The Tour de France starts at the end of this week and the fearless BiciSport web editor predictions are -
* Podagar will win the Tour by 5 minutes …. then head to the Tour of Spain and do the Triple
* UAE will win the Teams Classification
* UAE will get 4 riders in the top 15. Adam Yates will be brilliant.
* Ineos will have a great Tour on both the General & Teams classfication with Pidcock & Bernal
* Remco E will be fortunate to go top 10 (more like a top 20) - one super bad day in the mountains will ruin it all, give up on riding the Tours altogether and head to Flanders & Roubaix and the Spring Classics in 2025 where he really belongs.
* Visma -Lease a Bike will be lucky to win a stage & Vingegaard will struggle in the third week (that’s brave). Maybe Jorgenson will save the Visma Tour with a stage win. Wout & Vinny should have both stayed at home & ridden the Vuelta instead.
* Simon Yates (Jayco) & Primoz Roglic will go top 10. Roglic will crash.
* Derek Gee at Premier Tech will win a stage & go top 15 (maybe top 10)
* Mark Cavendish breaks the Merckx record of stage wins ... justice would support please no ! !. Sir Cav will not finish the Tour.
* SBS commentary team will be outside the time limit from Stage 1 and will not start Stage 2
BiciSport Team Force @ East Flanders @ 15 June - Nick Felix is both the Team Force sprinter and team principal. BiciSport sponsors Team Force for the second year in 2024 and have extended this into 2026.
BiciSport Team Force @ East Flanders @ 15 June - Nick Felix (right) with Force team mates. BiciSport Australia sits on the collar bone of the team jerseys
BiciSport Team Force @ East Flanders Belgium @ 15 June
BiciSport Team Force @ East Flanders Belgium @ 15 June - Nick Felix in third wheel
Ciccia @ Freshwater is a new BiciSport co supporter
The BiciSport-Molteni-Tour de France coffee is on Saturday 6 July @ 9.30am @ Sandstone Cafe Terrey Hills off Myoora Rd.
A couple of retro Eddy Merckx - Molteni bikes will feature in the Molteni celebrations. So if you have a retro t shirt or cycling jersey then bring it along. All welcome.
RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK
29 June
Goodyear Gravel Grind (Tamworth, NSW)
Tour de France (starts in Florence, Italy)
30 June
Melburn Roobaix Cyclosportive (Melbourne, Vic)
Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)
NSW ACT Cyclocross Series Round 4 (Mt Stromlo, Canberra)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES
Every Mon/Wed/Fri Mornings
Centennial Park Masters @ Centennial Park
Meet at the corner of Parkes Drive/Grand Drive at 8.30am and do CP laps until 9.30am then coffee at Spruce Goose Cafe
Every Tues/Sat/Sun Mornings
Depart Shark Park carpark near Cronulla @ 9.30am for Kurnell & return
Tues 25 June & Thurs 27 June
Waratah Peloton @ pass the corner of Yulong Ave & McCarrs Creek Rd Terrey Hills @ 8.00am for Akuna Bay, top of McCarrs Creek Rd climb at 8.40am, then direction Duffys Forest, then return Terrey Hills shops @ 9.15am then to St Ives for coffee
Centennial Park Lower Loop from 5.30am to 7.45am
Thurs 27 June
Belgian Waffle Ride @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am for CP laps
Sat 29 June
BiciSport Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe @ Myoora Rd Terrey Hills @ 9.30am
Selle San Marco Pro Cycling Team (Italy) - 1981-82
Selle San Marco still make high quality cycle racing seats to this day and co sponsor numerous pro cycling teams. Groupsets were Campagnolo and framesets were Wilier. Team jerseys were a good design but the team cars missed the mark completely.
Team results for two years rested with Alfio Vandi who won a couple of Italian semi Classics and rode two Giros. Simply put - they didn’t win much and the sponsorship end couldn’t come fast enough. Thankfully San Marco still produce a great product.
