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

[YavorD]

BTW, wasn't Cummings let go as a DS because he didn't get along with Pidcock? Or maybe that's just what it appeared like at the time, and in reality he'd simply been offered a job by Jayco.


(BTW, I can't believe I just had to write Cummings and Pidcock in the same sentence...
Please don't report me! It's their names, they can't help it... neither can I...)

And if once was not enough, you decided to do it twice 😂.

 

[Unchained]

What is the play for Tudor? Do they go lights out crazy first few months? Is there already some agreement that all this shuffle and spending has a Tour invite? Don't really see particular riders signing w them unless it is understood that they will be invited. Tudor bought a bunch of points!! Get a few thousand just from Hirschi and Alaphilippe

 

[Wyndbrook]

BTW, wasn't Cummings let go as a DS because he didn't get along with Pidcock? Or maybe that's just what it appeared like at the time, and in reality he'd simply been offered a job by Jayco.


(BTW, I can't believe I just had to write Cummings and Pidcock in the same sentence...
Please don't report me! It's their names, they can't help it... neither can I...)

Well at least you wrote it as Cummings and Pidcock and not the other way around.

 

[aruipksni]

He can be his own boss and do what he likes. Knows he is not competitive at the TDF anyway.

also to earn more euros , and work less hours...

 

[Izzyeviel]

Well at least you wrote it as Cummings and Pidcock and not the other way around.

Pidcock Cummings?

 

[AmRacer]

Pidcock Cummings?

Pidings Cummcock.

 

[Mayomaniac]

What is the play for Tudor? Do they go lights out crazy first few months? Is there already some agreement that all this shuffle and spending has a Tour invite? Don't really see particular riders signing w them unless it is understood that they will be invited. Tudor bought a bunch of points!! Get a few thousand just from Hirschi and Alaphilippe

Ala is a big name in France, that (and his wife working for ASO) should help a lot.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Ala is a big name in France, that (and his wife working for ASO) should help a lot.

I see no reason to invite Uno-X over Tudor next year. Tudor can field a better team. And they're not going to exclude Total.

 

[Anderis]

He can be his own boss and do what he likes. Knows he is not competitive at the TDF anyway.

I would think there are some better teams that could offer him a lot of freedom but maybe he has weirder demands than I think. Or Q36.5 has a lot more money than the strength of the rest of their roster would suggest.

 

[ingsve]

I see no reason to invite Uno-X over Tudor next year. Tudor can field a better team. And they're not going to exclude Total.

The reason to invite Uno-X is that ASO likes the novelty if a specialized team from smaller nations. Also they have represented themselves well on previous invites and Hushovd has a good relationship with them. Also they represented in full force at the Tour presentation while Tudor wasn't even there.

So lots of reasons outside of whatever riders each team could muster.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Thank god for Pidcock, Ayuso and the other few who don't just fall in line and do as they're told, because god knows the rest of the upper echelons of the professional peloton bore me to tears with their anodyne antics.

I can't wait for Jarno to properly arrive, a loose cannon, Belgian too, they're going to absolutely hate him

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

The reason to invite Uno-X is that ASO likes the novelty if a specialized team from smaller nations. Also they have represented themselves well on previous invites and Hushovd has a good relationship with them. Also they represented in full force at the Tour presentation while Tudor wasn't even there.

So lots of reasons outside of whatever riders each team could muster.

I get you, and they probably deserve it more over Total (even with Turgis' win this year)
But are they really going to snub Alaphillipe and Hirschi over Kristoff and Cort
And I just can't see them leaving Total out having won a stage last year and being the only team bothering with the suicide breakaways. (Discounting the fact that Total is a enormous French company)

 

[ingsve]

I get you, and they probably deserve it more over Total (even with Turgis' win this year)
But are they really going to snub Alaphillipe and Hirschi over Kristoff and Cort
And I just can't see them leaving Total out having won a stage last year and being the only team bothering with the suicide breakaways. (Discounting the fact that Total is a enormous French company)

Alaphilippe is one thing but I can't really see why Hirschi would have any sway over ASO with regards to the Tour. First of all he's not french. He's not a GT rider. He's only ever ridden 3 GTs and yes he does have 1 win in the Tour from 2000 but his other two appearances at the Tour he didn't really light up the scene. He can help them get invited to one day races sure but I don't really buy that he would be so important to have at the Tour.

The thing is also that when Hushovd has spoken to ASO he has reportedly only gotten positive signals whatever that implies so I have a feeling that ASO might attempt to get an exemption so that they can invite an extra team. Or simply one of the other teams is not in as strong a position as people assume.

Guess we'll know around January.

