Quintana, Wiggo, Nibali, Cancellara, Greipel be involved. I know Froome wont take part anyway and obviously our top riders like Martin and Roche will be their

Shedite27 wrote: »

Biggest names last year were Wiggins, Nibali, Cavendish, Evans, Uran, Hesjedahl, Gesink and Sammy Sanchez. Be another while yet before they officially announce who will enter which race this year.

Quintana, Evans, Horner, Greipel, Rodriguez and Basso are certain, Nibali a possibility. I'd say Cav is very likely, Wiggo and Cancellara unlikely.

No Sagan, Elia Viviani is Cannondale's sprinter instead.

gerryhev · 22-02-2014 12:30am

Wiggins plan for California, Nibali for the Tour, cav maybe saving himself for Tour, billed as battle between Porte, Evans, Quintana, Uran, Scarponi, Roche.
Still a great lineup.

Pudsy33 · 22-02-2014 2:21am

Martin is riding too right? Surely he will mix it up with Quintana, Roche etc.

Darkglasses · 22-02-2014 2:34am

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Martin is riding too right? Surely he will mix it up with Quintana, Roche etc.

He'll be going for stages rather than GC, his time trialing isn't good enough.

Dr. Bre · 22-02-2014 5:09am

gerryhev wrote: »

Wiggins plan for California, Nibali for the Tour, cav maybe saving himself for Tour, billed as battle between Porte, Evans, Quintana, Uran, Scarponi, Roche.
Still a great lineup.

not sure uran will be there. he was on the podium last year but has left sky now for QST. would hve thought QST would want uran as their GC rider in the tour

Inquitus · 22-02-2014 1:17pm

I cycled part of the run in the other day, why don't they take a spin up Howth from the Village side and descend into Sutton given they go through the crossroads at Sutton Cross anyways, Howth is pretty Spectacular when the weather is behaving, and would be a great way to showcase Dublin.

Lads were hard at work fixing the roads.....shame the fecking Giro isn't meandering through the Naul, roads could defo use a fix!

josealdo · 22-02-2014 10:41pm

are we doing the stage the week before or what ???????

slap/dash · 22-02-2014 11:47pm

figs666 wrote: »

are we doing the stage the week before or what ???????

Exactly my thoughts

detones · 23-02-2014 1:41am

I am anyway .....

http://www.chainreactionhub.com/giro-20114/1251-the-chain-reaction-cycles-big-italian-bike-ride

And that's all that matters ;-)

andy69 · 24-02-2014 12:55am

caught this ad by chance while looking at the Farming forecast for the coming week on player.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZk7tEjpFOQ

nice ad I think - can't wait for this

Plastik · 24-02-2014 10:43am

Has there been any announcement about the Friday TT yet with regards to a start time?

happytramp · 24-02-2014 10:59am

andy69 wrote: »

nice ad I think - can't wait for this

Yeah, looks really good. Also, not to be pedantic but, shouldn't it read 'cycling's elite 'are' coming rather than 'is' coming??

marvin80 · 24-02-2014 1:36pm

Plastik wrote: »

Has there been any announcement about the Friday TT yet with regards to a start time?

FrIDAy MAy 9
10:00 . . . . . Giro Fan Park opens
10:00-12:00 . Team Time Trial practice
16:30 . . . . . Publicity Caravan parade starts
17:30 . . . . . Stage 1 Start Titanic Slipways
20:00 . . . . Giro Fan Park closes

Got from here:

http://www.nitb.com/BusinessSupport/2012-2014Events/GirodItalia2014.aspx

Giro Big Start 2014 Fan Parks opportunities - at bottom of the page

gerryhev · 25-02-2014 3:58pm

Belfast will be very busy that weekend with a lot of road closures, website for accommodation near route is www.girorooms.co.uk, a lot of places have doubled prices or even tripled and lots of places that are far from route looking to fill up quickly too. Bit too far to drive up & down to Dublin or beyond.

neris · 25-02-2014 7:13pm

Inquitus wrote: »

I cycled part of the run in the other day, why don't they take a spin up Howth from the Village side and descend into Sutton given they go through the crossroads at Sutton Cross anyways, Howth is pretty Spectacular when the weather is behaving, and would be a great way to showcase Dublin.

