Gianni Bugno. A late summer worlds winner in 1991 and 1992. Photo Velodenz

If you've been following Corza Clothing's Twitter this week (www.twitter.com/corzaclothing) you'll have noticed we have been enjoying the first few days of the ENECO tour. There has been some good racing over some interesting terrain and its certainly different seeing climbs like the Oude Kwaremont in late summer when the fields are almost ready to harvest rather than having the usual barren late winter/early spring northern European feel.

August is a bit odd when it comes to professional bike racing. Spring and Summer will have given us the big classics and the tours of Italy and France and then all of sudden in August we get, well, not much really. Classica San Sebastian can sometimes be a good race (twice over the Jazekibel, as this year, is a good thing we reckon) but it comes a week after the Tour and these days we have the ENECO tour.

There is a certain logic in having a stage race in cycling's heartlands that use some of the sport's iconic roads and climbs. The terrain is familiar and knowledgeable fans can be assured. Even though it does give commentators plenty of opportunity to come out with phrases like 'mini Tour of Flanders' and 'mini Amstel Gold race' the race seems to be hard fought and interesting. All of the above don't always apply to the Tour of Poland.

Wouldn't it be good though if there was a big race, that really meant something in the cycling world, that could come after the Tour and attract the biggest names in a kind of grudge match? A one day race would be fine by us, we kind of prefer the winner takes all spontaneity of a hard fought one day race anyway.

What's that we hear you say? "There used to be one". There certainly did. The World Championships. The fight for the Arc-en-Ciel. A grudge match of all proportions to attract the post Tour riders who still had form, one day men with an eye on a lucrative year in the rainbow jersey, and all mixed up in national team politics and traditionally held in August. If you had something to prove post Tour, this is where you did it.

As much as we've enjoyed the ENECO tour this week we'd swap it for an August World's anytime. Now, if we were in charge of the UCI...