OLN did not carry the Giro bike race in Italy today, or at least not in our area. Who won the stage and how tough was it up those 18% grades near the end?
Tom
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I may have screwed up the Stage number; but, who did win today?
Tom
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I may have screwed up the Stage number; but, who did win today?
Tom
Too bad you missed that. Paul Sherwin mentioned parts as 22 and 27 percent. I haven't heard of 27 on any major paved road here in the USA, parts of Mt. Washington are what, 22. Priests grade here has parts at 20. Nice shots from the air show the grade. Reminds me of Priests grade. Marco really grinding it out at the end. Good action! I remember a climb called Hells Kitchen in the Tour De Pont where the riders had to get off and walk up the grade and some fell over climbing the grade. I always wondered how steep that part called Hells Kitchen was.
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I may have screwed up the Stage number; but, who did win today?
Tom
Too bad you missed that. Paul Sherwin mentioned parts as 22 and 27
percent.
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I haven't heard of 27 on any major paved road here in the USA, parts of
Mt.
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Washington are what, 22. Priests grade here has parts at 20. Nice shots
from
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the air show the grade. Reminds me of Priests grade. Marco really grinding it out at the end. Good action! I remember a climb called Hells Kitchen in the Tour De Pont where the riders had to get off and walk up the grade and some fell over climbing the grade. I always wondered how steep that part called Hells Kitchen was.
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I remember a climb called Hells Kitchen in the Tour De Pont where the riders had to get off and walk up the grade and some fell over climbing the grade. I always wondered how steep that part called Hells Kitchen was.
Bruce
The climb is called Devil's Kitchen in the Catskills area (Hell's Kitchen is a neighborhood in Manhattan, also referred to as Clinton). The climb is about 1100 vertical in about 2 miles, for an average grade over 10%. This climb also led to the famous Raul Alcala "cooked in da kitchen" quote, refering to Vladislav Bobrik's loss of the leader's jersey in the Tour DuPont. (Google Devils' Kitchen or John Verheul for the thread)
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I remember a climb called Hells Kitchen in the Tour De Pont where the riders had to get off and walk up the grade
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some fell over climbing the grade. I always wondered how steep that part called Hells Kitchen was.
Bruce
The climb is called Devil's Kitchen in the Catskills area (Hell's Kitchen is a neighborhood in Manhattan, also referred to as Clinton). The climb is about 1100 vertical in about 2 miles, for an average grade over 10%. This climb also led to the famous Raul Alcala "cooked in da kitchen" quote, refering to Vladislav Bobrik's loss of the leader's jersey in the Tour DuPont. (Google Devils' Kitchen or John Verheul for the thread)
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(Hell'sKitchen is a neighborhood in Manhattan, also referred to as Clinton).
Clinton is what real estate agents, politicians, and tourists call Hell's Kitchen. It's marketing, like calling little Italy, and the zone above Houston, east of Broadway, 'Nolita'.
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(Hell'sKitchen is a neighborhood in Manhattan, also referred to as
Clinton).
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Clinton is what real estate agents, politicians, and tourists call Hell's Kitchen. It's marketing, like calling little Italy, and the zone above Houston, east of Broadway, 'Nolita'.
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Bruce, There are a bunch of Bikers that I talk with regularly that would agree with you. My guess is that they'd love to kick Billy boy's ass given the chance. The Heart and Soul of the original "Iron Horse" magazine was in Hell's Kitchen.
Bill, wake up. He isn't president anymore. You're obsessed. Anyway it was renamed "Clinton" a few decades before a certain Southern governor (BTW, Dewitt Clinton was governor of New York). Real estate agents have been renaming parts of New York since around the time they started putting streets in north of Washington Square. Unless you think we should go back to calling Foley Square "Five Points."