Cycling Races

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Most people know one bike race and assume the rest are the same thing at different lengths. They are not: a one-day cobbled classic and a three-week grand tour share a vehicle and nothing else. Draw a race and watch the final hour: the classics in particular are brutal and resolve in an afternoon. Twenty-five events across road racing's calendar. The Belgian spring races are the ones that convert people, and it is usually the weather that does it.