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Girod d'Italia Insight in to Stage 15 Giro d'Italia 2012: Stage 15 Video Preview - Busto Arsizio to Lecco/Pian dei Resinelli 169 km
A second high mountain stage - and one that is very handily placed for Milan's Malpensa airport for anyone who decides they've had enough before the start. This is also our second video preview courtesy of IG Markets, Dan Lloyd, latterly of Garmin Cervelo and these days riding for Team IG Sigma Sport discusses the demands of riding in the high mountains and how the riders and teams cope with them.
Today's route has a very different flavour to yesterday first foray in to the high mountains, with shorter climbs, and the tail end of the stage reminiscent of the Giro di Lombardia in the mountains above Lake Como – not too far from the home of former Giro champion Ivan Basso.
The climbs may be shorter in length, but from the Category 1 Valico di Valcavia onwards, they will test the riders, and none more than the final ascent to Piani di Resinelli, which hits 12 per cent early on and comprises no fewer than 15 hairpin bends.
GT: It’s a tough one, particularly at this stage of the race. I don’t think there will be massive differences on GC, maybe somebody will lose 30 seconds, but I think it will still be the big names battling it out.
For more on this year's race read our full Giro d'Italia Preview.
If you've got a particular highlight of this year's Giro you'd like to share tweet it using the hashtag #girohighlight and IG Markets will include the winning message in their final film from this year's race.
road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.
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