General News Thread

[Samamba]

Is there anything known about the Tour de Romandie parcours this year, apart from what's on their website (start and finish places)?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Is there anything known about the Tour de Romandie parcours this year, apart from what's on their website (start and finish places)?

Didn't they announce the profiles like two weeks before the race last year too?

 

[Netserk]

Is there anything known about the Tour de Romandie parcours this year, apart from what's on their website (start and finish places)?

No, I don't think so. But as the race is as formulaic as Catalunya, there likely also won't be any surprises in the profiles there.

 

[Samamba]

Didn't they announce the profiles like two weeks before the race last year too?

Yeah but at least it leaked a few weeks before that last year. Like I don't get it. They obviously know the parcours themselves right?

No, I don't think so. But as the race is as formulaic as Catalunya, there likely also won't be any surprises in the profiles there.

Well yeah 2 flat TTs (maybe the prologue has a small hill in it as it is in Saint Imier) and Thyon is obvious. But there's also 2 stages on a circuit apparently, I wonder how they're gonna look.

 

[Berniece]

Is there anything known about the Tour de Romandie parcours this year, apart from what's on their website (start and finish places)?

Nope, nothing. Which is annoying because I was thinking of going if Evenepoel rides, but only if it's worth it.

 

[Netserk]

Nope, nothing. Which is annoying because I was thinking of going if Evenepoel rides, but only if it's worth it.

It will be similar to the 2021 and 2023 editions. Which details matter for your decision to go?

 

[Berniece]

It will be similar to the 2021 and 2023 editions. Which details matter for your decision to go?

If the profile is attractive of the stages that are not too far from Lausanne. I don't know what too far means yet.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Who had specialized getting political & cyclingnews getting really annoyed by it on their 2025 bingo card?

 

[E_F_]

Who had specialized getting political & cyclingnews getting really annoyed by it on their 2025 bingo card?

Not me, but I don't play bingo... What happened?

 

[Izzyeviel]

Not me, but I don't play bingo... What happened?

Its on the front page. Turns out one of the Specialised Bigwigs wears a red hat.

 

[E_F_]

Its on the front page

Not on the forum, it isn't

 

[Izzyeviel]

Not on the forum, it isn't

just in case you havent seen it

I presume everyone is lazy like me & just goes to cyclingnews dot com & then clicks forum rather than setting up a direct link to the forum.

 

[RedheadDane]

just in case you havent seen it

I presume everyone is lazy like me & just goes to cyclingnews dot com & then clicks forum rather than setting up a direct link to the forum.

I have a direct link to the forum, because I'm too lazy to go through cyclingnews.com.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

MOD's reminder:
No problem with any of the above, but this is not the place to discuss tariffs or any other element of political policies. I'm sure you can all find other places on the net to discuss that: let's keep this place for a bit of light relief from all that.

 

[Mayomaniac]

So the Tour de Suisse route just dropped and it's a hard one:

15/06	Sunday		Stage 1 | Küssnacht - Küssnacht	127.2
16/06	Monday		Stage 2 | Aarau - Schwarzsee	177.1
17/06	Tuesday		Stage 3 | Aarau - Heiden	191
18/06	Wednesday		Stage 4 | Heiden - Piuro (Valchiavenna)	193.1
19/06	Thursday		Stage 5 | La Punt - Santa Maria in Calanca	183.7
20/06	Friday		Stage 6 | Chur - Neuhausen am Rheinfall	186.7
21/06	Saturday		Stage 7 | Neuhausen am Rheinfall - Emmetten	211.8
22/06	Sunday		Stage 8 (ITT) | Beckenried - Stockhütte	10.1

Not all the profiles are already complete on procyclingstats, but it's a hard one. I guess the Tour MTT pushed them to include one as a test for the riders.

 

[search]

According to Gerben Thijssen, the now general lack of police in Dutch races meant that the second peloton was taken out of the race in the Volta NXT Classic, although only 2 minutes behind.

As everyone still had to get to the finish anyway, they went on unprotected instead.

https://pressreader.com/article/281998973285149

 

[Red Rick]

Just cancel every Dutch race thenk you very much, we don't have any good ones anyway.

 

[E_F_]

They should do a two day motor-circuit sprinters race at Zandvoort and Assen with loads of bonus seconds.

 

[tobydawq]

Just cancel every Dutch race thenk you very much, we don't have any good ones anyway.

You have Amstel which is a great race.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Silzer Sattel = Rider Death!

Always wanted to see that in a pro race.

Looks like it will happen in this years Tour of Austria.

https://tourofaustria.com/4-etappe-2025/

 

[Red Rick]

Looks like it will happen in this years Tour of Austria.

https://tourofaustria.com/4-etappe-2025/

I will give short mountain stage bs a pass for once.

 

[Netserk]

Last ~7.8 km of this:

 

[RedheadDane]

Looks like it will happen in this years Tour of Austria.

https://tourofaustria.com/4-etappe-2025/

That seems wrong... considering what happened last year...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Last ~7.8 km of this:

As I understand the profile, the first ascent to Kühtai is the full climb from Oetz, while they will be descending down to Kematen twice.

 

[Netserk]

As I understand the profile, the first ascent to Kühtai is the full climb from Oetz, while they will be descending down to Kematen twice.

No, different sides of the climb. Distance would be all wrong if you climbed it from the same side twice as you'd have too much valley. And you can see on the outline of the profile which side is climbed the first time.