[Closed] milan san remo( weather)

Pah...tiz only a touch of snow......fit some schwalbe ice spikers and you'd be fine. 😉

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If I got paid, I'd be riding as well....

Have you seen photos of the riders?

They're on a bus being transported through the worst section.

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So what's happening ? Just in and popped Eurosport on and its all padding

according to twitter, the restart is now and the race is cut, 130km to go and the break gets a 7min head start...

cycling news has it as 130 km

[i]Milan-San Remo has started again and we've 130km to go. Thanks for staying with us during that long, long pause.[/i]

And it's back on Eurosport!

Yay, back on 🙂

and it looks grim!

If I hadn't decided to stop inside this afternoon, I would look a bit like the riders in the bus right now. Can't believe there's another half inch of snow outsde again 😯

sky dishing out the pain now

Stannard is doing bloody well on the Poggio but it looks like the chasing group is going to catch them, damn that Cancellera....

Ian Stannard was riding his socks off.Good last 20Km.I know some get paid alot but hell of way to earn a living on days like that.

That was a proper shouting a the TV moment when Stannard started to distance them on the flat with about 2k to go!

I always love MSR - from the Cipressa onwards, it's always impossible to predict.

Bunch of jessies

Too any people (roadies) on twitter calling them hard/ heros. FFs! Only a bit of snow/rain. If they spent the winter training in the UK instead of the canaries then they might get used to it. They are almost as bad a footballers

quality race. I thought Stannard had it a couple of times. I like Stannard a lot, a Sky rider who actually races, who'd have thought it 🙂

Too any people (roadies) on twitter calling them hard/ heros. FFs! Only a bit of snow/rain. If they spent the winter training in the UK instead of the canaries then they might get used to it. They are almost as bad a footballers

Are you for real. would you ride, at 30mph+ in a group of 200 riders, in snow, mixing it up with 20 cars, and about 50 motorbikes? yeah, course you would mate.

Too any people (roadies) on twitter calling them hard/ heros. FFs! Only a bit of snow/rain. If they spent the winter training in the UK instead of the canaries then they might get used to it. They are almost as bad a footballers

You're kidding?

If it was my job and I was paid very well for it of course I would. Calling them heros/hard is kinda pathetic

so, if you were in a job, and you were told to do something that seriously endangered your life (more than normal) you'd do it? really?

Average wage for a domestique is about 40 grand a year. hardly worth dying over.

More than double the average squaddie gets. Bit of perspective needed

oh jesus christ, really? that's your argument?

I don't get people who, when they obviously don't understand or 'get' something feel the need to slag it off.

I do understand and I do get it. If I didn't I wouldn't comment. Do you think they are heroes for riding in a bit of bad weather?

I think they're hard yes and I don't think it's anything to do with not training in the UK, that's ridiculous. The fact you're essentially saying you're harder is laughable too.

The word hero is overused. Squaddies don't qualify either, they know exactly what they're doing.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who suffers for their sport / job as much as a pro cyclist. does that make them heros? No, but it makes them hard as nails.

To call them Jessies implies a lack of understanding of what they do week in, week out.

felt just like that coming to work this morning 25% climb and icy rain then snow in the face