Lesser known races 2026 edition

[RedheadDane]

Nice win by Pinerello!


Cultural question:
What are those stone circles?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Pure climber Yates trying to get out of the saddle on rough cobblestones like it’s angliru.

 

[Netserk]

always a lovely finish

vuelta should come here

 

[Dazed and Confused]

1	Pinarello Alessandro	NSN Cycling Team	14	20		3:39:03
2	Nordhagen Jørgen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	5	12		0:01
3	Yates Adam	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	3	7		,,
4	Romeo Iván	Movistar Team		5		0:06
5	Juaristi Txomin	Euskaltel - Euskadi		4		0:16
6	Balderstone Abel	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA		3		,,
7	Herrada Jesús	Burgos Burpellet BH		2		0:31
8	Peña Jesús David	Efapel Cycling		1		0:32
9	Parra José Félix	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA				0:33
10	del Pino Jesus	Aviludo - Louletano - Loulé				0:35

Yates picks up the GC.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Nice win by Pinerello!


Cultural question:
What are those stone circles?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_of_Santa_Trega

 

[Coppi-Bartali]

Pinarello's first professional victory. This is a race for the Danes and a winning debutants.

 

[Brullnux]

Pinarello rode those cobbles incredibly well, does he have a CX or mtb background? Out of the front four he looked like the only one who knew how to deal with them

 

[ice&fire]

Nice win by Pinerello!


Cultural question:
What are those stone circles?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_of_Santa_Trega

 

[acm]

always a lovely finish

vuelta should come here

Definitely. That's a great climb.

 

[RedheadDane]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_of_Santa_Trega

ToS got there first.

Anyway, some more Danes* need to come to OGC next year, the Danish stage win tally is down to a paltry 11/21... pfff...

*Or just Cort and/or Vingegaard.

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The Sun was shining in Loir et Cher, Keije Solen won the stage.

 

[Rob5091]

Pinarello and NSN get the stage win - Yates the GC so no surprise there. Visma team worked well but no cigar for their GC man.

Edit - nice warm up for Chumil before he's off to the Tour of Hellas (that's Greece in other words).

 

[Netserk]

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/54710663

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Pinarello and NSN get the stage win - Yates the GC so no surprise there. Visma team worked well but no cigar for their GC man.

Edit - nice warm up for Chumil before he's off to the Tour of Hellas (that's Greece in other words).

That's sad, I was convinced it was a spelling mistake and it was the Tour of Helles which is a kind of beer. Probably I got confused by the Beer Race tomorrow.

Edit: Tour of Helles could be a nice medium mountain stage race in Bavaria actually, starting and finishing in famous places that brew Helles. Someone should pitch that.

 

[Rou]

Well, apparently they were 2-3 secs faster than Vingegaard when he did this climb in 2023.
Understandable considering we are in the middle of April while Jonas did it in February but still a solid performance especially from Romeo.

https://watts2win.eu/en/segment/165