2025 UCI Gravel World Championships

[memyselfandI]

Is it just me, or are some of the teams... I don't know how to put this... uhm... slightly... overpowered?

Yeah clearly UCI have looked elsewhere in this.

Then again ain't it yearly comedy tradition to see how certain national teams completely fu the potential they have for the day?

 

[memyselfandI]

Can anyone tell me where I can watch it? I have a VPN, but not sure where it's showing.

HBO Max at least here in Europe.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Nils Politt being in the lead group means the route isn‘t technical at all. Also two UAE‘s at the front again (the only ones in the race?)

 

[Didinho]

With Wellens and Christen controlling the peloton. UAE dominance for now.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

With Wellens and Christen controlling the peloton. UAE dominance for now.

Wrong Christen

 

[Didinho]

Mohoric has done a lot of efforts closing gaps the whole race.

 

[Captain Sensible]

With Pidcock riding this year I have two locals (Connor Swift ) to cheer on this year . team Yorkshire

 

[memyselfandI]

Nice play by Pidcock and Wellens..

 

[Didinho]

Mohoric has done a lot of efforts closing gaps the whole race.

He’s mowing the grass for some local farmers. Good lad.

 

[Tim Cahill]

No idea who is good and who isn't good at gravel but nice to see Golden Greg out there giving it socks

 

[RedheadDane]

Pidcock alone in a sea of Belgians.

 

[memyselfandI]

Looks like Wellens day to me.

 

[RedheadDane]

Belgium has All(e)man in the big chase group.

 

[Red Rick]

UAE really need a win.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Biesterbos not giving up.

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

I wanted to watch gravel to get away from UAE racing. Now I have to watch this *** from wellens.

 

[awavey]

I guess it's a bit like CX courses. If lots of rain the course gets muddy, technical and difficult. If dry, then not so much. Still, if one didn't race it oneself it's hard to tell how difficult it really was.

Not all too impressive speed by the elite women coming in about at the same speed as M55 age group but I suppose they didn't need to go faster.

I still think theres a big disparity between "gravel" and gravel between the USA and European definitions, such that you end with stuff like this which looks like a normal days riding route to my eyes, and I say it every year but when you see some of the qualifying events that look insanely difficult in comparison, theres something wrong with how these WC courses are designed.

next year is Perth apparently, which will at least thin the field out, and is looking like it will be a lot harder and more technical.

 

[awavey]

that moment your on a bike path with an open road and cars moving next to you...in a world championship level race, lucky the field is spread out eh

 

[ChasingPotatoes]

I wanted to watch gravel to get away from UAE racing. Now I have to watch this *** from wellens.

Haha, I just switched to Paris tours and see Bjerg pulling the “peloton”. You can’t escape UAE it seems!

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

In that way rideable +- 40mm routes get more upvote from me, than needs at least 50mm routes maybe coud benefit front suspension.

I disagree. Races of less than 50 millimetres really lack tension and variety.

 

[Barkintheeye]

Well deserved win for FV and nice to see Mohoric make it to the podium!

Pidcock really doesn’t have it when courses are this flat and technically easy.

 

[memyselfandI]

Nice little detail in Vermeersch is that no wrist computer, no bike computer and so prolly no power meter, just gut feeling looks to me. Rare these days so man seems to know himself well.

 

[RedheadDane]

Could have been fun if G. Vermeersch could have made it into the top-10:

Rnk	Rider	Team	Time
1	Vermeersch Florian	Belgium	4:39:12
2	Biesterbos Frits	Netherlands	0:40
3	Mohorič Matej	Slovenia	1:23
4	Van Tricht Floris	Belgium	1:40
5	Stehli Félix	Switzerland	1:41
6	Pidcock Thomas	Great Britain	,,
7	Wellens Tim	Belgium	1:46
8	Ottema Rick	Netherlands	2:46
9	Kielich Timo	Belgium	,,
10	Klaris Magnus Bak	Denmark	3:59
11	Vermeersch Gianni	Belgium	4:01

And Pidcock seems to like the number 6:

Date	Result			Race	Distance	Points PCS	Points UCI
12.10	6			UCI Gravel World Championships (GRV)	180.9			more
11.10	6			Il Lombardia (1.UWT)

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Well deserved win for FV and nice to see Mohoric make it to the podium!

Pidcock really doesn’t have it when courses are this flat and technically easy.

Yeah, could have predicted this......it's similar in muddy, flat CX races......

His big strength is the combination of climbing, technical descents and his excellent skills...........Take them away and he's not likely to win. And I suspect why none of the top XC racers turn up (though Mont Sainte Anne clashing doesn't help).

 

[jono]

The reality is that European gravel races, and many American ones too, favor the same sort of rider that does well in moderate to difficult, though not necessarily technical, road classics. The best riders with these attributes are in the road peloton. Bring them to Unbound and they would win too. I don't think the technical skills of an XC specialist overcome the better endurance of a road rider unless the course is essentially a MTB track.

Don't get me wrong: I love gravel and challenging tracks. I'll be riding some rocky logging roads today. But that is not where big time gravel racing is heading