Teams & Riders EF Pro Cycling

[triley36]

EF have really maximized their returns with their depleted roster. Would have never guessed they would have tallied as many nice wins as they have this year after the abomination that was their classics campaign.

 

[Anderis]

Logan Owen has quietly reached his best form yet after a mediocre WT career so far. I once had quite high expectations for him when he won a stage at Tour of Utah at the age of 20.

 

[Oldermanish]

Logan Owen has quietly reached his best form yet after a mediocre WT career so far. I once had quite high expectations for him when he won a stage at Tour of Utah at the age of 20.

He's the real deal. Can compete in grueling, nasty gravel races and also win super-fast, sketchy criteriums. He seems happy doing what he's doing!

 

[Sciatic]

Almost, but not quite, another EF win. Aside from Roglic, Cort had a gap over the rest of the peloton. Will be interesting what the team and he will decide on for his schedule next year.

 

[Anderis]

Will be interesting what the team and he will decide on for his schedule next year.

I would think this year's schedule worked very well for him so no reason not to go for something similar next year.

 

[Lininho]

Vaughters implies signing of Odd Eiking on twitter

 

[dusty red roads]

I hope Cort will stay at EF - if they can keep a few strong guys it'd be great!

 

[RedheadDane]

I hope Cort will stay at EF - if they can keep a few strong guys it'd be great!

He's on contract for both 2022 and 2023.

 

[dusty red roads]

Hope it stays that way, but having a contract didn't stop Martinez and Woods getting headhunted.

 

[muppetkokken]

Vaughters implies signing of Odd Eiking on twitter

I am both very excited and a bit skeptical to this.

 

[Anderis]

Still 0 confirmed transfers apart from Chaves, despite many riders being already signed for weeks.

I've heard the plan is to announce them next year. They'll do transfer reveals at the same time as they'll be announcing rosters for particualr races.

 

[RedheadDane]

Still 0 confirmed transfers apart from Chaves, despite many riders being already signed for weeks.

I've heard the plan is to announce them next year. They'll do transfer reveals at the same time as they'll be announcing rosters for particualr races.

So... on the morning of the races in question?

 

[Anderis]

So... on the morning of the races in question?

In the afternoon actually. They'll confirm the transfers in that way "have you seen Ben Healy in the pink jersey today in Paris-Nice? Yes, we've signed him for 2022".

 

[Bolder]

Odd!

He seems like an EF type of rider, meaning opportunistic and versatile.

 

[Anderis]

Well, my prediction hasn't aged well.

From Vuelta red to EF pink, Eiking to join the team - EF Pro Cycling

EF Education-NIPPO are proud to announce that Odd Christian Eiking will pull on our jersey in 2022. Eiking has been racing professionally since 2016 and recently came to prominence at this year’s Vuelta a España where he wore the leader’s red jersey for seven stages. “It’s not something I ever...

www.efprocycling.com

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Well, my prediction hasn't aged well.

From Vuelta red to EF pink, Eiking to join the team - EF Pro Cycling

EF Education-NIPPO are proud to announce that Odd Christian Eiking will pull on our jersey in 2022. Eiking has been racing professionally since 2016 and recently came to prominence at this year’s Vuelta a España where he wore the leader’s red jersey for seven stages. “It’s not something I ever...

www.efprocycling.com

The problem is that if they wait too long to make the announcements, people might have forgotten who the riders are.

"Do you remember the guy with the Odd name, who lead the Vuelta last year?
Neither did we, but apparently we offered him a contract at the time and now we can't get out of it (just like the Rapha/Palace deal).

Anyway, he'll be making his team debut at the Etoile de Bessèges later today. Good luck!"

 

[Warhawk]

Odd!

He seems like an EF type of rider, meaning opportunistic and versatile.

I was gonna say, he seems like an EF type of rider, dorkishly handsome and scrappy on a bike, but same thing I suppose.

 

[Anderis]

He seems like an EF type of rider, meaning opportunistic and versatile.

Not so long ago an EF (basically Cannondale at the time) type of rider was the opposite of versatile. All of those one-dimensional climbers like Cardoso, Dombrowski, Rolland who had 0 explosiveness, sprint, TT or downhill skills, their classics leader was Vanmarcke who could never win anything because he was only good on cobbles but lacked both the sprint and the ability to sustain a solo effort and even Uran forgot how to TT for a while!
Those were some frustrating times even though EF really had the numbers in some of the big races, they could never win anything due to these one-dimensional riders.

 

[Bolder]

Not so long ago an EF (basically Cannondale at the time) type of rider was the opposite of versatile. All of those one-dimensional climbers like Cardoso, Dombrowski, Rolland who had 0 explosiveness, sprint, TT or downhill skills, their classics leader was Vanmarcke who could never win anything because he was only good on cobbles but lacked both the sprint and the ability to sustain a solo effort and even Uran forgot how to TT for a while!
Those were some frustrating times even though EF really had the numbers in some of the big races, they could never win anything due to these one-dimensional riders.

Oh definitely, and I think that was because at the time Vaughters wanted to model his team on USPS and win the TDF.

 

[Anderis]

August: one transfer announcement
September: one transfer announcement so far
Expect the next one in October and the following one in November.

 

[RedheadDane]

August: one transfer announcement
September: one transfer announcement so far
Expect the next one in October and the following one in November.

One in December, one in January, and one in February...

 

[noob]

Chavez. I cannot find anything in this thread nore the transfer thread but he's listed at EF next year.

 

[Escarabajo]

It was briefly discussed a few weeks back. It is buried somewhere!

 

[Anderis]

They write in Poland that Łukasz Wiśniowski may sign with EF for 2022. Makes sense as with Docker retiring, Langeveld getting old and Keukeleire struggling to recover his old form after covid, they need some riders for the cobbled races and most of the transfers reported so far were not this kind of riders.

 

[Ricco']

Cyclingfever has the following rumours for EF:

Healy, Ben
Quinn, Sean
Shaw, James
Steinhauser, Georg
Wisniowski, Lukasz