Lesser known races 2025 edition

[RedheadDane]

but didn't bother moving the discussion of extreme prologues and the 2002 Tour de Beauce.

But why would you not move discussion about the 2002 Tour de Beauce to the 2025 Deutschland Tour thread?

(Okay, several of the riders riding in Germany weren't even born back then.)

 

[RedheadDane]

Will he get the bezza of the peloton?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

2km to go. Peloton almost complete. Uphill finish.

 

[RedheadDane]

Lapeira takes it.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Costiou increases his lead.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

GC

 

[Dazed and Confused]

yea, a damn good jersey defense by Costiou and his team, Arkea today. Still all the play for GC wise.

 

[tobydawq]

There is now: I've moved about 30 posts there, but didn't bother moving the discussion of extreme prologues and the 2002 Tour de Beauce.

Extremely controversial decision.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Baltic Chain Tour live now

View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/IBz1KMMoBD8?autoplay=1


How do you even race without a chain ?

Start list"

Startlist for Baltic Chain Tour 2025

Competing teams and riders for Baltic Chain Tour 2025. Top competitors are , and .

www.procyclingstats.com

 

[TourOfSardinia]

La Vuelta a Castilla-La Mancha 2025 - Stage 3 (spanish)

View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/AKe3Pfd5wRM?autoplay=1


Not even on PCS

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Limousin, final stage (4):

7 riders with 5mins. Best placed is Balmer at 3:05.
85kms to go.
Streams will be available in 15mins or so.

 

[RedheadDane]

Vendrame wins the stage.
Costiou wins the GC.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage:

1	Vendrame Andrea	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	14	20		3:47:50
2	Lapeira Paul	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	5	12		,,
3	Page Hugo	Intermarché - Wanty	3	7		,,
4	Delettre Alexandre	Team TotalEnergies		5		,,
5	Teuns Dylan	Cofidis		4		,,
6	Darder Sergi	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA		3		,,
7	Conforti Lorenzo	VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè		2		,,
8	Mifsud Andrea	Nice Métropole Côte d'Azur		1		,,
9	Villa Giacomo	Wagner Bazin WB				,,
10	Capron Rémi	Van Rysel Roubaix				,,

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Important win for Arkéa against Cofidis.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

A significant GC win for Costiou and Akea

1	1	-	Costiou Ewen	Arkéa - B&B Hotels	125	100	16″	17:08:17
2	2	-	Delettre Alexandre	Team TotalEnergies	85	70	16″	0:07
3	3	-	Moniquet Sylvain	Cofidis	70	50	11″	,,
4	4	-	Lapeira Paul	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	60	36	12″	0:24
5	5	-	Prodhomme Nicolas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	50	28		0:31
6	6	-	Berrade Urko	Equipo Kern Pharma	40	24	3″	0:39
7	7	-	Tjøtta Martin	Arkéa - B&B Hotels	35	20		0:42
8	9	▲1	Vendrame Andrea	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	30	18		,,
9	8	▼1	Maisonobe Sam	Cofidis	25	16		0:45
10	10	-	Champion Thomas	St Michel - Preference Home - Auber93	20	14		1:27

 

[Leadbelly]

Baltic Chain Tour live now

How do you even race without a chain ?

For those that don't know, it was a human chain. 600km long.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPkA_r2-vas

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Baltic Chain Tour live now

How do you even race without a chain ?

Don't give them ideas. Lithuania gave us an endurance motorsport race where they loop around an intersection driving up and down the highway and you have to refuel by pulling into an actual Orlen filling station

 

[RedheadDane]

Over in another part of France, well... third, I guess... 39th Tour Poitou - Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine:

Stage 1:

Three-man break:
Mouris, Voogt, and Guégan.
Peloton at 3:10
Less than 30 Ks to go.

No streaming, it seems.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

98th win I believe
edited.
edit2: Demare came second after photo. Still on 97 wins. Too bad.

 

[RedheadDane]

Turns out, Tesson beats the birthday boy.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage top 10:

1	Tesson Jason	Team TotalEnergies	14	20		4:24:13
2	Démare Arnaud	Arkéa - B&B Hotels	5	12		,,
3	Bloem Joren	Unibet Tietema Rockets	3	7		,,
4	Godon Dorian	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team		5		,,
5	Lecroq Jérémy	St Michel - Preference Home - Auber93		4		,,
6	Peñalver Manuel	Team Polti VisitMalta		3		,,
7	Peron Andrea	Team Novo Nordisk		2		,,
8	Colnaghi Luca	VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè		1		,,
9	Konijn Alexander	Nice Métropole Côte d'Azur				,,
10	Barthe Cyril	Groupama - FDJ				,,

Congrats to Tesson.

 

[RedheadDane]

Other than stage 2 of Poitou - not writing the full name again! Okay, I didn't actually do that yesterday, I just copy-pasted off PCS) - profile below:

There's also Muur Classic Geraardsbergen on today:

And unlike the French race, there will be streams available.

 

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And unlike the French race, there will be streams available.

Poitou has live radio coverage, which for sure is more than enough!

 

[RedheadDane]

Poitou has live radio coverage, which for sure is more than enough!

No!

 

[stianbraathen]

Other than stage 2 of Poitou - not writing the full name again! Okay, I didn't actually do that yesterday, I just copy-pasted off PCS) - profile below:

There's also Muur Classic Geraardsbergen on today:

And unlike the French race, there will be streams available.

Streams where? I cant find any..