Lesser known races results 2015

[Libertine Seguros]

Not much action to be expected tho - however we have possibly the brightest breakaway ever, with Efapel's Diego Rubio and Murias Taldea's Garikoitz Bravo. By the power of neon!!!

Edit: on the Torre we now have David Belda (Burgos-BH), Paco Mancebo (Sky Dive Dubai), Alberto Gallego (Radio Popular-Boavista) and Joni Brandão (Efapel) on the attack, which is a strong quartet to be trying to get away so far from the finish, especially with the defending champion there. The leading duo are still head of the field. With no Movistar, no Caja Rural and no Europcar in the move, I can't imagine they'll be allowed to go too far towards the leaders though, and certainly there's not really much power for the flats in the group either.

The roads are not good up there on the Serra da Estrela...

Edit: racing neutralized due to conditions. Bravo and Rubio will restart racing with 1'02 over Belda, Mancebo, Gallego and Brandão, who in turn will have 1'22 over the péloton.

After the restart, the péloton reeled the dangerous quartet back, and once they had done this, they relaxed a bit and let the break extend their lead on the flat. At some point Garikoitz Bravo fell away, whether this was on the uncategorised climb which is around 8km @ 4% or so or due to a crash or mechanical is unclear, but he returned to the péloton, leaving Diego Rubio alone up front with about four minutes' lead, which he held static for a while but once Caja Rural and Movistar started the chase in earnest he was doomed. He was swept up with 10km to go, however the mountains had done their job in selectivity and meant that the likes of Enrique Sanz weren't there to contest the victory; a more complex run-in meant a long-range sprint from Lokosphinx's Sergey Shilov, who has been collecting the occasional decent result in Spain and Portugal for a few years now, was the decisive act; leader Pello Bilbao was 7th so he loses the race lead to teammate Carlos Barbero on placements.

1 Sergey Shilov (Lokosphinx) RUS 5'04'52
2 Carlos Barbero Cuesta (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) ESP +m.t.
3 Miguel Ángel Rubiano Cháves (Team Colombia) COL +m.t.
4 Angelo Tulik (Europcar) FRA +m.t.
5 Edgar Miguel Lemos Pinto (Sky Dive Dubai) POR +m.t.
6 Jetse Bol (Cycling Team Join-S De Rijke) NED +m.t.
7 Pello Bilbao López de Armentia (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) ESP +m.t.
8 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolás (Movistar Team) ESP +m.t.
9 Samuel José Rodrigues Caldeira (W52-Quinta da Lixa) POR +m.t.
10 Diego Milán Jiménez (Team Inteja-MMR) DOM +m.t.

If you're wondering why the hell Movistar would do all that work, you're not the only one.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Queen stage today, with an MTF on the Alto de Lubián.

Profile:

Last year's winner was David Belda, who took nearly a minute from Marcos García and Sylwester Szmyd, with the main anticipated contenders being at 1'45. The 32-year-old looks to defend his title today.

In the break, Pablo Torres (Belda's Burgos-BH teammate) and Perrig Quemeneur (Europcar) have 2 minutes on the bunch, meaning Rolland and Belda's teams can stay fresh. The rest of the break has been dropped on the cat.2 Alto del Padornelo, and consisted of Dmitry Sokolov (Lokosphinx), Edwin Ávila (Colombia) and Marcos Jurado (Selección Española).

Everything was brought back together ahead of Lubián, and after multiple attacks, an élite group of 10 or so riders was formed with 4km to go. David Belda, Javi Moreno, Igor Antón, Beñat Intxausti, Pierre Rolland, Maxime Mederel, Fabio Tuzi, Antonio Santoro, Frederico Figueiredo and Rodolfo Torres formed the group that would seemingly decide the race (Tuzi at just 20!). Daniel Silva, Pello Bilbao and Fabrice Jeandesboz were able to bridge across as they looked at one another, however their time at the front was short-lived as Rolland then attacked and broke the group down to a quartet with himself, Rodolfo Torres (Colombia) and the Movistar Basque duo of Antón and Intxausti. A second blistering attack from the Frenchman just outside 1km to go and he was away solo. That time, it was all she wrote, and that was enough for the stage win and the overall. Intxausti was 2nd and Antón 3rd; the podium will look like that.

