Your Favourite Races?

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Pokerface wrote:
    The Grand National. 8)

    But the big names don't turn up for that. Sure, Valverde won it a few years ago and Lance Armstrong did it once - but that's about it.
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  • colomers
    colomers Posts: 23
    to greasedscotsman.you'll be with an union jack or st andrew flag.
    because your pseudo seems like a scottish name.
    i'll be tomorrow on the carrefour with my son,white and blue jersey,the main sponsor is
    CVELO.COM

    Good evening

    Francis
  • fastercyclist
    fastercyclist Posts: 396
    I dislike the snobbery being shown towards the TDF. It's still, to me at least - a much richer stage race then all the others I have watched. If nobody in the general public knew about the TDF it'd be winning hands down on here.

    One day races..I like watching the world championships as it's good to see the normal support stripped away and redistributed amongst the big names. Much more interesting.
    The British Empire never died, it just moved to the Velodrome
  • Brian1
    Brian1 Posts: 595
    For me its Paris-Nice, Basque Tour,Giro and Lombardy
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    colomers wrote:
    to greasedscotsman.you'll be with an union jack or st andrew flag.
    because your pseudo seems like a scottish name.
    i'll be tomorrow on the carrefour with my son,white and blue jersey,the main sponsor is
    CVELO.COM

    Good evening

    Francis

    Oh, it will be a union flag, I'm only part scottish, but don't tell anyone...
  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    Everything on the road. If it's 'boys on bikes' whether on cobble or mountains, I love it. 'Spose Giro has a special place in my heart :D and PR in the rain. Tend to live in a bubble during the Tour as it is wall-to-wall.
    Track leaves me cold. Last week it was on and the commenator said only a 100 laps to go - I lost the will to live and turned it off.
    'Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.'
    Neil Gaiman
  • mandie
    mandie Posts: 218
    My favorite One Day Race it Lombardia, because it is beautiful.

    Stage race is probably the Tour of Switzerland.
    We\'ll kick against the darkness \'till it bleeds daylight
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    For stage racing it has to be the Tour. I think anyone who says otherwise is just an elitist snob. The Tour has the best riders of any event - GC guys, sprinters, everyone else.

    The Giro may have a more fan friendly course, but mostly it's "a local race for local people". And I'm afraid I just can't be doing to Italians - not just in cycling, as a national as whole.

    As to one day races, this, for me, comes down to personal circumstances. Most times I have hockey commitments clashing with MSR and the Ronde, but less so with Par-Rou. LBL seems to clash too. But even then I still love PR for it's uniqueness.
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