Lesser known races 2025 edition

[RedheadDane]

Donnenwirth dropped.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Donnenwirth already dropped very early, but he wasn‘t going to win GC anyway

 

[Red Rick]

Over 49 km/h on the first stage...

Underwhelming, but it looks like it was slightly bumpy, and it was under 3000m altitude.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Brambilla dialing back the decades....

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Gaudu dropped

 

[Tim Cahill]

I remember being hyped thinking Brambilla was going to podium the Giro in like 2016(?). Came 22nd. Maybe he can win here to avenge his failure.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I remember being hyped thinking Brambilla was going to podium the Giro in like 2016(?). Came 22nd. Maybe he can win here to avenge his failure.

One of my favourites, Giro '14, stage 12, a 42km ITT:

1	Urán Rigoberto	Omega Pharma - Quick-Step	16	80		57:34	43.984
2	Ulissi Diego	Lampre - Merida	8	50		1:17	43.025
3	Evans Cadel	BMC Racing Team	4	35		1:34	42.818
4	Majka Rafał	Tinkoff - Saxo	2	25		1:39	42.758
5	Brambilla Gianluca	Omega Pharma - Quick-Step	1	18		1:53	42.590
6	Poels Wout	Omega Pharma - Quick-Step		15		2:00	42.507
7	Kelderman Wilco	Belkin-Pro Cycling Team		12		2:03	42.471
8	De Gendt Thomas	Omega Pharma - Quick-Step		10		2:07	42.424

Hotsteppers...

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Keldermerckx is doing his thing again.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Race is making Kelderman look like prime Indurain thinning out the group dropping part time bakers and butchers until there's nothing left.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Trying 3vs1 after 2vs1 didn't work yesterday

 

[Samamba]

Trying 3vs1 after 2vs1 didn't work yesterday

More like 1v1. Unnecessarily risky this.

 

[Tim Cahill]

More like 1v1. Unnecessarily risky this.

No idea why he pulled hard when Graat and Tulett were so close behind as soon as I posted that. I think he wants this too much.

 

[Cycling111]

Prodhomme hadn't won a single race until this year, and his career had been very modest. Today he could add his fourth victory, but more importantly, he looks like a different rider. Before, he didn't excel even in races at this level. And he has won a stage in the Giro.
Remarkable leap in level at 28.

 

[RedheadDane]

Prodhomme hadn't won a single race until this year, and his career had been very modest. Today he could add his fourth victory, but more importantly, he looks like a different rider. Before, he didn't excel even in races at this level.
Remarkable leap in level at 28.

Seems being gifted a win by Paul Seixas is a brilliant way to kickstart your career.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Volta live on Youtube

Danny Lima has 30 seconds but it's a brutal finish

 

[postmanhat]

Traffic-free, would love to descend on a road like that.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Sweeping uphill hairpins needing the brakes, it's time the Volta gets up to speed!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Familiar Yellow Fluro rampaging behind, thumping on the pedals....

 

[Dazed and Confused]

so Graat is ripped up. Same crash as the leader?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Efapel no longer being the fluoro guys and instead cosplaying as Euskaltel is still taking some getting used to even though it's been 2 years now (because the sponsors continued the classic merry-go-round jumping from team to team, like LA Aluminios, Halcon, Madeinox and others before them, and Anicolor are the old Efapel team)...

 

[Tim Cahill]

Glassdrive's 4th best rider Pedro Silva absolutely nuking everyone, of course!!!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Glassdrive's 4th best rider Pedro Silva absolutely nuking everyone, of course!!!

Wait, who's that coming around the corner? Oh, it's an ACTUAL motorbike, rather than the metaphorical ones...

Tivani wins the sprint easily. Very easily.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Hilarious bunch finish with what appeared to be some weird garden bridge in the last like 150m

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Why was there a bunch sprint involving muscular Israel riders at this Volta HTF?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

So German from Argentina wins in Portugal.