Final GC (Torres was 4th on the day but lost time in a split in the bunch on stage 1):

1 Pierre Rolland (Europcar) FRA
2 Beñat Intxausti Elorriaga (Movistar Team) ESP
3 Igor Antón Hernández (Movistar Team) ESP
4 Pello Bilbao López de Armentia (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) ESP
5 Délio Fernández Cruz (W52-Quinta da Lixa) ESP
6 Romain Sicard (Europcar) FRA
7 Javier Moreno Allue (Movistar Team) ESP
8 Rodolfo Andres Torres Agudelo (Colombia) COL
9 Alejandro Marque Porto (Efapel) ESP
10 Francisco Mancebo Pérez (Sky Dive Dubai) ESP

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

according to colombia it went rather different...


In sports, and in everyday life, you don’t make history with ‘if’. But with 5 km to the uphill finish of Vuelta a Castilla y Leon stage 3 (Zamora-Alto de Lubian, 179 km), when Rodolfo Torres of Team Colombia-Coldeportes was leading solo on the final climb, the rider from Busbanzà looked really poised to take a well-deserved maidens seasonal win. Instead, an ill-timed puncture jeopardized it, forcing Torres to an extra effort to bridge to the leaders and get back in contention for the stage: his fourth place, 20 seconds behind winner Pierre Rolland (Europcar), is the result of an awesome performance by the Colombian, who looked like the strongest on the last uphill since the early slopes of the Alto de Lubian, with gradient peaking up to 15%.

The race plan designed by Oscar Pellicioli and Oliverio Rincon had been perfectly actuated by the Escarabajos: Edwin Avila had taken part in the day’s breakaway along with Pablo Torres (Burgos BH), Perrig Quemeneur (Europcar) and Dmitry Sokolov (Lokosphinx), resisting in the lead until 20 km to go, with Avila being the last man to surrender, using the remaining energy to position Rodolfo Torres ahead of the last climb.

With 7 km to go, at the foot of the final climb, 40 riders were still part of the leading group, including Walter Pedraza and Miguel Angel Rubiano along with Torres, and it was the Colombian to break the ice, accelerating with 6000 metres to go and immediately making a gap.

When no one looked capable to reply to Torres’ attack, it was bad luck that stopped his action: Torres lost 40 seconds in the puncture, while attacks were happening in the main group, reducing the field to seven riders. With extraordinary grit, Torres reacted and got back on the leaders, holding on to the following acceleration that eventually cut the leading group down to only four athletes: Pierre Rolland, Benat Intxausti and Igor Anton (Movistar) and the Colombian itself.

Rolland’s decisive move came under the 1 km banner: the Frenchman took the stage and the overall win, while Movistar occupied the two remaining podium spots, with Intxausti and Anton respectively. Having surrendered 57 seconds in stage 2 split, Torres climbed to 8th overall, while Walter Pedraza finished in 17th position.

“It was unbelievable today,” Sports Director Oscar Pellicioli said, “Rodolfo had kicked great, and looked on his way to a great result, but bad luck affected our plans once more. It is a pity, ‘cause Torres showed the level and consistency he has been providing for the whole season so far: after Volta a Catalunya he was really disappointed to be forced to retire, but opportunites are not over for him. I think we will see him to the fore again at Giro del Trentino (April 21-24).”

 

[jens_attacks]

best igor anton on a mountain since.....?

