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[nobilis]

And we didnt get any threads about a average British rider who has no contract.

lol maybe he's related to Kemp and trying to find him a job

 

[Anonymous]

Wonder what chris white will say?

We are still confident of being invited to the tour de france as a continental team, we have race invites to most of northern classics, the tour of lankawi and the beaumont trophy, riders want to come to ride for us, and the americans will never make it into Baghdad. Even as I speak their forces are being destroyed by our army.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

They can still race a few good races, but it'll be really scraping a calendar together. Maybe Rohregger can have a go at the Volta. He's about the guy I feel most sorry for, since he's a pretty talented rider who's stagnated at a team which has seen itself as nothing but a placeholder for the last two years. I feel bad for Knees too, and the guys who've been stepping up a level, but at least those guys (Knees excepted, but as the German national champion I'd expect a place for him to be available at NetApp or somewhere like that) won't have LOST anything by riding a Continental calendar.

 

[Christian]

Bobbie Traksel must feel like the biggest idiot. His old team gets ProTeam status and his new one folds. Hopefully he'll find a decent new team!

 

[Beech Mtn]

Bjarne Riis should sign Tuft ASAP.
Lefevre should pick up Traksel too.

 

[Christian]

I wonder how long it will take for their bikes to turn up on e-bay. That would be a really nice collector's item!

 

[nobilis]

So Scott bikes won't have any team in the ProTeam level enither in the Proconti? Or is there a Proconti team they're supplying I don't know abt?

 

[Anonymous]

working out which pro tour teams have space on their roster. ag2r - 27 (1), BMC 25 (5), EUS 21 (wtf), THR 27 (3), KAT 27 (2), LAM 23 (7), Lux 25 (4), MOV 20 (8), OME 27 (3), AST 27 (1), RAB 27 (2), SKY 29 (1), VACON 23 (5).. few options for pegasus riders

 

[Moondance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38wx8C7VmB4

Ahhh, Pegasus... We hardly knew ye. Very sad for the riders involved. I hope Australian law allows them to sue Chris White's ass for everything he's got.

A couple should still be able to get a job, somewhere, next season, but it'll be for much less money than they were expecting. Very, very disappointing.

 

[US Patent Exploding Cyclist]

Well it looks like at least Robbie McEwen will be on a PT team next year.

Katusha Team Bus

 

[janraaskalt]

Well it looks like at least Robbie McEwen will be on a PT team next year.

Katusha Team Bus

That's the 2010 roster (also Bandiera, no Caruso, etc)

 

[royalpig180]

So Scott bikes won't have any team in the ProTeam level enither in the Proconti? Or is there a Proconti team they're supplying I don't know abt?

Aren't HTC still riding Scott bikes? Or did I miss something...

 

[Beech Mtn]

working out which pro tour teams have space on their roster. ag2r - 27 (1), BMC 25 (5), EUS 21 (wtf), THR 27 (3), KAT 27 (2), LAM 23 (7), Lux 25 (4), MOV 20 (8), OME 27 (3), AST 27 (1), RAB 27 (2), SKY 29 (1), VACON 23 (5).. few options for pegasus riders

BMC should pick up Tuft then. With all the TTTs next year, somedamnbody should pick up Tuft.

 

[Anonymous]

that's the 2010 roster (also bandiera, no caruso, etc)

:d :d :d :d :d :d

 

[nobilis]

Aren't HTC still riding Scott bikes? Or did I miss something...

No, HTC will be riding Specialized next year.

 

[ansimi]

BMC should pick up Tuft then. With all the TTTs next year, somedamnbody should pick up Tuft.

Looking at TeamSkyFans list of vacancies and your comment gave me a hilarious mental image of big Svein Tuft in orange with all the little Basque climbers tucked in behind him.

 

[hrotha]

I like how the riders we're apparently supposed to keep mentioning are McEwen and Hunter (who's not even Australian, but hey, he speaks English).

 

[nobilis]

working out which pro tour teams have space on their roster. ag2r - 27 (1), BMC 25 (5), EUS 21 (wtf), THR 27 (3), KAT 27 (2), LAM 23 (7), Lux 25 (4), MOV 20 (8), OME 27 (3), AST 27 (1), RAB 27 (2), SKY 29 (1), VACON 23 (5).. few options for pegasus riders

Are you sure abt these numbers. I think there is an underestimation. These numbers are based on the applications sent by the teams along with contracts to the UCI so i think there will be even less room for these guys in a ProTeam. So i think most of them will land in a Proconti or even Conti level team.

 

[Anonymous]

Are you sure abt these numbers. I think there is an underestimation. These numbers are based on the applications sent by the teams along with contracts to the UCI so i think there will be even less room for these guys in a ProTeam. So i think most of them will land in a Proconti or even Conti level team.

Well yes, thats the information from the uci submissions, so im expecting a lot less vacancies than that, for instance on moviestar, vacon, but the rest wont be too far off. There are some teams that UCI has not published rosters for as well.

 

[roundabout]

Half of me wants to see Knees as one of the main riders on a Pro Continental team while the other half wonders what he can do in a decent PT team.

 

[NickBVK]

I hope the UCI doesn't stuff around and doesn't over complicate riders going to new teams. They should be trying to make it as easy as possible.

 

[Night Rider]

Firstly, I feel for the riders. I hope most of them get a contract somewhere.

Now that that’s out of the way I’m actually glad that two bit con man didn’t get the license. That team would have been a p1ss poor representation of an Australian team and quite frankly it would have only been a matter of time before it folded anyway. Better the pain now for the riders who are blameless in all this, than in two months time.

I don’t think it will be too long before a ‘proper’ Australian team will get off the ground, and it will have a consortium of backers behind it rather than one lone shyster trying to string a shady deal together.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Pegasus:- Two wings and a prayer, but no cash.
The traditional end to such ventures.

 

[Tuarts]

Not the best news to wake up to in the morning.

Gutted for the riders ansd gutted for the team.

 

[shouldawouldacoulda]

Looking at TeamSkyFans list of vacancies and your comment gave me a hilarious mental image of big Svein Tuft in orange with all the little Basque climbers tucked in behind him.

I've got good intel that Tuft is already resigned with a new team. It might come as a shocker. Expect news soon.

I hope other riders are able to move and find spots... but it will be very tough for some.