Giro d’Italia – Tappa 6

Find it hard to believe that
Find it hard to believe that its 2 years to the day that Wouter took that tragic tumble in the Giro….

RIP…Wouter Weylandt… 🙁

backflipbedlem wrote:Hey

backflipbedlem wrote:

Hey Guys,
pretty new to this, hows my team look, any advice

Bouhanni
Locatelli
Nibali
Viviani
Aru
Cavendish
DiLuca
Santambrogio
Battaglin

Any tips for the next few stages??

That team looks good for today. A few sprinters and scorers in the classifications too. You might want to take a couple of the sprinters out for tommorrow, but you also need to think ahead to the time trial on Saturday because your current line-up won’t score many points.

With Ferrari as my one
With Ferrari as my one transfer, I now have Cav, Degenkolb, Ferrari, Viviani, Ventoso and Bole (plus Visconti and Wauters, and an admittedly hopeless Gatto). Really could do with no crashes today, a bumper points total, and room to muck about tomorrow before the TT. But best laid plans etc etc…

drheaton wrote:STEVESPRO 79

drheaton wrote:

STEVESPRO 79 wrote:

Difficult to see past Cav today, but watching him trying to get up that final climb yesterday was painful, I personally dont think that he is in great shape at the moment…Hope Im wrong but although I think he will be in the mix today, Im thinking that Bouhanni, Viviani and Goss will really push him…
Its difficult to pack full of sprinters today with an up and down stage tomorrow and then tweaking for the TT the day after…
:?

It’s not really possible to judge a sprinters form on the flat by looking at them going uphill.

Over the last two years Cav has been better than he needs to be going uphill because he was targetting the hilly Olympic course. That’s now done so it’s quite likely he’s gone back to working on pure flat speed in his training. That means he’s slower uphill but faster in a sprint.

I think he’s in good for (as shown by stage 1) and I think he’s just gone back to his natural place in the peloton when it gets hilly which is at the back with the rest of the pure sprinters.

Anyway, if you wanted a sprinter on your team who would you choose:

1) Cavendish, unbeatable in a flat sprint, can’t climb
2) Degenkolb, solid in a flat sprint but doesn’t have the pace to beat Cavendish, can win the odd stage that get’s lumpy
3) Goss, can’t win anything…

I know who I’d want.

Im not judging Cavs form on his climbing ability….Yesterday he wanted to be there and failed miserably…I have never seen him look so distressed on a bike….Its not as if that final climb was a monster hill….

Having said that he is in my team today….but im not as confident as I usually am on such a tailor made stage for him… 🙂

Well after bringing in 4
Well after bringing in 4 sprinters for yesterdays stage and ending up with a massive 4 points today cant be any worse. I’ve left things alone and will mess about after todays stage.

Cav’s in with bouhanni, viviani and nizzolo.

Viviani and Ventoso in and I
Viviani and Ventoso in and I plan to leave it be for tomorrow too to allow me to make changes for the ITT, although there are no obvious choices, as I aleady have Phinney in ready.

Phinney
Cav
Viviani (for Uran)
Ventoso (for Weening)
Gavazzi
Battaglin
Santambrogio
Paolini
Visconti

Couldn’t afford Bouhanni, so
Couldn’t afford Bouhanni, so Ferrari in.