Vuelta a Burgos 2025 (August 5-9)

[Brullnux]

Missed today, looking forward to Saturday on Lagunas. Always a must watch. Bisieux surely has good chances of winning overall? I see he has the Vuelta on his schedule as well.

It'll be interesting, not sure Bisiaux has ever done such a hard MTF against this sort of field but him and Ciccone looked the best on the climb today. I am sure Del Toro and Pellizzari will try to put him under pressure, 20 seconds (+ bonus) isn't a big gap.

 

[Rou]

Just watched this.
Wow! Who the hell is this lion Bisiaux?!

 

[Sciatic]

Was that a bike path they made the 90 degree turn onto with about 11km to go??

 

[Sciatic]

If I am in Spain, where can I watch this race online?

In addition to rtve for live broadcast, you can see a full replay (which rtve doesn't have) via the Basque broadcast network: https://www.eitb.eus/eu/kirolak/zuzenean/

 

[Lepp89]

I think Decathlon is going to be the next Big thing. What a strong group of highly talented riders. By the way, Ciccone is in the shape of his life, he is going to fly in La Vuelta a España.

 

[Tim Cahill]

It was Bisiaux who killed off Torres the stage before Finestre last year iirc, attacking before the Dutch and Blackmore came across, very good as a junior too. He's been helping others this year but still given the company he was in and the manner of victory I didn't expect his first win to happen like that.

 

[Unchained]

It'll be interesting, not sure Bisiaux has ever done such a hard MTF against this sort of field but him and Ciccone looked the best on the climb today. I am sure Del Toro and Pellizzari will try to put him under pressure, 20 seconds (+ bonus) isn't a big gap.

Ciccone raced really excellent and he really put lots of pressure on everyone!! Great racing!! At about 20-21 to go Del Toro bridges across and Ciccone, says, not him again!! Bisiaux was on for last @25% of the race he looked really good!! Deserved the win!!
GC a bit shuffled but still top ten within a minute..

 

[KZD]

Great win for Bisiaux, Decathlon has two young diamonds in their ranks (he and Seixas).

 

[tobydawq]

That 13th place in GC in the Vuelta for Ciccone is gonna hit the exact same as his previous GC attempts.

That seems excessively pessimistic.

He is clearly better than ever this year.

 

[proffate]

That seems excessively pessimistic.

He is clearly better than ever this year.

Not that pessimistic. It would be his 2nd best GT result in 15 tries.

Besides, Rick said "GC attempt" not "one day result". Ciccone has a hard time finding consistency over 3 weeks, not pulling off individual performances.

 

[tobydawq]

Not that pessimistic. It would be his 2nd best GT result in 15 tries.

Besides, Rick said "GC attempt" not "one day result". Ciccone has a hard time finding consistency over 3 weeks, not pulling off individual performances.

Yes, and as I said, he is clearly better than ever this year.

 

[proffate]

Yes, and as I said, he is clearly better than ever this year.

at consistency over 3 weeks? No, he's right on target with the usual in that regard...

 

[Wyndbrook]

Just watched this.
Wow! Who the hell is this lion Bisiaux?!

Another of those ex junior cyclocross champions who become road stars.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Another of those ex junior cyclocross champions who become road stars.

l'll be surprised if we see him racing CX this winter.......the French tend to use it as a 'training sport' for young riders.

 

[tobydawq]

at consistency over 3 weeks? No, he's right on target with the usual in that regard...

There's nothing that indicates that.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Ciccone has also just had a lot of bad luck in the GTs where he targeted a GC.

2021 Giro - crashes on stage 17 while sitting in 6th on GC, DNS the next day
2021 Vuelta - crashes and abandons on stage 16 while in 12th on GC (with quite a few people who took a bunch of time from breakaways and dropped away ahead of him)
No GC bids in 2022 or 2023
2024 Tour - 11th
2025 Giro - crashes on stage 14 while sitting in 7th on GC, DNS the next day

In his other 10 GTs, he is 7/10 for finishing the race, so it's hardly like DNFs are his usual.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage 4:

We have a break of 4 with a collective age of 655 years up the road. Gap about 20s.
140km to go.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The 4 elderly statesmen did in fact inspire more riders, so a break of 7 has about 5mins now.
90km to go.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Bernal the other day said that he wakes up every morning dreaming about winning the Vuelta.

So... a daydream then?

 

[Valv.Piti]

Bernal has gotten progressively better and better since 2023, and he was finally at a real good level in the first part of the Giro where it was pretty hard to make differences. His level dropped in the later part of the race, but its not completely unrealistic.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Hoping Rui can pull one last rabbit out of the hat at the tender age of 73, or failing that take the breakaway down with him by acting like a ***.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Maybe Ciccone should ride permanently bandaged up. ..

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Caruso cruising away

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Looks like a solo win coming...

 

[Tim Cahill]

Caruso a bit too much class, not sure what happened to his GC