Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Devil's Elbow]

Uijtdebasso on his way to another GC win.

Or not. That was quite the crack in the final 500 metres.

 

[Cycling111]

WTF

 

[Faserr]

Oh my god.

 

[KZD]

Loool what a fail from Uijtdebroeks. Brave defence from Lecerf.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Jannis Peter wins because Uijdtebroeks cracks

 

[Peyroteo94]

Great finish in Czech Tour

 

[Samamba]

Painful for Uijtdebroecks in this glorified 2.2 race

 

[Rou]

What the hell just happened?!
The biggest choke since???
My mind is blown...

 

[Frobisher Bay]

What did we just witness?

 

[Faserr]

Jannis Peter wins because Uijdtebroeks cracks

Really good for him. Perhaps he still gets his pro contract after Tour of Austria and today.

 

[acm]

Oh, that was bad...

 

[Cycling111]

This was the most random climb of the season. The gaps between first, second, and third place seemed very clear. And that final sprint.

 

[Rou]

Very motivational race for two reasons.
1. Never ever give up.
2. Nothing is over till it's over.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Lecerf wheelsucking in the chase as well, what a clown.

Edit: now pulling the peloton, apparently he was defending a second place.

Tactically perfect by Lecerf. Seems to he isn't a clown

 

[Tim Cahill]

Some unexpected bonus Vorarlberg Sputnickery

 

[Rob5091]

Chapeau Jannis Peter! You've made my day

 

[Cycling111]

Who's this guy? It's the year of German cycling's resurrection.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

He didn't choke, he just ran out of the ability to process lactic acid.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Tactically perfect by Lecerf. Seems to he isn't a clown

He did go into the red trying to follow Uijtdebroeks for too long tbf, that was not a tactically great climb by any of the top-3 on GC.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Final stage:

1	Peter Jannis	Team Vorarlberg	14	20		4:21:52
2	Uijtdebroeks Cian	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	5	12		,,
3	Lecerf Junior	Soudal Quick-Step	3	7		,,
4	Přidal Tomáš	Elkov - Kasper		5		,,
5	Umba Santiago	XDS Astana Development Team		4		,,
6	Boichis Adrien	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe Rookies		3		,,
7	Fancellu Alessandro	Team UKYO		2		,,
8	Parra José Félix	Equipo Kern Pharma		1		,,
9	Quartucci Lorenzo	Team Solution Tech - Vini Fantini				,,
10	Jasch Lennart	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe Rookies				,,

GC:

1	1	-	Lecerf Junior	Soudal Quick-Step	125	100	10″	15:55:41
2	3	▲1	Uijtdebroeks Cian	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	85	70	4″	0:07
3	2	▼1	Fancellu Alessandro	Team UKYO	70	50	6″	0:08
4	7	▲3	Peter Jannis	Team Vorarlberg	60	36		0:26
5	4	▼1	Umba Santiago	XDS Astana Development Team	50	28		0:36
6	5	▼1	Quartucci Lorenzo	Team Solution Tech - Vini Fantini	40	24		,,
7	9	▲2	Parra José Félix	Equipo Kern Pharma	35	20		0:42
8	6	▼2	Hajek Alexander	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe Rookies	30	18		1:11
9	14	▲5	Jasch Lennart	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe Rookies	25	16		1:12
10	8	▼2	Graat Tijmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	20	14		1:18

edit: could be the first non remco GC win for the steppers for some time. Not sure.

 

[Valv.Piti]

He did go into the red trying to follow Uijtdebroeks for too long tbf, that was not a tactically great climb by any of the top-3 on GC.

Sure, I was just calling the user out that for some reason decided to call Lecerf a clown for fun.

 

[search]

Really good for him. Perhaps he still gets his pro contract after Tour of Austria and today.

riding for Vorarlberg limits your options quite a bit, I think. But yeah, maybe Vaughters or IPT will sign him

 

[Dazed and Confused]

In France, La Polynormande (1.1):

Final 15kms.

5 with 20s or so.

Streams available.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Cian probably has one of the best 3 hour static power profiles in the business. The caveat being any notable spike in watts and he’s completely done.

 

[Netserk]

What a choke. Weird ride by Visma with both Smith and Graat attacking rather than forming a train.