Time trial specialists might be looking forward to the 2008 Giro d'Italia, which rolls out of Palermo on May 10 and ends in Milan on June 1.

The 91st edition of the bike race begins with a team time trial and ends with an individual time trial, with 2 additional time trials sandwiched in between. The three individual time trials, one in the mountains, amounts to about 45 miles.

By contrast, the 2008 Tour de France omitted the prologue this year and once again has no team time trial. Considered time-trial "light," the Tour's two individual time trials actually total more miles than the Giro-- 50 ....   more »