Something to try on the Clubrun this Saturday?

[David Lombari]

from cyclingnews.com

Water-carriers battle in the Giro

Cycling is traditionally divided into stars and water-carriers and while battle rages at the top of the Giro d'Italia rankings between stars such as Ivan Basso, José Gutierrez and Paolo Savoldelli, a literal contest among water-carriers has been going on further back.

According to La Gazzetta dello Sport Quick-Step's José Antonio Garrido recently set a new record by carrying 16 water bottles simultaneously from the team car to his team-mates. With one bottle in his mouth, two in the cages on the bike, two in his pockets, six under the front of his jersey, and five under the back, Garrido lugged over five litres of water to his team-mates.

In yesterday's stage, Fabio Sacchi (Milram) beat Garrido's record by carrying 18 water bottles simultaneously, but Garrido thinks he can beat the Italian. "I've already done a test, and think I can manage 20 bottles," he said.

There's more than just bragging rights at stake too. At the end of the Giro on Sunday, Italian cycling legend Francesco Moser will present a prize to the man who manages to carry the most bottles: a bottle of wine for each of the bottles carried. "It will be a kind of miracle: water will be turned into wine!" said Moser.

Courtesy Michele Lostia

[richv]

But with 9 team members and 2 bottle cages per bike what is the point of carrying 20 bottles back to the peleton

[David Lombari]

Just for the challenge I guess.

They could be using unbranded or 'EstaTe' branded bidons so they can hand them around liberally when they get back to the gruppo.

[David Lombari]

Ah......don't want to spoil it, and I want to watch it as live tonight too, but there have been big changes to the route today due to bad weather. Unfortunately this includes the Plan De Crones.

[David Lombari]

I go to watch the weekend stages live at Italia Uno, and Felice decides between Eurosport and Rai Tre. The post stage chatshow looks good, but I can't really follow much of it.

It was quite funny the other day....they'd been chatting for about half an hour when they were all surprised by TV pictures of three stragglers coming over the line forty minutes after the stage winner. It wasn't even a mountain top finish!