Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Mayomaniac]

Ponomar has risen!

 

[tobydawq]

Nice! I was beginning to fear that Ulissi's streak might come to an end.

 

[Cycling111]

35 km solo.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1937527704569676231

View: https://x.com/LeGruppetto/status/1937527704569676231

 

[TourOfSardinia]

+195 UCI pts for Astana

 

[Mayomaniac]

+195 UCI pts for Astana

Just wait for the Italian NC...

 

[Roku]

What a shame Barré was reeled in over the last few KMs. The extra 50 points would have come in handy. Busatto in the 4th to 10th region was to be expected.

 

[search]

Still a couple of days away, but on from Thursday there's the Sibiu Tour again. The parcours is more or less the same as usual, but with the Paltinis finish a couple of k closer to the steeper parts of the climb.

Stage 1: Sibiu - Sibiu, 215.3 km - 3 July, 13:45-19:00 cest

Stage 2: Sibiu - Bâlea Lac, 203.5 km - 4 July, 10:00-16:15 cest

Stage 3: Sibiu - Păltiniș, 164.8 km - 5 July, 09:00-14:00 cest

Stage 4: Historical Centre of Sibiu ITT, 3.3 km - 6 July, 17:00-19:15 cest

Bora sends the Rookies this year and no WT team felt the need to chase for points, so it's up to Schiffer to challenge Riccitello - unless Froome thinks it's time for a final win, or the Devo teams add Omrzel/a WT guy late on. Q36.5 usually goes strong in Sibiu as well.

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/sibiu-cycling-tour/2025/startlist

There should normally also be Youtube coverage this year, otherwise as usual, on the website of the race.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Re: Sibiu Tour
what Riccitello/IPT gonna do without Froomey's essential assistance?

 

[search]

Re: Sibiu Tour
what Riccitello/IPT gonna do without Froomey's essential assistance?

there's no official announcement yet, but unless anything unforeseen happened the past couple of days, normally both should be there

 

[aruipksni]

live broadcast

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Sibiu tour is now live:

View: https://youtu.be/k8tCXx98ZVI

 

[Mayomaniac]

So the Österreich-Rundfahrt (yes, I still use the proper name) is starting on the 9th and the route actually looks decent:

09.07.	1. Etappe	Steyr - Steyr	167,8 km
10.07.	2. Etappe	Bischofshofen - St. Johann in Salzburg	142,1 km (BAK)
11.07.	3. Etappe	Salzburg/Schloss Hellbrunn - Salzburg/Gaisberg	142,9 km (BAK)
12.07.	4. Etappe	Innsbruck - Kühtai	117,1 km (BAK)
13.07.	5. Etappe	Feldkirch - Feldkirch	147,8 km

Hilly opening stage with a downhill finish after a murito, a short uphill finish, a steep MTF, a (short) queenstage where you can attack on the penultimate climb and a final stage that is good for ambushes.

Besides the local CT teams with Sputniks like Zoidl and Stüssi the field is also not bad, UAE is bringing the tridente at home (Majka, Großschartner and Del Toro) with everyone being allowed to ride for himself, Chinastana are bringing Fortunato, Lidl-Trek are bringing Kämna (with Konrad supporting him) and EF are bringing Chaves and Carthy.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Sibiu now live
break of 7 @ 2m39s

+185 Janos Pelikan

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Helluvalot of graphics of which very little is relevant....
Almost 2 hours raced.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Froome pulling in the peloton. Clearly game over for the break.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

So the Österreich-Rundfahrt (yes, I still use the proper name) is starting on the 9th and the route actually looks decent:

Decent route is an understatement, every single stage has real GC potential and the Kühtai stage is possibly the best high mountain stage I've ever seen in a .1.

 

[Netserk]

Decent route is an understatement, every single stage has real GC potential and the Kühtai stage is possibly the best high mountain stage I've ever seen in a .1.

The introduction of Spandelles gotta rank quite highly.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Decent route is an understatement, every single stage has real GC potential and the Kühtai stage is possibly the best high mountain stage I've ever seen in a .1.

Kühtai is hard, I've climbed the side that they do first (with 1km at 13%) and the Ötztal/Silzer Sattel + Kühtai combo multiple times when I still lived in Innsbruck. That first steep ramp after the short downhill and a 10kms at 10% climb snaps your legs.

 

[Sciatic]

Decent route is an understatement, every single stage has real GC potential and the Kühtai stage is possibly the best high mountain stage I've ever seen in a .1.

That Otztal climb as the penultimate ascent on Stage 4 looks brutal.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The introduction of Spandelles gotta rank quite highly.

I was 12 at the time, file that one under stages I haven’t seen

 

[Mayomaniac]

That Otztal climb as the penultimate ascent on Stage 4 looks brutal.

Yes, the Silzer Sattel/Haiminger Berg is as hard as Colle San Carlo.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

-18km 3 man break still not caught. in Sibiu

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Pickwell won the cobbled uppish sprint.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Sibiu stage two:

Starts at 11am local, scheduled to end at around 4pm. The folks organising the Vuelta are desperately envious.

 

[aruipksni]

sibiu live stream