Teams & Riders The Great Big Cycling Transfers, Extensions, and Rumours Thread

[Red Rick]

Yawn.

Solid argument. I've changed my mind now, they should have resigned him for 4 years.

 

[Salvarani]

Solid argument. I've changed my mind now, they should have resigned him for 4 years.

Cool.

 

[RedheadDane]

Not much of a surprise here. Not the promotion of those particular riders, but that they're promoting riders. Their pool of potential signees isn't exactly huge.

 

[tobydawq]

I'm not that sure about. Thomas gets paid a LOT of money on Ineos, and given that you basically get one good GT and nothing else out of him in a year I really question the cost/benefit analysis on that one.

They have to send him to the Giro I imagine. If he wants the Tour and they extended him for 2M+ they're out of their minds.

Lol, did LS give you some anti-Geraint Thomas-potion?

If they can pay Kwiatkowski 2 million, then they can of course also pay the same to G...

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Maybe it also helps that he has let himself go in most autumns. I used to think that meant that he didn't fully have what it took but his work/life balance is probably the healthiest of all top riders and could be the reason for his surprising longevity.

Thomas has had a quietly very, very strong career. I mean, it's known, but his longevity is seriously impressive. Part of that, I think, is because he's really not raced the spring classics in recent years.

With a little bit more luck he could have had 1-2 more GT wins.

I'm surprises that I didn't see more posts like this before because I agree completely. Thomas basically only peaking for one objective a season, with a lot of down time and slow build of form, has surely contributed to his longevity.

More time spent with family, less time spent trying to cut to an unnatural weight, slower build phases in training and never skipping extensive base work. Especially when people like pinot and sagan lost interest in the top level of the sport because of how intense the focus had to be that it became mentally exhausting.

 

[JRanton]

Says a lot about Ineos that Thomas got 2 more years. He'll be ... the wrong side of 39 in 2025.

He’s still the most likely Ineos rider to podium a grand tour next year.

 

[staubsauger]

I'm not that sure about. Thomas gets paid a LOT of money on Ineos, and given that you basically get one good GT and nothing else out of him in a year I really question the cost/benefit analysis on that one.

They have to send him to the Giro I imagine. If he wants the Tour and they extended him for 2M+ they're out of their minds.

+1

Not offer Tao Geoghegan Hart a proper contract proposal in time, but keep old hag Geraint Thomas as British GT leader for 2 years is comical from Ineos!

With all respect for Thomas being 2nd at the 2023 Giro d'Italia.

 

[Lequack]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716401740138873139

View: https://twitter.com/INEOSGrenadiers/status/1716401740138873139

 

[Red Rick]

He’s still the most likely Ineos rider to podium a grand tour next year.

I mean that's just whichever guy they send to the Giro next year.

 

[JRanton]

Vadim Pronskiy extends with Astana for another year: https://www.astana-qazaqstan.com/vadim-pronskiy-extends-with-astana-qazaqstan-team/

 

[JRanton]

I mean that's just whichever guy they send to the Giro next year.

Not really. I still think Thomas is their best GT rider as it stands. Carlos Rodriguez will need to make another step.

 

[JRanton]

Jayco announce two extensions. Felix Engelhardt for two more years and Jesus David Pena for one year: https://www.greenedgecycling.com/20...nd-pena-sign-new-deals-with-team-jayco-alula/

 

[JRanton]

+1

Not offer Tao Geoghegan Hart a proper contract proposal in time, but keep old hag Geraint Thomas as British GT leader for 2 years is comical from Ineos!

With all respect for Thomas being 2nd at the 2023 Giro d'Italia.

Sounds harsh considering he had very bad luck in the Giro but the reality is Tao has now gone three straight years without any kind of a Grand Tour GC result.

 

[Squire]

Not really. I still think Thomas is their best GT rider as it stands. Carlos Rodriguez will need to make another step.

But still, if they send Thomas to the Tour and Rodriguez to the Giro, Rodriguez will be the most likely to podium.

I've expected Thomas to be past it every single year since his Tour win, but he has consistently proven me wrong.

 

[yaco]

Busy end of the season for Pena - Guangxi, HK Cyclothon and now he and S.Yates are riding the Taiwan KOM race on Friday. I can see why Pena just rolled around in the HK Cyclothon.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Sounds harsh considering he had very bad luck in the Giro but the reality is Tao has now gone three straight years without any kind of a Grand Tour GC result.

