Welcome to a special Giro edition of the Cyclotips Podcast.

We're going to do a couple of these throughout the race when we think that there are

interesting things to talk about and today, Thursday, May 13, after the, I guess sort of the second

GC day of the Giro, we thought there was plenty to talk about. We had some bad

weather, we've had GC riders go well and others go quite poorly we had a guy

get almost run over by a team car we have lots to talk about today got most of the usual

crew got Ronin, Abbey, Dane, how are y'all? Yep yep. Good. Yep. Yep, yep. So enthusiastic today about the Giro, it's good.

Before we move on, real quick, we do have a special Vello Club,

cycling tips membership, and Special Edition Giro D'Italia t-shirt offer going on right now.

So for 79 U.S. dollars, it's about 100 Aussie, about 56 British pounds.

You get to be a Vela Club member and you get this special edition

Jyrd Italia t-shirt in pink, blue, or black.

Of course, you also get all the other things with the Vela Club membership.

You get our annual magazine mailed to your door.

You get exclusive content and access to extra access to us editors if you want to

ask us questions and make fun of us on our our internal slack channel They always just make fun of me for my love of

hammers and you know it stings a little bit. It stings, but that's okay. You also get industry discounts swift group rides. We've like I say we've got our private

Social media groups and slack channels and a weekly newsletter that comes in from our editors.

Lots of stuff you get for joining Vello Club.

Do it up. Plus you support everything that we do here at Cycling Tips, including this very

podcast. Now with that, let's get into the Giro so far. So just about an hour ago we wrapped

up the sixth stage of the Giro to Tal to Escoli Picheno, a 160 kilometer stage with a big old mountain in the middle,

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