In short? Lotta hills, not a lotta time-trials. That makes things difficult for some riders, but opens the door to the climbers as a major target. And it’s just better to watch. 51km of altitude gain. 26.3km of time-trialing. LOL. Here’s the route. The Route The 2022 Giro starts in Hungary, beginning with an uphill sprint(?) finale. Then we go straight into a 9.2km time-trial. One day for the sprinters, and then we’re on for an early rest day. When we return, we’re on Sicily, headed to Mt Etna. That’s a volcano. Stage Four, folks! Sprints for two days following,…
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Dunno why we’re sharing this. They can email a press release to us, but they can’t acquire us? Might not even make a retro version of their logo, that’s how half-assed we’re feeling. The publishing process is less asynchronous for you, so we guess you already know whether we decided to do it or just download some shit from the internet. Here’s the press release with no jokes or copy editing. Quite liked working Elephant Rock back in the day. Maybe they’ll send us a branded Elephant Rock bidon to replace the one we lost, since we shared this news?…
The 2022 Giro d’Italia is wide open. The perhaps understandable absence of Pogacar, Roglic, and Bernal opens the door to a first grand tour of the season with no clear favorite. There are, however, former winners on the startline, and several other riders who’ve impressed in previous years. Richard Carapaz (INEOS) The Ecuadorian won the 2019 edition of the Giro d’Italia, and arrives as the closest thing to a favorite. His INEOS Grenadiers team has dominated the race in recent seasons, and brings capable support led by super domestique Richie Porte. Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo-Visma) Tom Dumoulin returned to the sport…
Probably other teams too. Couldn’t be bothered scrolling further down our inbox to find out. We’re going to the Team DSM pre-Giro press conference on Wednesday, so we should probably research that. Movistar Alejandro ValverdeIván SosaJosé Joaquín RojasJorge ArcasSergio SamitierAntonio PedreroOier LazkanoWill Barta Alejandro Valverde’s last appearance in the opening Grand Tour of the season, Iván Sosa’s hopes after Asturias GC win headline Blues’ chances as they bring lineup combining experience and youthJust four days away from the start of the 105th edition of the Giro d’Italia, the Movistar Team confirmed on Monday their eight-man lineup for the first three-week…
Any interest in this? Bird Canada is “the leader in sustainable micromobility in Canada,” which is the kind of ambiguous niche we love to write about. A revolution for indoor fitness using non-fungible multisport microtransactions in Belgrade, that’s what we really want to get emails about, but something about electric scooters is ok too. Bird says its “shared e-scooters and e-bikes are taking flight for the 2022 season.” Quite a good pun, although we’d advise not invoking the one method of transport you don’t provide. Just a copywriting tip from the website full of typos. We’re assuming the “shared” part…
Pogacar wins! If he doesn’t win, this was a joke. If he does win, sorry for the spoiler. Adjust your hate mail accordingly.
We’ve often written about cycling videogames in our 16 years of having a website semi-related to bicycles. What was once a barren wasteland of obscure Japanese keirin games, strange DOS churn, and Paperboy eventually gave way to Pro Cycling Manager, the gold standard of the genre. It combined Championship Manager style squad management with in-game tactics to produce a complete, though occasionally a little rough, simulation that allowed you to fulfill your impotent wishes as a fan right terrible injustices like Ivan Basso not beating Lance Armstrong in 2005. Some brief dabbling in arcade racing games gave the publisher, and…
Do we care about the GP Oetingen? Like, more than Strade Bianche and Paris-Nice, which we’ve so far only expressed opinions on over on the secret social medias that only the greatest in the sport get access to? (Sorry if you don’t have access. Send proof of monument or grand tour victory to our email address if you want in. Bradley, we already know what you did so you can just email us as usual.) Don’t know. DGAF. It’s important for the men’s sport to experience this type of erasure. Okay, here’s the race report from our guest correspondent. Team…