Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Armchair Cyclist]

And yet somehow Hartest Hill and Watson's Hill remain unused and despite numerous stages into Suffolk from Essex or vice versa, all the little hills around Sudbury and Lavenham are unknown to either race.

Not by me, they don't. Regular playground.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Away from whatever is happening at the Bore de France, real racing is back

Today classica terres de l'ebre in catalunya, a 1.1 race

Profiles:

Stage profiles Clàssica Terres de l'Ebre 2025 One day race

Stage profile, mountains profiles, final five kilometre profile, race map, steepness percentage profiles for Clàssica Terres de l'Ebre 2025.

www.procyclingstats.com

Notable riders:

Abel Balderstone (defending champion)
Cristian Scaroni
Isaac de Toro
Diego ulissi
Igor arrieta
Pablo Torres
Alessandro covi
Antonio morgado
David formolo
Ruben Guerrero
Jon barrenstzea
Eric Antonio fagundez
Mikel Honore
Lukas nerukar

 

[Potomac]

Del Toro has got to be the favorite. At this point competing in .1 races seems out of place for him.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Astana having to chase because they missed a move with 3 movistars , 2 uae and an EF rider

 

[Tim Cahill]

Tesfatsion and Del Toro clear with a small gap

Edit: Now Del Toro clear

 

[Tim Cahill]

Ironically I think this could be the best way to beat Del Toro, if they all just go to the finale he will likely just outkick them, if they stick together in a group of 10 or 15 and work properly (easier said than done) then there's a 20k valley.

Problem is I can see white jerseys still in the group, hard to see who.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Wait nvm, how the *** is it 1.11, it was 15 seconds a minute ago

 

[Ilmaestro99]

He's flying

 

[Tim Cahill]

50 seconds hand timed

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Brilliant route here....

 

[Rou]

So the Bull is beating up some scrubs here...
UAE not giving anything to the poor.

 

[Earns1985]

Ironically I think this could be the best way to beat Del Toro, if they all just go to the finale he will likely just outkick them, if they stick together in a group of 10 or 15 and work properly (easier said than done) then there's a 20k valley.

Problem is I can see white jerseys still in the group, hard to see who.

Yeah, but I highly doubt, that they will catch him back...

 

[Peyroteo94]

Another one for UAE. They can't ride these minor classics...

 

[Tim Cahill]

Yeah, but I highly doubt, that they will catch him back...

Yeah looking at the way he's pedalling it probably doesn't really matter what tactic they tried.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Defending champ with a cramp.

 

[Samamba]

Another one for UAE. They can't ride these minor classics...

Its getting dumb and just annoying honestly. I get it, everyone needs their races but they are one of the teams with the most racedays in the peloton. They want to dominate everything, and not that they dont have the right too, but I really cant be arsed to watch smaller races with them in it anymore.

That being said. I think theyve always raced these Spanish and Italian races, so Im more fine with that than them also riding more Belgian smaller races for example.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

1	del Toro Isaac	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	125	75
2	Scaroni Christian	XDS Astana Team	85	55
3	Nerurkar Lukas	EF Education - EasyPost	70	40
4	Molenaar Alex	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	60	32
5	Miquel Pau	Equipo Kern Pharma	50	28

 

[Peyroteo94]

Its getting dumb and just annoying honestly. I get it, everyone needs their races but they are one of the teams with the most racedays in the peloton. They want to dominate everything, and not that they dont have the right too, but I really cant be arsed to watch smaller races with them in it anymore.

That being said. I think theyve always raced these Spanish and Italian races, so Im more fine with that than them also riding more Belgian smaller races for example.

Yeah, it is also true they don't have many other races to go. It's such a shame they have this depth. Del Toro is a future GT winner and he is racing here.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Yeah, it is also true they don't have many other races to go. It's such a shame they have this depth. Del Toro is a future GT winner and he is racing here.

Are they planning to send him to the Vuelta? Because with farming small races short after the Giro he'd risk to run out of steam at some point.

 

[RedheadDane]

Awww... didn't realise l'Ebre was actually on Max, because it didn't show up on the "mixed-source schedule" on Feltet.dk, and I really dislike the fact that you have to log on to Max just to see the schedule, so I can rarely be bothered.

 

[Landeirovic]

Are they planning to send him to the Vuelta? Because with farming small races short after the Giro he'd risk to run out of steam at some point.

I read on reserve list. Normally his program will be this:

Prueba Villafranca
Sebastian
Getxo
Burgos or Poland
Renewi Tour or Deutschland Tour
Italian one day races
Luxembourg
Italian one day races

 

[SafeBet]

I read on reserve list. Normally his program will be this:

Prueba Villafranca
Sebastian
Getxo
Burgos or Poland
Renewi Tour or Deutschland Tour
Italian one day races
Luxembourg
Italian one day races

Riding the Italian fall classics twice in a single season must be unprecedented but I guess UAE would do anything for that season win record.

 

[Landeirovic]

Riding the Italian fall classics twice in a single season must be unprecedented but I guess UAE would do anything for that season win record.

You have Italian one day races before and after Luxembourg

 

[DJO]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcWZJ0PTKs0&ab_channel=MTBCrossCountryXCO

 

[DJO]

^^^ This was a good ride by the winner.