Lads were hard at work fixing the roads.....shame the fecking Giro isn't meandering through the Naul, roads could defo use a fix!

they use to send the nissan classic up on a few laps of the hill. would look good on tv taking the right hand turn at the golf shop in howth with the marina and harbour in the back and then all be great aerial shots coming down the other side with dublin bay

finbarrk · 25-02-2014 11:40pm

Room booked for Belfast anyway!

Dr. Bre · 26-02-2014 4:09am

would be great to see the locals in belfast all wearing pink for the giro. but some would also disapprove ha

Shedite27 · 26-02-2014 10:03am

Where will be the best vantage points in commuting distance to Dublin?

Rambling Man · 27-02-2014 2:22pm

Shedite27 wrote: »

Where will be the best vantage points in commuting distance to Dublin?

Skerries might be decent, as far as I can see they go through the town, outside chance it might even be an intermediary sprint.

Also erm, lots of good boozers. You'd have to celebrate the Giro.

Shedite27 · 27-02-2014 2:49pm

Rambling Man wrote: »

Skerries might be decent, as far as I can see they go through the town, outside chance it might even be an intermediary sprint.

Also erm, lots of good boozers. You'd have to celebrate the Giro.

Skerries might be a good shout alright. Such a shame they don't go up Howth head.

The intermediate sprint is in Balbriggan, not really too interested in that really, they're usually uneventful IMO.

It's marked "TV" below (apologies for the oversized image)

buffalo · 05-03-2014 11:53am

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/lack-of-tourism-promotion-around-giro-a-scandal-kelly-30063453.html

Gotta agree with Kelly on this one - I've talked to a few friends and random taxi drivers etc, and they all know the Giro is coming to Belfast, but nobody seems to know about the Dublin finish.

Even for the sake of preparing people about the traffic disruption, I'd expect a bit more fuss about the whole thing down here.

Jocry · 05-03-2014 12:08pm

buffalo wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/lack-of-tourism-promotion-around-giro-a-scandal-kelly-30063453.html

Gotta agree with Kelly on this one - I've talked to a few friends and random taxi drivers etc, and they all know the Giro is coming to Belfast, but nobody seems to know about the Dublin finish.

Even for the sake of preparing people about the traffic disruption, I'd expect a bit more fuss about the whole thing down here.

I'm also curious as to why they're not doing a loop of Howth like the TdF did back in 98, seems a shame really.

RobFowl · 05-03-2014 12:25pm

Jocry wrote: »

I'm also curious as to why they're not doing a loop of Howth like the TdF did back in 98, seems a shame really.

Did the TDF do a lap of Howth? I don't recall that.

The Nissan did in 1988 and it destroyed my vision of Howth as being a serious hill

They went up in a group in the big ring (Village side)

Diggabot · 05-03-2014 12:28pm

buffalo wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/lack-of-tourism-promotion-around-giro-a-scandal-kelly-30063453.html

Gotta agree with Kelly on this one - I've talked to a few friends and random taxi drivers etc, and they all know the Giro is coming to Belfast, but nobody seems to know about the Dublin finish.

Even for the sake of preparing people about the traffic disruption, I'd expect a bit more fuss about the whole thing down here.

The Giro Twitter feed put up something about the preparation getting into full swing in Dublin... basically someone was going around putting pink seat covers on bikes that were locked around the city!

I was out on part of the route around Portmarnock & Baldoyle yesterday and the road is bad in places, you'd think Fingal & DCC would be doing something to improve the route. You'd think too that the organisers would have the route sign posted to let people know about it. Very poor given the scale of the Giro.

Whats the route like in other places?

Kav0777 · 05-03-2014 1:45pm

Diggabot wrote: »

The Giro Twitter feed put up something about the preparation getting into full swing in Dublin... basically someone was going around putting pink seat covers on bikes that were locked around the city!

Ah, so that's what they are. I saw them around and was wondering what was with the pink seat covers (something to do with breast cancer maybe!?!). Never occurred to me to connect it to the Giro....

letape · 05-03-2014 2:38pm

Jocry wrote: »

I'm also curious as to why they're not doing a loop of Howth like the TdF did back in 98, seems a shame really.

I don't remember the Tour going anywhere near Howth?

el tel · 05-03-2014 2:46pm

buffalo wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/lack-of-tourism-promotion-around-giro-a-scandal-kelly-30063453.html

Gotta agree with Kelly on this one - I've talked to a few friends and random taxi drivers etc, and they all know the Giro is coming to Belfast, but nobody seems to know about the Dublin finish.

