Minor races 2022 *Spoilers*

[matticus]

Caleb Ewan wins stage1 of the Deutschland Tour ...feel like he needed that

Interesting thing about the Deutsch tour - i think the TT was road-bikes only. To save on logistics/costs etc.
Apparently this is quite common at some "minor" races, and it gets my hearty approval.

Pros manage to race without TT-bikes - and it didn't kill bike racing, nor even drag it back to the pre-war days - whooda thought??

 

[Adam4868]

Interesting thing about the Deutsch tour - i think the TT was road-bikes only. To save on logistics/costs etc.
Apparently this is quite common at some "minor" races, and it gets my hearty approval.

Pros manage to race without TT-bikes - and it didn't kill bike racing, nor even drag it back to the pre-war days - whooda thought??

To be honest it probally wasn't worth getting on one for 2.6 k 😁

 

[Chislenko]

To be honest it probally wasn't worth getting on one for 2.6 k 😁

At least there shouldn't be any big time gaps at that distance 🙂

 

[Adam4868]

At least there shouldn't be any big time gaps at that distance 🙂

Reckon I could of been close to Ganna over that distance 🙄

 

[rich p]

Reckon I could of been close to Ganna over that distance 🙄

2.5km behind - that is close!

 

[rich p]

Adam Yates leading in Deutschland. He's probably going to keep it on the last stage.
He says it's almost the first time he's not been under the weather this year.
I really hope he re-signs for Ineos and has a decent healthy year in 2023.
I like the way he rides.

 

[Adam4868]

Fourth for Pidcock in the MTB world...☹️
Had a crash and did well to come back.

 

[Adam4868]

Adam Yates leading in Deutschland. He's probably going to keep it on the last stage.
He says it's almost the first time he's not been under the weather this year.
I really hope he re-signs for Ineos and has a decent healthy year in 2023.
I like the way he rides.

Bilbao won the stage but Chapeau to Yates for taking the GC.

 

[rich p]

Israel Premier Tech got 2 wins yesterday in their hunt for relegation points in ToB and the Maryland unheard of race.

 

[Adam4868]

Israel Premier Tech got 2 wins yesterday in their hunt for relegation points in ToB and the Maryland unheard of race.

The points thingy seems a shambles this year ? Or has it allways been like that but I've never took any notice.
Teams pulling riders and talking of not sending to the world's to focus on smaller races.

 

[rich p]

And Tom Pidcock has pulled out of the World's due to fatigue.
It's asking a lot of the riders at the end of a hard season to flog over to Oz

 

[rich p]

The points thingy seems a shambles this year ? Or has it allways been like that but I've never took any notice.
Teams pulling riders and talking of not sending to the world's to focus on smaller races.

I think this is new but the teams have known about it for 3 years so only have themselves to blame in some ways. Covid has been an effect though.
Also it will be affected by Nairos fark up and whether IPT and Astana carry on being funded.
I'm no expert but it adds some spice to minor races.

 

[Adam4868]

I'm no expert but it adds some spice to minor races.

Like Sep Vanmarcke actually winning in Maryland 😁

 

[rich p]

Like Sep Vanmarcke actually winning in Maryland 😁

There's minor and then there's MINOR!!!

 

[rich p]

In the relegation race, Ag2R took maximum points from Bike Exchange in Quebec...
While in the bike race, Cosnefroy held on for the win ahead of Michael Matthews