In this episode Patrick and Benji recap the 6th stage of the 2026 Giro d’Italia.
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40 Comments
The UCI is incompetent. That finish is criminal and negligent.
they crashed in crash corner 😱
UCI Safety Managers = as mythical as a unicorn.
Patrick Vs Benji GT picks
Total scores after stage 6:
Benji: 17
Patrick: 37
Patrick takes a flying lead.
Breakdown:
Benji Stage 6 picks
Route release: Milan 0 pts
Week before: Milan 0 pts
Day before: Magnier 5 pts
Stage 6 score: 5
Patrick Stage 6 picks
Route release: Magnier 14 pts
Week before: Magnier 10 pts
Day before: Magnier 5 pts
Stage 6 score: 29
The great Milan Vs Magnier battle was settled today with Magnier coming out on top. Except it wasn't was it, because we were robbed of a good sprint by the stupid course design…..(Can you tell I'm in a huff about this? Apologies folks I'm rather riled up after hearing a broadcaster say crashes make cycling entertaining. You know what would have been entertaining….seeing the sprinters ACTUALLY SPRINT)
Anyway, the positives for Benji is that in picking Magnier yesterday he only falls 20 behind instead of 25.
(Anyone else getting concerned that Milan might not actually win in Milan, and the entire city will need to be refunded?)
The spreadsheet maker tuned in stupidly early to the race today, got a bit bored and starting fiddling with Excel. I'd therefore like to put everyone on notice that I've started generating accuracy percentages for optimal dullness. This will provide no meaningful information whatsoever.
Looking ahead to stage 7 both competitors locked in Jonas in the week before preview. Back in December Patrick failed to lock in a name, but with Benji picking Paul Seixas this won't matter points wise. Points difference therefore depends on the day before picks.
Meanwhile Benji stated that he thought the whole race would be over after Blockhaus. But the race to be the winner of this GT picks competition is only beginning surely?
Widest tyres ever used and they can't turn, absolutely useless 😂
This has been a deeply unserious Giro the organizers should be ashamed of themselves. They clearly don’t care about the riders or the teams or the race or even the fans. They just want to be quirky and put cobbles in every sprint finish because it looks pretty on tv. They’re treating the giro like it’s NASCAR apparently crashes get more clicks and comments on social media eh?
14:52 you know what gets my blood boiling…
You should clip this and send it to the UCI lol
If you want an anticlimactic sprint finish where half of the sprinters falls down and anyone who happens to stand upright wins, please contact those organizers they will design one for you and it will come with an official UCI approval.
I think we can all agree the finish today was criminal
Easiest way to make cycling slower is really simple. Ban carbon wheels, ban deep section wheels, mandate the use of a standard aluminum wheels with +1900gr, mandate 30” standard tires.
No special versions, everyone uses the same stock wheel + tire combo.
That alone will remove 2/3 km/h on average.
Will UCI ever consider this? Absolutely not
I wanna see Wout Poels go for it tomorrow with Niklas Larson or a Kopecky as a tugbuddy
Whoever designed the finish must be sacked and not allowed to work in cycling again
I really appreciate your concern for rider safety. I completely agree with you concerning UCI, too. Jens Voigt also called for a different finish and more rider safety on German television.
Bum ass rose rockets ruining Milan's chance at ciclamino
Stuyven catching strays here, he was cooked from positioning the last 5k for Magnier.
The Rockets leadout train was pretty impressive, bloody shame there was a corner.
The entire cycling industry relies on new bikes getter faster– so the UCI reducing the speeds of WT races at the highest level goes against the year over year bike manufacturing innovations that are making even the average amateur racer faster.
Mandating grippier tires both slow the peloton and avoid some crashes.
Havent seen such an impresive lead-out train in a while! Big up the Rockets, there deserved stage win will come for sure!
Teams pick TT tires, that's their choice. They have plenty of other options.
And for the final, yes the UCI should do better but the teams know the route, often do recons, why do the.riders arrive like that in such a turn? I agree with Patrick, slow down bros and if you take a risk, well…
THANK YOU BENJI! I hate driving at night because all I can see are headlights! I can barely see the road!
I was sick seeing Elmar and Dylan going down 🤮
Benji waving a red cape at the UCI legal team
As a youngster, can Pellezari deal with the distance and still perform on the Blockhouse? I am curious to see how that unfolds…
Baleriny said he was going for maluceli
the magnier save + 3rd place = win to me
The sprinters teams were going unbelievably slow, they looked like they were being careful and they all slid out on exactly the same spot. It was a ludicrous finish, what a waste of a stage.
Watts Occurring had a massive rant about TT tyres too.
it's desperation to make everything "grand tour" worthy. sometimes harder or technical is really just dangerous
16:50–17:00, me when someone disses Jonas Vingegaard
Those cobbles in the finish are the stupidest course design I have ever seen.
Several people need fired.
I better not ever hear a peep about gearing, bar width, or sock height ever again.
I guess the Giro is interesting, but what we really want to discuss is whether Brennan will end up winning every stage of Fleche du Sud …. ?
It took 11:30 for Benji to get a letter from the UCI. I'm so proud of Benji for holding back so long.
Put those Nero boys to work, they only do one show a week
If anything that final turn had a neutral or slightly negative camber. Combine that with knobbly cobbles that will collect water in the divots, and then put that in the most strategic portion of the sprint where everyone will be fighting for position…
I’m an amateur cyclist and avid cycling spectator, and even I could have told the organizers that such a corner was a complete failure.
It was a sprint stage, where all the hype and drama leads to those last few hundred meters. And the organizers/UCI very much ruined this stage.
Hot take, Bahrain should expend everything to get Eulalio in the break. If they think he's good enough to win the Giro, see if Visma are able to chase your whole team for 240km.
No I'm not crazy 😂
New Cease & Desist incoming. . .
I agree with Benji once again. The course designers are deliberately looking for ways to create a crash.
18:24 Re teams using TT tyres. In Motorsport, a number of racing series declares an event/race as wet, changing how the race starts and can alter the race duration. I don’t see a reason why the UCI can’t do the same, forcing teams to use their slower but safer tyres and or altering the finish line on the fly if the weather conditions are deemed unsafe.
Honestly yeah, that's a good point. If a team knows they're going to be racing in the wet, then they probably should be using wet weather tires with better traction.
It might be slower, but it's probably faster (and safer) than crashing. Seems fairly logical to me.