 

[DBotero]

Good win for Rolland,this should give him a morale boost for future races.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Tour de Brétagne-Trophée des Granitiers began today, one of the most important amateur races in Europe, and a good stage race to see a shop window for people to come through to the top levels. It has a pretty useful historical winner's list, from the open days of the 70s when strong Ostbloc riders like Stanislaw Szozda and Aleksandr Gusyatnikov won, while the late 80s and early 90s saw the best phase for the race, with Armand de las Cuevas and Evgeni Berzin proving the most illustrious winners. Useful recent winners have included Dmitri Muravyev, Lars Boom, Laurent Mangel, Dries Devenyns, Riccardo Zoidl and Reinardt Janse van Rensburg. The startlist includes a number of Continental teams from around Europe, one Pro-Continental team (Brétagne-Séché, unsurprisingly) and a handful of amateur and U23 lineups, including developmental teams for BMC, Lotto-Soudal and the Continental-ranked Itera-Katyusha as well as "orphaned" development teams whose parent teams have disappeared (Rabobank, Sojasun and Leopard) and local specialists.

The region of Brittany has a love of cycling and is one of the homes of the sport in France, regularly bringing Le Tour in, and hosting a range of one-day races with interesting routes, from punchier affairs like the GP Plumelec, with its several ascents of the Côte de Cadoudal, to rouleur events like Tro Bro Léon, with Plouay of course being the biggest. There are no serious climbs in the region - the likes of Mûr-de-Bretagne are among the toughest - however tough stages with relentless up-and-down and challenging, Classics-style racing in small groups in windy conditions, narrow roads, and painful leg-biting ramps to ensure there are no informal rest days are the order of the day, so you often get interesting racing here.

The first stage saw a group of 9 make a late escape and emerge 27" ahead of the pack, with a number of intermediate sprint bonuses as well this produces some interesting racing to come.

1 Adrian Ås Stien (Team Joker) NOR 3'26'19
2 Loïc Vliegen (BMC Development Team) BEL +m.t.
3 Sébastien Delfosse (Wallonie-Bruxelles) BEL +m.t.
4 William Barta (National Selection USA) USA +m.t.
5 Alexis Guerin (AWT-Greenway) FRA +m.t.
6 Vegard Robinson Bugge (Team Sparebanken Sør) NOR +m.t.
7 Anthony Delaplace (Brétagne-Séché Environment) FRA +m.t.
8 Martijn Tusveld (Rabobank Development Team) NED +m.t.
9 Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Team Joker) NOR +m.t.
10 Tristan Marguet (Team Röth-Skoda) SUI +27"

Tusveld, Stien, Bugge and Barta made up the break of the day, gaining a maximum of four minutes, and after this was reeled down to a smallish gap very early, with around 40km to go the other 5 successful breakaways rode across the gap to them and the nine worked together and were able to hold the bunch at arm's length until the finish.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Lots on today. In Brittany, Stien defended his lead as Synergy Baku picked up a stage win courtesy of Matej Mugerli, the veteran Slovene, who got a couple of seconds over the chasing bunch, with Team Joker's Daniel Hølgård winning the sprint behind him ahead of Lillian Calmejane and Spaniard Iván García; Mugerli is over 10 years older than them all, nearly 14 over the teenage García.

Elsewhere in France, there was more .1 action, with La Roue Tourangelle, a mostly flat race in the centre of France. A group of around 25 contested the win, with as expected the established teams providing the top names, with FDJ's Lorrenzo Manzin taking the triumph.
1 Lorrenzo Manzin (FDJ) FRA 4'34'09
2 Clément Venturini (Cofidis Solutions Crédits) FRA m.t.
3 Jan Dieteren (Leopard Development Team) GER m.t.
4 Baptiste Planckaert (Roubaix-Lille Métropole) BEL m.t.
5 Benjamin Giraud (Team Marseille 13-KTM) FRA m.t.
6 Samuel Dumoulin (Ag2r-La Mondiale) FRA m.t.
7 Rudy Barbier (Ag2r-La Mondiale) FRA m.t.
8 Oscar Riesebeek (Metec-TKH presented by Mantel) NED m.t.
9 Alexandre Blain (Team Marseille 13-KTM) FRA m.t.
10 Anthony Maldonado (Auber 93) FRA m.t.

