Pezcyclingnews: Giro Roadside St.18: To Verbania!

Ed and Martin are into the ‘Giro Groove’ and have this bike race chasing down to a fine art. They’ve worked out the best places to see the race, eat pizza & drink beer, plus find the very important coffee and a read of the Gazzetta. Day 3 of their Giro Adventure rolls to Verbania!We pick out De La Cruz, Bongiorno, Siutsou and one more with the gap back to Gilbert, Nocentini and Chava at 42 seconds; we’re only 450 metres from the GPM, then there’s another lift before the sweet drop to Verbania and the soigneurs towel on your face – and just maybe a Prosecco shampoo…The winner is one of those six guys for sure. The break’s stragglers hirple past; and then there he is – pretty in pink, Alberto. He’s solo, majestic, dancing with just clear mountain air behind him and looking like the star he is, ripping up this nasty climb.Then it’s Big Ryder, looking not too bad at all and not too far off Alberto – he could move up today?But where’s Landa, Aru?It’s a minute gap; compared to Contador their riding is controlled, steady – loss limiting. Contador is “expressing himself” again, today. There are riders all over the mountain, ones, twos and two big gruppos.Big six day star Roger Kluge is having a better day today than he did yesterday when he was out the back door early.Mick Rogers won two stages here last year but this year it’s ‘all for Alberto’ and...

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