"We were sitting in the rain in our gear van, because we couldn't get to our little dressing room behind the soaking wet stage, listening to some bad jam band.
A tour de force one-man performance, portraying several characters, doing battle with a massive set that included multiple levels and a wet stage, along with numerous complex prop set-ups.
Gene Kelly may have made it look easy in the classic 1952 film, but Choplin says it is harder than it seems: "We have to produce good rain that is wet, but warm enough so nobody catches a cold, make sure the orchestra doesn't get a soaking and prevent the wet stage becoming slippery".
3.01pm BST 3.01pm: "Further to the outbreak of Grand Touritis, I can report than in sympathy with the mechanics who presumably after the sopping wet stage 12 were faced with a loooong night stripping bikes etc, I spent yesterday evening servicing my hack bike regreasing rear hub and heads," writes Trevor Chambers.
He limited his losses in Tuesday's super-steep finish in Friuli, but finally succumbed on Thursday's short, brutally cold and wet stage across the Veneto plain to Treviso, in which he could be seen coughing as he attempted to keep in touch with the frontrunners.
long were cleaned by flow-through method with Lab solvent to strongly water wet stage.
The composite membrane was crosslinked by glutaraldehyde vapor to maintain its mechanical properties and fiber morphology in wet stage.
Italy's Danilo Di Luca, 37, looked like he might win a long wet stage but was caught by the peloton in the last 100m.
Moreover, in order to increase the accuracy of hydrological and climate forecast predictions, biocrust effects on surface albedo, both in a dry and wet stage, need to be included.