 

[Roku]

Honestly, Pidcock does not move the needle at the moment in any field bar the classics. He is going to ensure Q36 gets some WC in a couple of races they might have skipped before (northern and ardennes classics) but not much more. He is not a podium contender in a GT (long shot in an early 2010 Vuelta parcours). Giro is still going to pick Bardiani and Polti-Kometa over him, TdF is still going to favor TotalEnergies and Tudor with Alaphilippe and Vuelta has too many spanish teams to pick Pidcock over three local teams, despite the obvious Spanish flavour in his roster with DLX and the Azparren brothers, among others.

 

[Salvarani]

Here we go!

Lucky Sport Cycling Team!

New Swedish team. Will start at CT-level.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Arashiro --> Toscana Factory Team Vini Fantini (the old Corratec)

 

[Wyndbrook]

Honestly, Pidcock does not move the needle at the moment in any field bar the classics. He is going to ensure Q36 gets some WC in a couple of races they might have skipped before (northern and ardennes classics) but not much more. He is not a podium contender in a GT (long shot in an early 2010 Vuelta parcours). Giro is still going to pick Bardiani and Polti-Kometa over him, TdF is still going to favor TotalEnergies and Tudor with Alaphilippe and Vuelta has too many spanish teams to pick Pidcock over three local teams, despite the obvious Spanish flavour in his roster with DLX and the Azparren brothers, among others.

Probably very true, doubt Pidcock will be much bothered, plenty of world cup and worlds mountain bike races whist the GTs take place.
Spring classics, summer offroad and back for world roads and Italian end of season.

 

[pastronef]

Pidcock will ride SCOTT on the road, and PINARELLO in the mtb races.
Pina is coming to Q36.5 in 2026 for sure I guess

 

[Mayomaniac]

Arashiro --> Toscana Factory Team Vini Fantini (the old Corratec)

That would have been a good signing 10 years ago...

 

[ingsve]

Here we go!

Lucky Sport Cycling Team!

New Swedish team. Will start at CT-level.

Like most CT teams their goal is to ride the Tour one day.

Not really the most exciting attempt at a Swedish professional team.
I would really like to see something on the level of Team Crescent from the early 2000s which produced pros like Gustav Larsson, Fredrik Kessiakoff and Thomas Löfkvist and lesser pros like Stefan Adamsson and Jonas Ljungblad.

Even Team Cykelcity from the early 2010s looked a bit more exciting and that produced pros like Tobias Ludvigsson and Jonas Ahlstrand.

I guess we'll see what these guys can do.

 

[Salvarani]

Like most CT teams their goal is to ride the Tour one day.

Not really the most exciting attempt at a Swedish professional team.
I would really like to see something on the level of Team Crescent from the early 2000s which produced pros like Gustav Larsson, Fredrik Kessiakoff and Thomas Löfkvist and lesser pros like Stefan Adamsson and Jonas Ljungblad.

Even Team Cykelcity from the early 2010s looked a bit more exciting and that produced pros like Tobias Ludvigsson and Jonas Ahlstrand.

I guess we'll see what these guys can do.

I think just having one again is good though and something to be positive about. Not shoot it down immediately for trying. Getting to higher level will take some time and patience, of course. You need to do well and have the finances.

Just having a team with some backing again is a chance for riders to improve and develop in tougher/harder races. It is key to improve, develop and eventually bring through new riders to the pros.

 

[RedheadDane]

Here we go!

Lucky Sport Cycling Team!

New Swedish team. Will start at CT-level.

Are they hoping the name will be prophetic?
I guess "Unlucky Sport Cycling Team" would be a bit defeatist...

 

[Sciatic]

I think just having one again is good though and something to be positive about. Not shoot it down immediately for trying. Getting to higher level will take some time and patience, of course. You need to do well and have the finances.

Just having a team with some backing again is a chance for riders to improve and develop in tougher/harder races. It is key to improve, develop and eventually bring through new riders to the pros.

Sweden have had great athletes in so many sports over time, it’s always surprised me they have so little representation in the pro ranks. Ya, I know winter sports are a huge focus, but that’s true in Norway as well and they have regularly had top pros?

 

[Anderis]

Sweden have had great athletes in so many sports over time, it’s always surprised me they have so little representation in the pro ranks. Ya, I know winter sports are a huge focus, but that’s true in Norway as well and they have regularly had top pros?

The Swedes just seem to stay away form the sports that I watch.

There's been barely any in ski jumping in the last 25 years, even though it's a winter sport. At least there's been one Swede in F1 during the time I've been watching it.

 

[Sciatic]

The Swedes just seem to stay away form the sports that I watch.

There's been barely any in ski jumping in the last 25 years, even though it's a winter sport. At least there's been one Swede in F1 during the time I've been watching it.

I guess I was thinking about how Sweden has produced the best in the world (or the best ever in a few cases) in a diverse range of sports beyond Nordic events: tennis, athletics, alpine skiing, golf, swimming, ice hockey, etc.