Lesser known races 2025 edition

[RedheadDane]

Brennan wins ahead of Bini.

 

[RedheadDane]

Geleijn and Otruba have just around 20 seconds with under 5 Ks to go.

 

[RedheadDane]

Molano wins the stage, I'm assuming Lopez wins the GC.
Lopez does indeed win GC.

 

[RedheadDane]

Papon has made an attempt.
Will he be Victor(ious)? Probably not...

 

[RedheadDane]

Stewart wins the stage. Seems they didn't even realise the line was there...
Watson wins the GC, I'm pretty sure.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

So Toon Aerts had his debut at Lotto at Rund um Köln today. I didn‘t know he had been picked up by them.

 

[Tim Cahill]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1925791776331178006

Nahom Zeray wins, Fancellu also kinda nuclear at Conti level.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Ukyo are doing their best UAE impression in the race.

 

[Mayomaniac]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1925791776331178006

Nahom Zeray wins, Fancellu also kinda nuclear at Conti level.

How the hell does Zeray not have at least a PCT contract? 11th in Tour de l'avenir when riding for the UCI team (10th on Finestre), won u23 San Remo last year and was 12th in the Giro dell'Appenino vs the pros + being on the Q 36.5 developmental team?
And yeah, you need to be a proper conti-sputnik to beat Benji Dball at CT-level.
Edit: Zeray was also 12th on Green Mountain in the Tour of Oman this year.

 

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How the hell does Zeray not have at least a PCT contract?

He had (or maybe still has?) a deal with Q36.5, but they needed room for Pidcock.

 

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The Mercan'tour Classic is on today:

from a spectator's perspective, I like the idea of moving it to the Giro restday, but unfortunately the teams seem to disagree.

Startlist for Mercan'Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes 2025

Competing teams and riders for Mercan'Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes 2025. Top competitors are Jordan Jegat, Mathieu Burgaudeau and Cristián Rodríguez.

www.procyclingstats.com

 

[Samamba]

Favorite Rodriguez has already attacked with 50k to go...
Given the horrible field in this race this could actually work (but it's very risky).

from a spectator's perspective, I like the idea of moving it to the Giro restday, but unfortunately the teams seem to disagree.

It's cause they had to move the race to a week earlier mid season and some teams obviously couldn't make that change (trainingcamps planned). This week will always be problematics cause most climbers are on altitude right now, but it would have better teams if they knew earlier on.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Great to see my boy Ivan Sosa in hot-pursuit

 

[RedheadDane]

Looking good for Rodriguez.

from a spectator's perspective, I like the idea of moving it to the Giro restday, but unfortunately the teams seem to disagree.

Not to be pedantic, but I don't think whether or not it's on the Giro rest day has that big an influence on the team selections.

 

[Samamba]

Obviously this is just some conti level field apart from Rodriguez, but nonetheless impressive.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Expected a lot better from Bisiaux, although he does have his Romandie crash as an excuse.

And Jegat was even worse, when on paper he should have been Rodriguez' closest challenger...

 

[Onizuka999]

First stage of Albania Tour. Tirana Shkoder 151km stage won by the young italoalbanian De Fabritiis 2nd the dutch Den Otter and third another italoalbanian Kamberaj.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

And Jegat was even worse, when on paper he should have been Rodriguez' closest challenger...

Jegat has never finished higher in this race (24th). In the past three editions he has always finished some 15 minutes behind the winner.
Ok, admittedly the field was super weak this year.

 

[Pozzovivo]

Happy for Christian Godriguez, and it warms the soul to see the Son, Jesus Herrada, return to form. But let us speak plainly, signing Emu Buchmann was a blasphemy in itself, and now, to select him for both the Dauphiné and the Tour, while forsaking the one race he might do well in? That’s a violation of at least two commandments. Cofidis stands on the edge of relegation, and Vasseur, our own Pontius Pilate, washes his hands while the team is mocked in the public square. The bank must act.

 

[RedheadDane]

Milkias Maekele has won stage 1 of Tour of Iran (Azarbaijan), not to be confused with Azerbaijan, which is a different country.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Milkias Maekele has won stage 1 of Tour of Iran (Azarbaijan), not to be confused with Azerbaijan, which is a different country.

Ever since I have been aware of this race, I have been waiting for a question on Only Connect, with clues Azerbaijan-Iran; Luxembourg-Belgium, Macedonia-Greece and ( I don't know a fourth one)

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Ever since I have been aware of this race, I have been waiting for a question on Only Connect, with clues Azerbaijan-Iran; Luxembourg-Belgium, Macedonia-Greece and ( I don't know a fourth one)

Does Georgia-USA count?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Does Georgia-USA count?

D'oh, how did I not think of that?

 

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There's some .Pro level cycling on as well today, starting with a twisty sprint finish on likely wet roads in the Tour of Norway:

followed by the 5k prologue of the Boucles de la Mayenne in the evening

Norway is live on Disco+, BdlM only on France 3, as far as I can see.