Başla!

Başla!

Başla!

As the cycling world is focussed on Italy, we turn our attention to the other side of the mediterranean: The Tour of Turkey! The Tour of Turkey is unabashedly itself, and that means wide open highways, gradual climbs, chaotic sprints and pro-contintal climbers taking the fight to a World Tour podium on the almost iconic climb at Selcuk. Today was another battle between the best sprinter versus the best train, and this time the sprinter won. How it happened?  Let's see! Or, as they say in Turkey: 

Başla!

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While the admittedly fantastic autumn classics are drawing most of the attention of the cycling world, we've got time for one more (well, two actually) world tour stage race: The Tour of Turkey! The Tour of Turkey is unabashedly itself, and that means wide open highways, gradual climbs, chaotic sprints and pro-contintal climbers taking the fight to a World Tour podium on the almost iconic climb at Selcuk. Today we´ve had the first stage, which finished not quite according to script, which proved a great predictive succes for our first stage preview! Let´s get ready for stage two, another one for the sprinters.

Let's go! Or, as they say in Turkey: 

Başla!

While the admittedly fantastic autumn classics are drawing most of the attention of the cycling world, we've got time for one more (well, two actually) world tour stage race: The Tour of Turkey! This week I've sat down with some recordings of last year's race and I'll admit, I really enjoyed it. The Tour of Turkey is not a race that tries to be the Dauphinée on the Anatolian peninsula, or the Binq Bank Tour of the eastern Mediterranean: the Tour of Turkey is unabashedly itself, and that means wide open highways, gradual climbs, chaotic sprints and pro-contintal climbers taking the fight to a World Tour podium on the almost iconic climb at Selcuk. Let's go! Or, as they say in Turkey: 

Başla!