Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Mayomaniac]

South African Barry Miller?

 

[yaco]

Byron Munton is on a Portuguese team, though. Zac Marriage is the surprise interloper - though I would also point out that even in arguably the single most absurd stage of W52's domination, Guarda 2017, Krists Neilandts - of the Israel Cycling Academy team - was the guy that stayed with Alarcón and Antunes through most of their exploit. The Israel team has a good record here for sure.

Zac Marriage came 2nd in the rebranded Aussie pro velo Super League to jack Ward in which the winner would get a stagiare contract with Jayco ( and for certain a pro contract). However, ward rejected the jayco offer to join the Lidl trek Conti team. At the same time, Marriage strangely joined the Phillipine registered 7 eleven team and has ridden an obscure program. I thought he may get the stagiare contract with jayco, however, he's riding as a stagiare for IPT.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

With no Colin Stüssi in the race this year it's great to see a new foreigner emerge onto the scene. The French commentators and experts will quickly have to learn how to butcher his name.

I picked Lucas Lopes for this year's emerging riders game in the hope that he could become the next Afonso Eulálio and now he's starting to leave his mark.

 

[Boehmand]

Interview with Alexander Salby at the Trans-Himalaya Cycling Race - it's is quite the story - including racing at 4,300 metres altitude

- Det er helt ekstremt: Dansker måtte få ilt efter stregen

Alexander Salby udsætter i disse dag sin krop for noget, der er langt ud over hverdagskost

www.feltet.dk

 

[Mayomaniac]

Interview with Alexander Salby at the Trans-Himalaya Cycling Race - it's is quite the story - including racing at 4,300 metres altitude

- Det er helt ekstremt: Dansker måtte få ilt efter stregen

Alexander Salby udsætter i disse dag sin krop for noget, der er langt ud over hverdagskost

www.feltet.dk

His team is sponsored by Li-Ning, the Chinese equivalent to Decathlon and they have also presented their first own road bike frames this year.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Only 25 seconds slower than Alarcon in the end, might've been able to beat it but there was some messing around, decent effort from the unknown rider.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Glassdrive have inserted 2 into the break (Silva and Costa), could be lining up for a Fuente De style raid, Caja chasing.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

NIce bit of draft there....

 

[Tim Cahill]

Gilmore wins, the Volta of all races has a graphic pop up immediately when a rider crosses the line so we get an instant top-10, something I've been lobbying for for years, come on ASO/RCS get it together!!!

 

[carolina]

Iuri Leitão needs a proper team. He wastes to much energy positioning himself without any help.

 

[AlfaLum]

Pena looks good free from the WT prison, seems to have done the most work on the climb. Bike Exchange should've done the Volta!

To be honest Jayco never really gave him much of a chance. They treated him really poorly and his Development has suffered a lot as a result.

Pena is a WT calibre rider. I was hoping that a team like Astana or Picnic would pick him up at the start of the year and i still hope that a team goes for him.

 

[Mayomaniac]

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To be honest Jayco never really gave him much of a chance. They treated him really poorly and his Development has suffered a lot as a result.

Pena is a WT calibre rider. I was hoping that a team like Astana or Picnic would pick him up at the start of the year and i still hope that a team goes for him.

Pena is part of the lost Colombian generation that dominated the 2019 Baby Giro, alongside Diego Alba and Ardila (all for different reasons). Only Rubio is still kicking at WT level.

 

[AlfaLum]

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Pena is part of the lost Colombian generation that dominated the 2019 Baby Giro, alongside Diego Alba and Ardila (all for different reasons). Only Rubio is still kicking at WT level.

Yeah I thought Ardila would become great, but with his knee it just never came to be. That Giro he was magnificent, I still remember how awed I was by his performances.

But he won a big race yesterday.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Volta stage 6 today:

looks promising. Streams should be available at 16:00 (CET).

 

[Tim Cahill]

Tiz stream was DMCA'd, here's another;

 

[Tim Cahill]

Fábio Costa in the break again, obviously been given the green light to ride his own race ala Wout Van Aert.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Gilmore destroyed everybody.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Gilmor looking like Pogacar going up the Mur there

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Bairon Manton loses 12" at the line, drops a spot on the GC. Zac Marriage loses a minute and drops out of the top 10.

 

[Cycling111]

The startlist in the Czech Republic is terrible.

 

[Berflamand]

The startlist in the Czech Republic is terrible.

What do you mean terrible?

Don't you think it makes perfect sense that Uijtdebroeks is the 4th favorite for the win today on a sprint stage ?

Most picked

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And that Cerny is the 5th favorite for the overall win in a race that has no TT and two (at least reasonably hard) MTF's?
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/czech-tour/2025/stage-2/game/most-picked-final-gc

 

[Cycling111]

What do you mean terrible?

Don't you think it makes perfect sense that Uijtdebroeks is the 4th favorite for the win today on a sprint stage ?

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And that Cerny is the 5th favorite for the overall win in a race that has no TT and two (at least reasonably hard) MTF's?
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/czech-tour/2025/stage-2/game/most-picked-final-gc

And that BORA has sent the development team .

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Czech Tour (2.1), stage 1:

5 riders up the road with 1min.

35kms to go.

Streams available.

 

[RedheadDane]

Poor Van Vliet... the peloton is just toying with him.

 

[RedheadDane]

He's a lose guy!