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

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StryderHells said:
That good to hear, he’s done well this season and you’d expect him to keep improving as he gets used to top tier racing. He won’t be a star but wouldn’t surprise me if he picks up a GT stage win at some point in his career
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He's been given a heavy schedule for a neo-pro: 72 racing days, 5 one week WT stage races and a GT. He's also stated that he had issues with altitude training and was not sure he'd do that again next year.
Overall not a flashy season but I agree there's still room for growth and some results might follow, possibily with a different calendar.
 
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Armchair Cyclist said:
I believe that there is a rule that any cyclocross team must have both men's and women's sections, and since PFP, their one woman rider has gone, Ineos therefore cannot be a CX team.

So would Pidcock:
a) be given gardening leave to do CX as a quasi-privateer, who just happens to have suspiciously familiar looking sponsors;
b) have Ineos sign a minor female CX rider so that the paperwork can be complete;
c) give in on the muddy side of his career; or
d) leave Ineos?

And where does Red Bora stand on formation of a CX team?
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Yes, to be a registered UCI CX team, you have to have a woman on the team; however, it's simpler to not register.

a) he can carry on as before, Ineos won't be mentioned/ shown on the results.
b) I think that's pretty unlikely.
c) possible
d) again, possible.

Now that Red Bull are involved at Bora, I don't think it would be a problem, especially as he's one of their athletes, and currently, only wears their helmet off-road. The Van Dijke twins started off-road, but gave it up when at Visma, maybe they do some for training purposes.
 
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Samu Cuenca said:
I assume she'll be getting a pay rise, which is well-deserved. Also I don't think she's much different as a rider than the likes of Markus and Gerritse. She's just stronger than them and isn't fluent in Dutch.

It's a little worrying that Kerbaol is Ceratizit's only confirmed rider for 2025 at this point, but there are other teams that haven't announced many signings or contract extensions yet either.
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Absolutely but it's just her style of racing feels out of sync with SDworx, she talks about winning the classics, yeah ok assuming Kopecky, Blanka etc aren't interested anymore. Surely the lesson regardless of the pay cheque at SDworx is they only ride for themselves, aspirations to win races means beating riders on your own team.


I assume Katie Archibald will carry on at Ceratizit, if she carries on riding professionally, wouldnt blame her if she stopped now given all shes been through, and would be 34 by the next Olympics but I don't think they'll announce the next Olympics track programme squad till December/January
 
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awavey said:
Absolutely but it's just her style of racing feels out of sync with SDworx, she talks about winning the classics, yeah ok assuming Kopecky, Blanka etc aren't interested anymore. Surely the lesson regardless of the pay cheque at SDworx is they only ride for themselves, aspirations to win races means beating riders on your own team.


I assume Katie Archibald will carry on at Ceratizit, if she carries on riding professionally, wouldnt blame her if she stopped now given all shes been through, and would be 34 by the next Olympics but I don't think they'll announce the next Olympics track programme squad till December/January
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They was she comes across, I could see her being someone, who would actually receive genuine congratulations from her coming teammates if she happens to win races, although that environment may be able to corrupt even the sweetest of people. I doubt she'll be winning any big races though, but you never know how much she'll be able to improve now that she gets to ride on the Specialized Shiv TT Disc, which she's apparently been dreaming of ;)

Regarding Archibald, it wouldn't be a big loss to the team considering she hasn't been riding much for them for multiple reasons, but it would obviously be a huge loss for the sport if she decided to retire, which she of course would have every right to do.
 
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Man, I am deeply saddened that Blummentfelt will not be coming to cycling. I was really looking forward to seeing the twin brother of Alexander Kristoff trying to become a TdF contender, accompanied by his inability to ride in a peloton which they would cure by making him deliberately crash on training.
 
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