Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Samamba]

Astana v Astana lmao

 

[Tim Cahill]

Don't think Wouter seemed best pleased with the move from his teammate

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Like stealing UCI points from kids.

 

[Berniece]

Try to close the gap and gift Lopez the win, you still have GC

 

[Samamba]

Bad day for PicNic, Van den Broek loses 2 spots in GC at least

 

[Ilmaestro99]

My god what a day. The Infernal pace set by fausto Masnada allowed his leaders to take a 1-2 again on the finish. Beautiful teamwork

 

[Lequack]

Astana are good, they should be a WT team.

 

[Samamba]

My god what a day. The Infernal pace set by fausto Masnada allowed his leaders to take a 1-2 again on the finish. Beautiful teamwork

All jokes aside, at least it was a pro worthy performance for once.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Pretty brutal day in the saddle today. Solid avg pace. Astana whacking everybody.

 

[Brullnux]

Obviously Astana have chosen a meme calendar with a lot of meme tactics, but they do actually deserve WT status. Beyond Scaroni doing a February Wellens impression, they've been competitive in a lot of WT races. They're not a top ten team and won't be for a while, but they're very solid.

 

[Netserk]

Hilarious that the Danish commentators thought Poels was weak all the way until he attacked. Just simply a 38 years old who rides more smartly than his competition.

 

[Netserk]

Fausto just attacked his own pacing and then dropped himself

tbqh, he was all over the place on both the flat and the climb. but i guess its nothing worse than what he did for almeida

 

[Ilmaestro99]

All jokes aside, at least it was a pro worthy performance for once.

I know youre taking the p*ss a little bit, but I'm honestly really happy.

This is a guy who could keep with pocagar on a 250km hilly monument , and if you follow my posts on faustos threat it got to a point when I was wishing he could literally just show himself in a race in some way.

He had mononuclosis , a broken spine, bronchitis, saddle sore, knee problems. People were comparing me recently to taxus4 talking about froome.

But he is not a froome, because this week my most basic wishes were realised, he showed himself and had an impact on a race and did a great job for his team even without his best level. This is not something froom could do.


Hopefully there is more to come this coming months. I am happy

 

[Samamba]

I know youre taking the p*ss a little bit, but I'm honestly really happy.

This is a guy who could keep with pocagar on a 250km hilly monument , and if you follow my posts on faustos threat it got to a point when I was wishing he could literally just show himself in a race in some way.

He had mononuclosis , a broken spine, bronchitis, saddle sore, knee problems. People were comparing me recently to taxus4 talking about froome.

But he is not a froome, because this week my most basic wishes were realised, he showed himself and had an impact on a race and did a great job for his team even without his best level. This is not something froom could do.


Hopefully there is more to come this coming months. I am happy

I was not taking the piss. It was a pro worthy performance and he needs more of those otherwise his career might be over. If he was going to be nowhere all season long I doubt a decent team would give him another chance, even knowing the medical reasons.

Obviously the comparison with Froome doesnt make sense as Masnada is probably also not on a fat salary anymore.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Turkey, stage 7 live. group of 8 including Smit up the road with about 4mins. about 90kms to go. If today doesn't result in a bunch sprint, we could have a collective revolt by the heavies.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

turkey: bunch sprint coming up in 7kms

 

[Tim Cahill]

Huge crash involving lots of Astana/TDT

Pray4Fausto

Edit: Masnada not involved, was there at the finish

 

[KZD]

Viviani rolls back the years.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Hahahaha Viviani like Lazarus, what's going on

 

[RedheadDane]

Did Viviani just win a bike race?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It's not too late to reach 100.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

First win in like 1.5 years. Brilliant. 10 more wins to go.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Hahahaha Viviani like Lazarus, what's going on

German ES commentators manifested it basically, they were talking about him all the run in to the finish.
But I think they called him Biryani once or twice. So Indian food for the win.

 

[Samamba]

Nice one for Viviani. Didn't think he still had it in him. Ok, it's obviously not against good sprinters, but still a win is a win.

Kristoff going to have to be a bit lucky to get his 100 before retiring. Although I just don't see him retiring if he doesn't get the 100th win.

 

[Netserk]

Bad week for Kristoff, it would have been welcome with two victories here.