May 2026

[Pokemon Club]

I am on Eschborn-Frankfurt



don't hesitate to check / correct, mintact km 161

last year they had a mountain classification with 5 classified climbs (all cat 4), trying to find more info

edit: found the official roadbook, 9 times cat 4 this year: km 39.3, 48.2, 52.5, 64.4, 102.4, 112.3, 124.2, 162.2, 176.9
https://www.eschborn-frankfurt.de/de/rennen/roadbook

Thanks Lenny I will add it tonight

[Gipfelstuermer]

Ardenne classic, same as last year? But how good is last year's profile ingame? I didn't see the real race but I think there should be a 6% to get rid of the sprinters somewhere.

Tricky one as it's an irregular gradient
https://climbfinder.com/fr/montees/roy-rue-de-grusonne

Last year, Kanter won the sprint ahead of Bol sprinting from a 64 rider group. So it seems fine without a +6 sieb km?

[Gipfelstuermer]

Some class 1.2 races if we want some low division races

Cool, thanks. No low div needed parallel to Giro, but Taka can also consider them instead of fantasy races (depending on how many he has available there).

[Gipfelstuermer]

Final PDF online now.

Minor changes:

- Boucles de la Mayenne instead of Norway
- Hongrie times, the survey stats convinced me to change from 17-23 to 13-23.
- Giro and Hongrie dates corrected

[Gipfelstuermer]

intial checks, probably not really designing yet unless its on Flamme Rouge:
Grand Prix du Morbihan roadbook looks very similar to last years profile ingame, just 2 or 3 km off because of the circuits, Flamme Rouge for last year same distance and intermediates as roadbook for 2026
Tro Bro Leon not same as last year, but possibly very similar to 2023, needs more careful check
Circuit de Wallonie they got some circuit gpx on the website, but overall pretty low on info
Tour du Finistère new route, 50 km shorter than 2025
Rund um Köln pretty similar to 2025, but an extra sprint, a few extra classified climbs and about 10km longer, has a full gpx and roadbook on website
Boucles de l'Aulne - Châteaulin website has a few promotional posters for 2026, but all other info still for 2025
Classique Dunkerque same route as 2025
Veenendaal-Veenendaal new route
Grand Prix Criquielion pretty confusing roadbook, but definitely some changes compared to 2025
Antwerp Port Epic / Sels Trophy website says more info coming for profile
Paris - Troyes still everything for 2025

Thanks. So Grand Prix du Morbihan and Classique Dunkerque I put last year's versions in the plan.

The others will need more research / new design then.

[Gipfelstuermer]

Tro Bro Leon not same as last year, but possibly very similar to 2023, needs more careful check

These guys keep changing the route and have fun with their half-circuits.

Managed to come up with this version anyhow:



Most relevant sector towards the end is Keradraon, -1** +1** ridden twice (at km 162 and 195). In any case all sectors are * or */** or ** depending on length and difficulty indicated by organisers.

[Undisputed Chockes]

Hello,

not sure if I´m the only one with that problem but I´ve a lot of days/weeks (like this week) where I can only race mostly in 23:00+ races , 23 is critical, would miss the first 15-20 min for sure so 24:00 is a perfect race time for me for half of the year (all other days I´m in for the evening races).


If it´s possible for the future I would be happy with 24:00 or 01:00 races For this week until friday I´m out of the game for that reason.


Thank you!

[team fl]

Hello,

not sure if I´m the only one with that problem but I´ve a lot of days/weeks (like this week) where I can only race mostly in 23:00+ races , 23 is critical, would miss the first 15-20 min for sure so 24:00 is a perfect race time for me for half of the year (all other days I´m in for the evening races).


If it´s possible for the future I would be happy with 24:00 or 01:00 races For this week until friday I´m out of the game for that reason.


Thank you!

Always good to hear from new teams. So first, welcome to the game . And second: here's the perfect thread for this topic: viewtopic.php?f=37&t=10531

Although it's not wrong here too.

[Gipfelstuermer]

Hello,

not sure if I´m the only one with that problem but I´ve a lot of days/weeks (like this week) where I can only race mostly in 23:00+ races , 23 is critical, would miss the first 15-20 min for sure so 24:00 is a perfect race time for me for half of the year (all other days I´m in for the evening races).


If it´s possible for the future I would be happy with 24:00 or 01:00 races For this week until friday I´m out of the game for that reason.


Thank you!

Hello,
For most teams we view late evening as 22h/23h. Even for 23h, we sometimes get comments, that people don't like it because they fall asleep at the end of the race However, I'd say we have 23h quite regularly.

With the current number of teams, having 24h here and there also makes sense. So we'll keep including it and see how numbers evolve.

01:00 races we haven't had for a long time.... I think they are not impossible, but they need to be finished before 3.27, which is when a script for the daychange is triggered... and currently it's not even implemented in the Race Editor as an option to choose from... so 01:00 unfortunately difficult for now.

One more question re. 23/24h: Is the weekday relevant for you? Mo-Fr different from Sa/Su?

[Gipfelstuermer]

Circuit de Wallonie they got some circuit gpx on the website, but overall pretty low on info
Tour du Finistère new route, 50 km shorter than 2025

Based on roadbooks:





In both cases, final circuit hasn't changed, but the run-in has changed.

[Hoefs Cycling Team]

Friday 8 May is still a restday for the non-giro teams.
For the Falcor rookies is this possibly confusing.

