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So it is time for soul-crushingly bad Pimba music, time to see what ancient relics of a decade-old Vuelta breakaway you can dredge up to see performing like Pantani, time to see jerseys so ugly that Italian ProContinental teams wouldn't wear them, time to throw everything you ever thought...

It can not be that this beautiful race does not have a thread! Jokes about 'the dot' aside, it's long been a tradition on the boards to have a guilt-free digestif after the strains and stresses of July, and the Volta a Portugal's parallel universe has long been treated for that purpose. A world...

With the latest transfer news that has been swirling around today, seeing another team added to Acquadro's blacklist, and a number of high profile riders now finding reduced markets available for their wares, we saw another chapter being written into the history of cycling transfers. Anybody who...

So, it's July. And most of us have been through it all before. The Tour is about to begin, so there'll probably be a quick scandal or two, to try to scare a few riders, then the big spectacle begins. After all the build-up, everybody will pile to their screens to watch a flat stage 200km from...

IT IS TIME! Yes, it's time to leave all of the unsavoury talk of doping and controversy that has dogged the Tour behind because it's time for A Grande - the Volta a Portugal. The longest European race outside of the Grand Tours, the race has historically been a litmus test for recovery, with a...

While everybody's eyes are in France for the biggest race on the calendar, there's a second traditional July race (actually, with the Giro Rosa, the Giro delle Valle d'Aosta and others there are more, but bear with me). The Österreich Rundfahrt has been running since the late 1940s, although it...

We are all more or less au fait with the Vuelta al País Vasco in terms of format by now. No long stages, but no respites at all. There will be a stage which is pseudo-flat using gradual climbs that ends in a sort of sprint but with no strong sprinting field; there will be an uphill-type finish...

...Take 2. Can the forums handle the post now the diacritic post cut-off problem has been solved? As the Tour de France approaches, naturally the Grand Boucle and its associated warmup races take up a great deal of the attentions of the cycling fanbase, for obvious reasons. But while the Tour...

You know what, posting is useless at the moment. I had several paragraphs and a bunch of photos and links and all that to set up the thread, and it displayed less than a paragraph. Saved the content to the computer for when the forum is fixed. Until then, can a mod please delete this.

So, once more Javier Guillén and his band of merry men released the race route for the year's Vuelta, and once more we have a lot of one-climb stages, short and über-steep, and not so much in the way of multi-climb epics or long, winding suffer-fests. So, inspired by Linkinito's awesome TdF...

For the third year running, I am making the thread on this, the greatest and most storied of German Classics (take that, Cyclassics!). There are a number of reasons to love this race, but my main one is a sentimental one; my love of cycling was born at the Rund um den Henninger Turm (as it was...

It's time once again for one of my favourite little races. The former Rund um den Henninger Turm (briefly also Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop) is perhaps the biggest traditional one-day race in Germany, held on May 1 every year and looping around the picturesque Taunus Mountains. It holds a...

Obviously, testing positive or extreme violence result in people being thrown out of sporting events. But there are some other crimes equally heinous that go completely unpunished, sometimes even encouraged. Wouldn't it be nice to eradicate all your pet hates from sports? Here are a few...

The grand concept of this thread is that we all have our ideas of what kind of race we want to see, or places we wish races would go, or races we wish existed. So here's the chance for us to post up these ideas. I will keep this original post as a library of the thread so that if it takes off...

Way to ruin my day.

Inspired by the discussion of potential routes for the Tour and Giro, I looked at a lot of what was mentioned and thought about a lot of the roads that we know of, and a lot of the roads that are out there that are just begging to provide us with entertainment. In the last decade we've seen a...

It's time once again for one of my favourite little races. The former Rund um den Henninger Turm (briefly also Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop) is perhaps the biggest traditional one-day race in Germany, held on May 1 every year and looping around the picturesque Taunus Mountains. It holds a...

http://jornalciclismo.com/joaquin-ortega-acusa-epo-na-vespera-da-volta-a-portugal The Volta a Portugal, much as I love it, is not exactly known for its sterling reputation of anti-doping action. Barbot-Siper's Joaquín Ortega, one of those Spaniards riding for Portuguese teams, won stage 6...