Tour de Beauce

by nikki on Jun 9, 2008 6:44 PM EDT

Over on cycling news, they have posted that Slipstream won't be racing this as planned as they can't post a full team. The race is no longer listed on Slipstream's site and a few new races have been added to their June calendar. Here's the provisional start list. There are some great riders to keep an eye on so hopefully Lyne can help keep us up to speed this week with it. :-) From the article...

The USA will be represented by Team Type 1, made up of many former Navigators riders which dominated this race the past two years. The UCI Continental Pro team Slipstream-Chipotle-H30 was scheduled but suffered in the streets of Philadelphia. They cannot post a full team. Jittery Joe's is the other American UCI team with strong ties to the region through their equipment sponsor Louis Garneau. The Mexican Tecos-Trek team will be back with many strong climbers to contend the rolling parcours in defense of the climber's jersey. This will be a tall order with the inclusion of the Colombian National Team.

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Slipstream will be

in GP CTT Correios at Portugal. Begins Thursday.:)

by semprenaroda on Jun 9, 2008 10:32 PM EDT reply actions

Several are riding in the Netherlands too. :-)

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Jun 9, 2008 11:04 PM EDT reply actions

interesting looking at the list of past winners

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/jun08/beauce08/?id=history

Mick Rogers in 2002, Levi in 1998-1999, JV in 1997 …

by guidemd on Jun 10, 2008 8:13 PM EDT reply actions

Tour de Beauce is in its 23rd year and is known at the hardest stage race in North America

Rolling terrain, (very) bad roads and often bad weather. And aggressive riding from teams like Tecos, Sparkasse and all the Canadian riders.

by lyne on Jun 10, 2008 8:59 PM EDT reply actions

that would be 'as the hardest....'

by lyne on Jun 10, 2008 8:59 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't know if it is the hardest, but . . .

. . . the Tour de Beauce is one of the more fun races on the N. American calendar.
Usually, the riders are all still in top form from Philly, but the intensity of the peloton is much lower.
The race tends to take on a feeling of a race amongst friends, if that makes any sense. Still intense, but nobody wants to go for the win at all costs.

Many times, it is a chance for some young guy to pop up and get noticed.

by Ryan_Liles on Jun 10, 2008 9:52 PM EDT reply actions

Symmetrics report from Stage 1

http://blogs.symmetricscycling.com/2008/06/10/tour-de-beauce-stage-1/

they’re glad the Tecos rider won (ie no jersey to defend) but that 3 of their riders are up there on GC (Tuft, Evans, Meier) so that they have options for later…

by guidemd on Jun 10, 2008 11:00 PM EDT reply actions

Finally getting around to reading up...

Here’s VeloNews on today’s stage: Colex surprises at Tour de Beauce

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Jun 10, 2008 11:14 PM EDT reply actions

The Slipstream participacion

on GP CTT Correios in ^Portugal is at risk

Every foreign teams are at risk, because there is a stopped of truckers in all Portugal, and trucks are forbidden to entry in Portugal, there is very little in petrol pumps here.. The government today reached an agreement with the truckers, maybe tomorrow is ok, but the . I Will post a update if Slipstream race tomorrow.

by semprenaroda on Jun 11, 2008 3:10 PM EDT reply actions

Damn...

Now that’s what I call local scoop. Keep us posted. I haven’t seen anything on Slipstream’s site. Would they have had the stuff there before today that maybe it is okay? Very interesting and this would affect tour training for sure.

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Jun 11, 2008 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Apparently Metlushenko just crushed them in the sprint for stage 2

The gap was big enough during the sprint that he got 1 sec over the second placed guy. Talk about a sprint! This guy is killing it on this side of the pond.

If I just had one more gear, I...

by SpunOut on Jun 11, 2008 5:04 PM EDT reply actions