Over in Italy, the difficult mountainous one-day race the Giro dell'Apennino took place between Novi Ligure and Genova. As ever, the decisive climb is the Passo della Bocchetta, although there are smaller climbs between it and the finish. 21 riders made up the main group, of which a group of 8 made up those who contested the victory. Some very big names in there, so it was a little surprising that Basque climber Omar Fraile was able to upstage some of the more illustrious contenders to take the win for Caja Rural.
1 Omar Fraile Matarranz (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) ESP 4'42'13
2 Stefano Pirazzi (Bardiani-CSF Inox) ITA +1"
3 Damiano Cunego (Nippo-Vini Fantini) ITA +2"
4 Franco Pellizotti (Androni Giocattoli) ITA +m.t.
5 Amets Txurruka Ansola (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) ESP +m.t.
6 Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (Bardiani-CSF Inox) ITA +m.t.
7 Simone Petilli (Team Unieuro-Wilier) ITA +m.t.
8 Edoardo Zardini (Bardiani-CSF Inox) ITA +3"
9 Sergey Shilov (Lokosphinx) RUS +1'09"
10 Davide Gabburo (Italy National) ITA +m.t.

 

[burgyv]

Clasificación general Vuelta ala Juventued Colombia u23:

1. Richard Carapaz (ECU-Strongman) 21 horas 18 minutos 50 segundos.
2. Aldemar Reyes (GW-Shimano) a 1 min.
3. Jhonatan Restrepo (Coldeportes Claro) a 1 min 44 seg.
4. Jorge Noreña (EPM-TIGO-UNE) a 2 min 36 seg.
5. Anderson Rodríguez (EPM-TIGO-UNE) a 2 min 40 seg.

Especially to Ryo:
Suprising results in mine opinion. How could it be possible that Gaviria and Contreras did not shined? Since we consider Miguel Angel Lopez and Gaviria as outstanding talents; how can we compare the level of this field? How do you see the talents of Carapaz, Reyes, Restrepo, Villegas and German Enrique Chavez?
And what are you expecting from the good performing talents from team Colombia? Edward Diaz, Daniel Martinez and sprinter Molano?

 

[SafeBet]

What Gaviria are we talking about here? Fernando? Cause I've heard he crashed a couple of days ago and broke his collarbone.
And anyway he's a sprinter, he shouldn't feature in the GC.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Gaviria indeed is a sprinter, Rodrigo Contreras is a very good talent but he isnt very consistant, sometimes he shines, sometimes he sucks.

Surprising though that a guy from Ecuador won, they also almost won the Vuelta a Futuro last year (Narvaez, but he lost his lead in the final ITT (if im not mistaken) to Hernandez).

Aldemar Reyes is a very solid talent I think he is very consistent and already was close to signing for BMC last year, I think he will ride WT next season. I also really like some guys from 96. Jorge Ivan Gomez seems like the real deal, he was also really strong here in Juventud, Miguel Florez is an excellent climber, John Andersen Rodriguez did really well this season (that kinda surprises me though), Wilmar Paredes is a good talent maybe not for the really long climbs but he is very strong in (hard) hilly terrain. And then there is Daniel Felipe Martinez who is already pro with Team Colombia who I think can become a real good rider as well.

 

[BigMac]

http://www.tourofthegila.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/TechGuideMen2015web1.pdf?#page=10

Tour of the Gila starts tomorrow and still no startlist was made available. Airgas Safeway, however, has given their line up already: Horner, Luis Lemos, Medina, Tim Aiken, Matt Rodrigues, Justin Mauch, Kevin Gottlieb and Connor Mccutcheon. That's a nice team for the overall contention.

Most of last year's contenders should be back in the race, except Carter Jones, of course.

