Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia 2016

Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for the Giro, 2016, starting in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands and finishing in Torino, Italy. Here is a provisional start list. The riders make the race so it should be fantastic racing, a race up the whole of the country, for three weeks, what’s not to love? The Giro usually has a crazy stage and we are unsure what this year’s edition holds in that category, maybe more racing at night, or on dirt, bring it on. The Shark, Landa, Malmerde, Uran Uran, even Red Ryder, and more, each have a decent shot at the over all.

We all know the drill, this race starts on Friday so keep your delgado monkey on a tight leash. Consult your personal oracles; there are bike frames, carbon wheels, V-kit and more for the winners of the season-long overall VSP. Further details can be found on the VSP page. Bon chance.

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459 Replies to “Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia 2016”

  1. VSP PICKS:

    1. Tom Dumoulin
    2. Mikel Landa Meana
    3. Vincenzo Nibali
    4. Rigoberto Uran
    5. Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio
  2. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vincenzo Nibali
    2. Rigoberto Uran
    3. Alejandro Valverde
    4. Mikel Landa
    5. Esteban Chavez
  3. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vincenzo Nibali
    2. Mikel Landa
    3. Tom Dumoulin
    4. Ilnur Zakarin
    5. Domenico Pozzovivo
  4. sweet jaysus. Not much joy so far in VSP. Already delgado’d once.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Malmerde
    2. Nibbles
    3. Uran
    4. Majka
    5. Pozzivovo
  5. I think Nibali will have been focussed on this one. I think he’s most likely to do it. But what the hell do I know?

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nibali
    2. Landa
    3. Valverde
    4. Uran
    5. Chaves
  6. VSP PICKS:

    1. Mikel Landa
    2. Vincenzo Nibali
    3. Alejandro Valverde
    4. Davide Formolo
    5. Daniel Martinez
  7. This is going to claw back some points for my VSP campaign, or more likely nail down the lid on the coffin. I’ve now taken to picking entirely with my head, and ignoring my heart, as that seems to get the best results.

    Bloody hell this is a good field! I’ve just spent half an hour trying to fit six riders onto the podium!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Uran
    2. Nibali
    3. Majka
    4. Chaves
    5. Landa
  8. Hmm… the system seems not to be saving my picks, so I’m not sure if they’ve been mapped. They were published in the previous post though.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Uran
    2. Nibali
    3. Majka
    4. Chaves
    5. Landa
  9. Cant forgive Nibali for forgetting the motor goes inside the frame,

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Chaves
    2. Majka
    3. Valverde
    4. Ulissi
    5. Uran
  10. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vincenzo Nibali
    2. Alejandro Valverde
    3. Mikel Landa
    4. Jacob Fuglsang
    5. Rigoberto Uran
  11. Well. This one is going to be interesting.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nibali
    2. Uran
    3. Hesjedal
    4. Landa
    5. Majka
  12. I’m concerned that leaving out Valverde and Ilnur Zakarin off the list will hurt me later. Zakarin could be the future.

  13. Nibbles is a strange bird, he’ll be in good shape, I suspect.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nibali
    2. Landa
    3. Valverde
    4. Zakarin
    5. Dumoulin
  14. VSP PICKS:

    1. Mikel Landa Meana
    2. Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
    3. Vincenzo Nibali
    4. Rafal Majka
    5. Ilnur Zakarin
  15. Spartacus for the Prologue

    VSP PICKS:

    1. landa
    2. nibali
    3. dumoulin
    4. zakarin
    5. kruijswijk
  16. So far off the pace already in the VSP, the broom wagon is on my tail. Here goes nuthin’!

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nibali
    2. Landa
    3. Dumoulin
    4. Hesjedal
    5. Jungels
  17. Just because Two Windmills is a bit obscure, Im just clarfying my picks.

    Dumoulin? No?

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Landa
    2. Tom Two Windmills
    3. Valverde
    4. Duran Duran
    5. Nibbler
  18. VSP PICKS:

    1. Vincenzo Nibali
    2. Mikel Landa
    3. Rigoberto Uran
    4. Alejandro Valverde
    5. Ilnur Zakarin
  19. In other news…the VMH gave birth to our first baby boy last Thursday night. Let the breeding and blimping commence!

    22:29 EST on 4-28-16 and our house number is 824. 8 pounds, 53 cms long. Pretty crazy to have a little guy who needs to be fed every 3 hours. Life just got a whole lot more interesting. And busy.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nibali
    2. Landa
    3. Valverde
    4. Dumoulin
    5. Uran
  20. Did no one read the news before their picks? Fabs is sick, so probably not winning the prologue and Dumolin states he is not targeting the GC only the TT stages.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Valverde
    2. Landa
    3. Nibbles
    4. Uran
    5. Pozzovivo
  21. @Ron

    In other news…the VMH gave birth to our first baby boy last Thursday night. Let the breeding and blimping commence!

    22:29 EST on 4-28-16 and our house number is 824. 8 pounds, 53 cms long. Pretty crazy to have a little guy who needs to be fed every 3 hours. Life just got a whole lot more interesting. And busy.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nibali
    2. Landa
    3. Valverde
    4. Dumoulin
    5. Uran

    Congratulations! New journey starts and everything transforms to become better — even the bike.

  22. Keeping la maglia rossa ready for the upcoming Eroica in Dumoulin’s and my home turf, Limburg the Netherlands. We are only betting now for the Apeldoorn stage, right?

  23. Oops, forgot about Piti. And my picks were the same as Denti’s, and I must destroy him.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Shark Party
    2. Piti
    3. Kruijs Missile
    4. The Taylor Brothers
    5. Landa the Brave
  24. VSP PICKS:

    1. Nibble Nobbys Nuts
    2. Landa milk & hunny
    3. Malmerde
    4. Majka the biker
    5. Chaffin’ Chaves
  25. VSP PICKS:

    1. Mikel Landa
    2. Alejandro Valverde
    3. Rafał Majka
    4. Ryder Hesjedal
    5. Ilnur Zakarin
  26. I’ve put Majka on the list but he creeps me out a bit.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nibali
    2. Landa
    3. Pozzovivo
    4. Majka
    5. Valverde
  27. @Ron

    Congratulations! They make a lot of noise and smell bad but are great fun later.

    VSP PICKS:

    1. Nibali
    2. Landa
    3. Pozzovivo
    4. Majka
    5. Valverde

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