Hot racing coming up in Australia

[Cookster15]

It's very simple:
Australia = This thread.

(Unless it's the World Championships, or something)

Australia except TDU. Perhaps the Cadel Evans race can grow in significance to warrant its own thread too 😉

 

[Coffeeplanter]

FFB putting a whole different meaning to thievery.

 

[tobydawq]

That was bizarre to watch from Red Bull. They rode so well in TDU and then they did this here...

 

[Tim Cahill]

White Boy like me can barely go outside in 40, was feeling bad just watching that. 3 degrees that's my kind of temperature, bit of rain, Fleche last year.

Lewis Askey the man from just near Stoke, famous for it's windy Tuesday nights should get a combatif prize.

 

[RedheadDane]

Lewis Askey the man from just near Stoke, famous for it's windy Tuesday nights should get a combatif prize.

Specifically Tuesday nights.
Not Mondays or Wednesdays.
Certainly not Sundays or Thursdays.
Fridays or Saturdays are just completely out of the picture.

Well, @Armchair Cyclist. I suppose this thread can be un-stickied now. Then it can return to its resting place, waiting to be awokened next year.
Or late this year.

 

[tobydawq]

Specifically Tuesday nights.
Not Mondays or Wednesdays.
Certainly not Sundays or Thursdays.
Fridays or Saturdays are just completely out of the picture.

It's a football reference.

 

[RedheadDane]

It's a football reference.

I thought it was a weather reference.
After all, why would you talking about boring sports like football here?


Shooo... that stuff belongs down in the off-topic section.

 

[tobydawq]

I thought it was a weather reference.
After all, why would you talking about boring sports like football here?


Shooo... that stuff belongs down in the off-topic section.

Sure

 

[RedheadDane]

Sure

That I thought it was a weather reference? Why would my first thought be football?

Or that talk about football belong down in the off-topic section?

 

[ingsve]

BTW. Laurence Pithie, Aaron Gate, Corbin Strong and Finn Fisher Black all in the top 10. Could this be the strongest New Zealand WT finish of all time perhaps?

 

[search]

AusCycling has announced their national teams for the WT races:

TDU: Howson, Harper, Walsh, Eddy, Bleddyn, Greenwood, Stevenson
CEGORR: Harper, Walsh, Eddy, Bleddyn, Greenwood, Browning, Stevenson

Australian squads selected for TDU and Cadel's Race | ARA Australian Cycling Team

Get ready for the ARA Australian Cycling Team to light up home roads this summer at the 2026 Tour Down Under and Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.

australiancyclingteam.com

While the wildcards haven't been announced yet, this also confirms that Q36.5 won't be there.

 

[Samamba]

How is the parcours of Australian nationals looking this year?

 

[Squire]

How is the parcours of Australian nationals looking this year?

Same as last year, isn't it?

Profile and map here: https://roadnationals.org.au/the-event/road-race

 

[search]

yes, that's the same as last year.

Looks like there'll be no crit race for the men before TDU this time.

 

[yaco]

yes, that's the same as last year.

Looks like there'll be no crit race for the men before TDU this time.

I believe there will be a crit on the Sunday. I will be on the ground so will post a report.

 

[Squire]

TDU startlist shaping up nicely. The full Aussie GC contingent and Buitrago, an early-season monster to rival Wellens and Lutsenko, has just been confirmed.

 

[yaco]

TDU startlist shaping up nicely. The full Aussie GC contingent and Buitrago, an early-season monster to rival Wellens and Lutsenko, has just been confirmed.

Buitrago will need to do a good prologue.

 

[search]

Buitrago only lost 9s to Milan in the Deutschland Tour last year (over 2.9k - here it's 3.6k). I think he should be okay, especially if it's on road bikes again

 

[Potomac]

I'm guessing EF would send both of their Australians

 

[yaco]

Buitrago only lost 9s to Milan in the Deutschland Tour last year (over 2.9k - here it's 3.6k). I think he should be okay, especially if it's on road bikes again

It's a hillier course than last year so he should be fine. A.Yates will be at the race at what is shaping to be a good field. And the world champion Vallieres will be at the women's race. I can't wait to be on the ground.

 

[Sciatic]

I don't follow the Aussie races very closely, but I always love seeing the "Hot Racing Coming Up . . ." thread title pop up in my feed 'cause it means the road season isn't that far off

 

[Tim Cahill]

Oscar Onley was meant to be there, he did Tour of Bright, who knows now.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I'll never be the biggest fan of TDU, but it's hard to ignore the fact that the race is more prestigious and attractive now than in the years of endless Porte-Impey tussles.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

I'll never be the biggest fan of TDU, but it's hard to ignore the fact that the race is more prestigious and attractive now than in the years of endless Porte-Impey tussles.

Interested as to why you're not a fan when it's just a fun winter training race to kick off the season (climate issues?), but anyway I think you're showing disrespect to double monument winner Simon gerrens and tdf podium/ double Paris nice winner Ritchie porte. The race surely can't be more prestigious now it's just congested by UAE domestics getting their one slither of leadership for the season.?

I could be wrong but it seemed more prestigious pre-covid to me

 

[Sciatic]

Interested as to why you're not a fan when it's just a fun winter training race to kick off the season (climate issues?), but anyway I think you're showing disrespect to double monument winner Simon gerrens and tdf podium/ double Paris nice winner Ritchie porte. The race surely can't be more prestigious now it's just congested by UAE domestics getting their one slither of leadership for the season.?

I could be wrong but it seemed more prestigious pre-covid to me

I can't speak for Devil's Elbow, but I think my lack of enthusiasm might derive from being unduly influenced by Jancouver during my early years on the forum