Successful prediction for cycling

The first professional race on a bicycle was held in 1868 in Paris, and since 1896 this discipline has been in the Olympic games program. The biggest professional races are Tour de France, Vuelta a España, Giro d’Italia, which attract a huge amount of sponsors and are tracked by millions of fans all over the world. Thus, appearance of bets at bookmakers on this kind of sport was a question of time. At the moment punters have not only bets on the largest Tours, but also for less prestigious races, what lets predict the events virtually during the whole season.

The most popular bets on cycling are those for the winner. This type of bets is the most widespread among amateur punters, who have some knowledge, but is far from being an expert. At several bookmakers you can bet on a triumphant’s nationality.

More experienced punters and those who dispose of a wide range of information about cyclists and the high-way, more often decide to predict winners of certain stages. Rather popular kind of bet is bet on a cyclist, who was not listed among the favourites before the race, but who has some qualities which according to our mind can help him at the given stage. If our predictions are true we can withdraw money from the bet before the race end and be pleased with the winning.

The following kind of bet popular among professional punters are bets of the H2H type on certain cyclists. It has sense especially with sportsmen, taking lower places in the rating, punters' knowledge sometimes is greater than the bookmakers’, what lets them find profitable odds. And it does not matter, whether the racer ends the race at the 72nd position, more important is for him to be before the opponents in pair. H2H bet is also popular among fans of express-bets. Contrasting of two or three pairs on a coupon, of course, increases the risk, but it also substantially increases the potential winning.

• Tour de France

The most well-known cycling race in the world. It takes place in June and consists of 21 stages in diverse regions, what makes the high-way cyclists’ task harder. Here you can see lowlands, small hills and, killing for some cyclists, mountain stages. In cycling every stage is virtually a separate race, so here we have a huge space for maneuvers. Knowing the possibilities of particular cyclists you can bet H2H or on favourites of the following stages, depending on their difficulty.

• Giro d’Italia

The race around Italy is one of the three largest cycling races in the world. As in case of the two other races its route first goes across lowlands and then the competitors get to mountainous masses of the Alps and the Dolomites, where during an ascend the race’s fate is very often being determined. Due to the race being held in May-June, the whimsical weather often presents cyclists surprises. You should take into account that during several stages the track’s surface can be wet and the temperature can be several degrees lower than usual, and you should prefer those cyclists who will not have such conditions problematic.

• Vuelta a España

A race around Spain is the last of the largest events during the whole year, which takes place yearly in September. Similar to Tour de France, it consists of 21 stages, divided by a two-day break. The same as the two other cycling races it attracts a huge number of punters from all over the world. Of course, in the majority of cases the race’s fate is decided during the mountain stages, when steep slopes of the Pyrenees become the main examination on the way to the triumph.

• A successful start in betting is, of course, knowledge of players. Thus, in order to track their current career, achievements, strong and weak sides, type of preparation and condition which they show at the moment. Sometimes a minor injury can be observed on the way to success. The more information we have about a given cyclist, the better for us. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram are excellent sources of information about sportsmen.
• Knowledge about cyclists’ preferences. As a rule, cyclists are divided into three categories: specialists in mountain cycling, sprinters and universal cyclists. The first ones are the most enduring and usually are the favourites for wins in the final races qualification. They do not feel themselves the best at flat surfaces, however, when the race gets to mountain stages they do not have equals. Sprinters, in their turn, virtually do not exist in mountains, but they can outrace opponents even for several hundreds of meters before the finish on the high-way. Universal cyclists are not specialists in any kind of races. But due to their solid and universal riding they can multiple times fray the nerves of favourites.
• What concerns sprinters and mountain cyclists, you should remember that they cannot win without the help of their team. Since cycling is really a team kind of sport. Even the fastest and best cyclist without the help of his colleagues (we do not mean individual races here). A team is not just high-way colleagues whose task is to skillfully allocate a more successful partner. It is also a dozen people from logistics, nutritionists, technicians and so on, who work for the mutual success. The atmosphere and lack of packs in a team are the factors to which attention should be paid.
• Repeated winners of stages (rarely races) become cyclists whom nobody bet on before the start of the races, the so called “black horses”. Most often these are cyclists without specific tasks for a team, who thanks to happy circumstances become leaders of a given stage. How does it happen? We will explain. As it is known, there always is such a group of sportsmen, who shoot ahead, tries of overcoming the whole peloton look rather normal. Usually, they are caught up by favourites within several kilometres before the finish and overcome due to their team mates. But sometimes the peloton cannot catch up with such cyclists and a sportsman, holding lower places in the qualifier, becomes a triumphant of the stage.
• Huge importance, of course, has the weather during each stage, since there are such cyclists who cannot cope with cycling in strong heat. There also are such, for whom even a light rain can become a big problem on a given stage. Therefore, you should check the weather forecast for the day you are interested in and upon possibility use the weather conditions while betting.
• Although the rules of the equipment and inventory of cyclists are unified and obeyed quite scrupulously, time from time you can hear about technical novelties and teams which want to outflank opponents thanks to new solutions. You should take it into account before betting on cycling (the same as in case of dope, about what, unfortunately, you sometimes can hear talking about cyclists).