Jai Hindley takes Stelvio stage ahead of Geoghegan Hart at Giro as Kelderman moves into race lead; Dan Martin wins Stage 3 of the Vuelta; Motorist arrested for death of cyclist after police review of “shambles” of a case; Headless cyclist + more
SUMMARY
Big day at the Giro d'Italia
It was actually a big day yesterday – over 5,000m of climbing – but it didn’t translate into significant changes in the general classification.
Throwing the Stelvio at them today might change that.
🇮🇹 Giro d’Italia 2020
🗓️ 22/10/2020
🚴♂️ Stage 18 | Pinzolo – Laghi di Cancano (Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio)
📏 207 km
2⃣ GPM 1 cat
1⃣ GPM 2 cat
⛰️ Cima Coppi
⏰ 10:15 AM (CET)
🏁 ~4:30 PM (CET)
✒️ Live: https://t.co/3RV3dXR0s3
#️⃣ #GiroPowered by @ENIT_italia pic.twitter.com/Ctuakej3jo
— Giro d’Italia (@giroditalia) October 22, 2020
It is not going to be warm at the top. Don’t envy them descending from it one bit.
It’s a crucial day because Stage 20 has had the French bit of the route – the bit with the Col d’Agnello and Col d’Izoard – excised from it, so that’s not really the stage it was.
The change is as a result of Covid-19 restrictions.
Giro did extra Covid-19 testing on Tuesday and yesterday
RCS has introduced additional saliva antigen controls at the Giro, in agreement with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the teams.
In the event of a positive saliva test, a PCR test is carried out to validate the result.
A total of 484 tests were performed on Tuesday and yesterday.
No rider tested positive for Covid-19.
One staff member from Astana Pro Team tested positive for Covid-19. He was referred to his team doctor and isolated in compliance with the World Health Organisation (WHO) rules.
Today at the Vuelta a Espana
The Vuelta’s managed to serve up as much general classification action in two days as the Giro has in two weeks.
Now there’s a summit finish.
🔥 Etapa 3 | Stage 3 🔥
🚩 Lodosa
🏁 La Laguna Negra – Vinuesa
⏰ 13:15 CEST > 17:18 CEST
📏 166,1 km💚 Vinuesa
⛰️ 1×1️⃣cat. — 1×3️⃣ cat.+ info ➡️ https://t.co/EazatVWPAl#LaVuelta20 x @relivecc pic.twitter.com/5ccKq8hjXg
— La Vuelta (@lavuelta) October 22, 2020
Road Trip: climbing the 2,758m Passo dello Stelvio
The Stelvio: 24.5km long at an average gradient of 7.4% with 48 hairpins, taking you up over 1,800m to a height of 2,758m.
What’s it like to go up? And come down?
Background to the video here.
Meanwhile here’s 13 useful and not so useful observations on riding Europe’s second-highest road pass from Tony.
Stelvio temperature check
Looks less-than-toasty…
Hello Stelvio…🥶, we’re coming…#giro #giro2020 #giro103 pic.twitter.com/aihMjsDymI
— Israel Start-Up Nation / Israel Cycling Academy (@YallaIsraelSUN) October 22, 2020
Giro Stage 18 off to alarmingly fast start
Sounds like there’s a battle to get in the break.
Could be a loooong day for some.
📢The peloton is strung out with many riders already dropped. Follow live 👉 https://t.co/TlBPO3lAsS
📢Ritmo alto da subito, diversi corridori sono già attardati. Segui il live 👉 https://t.co/mKk45RbViY#Giro pic.twitter.com/OAiTLkddBy
— Giro d’Italia (@giroditalia) October 22, 2020
The story in numbers.
It’s been a savage start to @giroditalia Stage 18. Here were @TrekSegafredo rider @vincenzonibali‘s uphill first 7.5km ⚡️
Time: 18’12”
Avg speed: 23.2km/h
Avg power: 370w
Power-to-weight: 5.69w/kg
Red Zone: 23%Follow live power in our Race Centre 👇
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🇮🇹 #Giro #Giro2020— Velon CC (@VelonCC) October 22, 2020
Advice to 19th Century British cyclists planning a tour to Europe
Don’t forget your sperm oil and silk flag.