Stage 1 - Silver City › Mogollon (148.1km)

Stage 2 - Fort Bayard › Fort Bayard (122.6km)

Stage 3 (ITT) - Tyrone › Tyrone (26km)

Stage 4 - Silver City › Silver City (70km circuit)

Stage 5 - Silver City › Pinos Altos (162km)

 

[slosada]

Basically what Ruudz0r said:
I followed the race via radio streaming (CRB on tunein.com). First stage was won by another Ecuadorian, Jonathan Caicedo, who took 5 seconds over the bunch lead by Fernando Gaviria. That was the only flat stage. Gaviria then settled for the intermediate sprints
Second stage finished on a short climb sort of murito, won by Paredes who took the leader's jersey
Third stage was mountain but climbs were not that selective, however Carapaz took around 1:37 over the first chasing group
Fourth stage had the steepest climb to Concordia, and Carapaz won again, followed by Reyes, Gómez, Jeferson Perez, Caicedo and John A.Rodríguez (all within a minute) The rest came at 1:52 or more.
Fifth was a 24Km TT with a 2Km hill at the end. Jonathan Ospina won over Restrepo and Contreras. Carapaz did the fastest climb at the end and limited losses to only 26 seconds
Six stage featured an ambush with 22 riders, most of the top 15 plus some others. Gaviria and other domestiques put a hell of a work. Carapaz was not there and was bleeding time (2:20 before the last climb to the last 11 breakaway riders)... Reports are team owner offered something to other minor teams to help chasing. At the end Carapaz only conceded 1:25 and kept the jersey.
Last stage had Alto de Minas at 23K from finish, but nothing happened uphill. Downhill Reyes and Restrepo attacked again but were reeled in the transition terrain.

Carapaz was second in Vuelta a Ecuador in 2013 and 2014, won the U23 Panamerican Championship.

Regarding Narvaez, it seems that he broke the 3000m junior world record a couple of weeks ago in México with 3.13.309 But the race he was about to win was Vuelta del Porvenir (U17-U18) instead of Vuelta del Futuro (U15-U16)... Only that the last stage was a MTT.

Cesar Villegas needs to be discussed in the clinic
Aldemar Reyes is the best of this field, the others are good talents. Paredes is somewhat limited in long climbs (in his team the best climber is Aguirre)

Talking about other young Colombians, José Tito Hernandez won both Futuro (2010) and Porvenir (2012), and just landed in Europe to race with GM Cycling Team.... He finished 13th in Croatia.

 

[Ruudz0r]

Re:

Basically what Ruudz0r said:
I followed the race via radio streaming (CRB on tunein.com). First stage was won by another Ecuadorian, Jonathan Caicedo, who took 5 seconds over the bunch lead by Fernando Gaviria. That was the only flat stage. Gaviria then settled for the intermediate sprints
Second stage finished on a short climb sort of murito, won by Paredes who took the leader's jersey
Third stage was mountain but climbs were not that selective, however Carapaz took around 1:37 over the first chasing group
Fourth stage had the steepest climb to Concordia, and Carapaz won again, followed by Reyes, Gómez, Jeferson Perez, Caicedo and John A.Rodríguez (all within a minute) The rest came at 1:52 or more.
Fifth was a 24Km TT with a 2Km hill at the end. Jonathan Ospina won over Restrepo and Contreras. Carapaz did the fastest climb at the end and limited losses to only 26 seconds
Six stage featured an ambush with 22 riders, most of the top 15 plus some others. Gaviria and other domestiques put a hell of a work. Carapaz was not there and was bleeding time (2:20 before the last climb to the last 11 breakaway riders)... Reports are team owner offered something to other minor teams to help chasing. At the end Carapaz only conceded 1:25 and kept the jersey.
Last stage had Alto de Minas at 23K from finish, but nothing happened uphill. Downhill Reyes and Restrepo attacked again but were reeled in the transition terrain.

Carapaz was second in Vuelta a Ecuador in 2013 and 2014, won the U23 Panamerican Championship.

Regarding Narvaez, it seems that he broke the 3000m junior world record a couple of weeks ago in México with 3.13.309 But the race he was about to win was Vuelta del Porvenir (U17-U18) instead of Vuelta del Futuro (U15-U16)... Only that the last stage was a MTT.

Cesar Villegas needs to be discussed in the clinic
Aldemar Reyes is the best of this field, the others are good talents. Paredes is somewhat limited in long climbs (in his team the best climber is Aguirre)

Talking about other young Colombians, José Tito Hernandez won both Futuro (2010) and Porvenir (2012), and just landed in Europe to race with GM Cycling Team.... He finished 13th in Croatia.

