Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Cycling111]

Since Remco announced his departure, Soudal hasn´t stopped winning races .

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Final

1	HAYTER Ethan		16.56,0	16.55,96	53.2
2	SÖDERQVIST Jakob		0.03,9	16.59,83	53.0
3	LAPORTE Christophe		0.15,5	17.11,50	52.4
4	SEGAERT Alec		0.16,5	17.12,41	52.4
5	HOOLE Daan		0.18,4	17.14,35	52.3
6	TRATNIK Jan		0.25,1	17.21,07	51.9
7	LAMPAERT Yves		0.25,6	17.21,54	51.9
8	LEMMEN Bart		0.27,1	17.23,09	51.8
9	FRISON Frederik		0.37,5	17.33,44	51.3
10	TEUTENBERG Tim Torn		0.39,5	17.35,43	51.2

Hayter with a negative split.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Did hayter personally design the route for this race ?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Did hayter personally design the route for this race ?

They're doing the omnium stage tomorrow, elimination race perfect for *** around at the back the entire time.

6 wins for Ethan this season, matching the total of the Golden Helmet himself. The team is in good hands.

 

[staubsauger]

This was actually a thrilling TT to watch. Nice course over small roads. Lots of twists and turns. Decent coverage which made you follow a race rather than just seeing random shots of riders on a TT bike.

Already was surprised to see Laporte beating the strong time of Hoole. Then Hayter against Söderqvist was thrilling till the end.

Now the strongest team on paper is in pursuit with Lidl. Let's hope that guarantees some exciting racing in Limburg & Drenthe before the final around Arnhem!

 

[Squire]

Since Remco announced his departure, Soudal hasn´t stopped winning races .

#FreeWolfpack!

 

[Red Rick]

Surprised to see people backing the UCI over DQ'ing Van 't Schip, considering the team is claiming the saddle was UCI approved before and now they're backtracking.

But ofcourse it's a horrendous offense to have an ugly looking bike so playing by thy own rules shall not matter.

 

[tobydawq]

Surprised to see people backing the UCI over DQ'ing Van 't Schip, considering the team is claiming the saddle was UCI approved before and now they're backtracking.

But ofcourse it's a horrendous offense to have an ugly looking bike so playing by thy own rules shall not matter.

Surprised to see you take the opposing opinion of the majority.

That bike was ridiculous, there's no way it was not breaking rules.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So does the rider's forward pressure make that flap drop, or is the countdown to the release of the flap mechanism? If the latter, then is the release triggered by the official reaching zero, or is he trying to synchronise with a mechanism beyond his control (he looked to be looking at a clock or other gadget)?

Either way, seemed quite naff.

 

[Red Rick]

Surprised to see you take the opposing opinion of the majority.

That bike was ridiculous, there's no way it was not breaking rules.

That's like a combination of 3 fallacies in one go, almost a jackpot.

Ad hominem, ad populum, and ignoratio elenchi. Most here are arguing the 2nd one.

Looking ridiculous is not cause for disqualification, as Visma's TT helmets are still a thing. So what I implied was the suggestion that people actually cite the specific reason for a DQ, rather than give in to echochamber rhetoric.

 

[staubsauger]

Surprised to see people backing the UCI over DQ'ing Van 't Schip, considering the team is claiming the saddle was UCI approved before and now they're backtracking.

But ofcourse it's a horrendous offense to have an ugly looking bike so playing by thy own rules shall not matter.

I agree with everything Bobbie Traksel said about it at the start of the Eurosport coverage!

Wouldn't even surprise me if later on the disqualification gets declared unjustified, because Van Schip indeed can show that his setup has been given okay by the UCI before. But by that time of course the / his Tour of Holland is already over.

 

[Brullnux]

Surprised to see people backing the UCI over DQ'ing Van 't Schip, considering the team is claiming the saddle was UCI approved before and now they're backtracking.

But ofcourse it's a horrendous offense to have an ugly looking bike so playing by thy own rules shall not matter.

The bike is clearly unsafe.

We don't have bike measurements but I'd be shocked if the handlebars are within 100mm of the front wheel axis, and that's without getting into the angle of the hoods etc.

Besides, the purpose of these technical regulations is safety. If van Schip thinks he's found a loophole then he should talk to the UCI directly, not race on a bike that endangers everyone else around him. It's a selfish gimmick. There's some justification to DQ-ing plainly unsafe bikes that fall outside of the remit of the regs, frankly.

 

[ChasingPotatoes]

The bike is clearly unsafe.

We don't have bike measurements but I'd be shocked if the handlebars are within 100mm of the front wheel axis, and that's without getting into the angle of the hoods etc.

Besides, the purpose of these technical regulations is safety. If van Schip thinks he's found a loophole then he should talk to the UCI directly, not race on a bike that endangers everyone else around him. It's a selfish gimmick. There's some justification to DQ-ing plainly unsafe bikes that fall outside of the remit of the regs, frankly.

There is no evidence it’s unsafe, as these kind of setups have been raced by van schip for years.
And he has written approval from the uci so it must be that the measurements are ok (in his case he can probably get exemptions as well, with his 1.94m height).

So in short, what exactly was your point and arguments?

It seems everybody agrees the bike is not safe. I personally think (but not sure if he breaks any current rule with that) his handlebars are simply to narrow. That’s subjective though:

Simply having an ugly bike with a very narrow handlebar, a kink in the seatpost and the endless stem doesn’t make it necessarily dangerous nor illegal, especially given his DS explicitly said they have all the approvals (after earlier UCI scrutiny) from the past few years.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

UCI better shut down these homegrown innovation attempts as soon as they come along. The sport has a horrible history of this stuff making headlines. Recall Moser back in 1988 beating the 1h record on the track: