Stage 14- Lienz- Mount Zoncolan.

antogz1979

No thread for this yet. Stating the Zoncolan shortly. Another Contador appreciation day, with Rujano as the bridesmaid. It will be between both of them with Anto getting 3rd for me. Looking forward to Contador again today.

bcmf

The Giro heads have just knocked the best part of 30-40 km of the route. Due to protesters on The Tualis climb which is/was just before the Crostis the bypassed Tualis and went straight to Zonacalan.

ThisRegard

It's a bit of a mess isn't it, what's the reasons for the protest ?

ednwireland

ThisRegard wrote: »

It's a bit of a mess isn't it, what's the reasons for the protest ?

apparently tifosi on the second to last climb (they put a cat2 in to replace crostis) are protesting about taking out the crostis, so they took it out so they are straight onto zoncolan

going nuts on there at the moment

Beached

Just watching them going up the Zoncolan now, the gradient is rediculous, Supporters following the cyclists are literally walking by their side

antogz1979

Love to see Anton win this. He has been the nearly man on a lot of occasions.

ThisRegard

The mechanics with the bikes slung over their shoulders on the motorbikes don't look the most comfortable do they.

edit, even the motorbikes can't hack it !

Beached

A motorbike has just blown a gasket due to the gradient, and a good tweet from Magnus Backstedt, "remember that it is that steep you have to hunch over the bars to keep the front wheel on the ground. Own experience!"

titan18

LOL at the guy with a fishing rod and some steak at the end of it.

GT_TDI_150

Beached wrote: »

tweet from Magnus Backstedt, "remember that it is that steep you have to hunch over the bars to keep the front wheel on the ground. Own experience!"

:eek:

does anywhere show highlight at some stage, I've no skysports, so no eurosport either

ednwireland

contador just blew nibali away :eek:

nibali comes back to contador good ride

great ride from anton

antogz1979

Contador gifted another stage their. He could have won it, but gave it to his Spanish friend.

Idleater

Anton is Basque no
Gifted hardly, and only one of the finishers so far was boo'd.

happytramp

antogz1979 wrote: »

Contador gifted another stage their. He could have won it, but gave it to his Spanish friend.

You are incredibly irritating.

antogz1979

happytramp wrote: »

You are incredibly irritating.

Is the truth irritating you. You must live a sad life, if things that i write irritate you.

not sane

not really enjoying the Giro, hope the tour is better. If contador wasn't doing this it would be really exciting, the others seem to be yo yoing and the lead would be nearly changing everyday. Contador will always be tainted how regardless of the outcome of the hearing my own opinion is hes dodgy at best and after all he was in armstrongs camp at one stage, did you hear the boos he got.

niceonetom

If you can mentally delete Clentador from the race it's much more interesting. At the moment there's only one second between Nibali and Anton in the battle for the pink jersey and there's plenty of racing yet to be done.

And, lets face it, if CAS hopes to retain any smidgen of standing (and maybe save the sport from repeating the current absurdity) all Contadoper's efforts are totally irrelevant and will be erased from the books along with his "win" in the tour last year.

Inquitus

niceonetom wrote: »

And, lets face it, if CAS hopes to retain any smidgen of standing (and maybe save the sport from repeating the current absurdity) all Contadoper's efforts are totally irrelevant and will be erased from the books along with his "win" in the tour last year.

Here's hoping.

Stokolan

titan18 wrote: »

LOL at the guy with a fishing rod and some steak at the end of it.

yeah couldn't stop laughing at that myself. Contador didn't look too happy as he came around the last bend and the crowd were booing him.

dedon

People see the fan with a steak on the end of a fishing line . hanging it infront of Contadope?

ROK ON

Today most of the Garmin team climbed on a compact with a 32 on the rear cassette.
David Millar climbed with a 38 * 38 combo.
Class.
I now have an excuse to fit Mtb gearing to my road bike.

antogz1979

Anton was execellent today. Fair play to him. Contador is a legend. What has he got to do. Some people on this site think think they can cylce, look at Contador a legend.

ThisRegard

antogz1979 wrote: »

Contador is a legend. What has he got to do. .

Race clean.

sy

antogz1979 wrote: »

Is the truth irritating you. You must live a sad life, if things that i write irritate you.

He is entitled to his opinion just as you are too.

funnights74

Omg that gradient was savage, i was in pain looking at it.

ROK ON

I really miss the Classics. I have been trying to watch this & toc. All is see is crazy mountains with riders of dubious history charging off up the road.
Not for me.

crumliniano

ROK ON wrote: »

I really miss the Classics. I have been trying to watch this & toc. All is see is crazy mountains with riders of dubious history charging off up the road.
Not for me.

+1 just can't take it seriously.

Also, sorry if this has been covered elsewhere , but will nico's position as ag2r leader for tdf be in question following gadret's performance here?