Giro d'Italia 2025 spoilers

[mididoctors]

Daniel. Only gave this giro 3 wine glasses 🍷🍷🍷

 

[mididoctors]

The man is a bougy twonk

 

[orraloon]

When Friebe is 'in charge' as in most of the Giro episodes even with Birnie there early doors, the Cycling Podcasts are becoming an increasingly difficult listen. Way toooo much Daniel on and on and on aaaaand.... on

 

[misforturob]

When Friebe is 'in charge' as in most of the Giro episodes even with Birnie there early doors, the Cycling Podcasts are becoming an increasingly difficult listen. Way toooo much Daniel on and on and on aaaaand.... on

For an opposing view I like Friebe, all the co hosts were great but it was especially joyful to have Friebe and Birnie together on a grand tour for the first time in too long.

I would give TCP at the Giro at least 4 🍷 out of 5

 

[mididoctors]

For an opposing view I like Friebe, all the co hosts were great but it was especially joyful to have Friebe and Birnie together on a grand tour for the first time in too long.

I would give TCP at the Giro at least 4 🍷 out of 5

I like the atmosphere around the race they convey . I always listen . Their actual race analysis is not great tbh . I get the feeling they don't watch the race that much

 

[M.R.M]

Which Yates twin is the best at riding bikes?

It seemed that Simon was better, then Adam caught up and might have been better, now Simon is better again, or is it still Adam? Based off palmares it's clearly Simon...

 

[Alex321]

But Froome is the only British rider to have achieved the latter (multiple wins in the same GT) anyway, so your point is fairly moot.

True. For some reason, I thought Wiggins had won the TDF twice, but he didn't.

 

[mididoctors]

Which Yates twin is the best at riding bikes?

It seemed that Simon was better, then Adam caught up and might have been better, now Simon is better again, or is it still Adam? Based off palmares it's clearly Simon...

Simon looked to be sunsetting the year Adam podiumed at the tour didn't he . Just goes to show. I'm think physically with the same training load they are super close . It's all in the head


So it's Simon

 

[Pross]

Other stages that were definitely in "phone a friend" territory - Michael Rasmussen's unique approach to time trialling (possibly the greatest indication he was high as a kite on *something*), and Floyd Landis going on the rampage in 2006 fuelled by nothing but bread and water and, admittedly, enough injected testosterone to drop an elephant.

Neither were particular highpoints in cycling history, and both strained credibility and eyebrows even as they happened, but they definitely still stick in the mind.

Pantani Les Deux Alpes 1998 and probably others (there was that one in the Giro?? where he came from way back through the cars too)

 

[diplodicus]

For the wrong reasons, the one where Beloki crashed and Armstrong rode across the field.
Physically winced when Beloki hit the deck
TdF 2003 st 9

 

[Pblakeney]

For the wrong reasons, the one where Beloki crashed and Armstrong rode across the field.
Physically winced when Beloki hit the deck
TdF 2003 st 9

Going down that road, Johnny Hoogerland in the 2011 TdF. If you know, you know. No need to refresh the memory.

 

[mididoctors]

Pantani Les Deux Alpes 1998 and probably others (there was that one in the Giro?? where he came from way back through the cars too)

Oropa

 

[phreak]

Top 5 GT stages - GC action edition, no particular order. They're stages where you'd text a mate to say "are you watching this?!"

Froome on Finestre - 2018
Yates on Finestre - 2025
Jonas and Roglic kick lumps out of Pog on the stage to Col du Granon, as Geraint watches on - 2022
Pog's Roglic destroying TT stage 20 - 2020
"And just who is that rider coming up behind, because it looks like STEPHEN ROCHE! IT'S STEPHEN ROCHE!" - La PLagne, 1987


To be fair, that last one is about five seconds that lives on in the memory and it would be far more difficult to replicate now with the amount of camera motos and time trackers. The excitement was based on the last reported time gap being 1'30" and then Roche suddenly appearing.

I'd add in the Tuscany stage of the 2010 Giro when it bucketed down. Quite a few of the stages from the 2003 Tour, with Ullrich finally kicking some butt in that beautiful kit. And, obviously, the one that kicked it all off for me, Pantani to Les Deux Alpes in 1998 (I think most of Italy would say his Mortirolo stage in the Giro but I don't know if we even got the Giro live in the UK back then).

 

[MasterDabber]

Oropa

Pantani on Oropa.... my favourite cycling video ever.

 

[PurplePenguin]

2012 Vuelta and that Contador stage.