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Quintana (Kanga) Roo - Nairo's time trial bunnyhop stars in our Giro video round-upNairo Quintana Giro d'Italia 2017 Stage 10 bunnyhop.JPG

Quintana (Kanga) Roo - Nairo's time trial bunnyhop stars in our Giro video round-up

Colombian may have lost maglia rosa today - but he'll win a lot of fans with these skillz .....
by Simon_MacMichael
Tue, May 16, 2017 18:52
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Movistar's Nairo Quintana may have lost the leadership of the Giro d'Italia after today's individual time trial - but he is bound to have won over some new admirers thanks to this stunning bunnyhop over a kerb at today's Stage 10 individual time trial.

It's even more impressive when seen from this angle in a video on the Gazzetta dello Sport's website.

The Colombian's save meant he avoided a spectacular crash - but Gazprom-RusVelo rider Pavel Brutt wasn't quite so lucky.

Nor was Team Sky's former world time trial champion Vasil Kiryienka, who crashed on the final bend ... he still set what at the time was the fastest time, but finished fifth on the stage, 2 minutes off the pace.

Meanwhile, Sunweb's Tom Dumoulin, the new race leader, almost took out two podium hostesses after being presented with the maglia rosa following today's stage ... although not in a George Hincapie, "Reader, I married her" kind of way.

Photo of the day, we reckon, goes to top Belgian snapper Tim De Waele, who set up this pic of Jasper Stuyven, who was clearly not on one of those days where he was going to leave it all on the road.

Giro d'Italia 2017
Nairo Quintana
Tom Dumoulin
Vasil Kiryienka
Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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dino | 7 years ago
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bunny hop... i guess Quintana isn't a one-trick pony... he can climb hills + bunny hop.  3  still not a fan.  Go Tom!

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Daveyraveygravey replied to dino | 7 years ago
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dino wrote:

bunny hop... i guess Quintana isn't a one-trick pony... he can climb hills + bunny hop.  3  still not a fan.  Go Tom!

I wasn't a fan either until I saw him iin action on Sunday.  Made doubly impressive as my legs were still suffering from my snail-like climb of the same mountain!

I'd say in general, Italian roads are worse than ours.  Where I am in Sussex there tend to be patchy sections, but they are never long and you can avoid the worst parts.  And you never find whole sections being reclaimed by the land, where you either dismount and carry your bike or you take it very steadily.

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Chris Hayes | 7 years ago
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He'd be bunny-hopping over pot-holes all day if he rode in the UK! 

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Grahamd replied to Chris Hayes | 7 years ago
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Chris Hayes wrote:

He'd be bunny-hopping over pot-holes all day if he rode in the UK! 

I think that is why Danny MacAskill started ...

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Daveyraveygravey | 7 years ago
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Although they had resurfaced a lot of the route for the Giro, that's the kind of skill you need to ride on Italian roads!

 

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Leviathan | 7 years ago
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He is a gentleman, a scholar, an acrobat.

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