Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[Mina.S]

Visma down to 4 riders before the race even starts.

 

[yaco]

Your hatred towards time trials never ceases to amaze me.

Its nothing to do with my liking or not liking ITT's. Its hard to get a balanced parcour in a four stage race to take into account an ITT. Funniest thing is I am the biggest fan of TTT's.

 

[yaco]

This will be an interesting descent with Gigante and Zigart. Do think Gigante is a top 10 climber.

 

[yaco]

What i have learnt about poor descenders is they are best suited to technical descents which slows down the speed, however, on a flowing and fast descent they are left behind.

 

[yaco]

Gigante has got worse at descending. She is a mile behind Zigart.

 

[JR1012]

As expected Vollering vs Reusser for the stage win.

 

[Izzyeviel]

After all that build up with the 'Tissot sprint'....

 

[RedheadDane]

Reusser wins.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It's not often the remake is better than the original, but it still needs a little more cowbell.

 

[JR1012]

The first of three boring stages done. Only on stage three we might see a real battle who wins the stage.

 

[yaco]

I enjoyed the stage. It was great to see riders spread out like brown cows in the last 60kms.

 

[RedheadDane]

It's not often the remake is better than the original, but it still needs a little more cowbell.

[Picture above]

Your photo-shop skills are... amazingly bad

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Demi and the only SD Worx rider she could seemingly trust are somehow even more inseparable as rivals than they were as enemies.

 

[awavey]

Interesting the ToB women moves to 3rd week of August next year according to the UCI calender (see general news)

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

All those green EuropCar vehicles around the race today: I was expecting to see Tommy V.

 

[Izzyeviel]

All those green EuropCar vehicles around the race today: I was expecting to see Tommy V.

I didn't see any? Are you sure you didn't actually watch a repeat of a race from ten years ago?

 

[RedheadDane]

'Buechenhübeli'. Amazing name for a climb!
Though, I also quite like 'Wintermatt'.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Break Kraak-ing up

 

[yaco]

Gotta say that Liv Alula Jayco must be the most tactically naive team in the peleton. Once Wylie and Anderson were dropped in stage one then they needed to sit up instead chasing onto the third group which meant they would not be allowed into the break. Dumb, dumb,dumb.

 

[RedheadDane]

Marta Lach with a slight detour.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

They were Amberbushed today.

 

[RedheadDane]

FDJ having a pretty good day.
Considering Pyrenees as well.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Katia claws back 30s

 

[Mina.S]

Gotta say that Liv Alula Jayco must be the most tactically naive team in the peleton. Once Wylie and Anderson were dropped in stage one then they needed to sit up instead chasing onto the third group which meant they would not be allowed into the break. Dumb, dumb,dumb.

Liv Alula are worse this year than last year and that's saying something.

 

[yaco]

Liv Alula are worse this year than last year and that's saying something.

I think overall they ride well as a team, however, their race tactics and especially their selection of races is baffling. For example, ifIf they had gone to more 1.1 and 2.1 races they would have had three or four wins. They desperately need a big rider to join in 2026.