the whole peloton are suffering here 🙂

hard ol’ sport bike racing

the second shaving from Remco kind shows the DQS game plan….. stay as close to pink as possible and take the shirt the final TT

Jobs a good ‘un.

another wattage bazooka

Rest Day.

Stage 10 Results
1 SAGAN, Peter (BOH) 3:10:56
2 GAVIRIA, Fernando (UAD)
3 CIMOLAI, Davide (ISN)
4 OLDANI, Stefano (LTS)
5 VERMEERSCH, Gianni (AFC)
6 DE BONDT, Dries (AFC)
7 VENDRAME, Andrea (ACT)
8 ALBANESE, Vincenzo (EOK)
9 VIVIANI, Elia (COF)
10 MOLANO, Sebastian (UAD)

General Classification after Stage 10
1 BERNAL, Egan (IGD) 38:30:17
2 EVENEPOEL, Remco (DQT) + 14
3 VLASOV, Aleksandr (APT) + 22
4 CICCONE, Giulio (TFS) + 37
5 VALTER, Attila (GFC) + 44
6 CARTHY, Hugh (EFN) + 45
7 CARUSO, Damiano (TBV) + 46
8 MARTIN, Daniel (ISN) + 52
9 YATES, Simon (BEX) + 56
10 FORMOLO, Davide (UAD) + 1:02

Stage: 11 Perugia > Montalcino 162.9km

gravel 40% chance of showers

Really wish I was able to take the day off to watch today’s stage live.

Last stage was really satisfying: just to see Bora execute their plan perfectly resulting in Sagan bagging an increasingly rare win. I started watching road cycling the year he started notching-up TDF wins, so he’s the first rider where I feel I’ve witnessed the whole main sequence of their career.

Thanks also to those contributing to this thread for the Never Strays Farfalle tip-off. Lots of fun.

Simon is not too keen on todays stage

think the big teams will want riders up the road here to get cars ahead of the peloton for the gravel

breaks being given a long leash….. 12:40 with 107 to go.

Definitely a win for the break today. Ineos happy for that to happen

Ineos happy for that to happen

no reason for them not to though really. Not their job to care today… That was Sagans job.

getting edgy in the peloton, though bike exchange still mooching about at the back.

seems like the rains holding off for the moment

Ganna is a bit of a beast, 700W on gravel! Plus 2 minutes from the break gone all ready.

new shorts for Ganna

This is getting a bit tasty.

Evenepoel got caught out there too. Seems the new Brailsford exciting attack mode has been engaged.

gruppo compacto
ganna poppo

loving this 🙂

that’s a horrible climb, hate variable gradients

Remco doesn’t like the gravel, gone….

Yates shirt undone doesn’t bode well

EF look strong

Simon Phillip Yates hanging in there…

what a race

Remco goes pop

Bernal being a bit feisty now.

Edit a classic stage.

I’s looking like Bernal’s to lose now, he’s looking incredibly strong.

Stage 12:Siena > Bagno Di Romagna 212.4km

long and bumpy

Stage 11 Results
1 SCHMID, Mauro (TQA) 4:01:55
2 COVI, Alessandro (UAD) + 1
3 VANHOUCKE, Harm (LTS) + 26
4 DE BONDT, Dries (AFC) + 41
5 GUGLIELMI, Simon (GFC)
6 BATTAGLIN, Enrico (BCF) + 44
7 KLUGE, Roger (LTS) + 1:23
8 GAVAZZI, Francesco (EOK) + 1:37
9 VAN DER HOORN, Taco (IWG) + 1:43
10 NAESEN, Lawrence (ACT) + 1:59

General Classification after Stage 11
1 BERNAL, Egan (IGD) 42:35:21
2 VLASOV, Aleksandr (APT) + 45
3 CARUSO, Damiano (TBV) + 1:12
4 CARTHY, Hugh (EFN) + 1:17
5 YATES, Simon (BEX) + 1:22
6 BUCHMANN, Emanuel (BOH) + 1:50
7 EVENEPOEL, Remco (DQT) + 2:22
8 CICCONE, Giulio (TFS) + 2:24
9 FOSS, Tobias (TJV) + 2:49
10 MARTINEZ, Daniel (IGD) + 3:15

tense dinner table @ DQS, Remco will have to attack now so good for us.

Remco was a weird one wasn’t he, he lost the wheel and lost everything, but then after that seemed to recover really well once he was 2mins down and hang in there and lost very little in the last few km… but at the time he popped, he popped hard and i thought he’d lose more. Credit to his team mate for coming back to save him though…. that’s a tough side of cycling when you have to do things like that.

It did look like he’d gone completely, so he must have dug deep…. gutsy stuff

Seemed that Remco was really uncomfortable on gravel descents. He said in an interview earlier that he didn’t think gravel should have a part in road racing. I would have thought a Belgian would be ok with slippery surfaces but clearly not.

He didn’t like it thats for sure (Neither did Yates, but from the vid ^^^ up there they were well chuffed!) I’m sure if he wasn’t coming back from injury he would have done Strade Bianci to get some experience in prep for that stage.

Seemed that Remco was really uncomfortable on gravel descents. He said in an interview earlier that he didn’t think gravel should have a part in road racing

I heard that – already showing a negative mindset, and offering a weakness to his rivals to attack him with (although I assume they’d know it anyway)

I’m a bit mixed. I wouldn’t support putting in a MTB stage or even a proper CX, but gravel roads are still roads, and IMHO less of a specialisation than TT’ing. He’s not complaining that there’s a big TT to come is he – wonder why?