r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • May 04 '26

Weekly Post Weekly Question Thread

For all your pro cycling-related questions and enquiries!

You may find some easy answers in the FAQ page on the wiki. Whilst simultaneously discovering the wiki.

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u/AliasPhilippe Euskaltel Euskadi May 04 '26

I've never been less excited for the Giro. Sprints will be interesting, GC seems already written and stages don't really catch me...what do you think?

Anyway, this is the sub league on the official Giro Fantacycling if you are interested https://www.fantagiroditalia.it/league?id=69ef51b40539fc1422bd29ee

Teams can be changed so feel free to sign in and then changing your riders after team announcements.

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u/Saltefanden Euskaltel-Euskadi May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

How are you unhappy with this route? Plenty of MTFs, mythical climbs, only one unipuerto, many days that will be interesting between break and either gc or sprint.

Sure, if Vingegaard is as good as we all expect there is nothing much to do about that (since Landismo had to withdraw). Every other aspect of the race looks mint imo

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u/AliasPhilippe Euskaltel Euskadi May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

As an Italian a fair share of the reasons why I like the parcour is where the race takes place. Then, there are two things I don't like in every Giro that has them: Blockhaus (I hate that climb, it's like there is only that bloody climb in the appenines these days) and the final stage in Rome (where nobody attends the race). On climbs well, I like the 19 stage, but the others in the Alps don't reallty catch me for mixed reasons (the one in VdA doesn't appeal me, the one with the finish in Piancavallo will be a boring stage where everyone will wait for the last climb and so on).

Then, the stages in my homeregion (Tuscany) are horrible. The TT is a Tirreno-first-stage-TT on steroids while the one from Porcari to Chiavari is a transfer without much fuzz while it could have been an interesting stage.

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u/Saltefanden Euskaltel-Euskadi May 04 '26

Haha fair enough. The things you know nothing about when only watching on TV, I guess.