Ah yes always mix up futuro and porvenir and didnt feel like checking it . The world record of Narvaez was on altitude though, so hard to compare, still a very good performance obviously but I rate it a lot lower then Dale Parker his performance.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Re:

Basically what Ruudz0r said:
I followed the race via radio streaming (CRB on tunein.com). First stage was won by another Ecuadorian, Jonathan Caicedo, who took 5 seconds over the bunch lead by Fernando Gaviria. That was the only flat stage. Gaviria then settled for the intermediate sprints
Second stage finished on a short climb sort of murito, won by Paredes who took the leader's jersey
Third stage was mountain but climbs were not that selective, however Carapaz took around 1:37 over the first chasing group
Fourth stage had the steepest climb to Concordia, and Carapaz won again, followed by Reyes, Gómez, Jeferson Perez, Caicedo and John A.Rodríguez (all within a minute) The rest came at 1:52 or more.
Fifth was a 24Km TT with a 2Km hill at the end. Jonathan Ospina won over Restrepo and Contreras. Carapaz did the fastest climb at the end and limited losses to only 26 seconds
Six stage featured an ambush with 22 riders, most of the top 15 plus some others. Gaviria and other domestiques put a hell of a work. Carapaz was not there and was bleeding time (2:20 before the last climb to the last 11 breakaway riders)... Reports are team owner offered something to other minor teams to help chasing. At the end Carapaz only conceded 1:25 and kept the jersey.
Last stage had Alto de Minas at 23K from finish, but nothing happened uphill. Downhill Reyes and Restrepo attacked again but were reeled in the transition terrain.

Carapaz was second in Vuelta a Ecuador in 2013 and 2014, won the U23 Panamerican Championship.

Regarding Narvaez, it seems that he broke the 3000m junior world record a couple of weeks ago in México with 3.13.309 But the race he was about to win was Vuelta del Porvenir (U17-U18) instead of Vuelta del Futuro (U15-U16)... Only that the last stage was a MTT.

Cesar Villegas needs to be discussed in the clinic
Aldemar Reyes is the best of this field, the others are good talents. Paredes is somewhat limited in long climbs (in his team the best climber is Aguirre)

Talking about other young Colombians, José Tito Hernandez won both Futuro (2010) and Porvenir (2012), and just landed in Europe to race with GM Cycling Team.... He finished 13th in Croatia.

carapaz was the best of this field and also the most talented by far. contreras was terrible and reyes was good. many favorites disapointed and I wonder how clean the race was.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Re:

Clasificación general Vuelta ala Juventued Colombia u23:

1. Richard Carapaz (ECU-Strongman) 21 horas 18 minutos 50 segundos.
2. Aldemar Reyes (GW-Shimano) a 1 min.
3. Jhonatan Restrepo (Coldeportes Claro) a 1 min 44 seg.
4. Jorge Noreña (EPM-TIGO-UNE) a 2 min 36 seg.
5. Anderson Rodríguez (EPM-TIGO-UNE) a 2 min 40 seg.

Especially to Ryo:
Suprising results in mine opinion. How could it be possible that Gaviria and Contreras did not shined? Since we consider Miguel Angel Lopez and Gaviria as outstanding talents; how can we compare the level of this field? How do you see the talents of Carapaz, Reyes, Restrepo, Villegas and German Enrique Chavez?
And what are you expecting from the good performing talents from team Colombia? Edward Diaz, Daniel Martinez and sprinter Molano?

hard to say. for instance carapaz and german chavez I know are 100% legit talents. carapaz is a monster talent, few years ago he destroyed in pays savoie all european youngsters in every climb but his team failed in tactics and controlling the race. still I wonder how much clinic was involved here. last year colombian cycling took a big step in the right direction but this year I haven't heard anything yet from some of my sources.

and gaviria is a rouleur/sprinter. of course he won't shine here. contreras I don't know he's been very inconistant always. reyes I think is a good talent but not major and restrepo is good too, but most big talents now come from 1996 year in postobon and antioquia

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Re:

Gaviria indeed is a sprinter, Rodrigo Contreras is a very good talent but he isnt very consistant, sometimes he shines, sometimes he sucks.