Revolver optional.
Advice to British cyclists planning a tour to Europe pic.twitter.com/jGuTRTsxpA
— JohnJ Project Fear = Project Reality. 3.5% (@johnleremainer) October 20, 2020
As my colleague Simon points out, both belt *and* braces are of course in there.
Brownlees among the first to invest in HUUB crowdfunder
Alistair and Jonny Brownlee are among the investors in HUUB’s Crowdcube campaign.
Primarily a triathlon brand, the Derby firm is looking to expand, having seen cycling sales climb by 681% this year.
The firm’s aim is to raise at least £250,000.
Jonny Brownlee commented: “Working with HUUB has always been born out of a genuine love for their products and their approach to innovation, and so it was an easy to decision to take the opportunity to invest in the business at this exciting stage in their growth.”
Headless cyclist entertains in New Hampshire
No head, no hands.
“I started getting some good responses from people and enjoyed doing it,” Matthew Dunkle told the Boston Globe. “I thought it would be sensational, someone riding around without a head.”
Motorist arrested for 2018 death of cyclist after police review of "shambles" of a case
The BBC reports that a motorist has been arrested on suspicion of killing cyclist Sze-Ming Cheung in Swannington, Norfolk, on June 7, 2018.
The arrest comes after Norfolk Police reviewed the case.
In July, we reported that no charges were brought after the head-on crash for which the driver was more than two times over the legal alcohol limit.
Speaking at the time, Cheung’s family issued a statement in which they described the case as a “shambles” and said that Norfolk Constabulary had “handled it very poorly.”
They're onto the Stelvio...
🏔️ The 2020 #Giro d’Italia, Cima Coppi: her majesty Passo dello Stelvio.
🏔️ La Cima Coppi del #Giro d’Italia 2020: sua maestà Passo dello Stelvio.
Powered by @Garmin pic.twitter.com/xkNokDT61K
— Giro d’Italia (@giroditalia) October 22, 2020
#Giro 🇮🇹 Passo dello Stelvio 🏔
10 km to the start of the climb pic.twitter.com/ElFxDDi0sI— Trek-Segafredo (@TrekSegafredo) October 22, 2020
Halfway up the Stelvio it's "ciao Joao" as pink jersey loses touch
Ineos attempting to set up Geoghegan Hart
Rohan Dennis (Ineos Grenadiers) has now ridden everyone bar team leader Tao Geoghegan Hart (fourth overall at the start of the day) and Sunweb’s Jai Hindley (third) off his wheel.
Hindley’s team-mate Wilco Kelderman (second) was the last man to lose touch.
This was one 4m30s stretch.
Rohan Dennis is causing all sorts of damage on the Stelvio for @INEOSGrenadiers on @giroditalia Stage 18, dropping lots of GC riders. Here was one 4’30” stint ⚡️
Gradient: 8%
Avg speed: 19.5km/h
Avg power: 450w
Red Zone: 37%Follow live power data 👇
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🇮🇹 #Giro #Giro2020— Velon CC (@VelonCC) October 22, 2020
Jai Hindley finally dons jacket
After what felt like about 25 minutes, Team Sunweb’s Jai Hindley finally managed to get his second arm into his jacket.
It was far more exciting than it sounds.
He was a whisker away from crashing at one point.
Wilco Kelderman has defrosted
Hindley’s team-mate Kelderman also had issues with his jacket and ended up descending the Stelvio in arm warmers.
When the road levelled out, Hindley and Geoghegan Hart started moving away from him but he’s since arrested his decline.
Kelderman’s actually gaining on the men ahead now. If the gap remains as it is, he’ll be in the race lead at the end of the day.
Hindley takes stage ahead of Geoghegan Hart with Kelderman new race leader
Jai Hindley (Sunweb) won the sprint (bet they were delighted about having to do that) ahead of Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers).
Hindley’s team-mate Wilco Kelderman was dropped by those two, but minimised the damage sufficiently that he’s into the race lead.
The top three are now separated by just 15 seconds.
