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Yeah, I don't see Brailsford taking a team with 4 potential Tour winners (Tao, Geraint, Richie (Carapaz, not Porte) and Bernal), the sky-bots learnt their lesson with Froome/Wiggo. I reckon Tao and Carapaz to go in nominally equal leaders and the rest as domestiques, with the road to decide who the actual leader is, my money being on Carapaz.

If he wins the Giro, he's probably going to the Vuelta and not the Tour.

To quote the greatest champion of them all: "It's not about the bike"?

???? You're like that other bloke that wears his kit several times between washes.

Probably the biggest losers of the day: Yates is suffering and finishes at 2:36. Vlasov finishes 2:12 down on Bernal Well, apart from Remco. Over 20 minutes down at the top of the Giau.

What class. Takes off his rain jacket to show off the maglia rosa over the line. What a rider!

Great ride!

Yates off now.

Is Vlasov a vampire or a superhero? Got his cape stuck in his chain...

EF teaching the peloton a lesson here.

Evenepoel popped out the main chase peleton already, and the Passo Giau hasn't even started yet.

About two weeks ago, also Riverfields.

No bike, but a 5km run at Riverfields with my four legged buddy.

5 minutes is the current gap.

He's virtually overtaken Remco in the overall out on the road currently.

I think the urgency in the peleton is caused by Almeida's presence in the break.

Best part about it is it doesn't have that dropped seatstay rubbish that makes all bikes look stupidly similar these days. Speaking of Aurum bikes, has Contador hopped aboard his to start his ride to Milan yet?

Oh, we have the space, the Chinese even keeps her spinning bike inside, but that's the limit for her. I already lost the battle on the dogs (they sleep inside, the one on our bed now) so I wont even go down the bikes inside route. Also, I have insurance and the premium wont change if the bikes are in the garage or inside.

Astana going to apply more Movistar style tactics like they did on the road to Zoncolan? It never ceases to amaze me when a team does so much work and then be so completely absent in the finale.

If my bikes lived in the house, I'd be the one living in the garage...

Same. It's a good cheap solution.

Try here: https://www.southafricanrailways.co.za/motor_car_transportation.html

When I was a nominal pro at best, my one team mate used to joke that to find a hill in gauteng you needed to look for a highway overpass. I will agree that unless you pop, there's no hill in GP that even needs a small chainring on a road bike. (is Suikerbosrand in GP? I might have a proviso...)

Yup, flat route.