Surprising though that a guy from Ecuador won, they also almost won the Vuelta a Futuro last year (Narvaez, but he lost his lead in the final ITT (if im not mistaken) to Hernandez).

Aldemar Reyes is a very solid talent I think he is very consistent and already was close to signing for BMC last year, I think he will ride WT next season. I also really like some guys from 96. Jorge Ivan Gomez seems like the real deal, he was also really strong here in Juventud, Miguel Florez is an excellent climber, John Andersen Rodriguez did really well this season (that kinda surprises me though), Wilmar Paredes is a good talent maybe not for the really long climbs but he is very strong in (hard) hilly terrain. And then there is Daniel Felipe Martinez who is already pro with Team Colombia who I think can become a real good rider as well.

good post but carapaz is a known entity though. he was also the best in vuelta porvenir in colombia few years ago destroying colombians the climbs. he also has a worse mentality than betancur and is also fatter than him. but seems he refoudn motivation now he has a family since a few years.

 

[Tragic]

Re:

http://www.tourofthegila.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/TechGuideMen2015web1.pdf?#page=10

Tour of the Gila starts tomorrow and still no startlist was made available. Airgas Safeway, however, has given their line up already: Horner, Luis Lemos, Medina, Tim Aiken, Matt Rodrigues, Justin Mauch, Kevin Gottlieb and Connor Mccutcheon. That's a nice team for the overall contention.

Most of last year's contenders should be back in the race, except Carter Jones, of course.

Stage 1 - Silver City › Mogollon (148.1km)

Stage 2 - Fort Bayard › Fort Bayard (122.6km)

Stage 3 (ITT) - Tyrone › Tyrone (26km)

Stage 4 - Silver City › Silver City (70km circuit)

Stage 5 - Silver City › Pinos Altos (162km)

There is a provisional start list, a little hard to find but it's here

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/2015-tour-of-the-gila-start-list

This is my personal favourite race, if you're a cycling fan and live anywhere near NM you should go, and for a close-up look, volunteer.

Phil Gaimon has to be a favourite (along with CH), but I understand the Columbians are climbing like ---- Columbians.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

the first day already and antioquia have destroyed the race. good luck beating montiel now

 

[Arredondo]

Re:

the first day already and antioquia have destroyed the race. good luck beating montiel now

I have a question which is a little bit off topic. I saw Didier Chaparro is now riding with Team Nippo. I was quite surprised by that (didn't notice that news the last couple of months). But what do you think he can do in Europe? Last years he didn't really showed great things, but last year he was one of the better climbers in the Vuelta a Colombia.

He will not ride the Giro, so the team must have a long term goal with him.

 

[Flamin]

Cool to hear from Carapaz again. He got my attention in Tour des pays de Savoie in 2013, where he was the best climber in the race (except for the last stage were he bonked) in which was his first race in Europe (and his last) i think. But I never really found any noticeable results from him since, until now.

 

[grizzlee]

Just bumping this thread a bit. Tour de Yorkshire today. Thought somebody might have created its own thread by now. Break away and Irish teenager Eddie Dunbar is at it again. He is in the 5 man break 3 mins up.

 

[roundabout]

Bump.

Vuelta a Asturias is not dead yet.

And Anton actually won the first stage (!)

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Vuelta_Asturias_Julio_Alvarez_Mendo_2015_Stage_1_Pola_de_Lena

 

[burning]

Wow, this is first win since Bilbao, I thought he would never ever win anything, even though he was top 3 in Vuelta Castilla Leon.

 

[roundabout]

That said, he did benefit from Belda crashing out from the lead on the last descent.

 

[roundabout]

Re:

the first day already and antioquia have destroyed the race. good luck beating montiel now

Britton wins the GC, Woods the final stage