RGT Pressroom

The Champs-Élysées, one of the most iconic roads in the world - not only for fans of cycling but to most people. But for fans of cycling, this place has a special ring to it. Tonight it wasn't Sam Bennet barely beating Mads Pedersen in a close sprint, but the numbers who turned up in tonight's crit very nearly matched the numbers participating in the August edition of the Tour de France. Nearly a hundred people at the start line, which is a guarantee of a fast-paced race, ending in a big bunch sprint.  However, since RGT isn't le tour, a break can stick on the Champs-Élysées. The pace was fast from the beginning, and already at the first small rise, riders were falling off the pack. The drafting is hard to get right, and once you are out of it - it is difficult to get back in. Swedish Jerome Berube and Canadian Maxime Turcotte were  both pushing hard at the front of the pack. Joseph Duluc, who for mysterious reasons was participating in the crit racing for beginners at Wedn...

The corner braking and drafting dynamics on RGT, combined with an infinite amount of opportunities to create routes through the Magic Roads, makes crit racing the most popular genre for racing on the Platform. Raw power does, however, have a lot to say. Since there is no categorization on RGT, you'll soon find yourself blown out the back on a regular crit, if you have just started racing.  That's where the "Crit Racing for Beginners" enters the picture. With a loose upper bound of an FTP of 250, it's aimed towards making crit racing competitive for people who have just entered the platform or are stronger in the mountains. "It’s basically how my journey on RGT started last year with my THRSDY crits, which has evolved into something more challenging by now. So, I hope that this gets some more people into racing on RGT" Says Alex Pleger, the man behind the event. The first race was done on the Lissone crit, which is 1.1 km long and keeps climbing to a mini...