At least he's shown the level a bit at this year's Giro though. 2020 was a weird year and with a lack of follow-up other than some lower top 10s in the Dauphiné for a couple of years afterward, his Giro had been starting to look a bit like Zaugg's Lombardia, where it was a complete outlier where they had their best ever legs by far in the most perfect circumstances imaginable and would never be able to replicate it. This year's Giro may have been tamely raced, but on the stages where there was some racing in the first half of the race Tao was legit among the strongest.

 

[Leadbelly]

Looks like Svestad-Bardseng might find a home next year with Arkea Devo. Decent l'Avenir from him, but that was about all this season.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716512754587038071

View: https://twitter.com/ArkeaSamsicNews/status/1716512754587038071

 

[samhocking]

+1

Not offer Tao Geoghegan Hart a proper contract proposal in time, but keep old hag Geraint Thomas as British GT leader for 2 years is comical from Ineos!

With all respect for Thomas being 2nd at the 2023 Giro d'Italia.

Tao doesn't agree with your assessment based on his pretty frank statement that he wanted a change and has very close freinds at Trek he wants to race with too. I think he'll do well, but there's probably a precedent with Carapaz, Swift, Landa, Dunbar etc that at best you won't improve more by switching teams.

 

[StryderHells]

I'm not that sure about. Thomas gets paid a LOT of money on Ineos, and given that you basically get one good GT and nothing else out of him in a year I really question the cost/benefit analysis on that one.

They have to send him to the Giro I imagine. If he wants the Tour and they extended him for 2M+ they're out of their minds.

Outside of this season is it true that you only get one good GT and nothing out of Thomas for a year? 2021 he won a WT stage race and had a podium in 2 others, 2022 he won a WT stage race outside of his podium at the Tour.

 

[Roku]

Looks like Svestad-Bardseng might find a home next year with Arkea Devo. Decent l'Avenir from him, but that was about all this season.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1716512754587038071

View: https://twitter.com/ArkeaSamsicNews/status/1716512754587038071

He was very good on Yitti Hills as well (if i recall correctly that was the name of the climb on Saudi Tour), he exploded a bit on the flattish run-in to the finish.

From what's left of Rally Cycling I think Schonberger should find a new home (either PCT linked with KTM or Conti in Austria), Banazsek should be a lock for his previous Polish team (the one which has all the Banazsek family), some americans will go to NCL teams... and probably that's it.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

He was very good on Yitti Hills as well (if i recall correctly that was the name of the climb on Saudi Tour), he exploded a bit on the flattish run-in to the finish.

From what's left of Rally Cycling I think Schonberger should find a new home (either PCT linked with KTM or Conti in Austria), Banazsek should be a lock for his previous Polish team (the one which has all the Banazsek family), some americans will go to NCL teams... and probably that's it.

Peak is another one who deserves a contract in my eyes. He's honestly the second best Hungarian cyclist, so I have no idea why Polti-Kometa hasn't swooped him up.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Not much of a surprise here. Not the promotion of those particular riders, but that they're promoting riders. Their pool of potential signees isn't exactly huge.

No idea on anything about the other two, but I think Nathan Smith is the brother of DSMs new rider, Abi Smith.

 

[Colonel]

Peak is another one who deserves a contract in my eyes. He's honestly the second best Hungarian cyclist, so I have no idea why Polti-Kometa hasn't swooped him up.

He had no results this year, wasn't happy with coaches, wasn't happy with equipment and left a race early and just went back home not to race again and expected results he had never gotten in previous.

Not sure the this deserves a ride and not sure how because he is the best 2nd Hungarian cyclist he deserves a ride. that's an odd one to me.

 

[JRanton]

Carlos Rodriguez signs a new four year deal with Ineos: https://www.ineosgrenadiers.com/article/carlos-rodriguez-re-signs-with-ineos-grenadiers-until-2027

 

[Berniece]

Carlos Rodriguez signs a new four year deal with Ineos: https://www.ineosgrenadiers.com/article/carlos-rodriguez-re-signs-with-ineos-grenadiers-until-2027

Good for him, he's a leader at INEOS and Movistar would be a step back when it comes to professionalism of the team.