February 2026

[Gipfelstuermer]

Got some info from Alk regarding World Championships:

1.) Performance improvements are required before next WC, e.g. by limiting the Refresh-Time for Spectators (or perhaps even for team managers). And potentially mechanism to limit number of sessions?
2.) For U24 WC some development is required to limit inscriptions to U24 riders (Similar topic for continental championships).

Only once 1.) is done, I plan to schedule a Fantasy WC, and only once 2.) is done, I can include U24 races.

Hope this is understandable.

[cataracs]

Bessèges has an interesting profil with the short hilly ITT at the end. Quite short stages also, usually liked by many managers I'd remember ?
Also, some stages are similar to past years, so less design work there.

One edition of Bessèges would be nice maybe, but hard to tell with 2 tours parallel. Profiles are looking interesting

+1 for Besseges in the calender

We'll have two horrible days for one day races but if the three of you can agree on a Time for Besseges, I am OK with adding one edition.

You could maybe switch Valenciana 18h to a Besseges, as they're similar kind of Itt short tour.

[drei.zehn]

Bessèges has an interesting profil with the short hilly ITT at the end. Quite short stages also, usually liked by many managers I'd remember ?
Also, some stages are similar to past years, so less design work there.

One edition of Bessèges would be nice maybe, but hard to tell with 2 tours parallel. Profiles are looking interesting

+1 for Besseges in the calender

We'll have two horrible days for one day races but if the three of you can agree on a Time for Besseges, I am OK with adding one edition.

I would like to have it in the morning

[Schartner Bombe]

One edition of Bessèges would be nice maybe, but hard to tell with 2 tours parallel. Profiles are looking interesting

+1 for Besseges in the calender

We'll have two horrible days for one day races but if the three of you can agree on a Time for Besseges, I am OK with adding one edition.

I would like to have it in the morning

... Maybe tell your wife/(?) that tonight ...

[IDF]

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As calendar coordination becomes complicated again in the early sprint, I have some suggestions as well. Again, the table includes all races x.1 and higher. This is no suggestion to ride all of them.

One day races, maybe move one from 2nd to 3rd (will there be a parallel program to the WC?). South Aegean GP could replace the fantasy race on the 26th as well.

Tour-wise, I think we can do five parallel editions. Parallel tours can turn out more teams than 5 times the same profile, so I think five editions are fine. This means we could add more tours if we have designers, even if it will be just one edition for some tours. Besseges has similar fields (in real life) to Valenciana and Oman. Lower cat should be no criterion there, especially against tours outside Europe. Murcia, as a two-stage tour, would be a newish thing. Again, it has similar participation to Provance, so a 2-2 would be possible. From UEA, Algarve, and Andalucia, I would say Andalucia has slightly weaker fields, but is still important, while Algarve has very strong fields. So my suggestion would be 2-2-1. Sardegna is back in the calendar after a few years. Maybe an Italian speaker can try to find out if it will go ahead this year. As it crashes with another half-classic on March 1st (not the February 29th) I will not ride it, but some teams may like it. Last but not least, I would love to ride a race outside Europe, but Rwanda starts one day to early to be a real option.

I would love to read more opinions, and could do some designing later this month (or next month if the profiles come late).

To be honest, having one edition for a tour is quite pointless because if you're not available at this time, you don't have a second chance. It should be minimum 2 or nothing. For Bessèges, having 2-2-2 for Valenciana/Oman/Bessèges isn't that irrelevant, could attract different kind of teams (Oman for sprinters and climbers, Bessèges for TT/leupold, Valenciana for a mix)

And for Rwanda, it isn't possible to start in the 23th and going until the 2nd of March? As you said, having a "long" stage race outside of Europe could be a kind of fresh air and having something different.

[drei.zehn]

Got some info from Alk regarding World Championships:

1.) Performance improvements are required before next WC, e.g. by limiting the Refresh-Time for Spectators (or perhaps even for team managers). And potentially mechanism to limit number of sessions?
2.) For U24 WC some development is required to limit inscriptions to U24 riders (Similar topic for continental championships).

Only once 1.) is done, I plan to schedule a Fantasy WC, and only once 2.) is done, I can include U24 races.

Hope this is understandable.

We can maybe do the NCs on the 3.2. than?