Category: Previews

AlUla Old Town > Skyviews of Harrat Uwayrid 165km The final stage of the race, and with gaps nice and small on GC, this is going to be an exciting finish. Regular viewers of this tour won’t need any introduction to Harrat Uwayrid climb, it’s a monster. 

Andratx > Mirador d’Es Colomer 148km Last year’s race was called off due to dangerous conditions, hopefully we get a race this year. Remco Evenepoel smashed everyone today, he’ll start as the man to beat. No thanks.

Geelong > Geelong 141km The 9th edition of the race, Ally Wollaston is back to see if she can defend her title. In 2025, she managed to crest Challambra Crescent in the front group of 8 riders, then won the sprint from Swinkels and Rüegg. It was just the 2nd time the race had ended in a...

Selva > Santuari de Lluc 154km The route is similar to last year, when Florian Stork took an unexpected win, but it’s not the exact same. 2473m of climbing is well withing the capabilities of many riders, it should be an interesting race.

Winter Park > Shalal Sijyat Rocks 172km Stage 3 continued the Jan Christen Show, box office Jan was at it again. I did say he needed to attack earlier than normal, but to go only halfway up the climb was a surprise, even from him! The boy isn’t someone who’ll wonder, what if. Anyway, he...

Ses Salines > Ses Salines 23.8km TTT I have no idea why someone thought it was a good idea to have a TTT in January, but that’s what we’ve got. I suppose the organisers were keen to get Remco on the start line, but it all seems a little weird to me.

Winter Park > Bir Jaydah Mountain Wirkah 144km After two days full of echelons, some riders will be delighted to hear that stage 3 is going to be relatively boring, that is until the big finish. This is the first of the GC days and will give a really good indication of who’ll be fighting...

Palmanova > Palmanova 148km The first of 5 races for the men over in Mallorca. We kick off with a climbing race, Jan Christen won it last year, but he’s not back to defend his title. Almost 2900m of climbing in just 148km is a tough day at this time of year, a very hard...

AlManshiyah Train Station > AlManshiyah Train Station 153km The wind did blow in the opening stage, and we found out that none of the GC riders can ride an echelon! It was another episode of the Jan Christen Show, this guy is box office. He crashed, unluckily just before the first echelon was formed, then...

AlUla Camel Cup Track > AlUla Camel Cup Track 158km The opening stage of the AlUla Tour should be one for the sprinters. The finish at the camel track is well known in this race, last year it was the final stage and echelons caused a few of the GC riders to miss out. Will...