Giro D'Italia 2017

Pinot or Landa

Bardet fan.

For the sake of my fantasy team I'm hoping Landa

My fantasy team has Salma Hayek and 2015 Nick, so it's not looking good for me.

fantasy team.....................?

where

Until you close your eyes.

I was wondering why you weren't in the league. It's probably too late to join :(

Yeah...that works.

It's a shame you didn't sign up. It's a closely fought competition so far

I think you're going to lose your lead today... (famous last words)

That's OK, it's all about the long-game :-)

you lot have a fantasy league? Is it velogames?

Well, that was an eventful stage.

Too bad the motos once again had such a big influence on the stage outcome

Yeah. Massive props to G for stopping to chat (as I see Hutch also observed).

(Quite glad I took him out of my team the other day. Reckon I might pull further into the lead!)

The Dutch cheater did well today. Could snatch the lead with the first TT

Them riders needs to go on club runs and get their signals up to scratch. The Gaffer would not have been happy with that.

People who's only experience of group riding is from club runs offering advice on group riding to professional cyclists never gets old.

The Dutch cheater

Why's he a cheater?

He has made a few Ricardo Ricco style recovery's in stage races in the past. Personally not fan.

I like him. Prolly because primarily he's a TTer.

But yes, yesterday was a massive shame because it's changed the complexion of the race for three of the contenders. Nibali won last year from a similar deficit, so never say never :0)

He rides very intelligently, but I don't think that makes him a cheat.

I can get why you don't like him though, he's not exactly exciting to watch.

I agree, I don't think he's high on my 'suspect' list of potential dopers out there. He does ride very intelligently and 'honestly'.

I like him too. His aggressive racing provided us with an exciting Vuelta a couple of years back. And I like a good battle between the TT/powers GC men and the pure climbers. So I'm hoping he can help keep the Giro an exciting contest this year.

I like him. Seems like the underdog against all the tiny little climbers.

I see a lot of myself in him.

I see a lot of my former self in him.

RIP Nick 2015 (pbuh)

I can get why you don't like him though, he's not exactly exciting to watch.

As I said, he's a TTer, so boring LOL