Even for the sake of preparing people about the traffic disruption, I'd expect a bit more fuss about the whole thing down here.

In marked contrast, the publicity in the North is quite impressive. It's on TV all the time, and all over social media. There is quite a buzz and people seem to be buying to it in a big way. Every week I get a couple of emails from Belfast City Council about various associated events which have been ongoing since the start of the year.

Darkglasses · 05-03-2014 2:50pm

el tel wrote: »

In marked contrast, the publicity in the North is quite impressive. It's on TV all the time, and all over social media. There is quite a buzz and people seem to be buying to it in a big way. Every week I get a couple of emails from Belfast City Council about various associated events which have been ongoing since the start of the year.

Absolutely, it's part of this new brand NI thing going on. Anything that's going on in the North that's positive gets advertised big time. I guess in the south there isn't that second motivation for it

Jocry · 05-03-2014 2:51pm

I do apologize, it clearly shows my age, you're probably right as it would make more sense - its a very distant memory and I would have thought I would have remembered it more clearly if it was in 98

in '88 I was only just gone 4

Apparently:
"The final stage was won by Alan Peiper. Paul Kimmage had been up the front as the peloton went over the hill of Howth several times with Peiper and finished the stage in fifth place at six seconds from Peiper. "

RobFowl
I thought it went up over from the Sutton side as my recollection of it was standing down where the Credit Union currently is with the folks and the riders coming down into the village from the summit no?

RobFowl · 05-03-2014 3:19pm

Jocry wrote: »

I do apologize, it clearly shows my age, you're probably right as it would make more sense - its a very distant memory and I would have thought I would have remembered it more clearly if it was in 98 in '88 I was only just gone 4

Apparently:
"The final stage was won by Alan Peiper. Paul Kimmage had been up the front as the peloton went over the hill of Howth several times with Peiper and finished the stage in fifth place at six seconds from Peiper. "

RobFowl
I thought it went up over from the Sutton side as my recollection of it was standing down where the Credit Union currently is with the folks and the riders coming down into the village from the summit no?

Haha that was def the final stage of the Nissan in 88, it was the millennium celebration stage (Dublins great in 88).
Both Kimmage and Peiper were long retired by 98, and it was the Howth village side, watched (near the summit) them go up it a few times shouting for Paul Kimmage.

Shedite27 · 05-03-2014 3:33pm

There's ads on RTE the whole time for the Giro now.

Diggabot · 05-03-2014 3:35pm

Shedite27 wrote: »

There's ads on RTE the whole time for the Giro now.

I've seen plenty on UTV about the Gran Partenza but yet to see one about it coming to Dublin on RTE... maybe thats because I don't watch a whole lot on RTE

cdaly_ · 05-03-2014 3:46pm

RobFowl wrote: »

Did the TDF do a lap of Howth? I don't recall that.

The Nissan did in 1988 and it destroyed my vision of Howth as being a serious hill

They went up in a group in the big ring (Village side)

Ah, that explains why I found it so tough. I never knew about this. Next time it'll be no bother to me...

MPFG · 05-03-2014 5:52pm

It is such a shame Netapp are not in the Giro
With Cav, Kittle or Greipel not riding the Giro Sam could have taken some stages

Dan Martin has been very quiet lately ......must be doing some fierce training
He is going to win a good few races in March/April

denjo17 · 05-03-2014 10:30pm

The Giro is as always for the climbers. thats why its so much more fun to watch.

Dr. Bre · 06-03-2014 2:37am

denjo17 wrote: »

The Giro is as always for the climbers. thats why its so much more fun to watch.

also the weather can be unpredictable making it more exciting than the tour!

endacl · 06-03-2014 3:46am

Beasty wrote: »

Shush! it's all part of the cunning plan - the Irish lads know their way round Dublin ....

Irish Taxi Team? D'ye wanna go by de m50 or true town ladz?

pkvader · 07-03-2014 2:04am

Where is the finish line in Dublin city centre lads?, and whats the closest pub?

g0g · 07-03-2014 9:44am

Think it's Merrion Square so maybe the bar in the Dáil!?

Cape Clear · 07-03-2014 9:46am

I wonder will RTE/TG4 do a highlights programme?

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