Lesser known races 2024 edition

[RedheadDane]

Aaron's win-gate has been well and truly opened.

 

[tobydawq]

Astana in Hainan for future sponsorship reasons, I'd guess, too.

One thing I do miss with the watering down of Eurosport coverage over the past few years and now being rolled in to Max is the coverage of even minor WT races, let alone .1s and .2s and coupe de France rounds.

I don't follow? Max show as many races as Eurosport ever did.

 

[Pozzovivo]

Did Tour of Britain learn nothing from the horrible race last year? The parcour has 5 sprint stages and one punchy sprint stage. Who is gonna watch this before the last 5-10 km? The GC will be a joke. Just a poor man's ZLM tour.

 

[RedheadDane]

Ivan Smirnov won the final stage in Hainan, while Ma tried to bring glory to China.
Aaron went through the gate for the GC.

 

[awavey]

Provisional start list for Tour of Britain

https://twitter.com/x/status/1830287790715949353

View: https://x.com/VeloUK/status/1830287790715949353


There are full stage routes and details of the race here

Route

Route information for the 2024 Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men.

www.britishcycling.org.uk

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm looking forward to these guys finally living up to their name!

Project Echelon Racing 2024

Project Echelon Racing 2024 is a cycling team from United States. Their main riders are Tyler Stites, Scott McGill and Brendan Rhim.

www.procyclingstats.com

 

[Rob5091]

• Aug 25, 2024

Meanwhile I just have been mindblown a bit there was a stage race going on in Tibet. There's something really funny to me about flat stages at 4000m altitude.

Selection race for joining Astana ...

Huh, looks like I was right!

The current New Zealand Road Race Champion, Oceania Time Trial Champion and defending World Champion in Points Race on Track, Aaron Gate, has signed a one-year contract with the World Tour team Astana Qazaqstan Team for the 2025 season.

The 33-year-old New Zealander comes over after a year in the Burgos-BH jersey for whom he has recently won the GC in two Chinese stage races, the 2.2 Trans-Himalaya Tour (a race at 3500m altitude!) and 2.Pro Tour of Hainan, finishing five times on a podium in the process and taking two stage wins at the later race.

 

[RJH]

Huh, looks like I was right!

Gate is great ofc… Ok at Astana he‘ll earn mininum salary probably but he‘ll be proud to finally ride WT, won‘t he?

 

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There are full stage routes and details of the race here

Route

Route information for the 2024 Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men.

www.britishcycling.org.uk

They do like their daily sprints in Britain, don't they?!

At least stage 2 may offer an opportunity for Evenepoel to go for a 1-hour solo, though, if he feels like.

 

[RedheadDane]

Provisional start list for Tour of Britain

Apparently, British Cycling don't want to include the final start list on the website. The closest thing - that I could find - being this.

Teams

British Cycling

www.britishcycling.org.uk

Good thing we have PCS!

Startlist for Tour of Britain 2024

Competing teams and riders for Tour of Britain 2024. Top competitors are Remco Evenepoel, Thomas Pidcock and Julian Alaphilippe.

www.procyclingstats.com

Looks like someone got inspired by his little brother's exploits in Spain!

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Nordhagen destroying everyone.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Very happy Pellizzari lost this. Riding not to lose instead of riding to win caused him to lose.

 

[Pozzovivo]

Nordhagen destroying everyone.

Did he? Where did you watch the race?

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Did he? Where did you watch the race?

Youtube.

 

[Pozzovivo]

What a performance from Dockx - I've not heard of him before.

 

[RedheadDane]

Meanwhile, guess who was the quickest panda on the podium in China!

 

[RedheadDane]

Talking about podiums, this might be the tiniest podium I've ever seen:

 

[Tim Cahill]

Dockx it seems good for every bit of that win on his own strength, didn't see it coming.

Torres losing 32s, perhaps on the decline formwise a little, or maybe more representative of his normal level against Nordhagen. Really bizarre display on Finestere in hindsight, not quite sure what to make of it, In a way I got the same sensations about it as Plateau de Beille in that it just seems like such an absurd physiological and historical outlier.

 

[Pozzovivo]

Dockx it seems good for every bit of that win on his own strength, didn't see it coming.

Torres losing 32s, perhaps on the decline formwise a little, or maybe more representative of his normal level against Nordhagen. Really bizarre display on Finestere in hindsight, not quite sure what to make of it, In a way I got the same sensations about it as Plateau de Beille in that it just seems like such an absurd physiological and historical outlier.

Fully agree. Strange.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Dockx it seems good for every bit of that win on his own strength, didn't see it coming.

Torres losing 32s, perhaps on the decline formwise a little, or maybe more representative of his normal level against Nordhagen. Really bizarre display on Finestere in hindsight, not quite sure what to make of it, In a way I got the same sensations about it as Plateau de Beille in that it just seems like such an absurd physiological and historical outlier.

UAE and Torres were pacing hard on Passo del Pura, it would seem he was very much backing himself. Nordhagen ultimately was just better and was comfortably the strongest in the race. His lighter schedule probably being a reason for it, but with no clear goals in mind his form also remains questionable.

 

[Netserk]

Nice, same finale as one of the stages in the Giro I posted. I gotta find a video of today's stage.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Jorgen Nordhagen is off the charts.

 

[Samamba]

Jorgen Nordhagen is off the charts.

Only reason kids like Widar are so hyped is cause this kid got sick a few times and his country was too poor to send him to Avenir.

Torres also proving again that he's special. Insane generation.

 

[ingsve]

Pellizzari really tried today at least. When Nordhagen got dropped in the final big climb I thought it was over but today it was Pellizzari who went first and ended up getting caught in the final 1 km climb.

Very nice punch at the end by Nordhagen as well.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Really looks like a gen of mythical climbers with Torres, Nordhagen and Widar. Then add Pelizzari and Del Toro