Tour of Taiwan - 2008

[MJ_1993]

looking forward to it.

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

[quote]Jet Fuel Coffee Cycling Team

[Andrew G]

Gotta love those stage (start/finish) names.

[adrian]

Man from Hong Kong didn't take very long

[adrian]

Looking forward to the exclusive photo-report

[-Adam-]

Tell the boys from KFS to move their asses!

[Andrew G]

You have to have got a Pez entry at Love River Sean .

Why are American teams "presented by" .

What's the racing like Sean, not the standard so much, but is it pretty informal with you allowed to get all "up close and personal"? If you get a chance can you stick one of the KFS Sunday bikes in your bag for me .

[MJ_1993]

Nice. I think its good for cycling to expand to other countries outside Europe. Especially when a lot of the time countries in the southern hemisphere use bikes a lot as transport. I reckon we'll see China and India with a Tour of a decent calibre, with the Arab Countries following Qatar's example. I'd quite enjoy a Tour of Bahrain considering it often takes 20 mins to get anywhere from anywhere, its like the Eroica thing, lots of dust and stuff, but the roads are still pretty nice. I recall Bahrain applying to host a World Champs in the Gulf News/ Al Jazeera (when I was over there).

[adrian]

[quote="Mo Jaffer"]Nice. I think its good for cycling to expand to other countries outside Europe. Especially when a lot of the time countries in the southern hemisphere use bikes a lot as transport. I reckon we'll see China and India with a Tour of a decent calibre, with the Arab Countries following Qatar's example. I'd quite enjoy a Tour of Bahrain considering it often takes 20 mins to get anywhere from anywhere, its like the Eroica thing, lots of dust and stuff, but the roads are still pretty nice. I recall Bahrain applying to host a World Champs in the Gulf News/ Al Jazeera (when I was over there).

[Andrew G]

Sound's like you work for the UCI Mo .
[quote]following Qatar's example

[MJ_1993]

Sorry, its that generalisation that is made, about the LEDC-MEDC line. Wasnt concentrating tryin to do I.T. Coursework at the same time.

I quite like the Tour of Qatar, it helps show form and it isnt that boring. Personally I like pre-season and end of season races, and the Grand Tours.

I agree with the point your making on the UCI, personally I feel the Tour of Down Under is never going to reach the same status as the classics and monuments. But the Classics and monuments are cold! And I like watching bright and sunny races!

Nothing should be done to disturb the current reputable races, that is not the way to do it.I might browse the internet to see if there is any races in Iran, because it being an Islamic Republic, I didnt think skintight lycra would be go down very well, but I did spot the Iranian National Team last year though in some race. Personally I think one should make more continental races, and leave the ProTour alone, before its messed up even more. In my view Het Volk should have been made a ProTour race not the TDU.