Watts: The story of Jai Hindley's stage win
What a stage! Here was @TeamSunweb rider @JaiHindley‘s last 5km as he won Stage 18 of the @giroditalia and moved up to 2nd overall ⚡️
Duration: 11’29”
Avg speed: 26.5km/h
Avg power: 310w
Max power: 1000w
Red Zone: 11%Winning sprint: 19s at avg 790w.
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🇮🇹 #Giro #Giro2020 pic.twitter.com/kitAEBJgBo— Velon CC (@VelonCC) October 22, 2020
"The hardest stage of my life" - Kelderman
The new race leader Wilco Kelderman (Sunweb) said: “The hardest stage of my life. We had a goal and we achieved it. Wearing the Maglia Rosa is a dream after so many difficult years. I’m really happy to be leading the GC.”
Stage winner Jai Hindley (also Sunweb) said: “Winning here is such an incredible feeling. It’s a big step forward in my career and a double success for the team with Wilco Kelderman now wearing the Maglia Rosa. The tactics were perfect for our team today.”
Dan Martin takes Stage 3 of the Vuelta
🏁Etapa 3 | Stage 3
🙋🏻♂️🏆 DAN MARTIN @DanMartin86 🏆#LaVuelta20 pic.twitter.com/VQRHI0yVRd
— La Vuelta (@lavuelta) October 22, 2020
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@kingleo They're only imposing the 18+ age limit, raised from 16, on escooters, not legal ebikes. There is no minimum age for riding an EPAC in Ireland.
I thought it was all about the gear ratios?
@chrisonabike These are polarising issues - anyone attending would have known there was trouble bruin.
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I paid for my month, first week off work so I wanted proper full day coverage. Enjoyed it, nice to be able to pause live coverage, but then they make you watch the adverts when trying to catch up. Channel 5 for when I was working, alright, less chat. Seemed to use the tnt virtual studio. Already cancelled, of course, but will be catching the TdF femmes until I'm booted off. Even though I could watch the commenwealth games I haven't, I hope the games have done well securing the rights because their viewing figures will be right down, such coverage benefits being on the BBC.
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Didn't we do this earlier in the week?
If you come to road.cc only to read road bike articles, why do you keep clicking through to the other ones? Seems a bit daft
It's not the riders, it's not the equipment, it's not the clothing, it's not the nutrition, it's not the training. All those factors together probably allow for no more than 10% of the total improvement. Hmm, I wonder what the rest could be? It must be the tires ;-)
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Is this one of the things we
Is this one of the things we need to be aware of from the 1st January?
HoarseMann wrote:
i think the Brits have got this down to a very fine art with or without Brexit!
I have a couple of old
I have a couple of old Sovereigns in a safe place, but it’s hard to get people to make change for a £340 coin.
That guidebook page is
That guidebook page is obviously a spoof – it has ‘Supply of tea’ in the ‘Luxuries’ section.
mdavidford wrote:
Whenevet I travel I have a pouch of loose leaf tea and infuser with me as a lot of countries have no concept of tea and you’re usually subjected to dust in a semi plastic bag!! I’ve a friend who carries his own beans, grinder and filter cup! He has been known to carry a moka pot on occasion!
Here’s the earlier news item
Here’s the earlier news item about Sze-Ming Cheung
https://road.cc/content/news/no-charges-drunk-driver-who-killed-cyclist-norfolk-276075
Provoked quite an emotional reponse for me.
From the BBC report about Sze
Great that justice is finally being served, but the BBC really does need to stop phrasing things to make it appear that it was the cyclist who rode into the car/van/lorry. From the BBC report about Sze-Ming Cheung
“Triathlete Sze-Ming Cheung, 44, died when his bike collided with a van….”
Didn’t they get the memo about how to report cyclist collisions and not implying that it was the cyclist’s fault?
They didn’t even get the
They didn’t even get the facts right.
The van overtook Sze on a bend, the drunk driver coming the other way then drove on the wrong side and hit and killed Sze.
I cannot understand why both
I cannot understand why both contributory drivers were not prosecuted. This did not need to happen
RIP
I guess without head you don
I guess without head you don’t need a helmet
Have a look inside ScotRail’s
Have a look inside ScotRail’s active travel carriages.
https://www.railbusinessdaily.com/first-look-inside-scotrails-active-travel-carriages/