The major professional road bikes riders ride the major cycle races, and they are grouped together into the UCI Pro Tour and all the best races are included
The Best Riders Ride The Best Races.
The major cycle races in the world of bike racing are now all part of the UCI Pro Tour Races, this is quite a big list, which you can find below. All of the twenty Pro Tour teams have to ride them along with other teams invited by the organizers, who are usually local teams or the best of the lower ranked Continental Tour teams. All the races have a complicated points system that would take too long to explain here.
The Pro Tour Races are split into sections, which are: –
The Spring Classics,
The Major Tours,
The Autumn Classics,
The Shorter Tours,
The World Championships,
And then there are the other important but not so famous races.
The Major Tours.
The BIG three, the Tour de France, the Giro dItalia and the Vuelta a Espaa, they are all three weeks long and are the hardest races on the calendar and are the major cycle races of the year. All three go over the biggest mountains in their respective...