Lesser known races 2026 edition

[Tricycle Rider]

Looking for MHB ballan to try something please lads

I just realized Masnada is in this race, where's @Ilmaestro99 at?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Looks like Fausto is there near the head of the peleton. Working for teammate

There you are, never mind my prior post.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Mifsud is a proper rider

 

[Tim Cahill]

Diego Rosa springs out of the peloton, looking to write a few historical wrongs

 

[RedheadDane]

WHAT AN IDIOT!

"Hurrr durrr! Look at me!"

 

[Tricycle Rider]

The feck is an amateur cyclist doing on the course?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

A clown on the road....

 

[Tim Cahill]

That's Jonas Vingegaard in the black kit!

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Polti blocking like a hockey team.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

No tactics boys.......

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Coquard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Salvarani]

Coquard!

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Coquard delivers!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Lotto did well to have 5 at the last k but lost and crashed, down on their luck, looked really bad into the barriers too

 

[RedheadDane]

Coquard wins.
Crash in the finish.

 

[tobydawq]

Amateur hour in the final kilometer. Some rando crosses the road five seconds before the peloton gets to the zebra crossing in full leadout mode. Insane. And then a crash into an official standing inside the barriers (they would have crashed anyway to be fair).

 

[Tim Cahill]

Someone from Kern Pharma made a massive deviation way down in the bunch it seemed, De Schuyteneer 2nd in the end

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The quick Coq turns back the clock. First win in France in almost three years.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

MBH Bank ballan in 4th place! Great sprint by buratti! Good effort from the team today

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Cofidis with a rare win:

1	Coquard Bryan	Cofidis	125	75	3:27:01
2	De Schuyteneer Steffen	Lotto Intermarché	85	55	,,
3	Molenaar Alex	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	70	40	,,
4	Buratti Nicolò	MBH Bank CSB Telecom Fort	60	32	,,
5	Berasategi Xabier	Euskaltel - Euskadi	50	28	,,
6	Loulergue Victor	Groupama - FDJ United	40	24	,,
7	Delacroix Théo	St Michel - Preference Home - Auber93	35	20	,,
8	Thijssen Gerben	Alpecin-Premier Tech	30	18	,,
9	Budziński Marcin	MBH Bank CSB Telecom Fort	25	16	,,
10	Jarnet Maxime	Van Rysel Roubaix	20	14	,,

 

[Samamba]

Lotto did well to have 5 at the last k but lost and crashed, down on their luck, looked really bad into the barriers too

Those were not Lotto riders I think, there's a team with very similar jerseys, I think it a swiss conti team.

Anyways in comparison to Palma Lotto actually did a good leadout, not coming too early like they usually do. Coquard just stronger than De Schuyteneer here.

 

[Cycling111]

A very weak startlist at Étoile de Bessèges after last year's incidents. Lapeira should win easily the GC.

 

[Squire]

A very weak startlist at Étoile de Bessèges after last year's incidents. Lapeira should win easily the GC.

Costiou would like a word.

Teuns, Decomble and Larsen should be good, too. Maybe even Kubiš.

 

[Samamba]

Costiou would like a word.

Teuns, Decomble and Larsen should be good, too. Maybe even Kubiš.

Yeah not sure why anyone would think Lapeira should win this easily. Parcours isn't hard enough to really make the difference, TT will be most important. Only thing that could make this interesting is the expected weather imo. Lots of rain and some wind tomorrow and thursday. Could be messy/interesting.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

56th Etoile de Bessèges - Tour du Gard (2.1) will start tomorrow with the first of 5 stages where the last stage is a short ITT. The first stage:

Startlist: https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/etoile-de-besseges/2026/startlist
Clearly an alien free race, at least on paper, where quite a few seems to have a chance to win the overall.

There should be streams available, but not sure about the time (probably 2pm or so local).

Unless hammered with a complete memory failure, a daily parcours will be uploaded.