[Gipfelstuermer]

Rund um Köln pretty similar to 2025, but an extra sprint, a few extra classified climbs and about 10km longer, has a full gpx and roadbook on website
Boucles de l'Aulne - Châteaulin website has a few promotional posters for 2026, but all other info still for 2025
Veenendaal-Veenendaal new route
Grand Prix Criquielion pretty confusing roadbook, but definitely some changes compared to 2025

Check what I made out of these:



Ferrenberg 9
Agathaberg 2 7
Sand 4
Bensberg 7

If anyone has a any expertise about these climbs, let me know.



Ended up being same as 2026 if I see it correctly.



3 bigger laps, 2 smaller laps, remains ultra flat



Rue La Blanche 0*
Cote du Mont 4 0 2 1
Cote du Hurdumont 5

Again, if anyone has a any expertise about these climbs, let me know.

[Undisputed Chockes]

Thanks for the answer @Gipfelstuermer

Yes the days are different as it´s cause of work the problem is mostly Mo-Fr for me (every 2nd week,like this week / for the next week I should be back to daily races for a week again )

[Gipfelstuermer]

I can do Tour de Hongrie

Hi ECS. Seeing that you have started with stage 1 and 2.

Do you have time for stages 3-5, too?

Just asking because the race starts next week

[ECS Cycling]

I can do Tour de Hongrie

Hi ECS. Seeing that you have started with stage 1 and 2.

Do you have time for stages 3-5, too?

Just asking because the race starts next week

Yes, I had a busy couple of days, but I have time now and it should be done by the end of the weekend at the latest

[flockmastoR]

I can do Tour de Hongrie

Hi ECS. Seeing that you have started with stage 1 and 2.

Do you have time for stages 3-5, too?

Just asking because the race starts next week

Yes, I had a busy couple of days, but I have time now and it should be done by the end of the weekend at the latest

Profiles are on La-Flamme-Rouge as well

[team fl]

Tomorrow, Wednesday 13 May still needs a one day race. Friday 15 May as well.

[r FSCL]

Side program is still missing, next tour starts on Wednesday and not designed yet.
One day races not clear for the rest of the month.

[Gipfelstuermer]

Side program is still missing, next tour starts on Wednesday and not designed yet.
One day races not clear for the rest of the month.

If anyone has time to help with Dunkerque would be great. All Info including gpx is on their website.

[flockmastoR]

Side program is still missing, next tour starts on Wednesday and not designed yet.
One day races not clear for the rest of the month.

If anyone has time to help with Dunkerque would be great. All Info including gpx is on their website.

I take a look today

[drei.zehn]

Can calender planers upload a new race to do some lineup checks?
Alk said you can do that…

[flockmastoR]

4 Jours de Dunkerque (Update)


All stages declared as flat stages. Stage 3 pave sector is (partly) from this years PR (Sector km 156-158) just the first km there we are coming from western direction not eastern direction. Just asume its the same street so put a ** there too.
Stage 4 with a short pave hill in Reims (rue de tambour), LFR declared 1700m of ++ pave, decided to go for +4, +4 (+5, +4 is also possible). Second climb is short but steep, +9 as for the final km.







Design is open for discussion and finalized from my side.

[flockmastoR]

Boucles de la Mayenne

Next on my list!





Please check. The length doesnt always sum up cause of the short circuits. Used cat 4 and 3 instead of their cat 2 and 1 as it is closest to the points they give imo. Haven't found any stage categorization, so I put hilly for all (same points). Open for review, I am quite sure the climbs can be done better, didn't put too much effort in it at the moment.

[Gipfelstuermer]

Design is open for discussion and finalized from my side.

Just noticed, Cassel circuit looks the same as last year and OL had a slightly different interpretation.

Porte d'Aire
Last year: 9 -2** -6 -2
This year: 9 -8 -4 0

Rue du Tambour
Last year: -4 4** 6** -4 -5 -4
This year: -2 4** 4** -1 -6 -5

I know nothing about this circuit to be honest, but thought might be worth having a second look to see what makes most sense.

[flockmastoR]

Design is open for discussion and finalized from my side.

Just noticed, Cassel circuit looks the same as last year and OL had a slightly different interpretation.

Porte d'Aire
Last year: 9 -2** -6 -2
This year: 9 -8 -4 0

Rue du Tambour
Last year: -4 4** 6** -4 -5 -4
This year: -2 4** 4** -1 -6 -5

I know nothing about this circuit to be honest, but thought might be worth having a second look to see what makes most sense.

I didn't check last years edition at all until now. Thanks for pointing it out.

In general, the lap is nearly perfectly 21 km long (21.1), Ol's version has 22 km. So some differences in slope can come from that too.

Porte d'Aire: the profil on LFR tells me 400m and "+", which I interprete as "*" also in comparison with Rue du Tambour which is shown as "++". So 400m of downhill *. Don't know how to handle it. I decided to neglect it. Looks like Ol underdesigned the downhill to be able to add the pave sector. With the given info, I would still go this way

Rue du Tambour: Ok took a look at it again. 5** is fiting quite well for the second km (not first one as mentioned before). LFR gives details about it in (2.2% 500 m/4.8% 500m/5.2 % 500m/2.1% 300m). But I have no clue about that passage. Probably it makes sense to overdesign it for a 6**.

So while I would keep Porte d'Aire I will change Rue du Tambour but maybe some opinions if 5** or 6** fits better