General News Thread

[ray200]

Finally, where will Samuel Sanchez ride in 2014 ? In his garden ?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I absolutely desperately hope the Astana Be Pink jerseys are basically clones of the men's kit but pink instead of the Kazakh turquoise.

 

[dwightyorke]

Not quite. The Russian takeover went wrong, and the main shareholder blames the CEO for thwarting the process, and wants to see money (tens of millions of euros). The CEO happens to be the driving force behind the cycling sponsorship.

Oh, thanks.

The Astana Be Pink team look like Air Astana flight attendants. It's the scarves that do it, I think.

 

[Pentacycle]

I absolutely desperately hope the Astana Be Pink jerseys are basically clones of the men's kit but pink instead of the Kazakh turquoise.

You mean like Nibali last May?

 

[Herr Katt]

Nice little video of Jens Voight and danny van poppel from last years tour. lol jens is such a nice guy http://nos.nl/video/525632-voigt-voelt-zich-vader-van-poppel.html

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

No Torku Seker Sport in Tour of Turkey

What a shame - I was hoping for Cobo finally getting caught there.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

No Torku Seker Sport in Tour of Turkey

What a shame - I was hoping for Cobo finally getting caught there.

lol, the organizer just couldn't take another scandal.

Tour du Maroc for Cobo then.

 

[jens_attacks]

what an unforgivable disgrace by the organizers

 

[Ferminal]

It's k now he can focus all his energies on the Iranians.

 

[theyoungest]

The Giant sponsorship of 1t4i turns out to be for 4 years, not one. Which immediately makes them one of the more stable teams around.

 

[pastronef]

The Giant sponsorship of 1t4i turns out to be for 4 years, not one. Which immediately makes them one of the more stable teams around.

there were some question about it. 4 years bike supply or 4 years main sponsor?

 

[Michele]

Question for the experts; wasnt Rapha abandoning the Rapha Condor sponsorship by claiming a different project for 2014 onward?

 

[42x16ss]

Will Walker retires from pro cycling after his tachycardia flared up again at the Aus Nats

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2014/01/i-though-i-was-going-to-die-will-walker-retires-from-pro-cycling/

A sad end to what was a promising career

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Giro wildcards:

Androni Giocatto
Bardiani CSF
Colombia
Neri Yellowfluo

 

[Afrank]

No MTN. like that Colombia is in there with a second chance, but was hoping MTN would get in as well. At least Neri will keep the Giro peloton colorful.

 

[Arnout]

So what team gets the place of Euskaltel? Europcar, I presume?

Pretty reasonable that Colombia gets another go, after all they were massively hurt by the cancelled mountain stages and did reasonably well in the other stages.

 

[Netserk]

Yeees! Yellowfluo!

 

[Escarabajo]

The Giro wildcards merits a thread on its own. Anyone?

 

[Afrank]

You could use the 2014 Giro thread.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

So what team gets the place of Euskaltel? Europcar, I presume?

Pretty reasonable that Colombia gets another go, after all they were massively hurt by the cancelled mountain stages and did reasonably well in the other stages.

yep, Gautier and Berhane FTW. Seriously though the Italian focus makes some sense at this point.

Colombia might have a better plan running into the Giro this year.

 

[Ferminal]

Duarte top5.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

yep, Gautier and Berhane FTW. Seriously though the Italian focus makes some sense at this point.

Colombia might have a better plan running into the Giro this year.

not really considering they will take just as bad a pre-seaosn again in full scale europe in january and duarte is a lost cause with his mentality.

 

[the sceptic]

lol at giving yellow fluo a wild card. Either they are going to suck, since they dont have any good riders anymore, or someone will start flying. Either way, dont see how that "promotes Italian cycling" or whatever their reasoning is.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

So what team gets the place of Euskaltel? Europcar, I presume?

Pretty reasonable that Colombia gets another go, after all they were massively hurt by the cancelled mountain stages and did reasonably well in the other stages.

they also started the giro completely out of form and it dioesn't seem that corti learns one bit from it. also it was full scale winter in may which sucks for them as well

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

lol at giving yellow fluo a wild card. Either they are going to suck, since they dont have any good riders anymore, or someone will start flying. Either way, dont see how that "promotes Italian cycling" or whatever their reasoning is.

they are just as bad as bardiani. in italy the giro is big so it's important italian teams ride it. even if they don't win a stage.