Transfers and Rumours 2010 > 2011

[ISDfan]

And Scott Davis?

No room for Scott Davis in 2011 .

 

[Michele]

Mazzanti (Katusha) might join Farnese Vini-Neri but not ISD . Next year ISD will be with Lampre . And Lampre will be a sponsor of ISD Continental squad , next year ISD Continental team will change there name to ISD-Lampre Continental team . ISD-Lampre Continental team will be a feeder team of Lampre-ISD pro tour team .

I meant actual ISD, sorry for the mistaping.

 

[DAOTEC]

-- Ilaria Rinaldi (25) Team System Data to join Michela Fanini Record Rox in 2011.

Also new to the RRox team are Greta Treia Estonian champion, Poland Malgorzata Jasinka champion (26 years old), Ukraine Oksana Kaschcyshyna (32 years, mountain climber). [ciclonews.it]

- 3 Dutch ladies teams in 2011: 'Nederland Bloeit', 'Dolmans Landscaping' and 'AA Cycing Team'.

- Juan José Cobo (29) to ride for Geox-TMC in 2011 is finalized. Cobo has been riding for: Vini Caldirola (2003), Saunier Duval (2004-2008), Scott-American Beef (2008), Fuji-Servetto (2009) and Caisse d’Epargne (2010). [bici]

- Iljo Keisse back in the shirt of Quick Step at Gent 6-Days after been fired earlier on in the season.

-Twenty3c-Orbea new British based team with a Spanish rider Rafael Rodríguez (Supermercados Froiz) in it plus riders like: Lewis Atkins, Mike Cuming, Kristian Downs, Andrew Griffiths, Gunnar Gronlund, Rob Jackson, Andy Lyons, Dean Shannon, Rob Sharman and Marcel Six.

 

[DAOTEC]

- Valentina Bastianelli (Fassa Bortolo) to ride for Team Vaiano Tepso Solaristech in 2011. [ciclonews.it]

- Joker Merida 2011, the Norwegians changed from Bianchi and took on a 3 to 5 year new sponsorship, 12 riders with 2 spots to be filled, so we will see a new jersey here also ... [http://jokermerida.no/]

- New Italian ladies team MCipollini-Giordana in 2011 with 4 former World Champs on board, Marta Bastianelli (2007), Nicole Cooke (2008), Tatiana Guderzo (2009) Rossella Callovi (2009/Jun) plus Monia Baccaille, Italian Champion of 2009 and 2010, Marta Tagliaferro, Rossella Gobbo, and Samantha Galassi. [http://tuttobiciweb.it]

 

[alexcta]

Juanjo Cobo to geox:
http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=32669

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Essentially the new Cipollini team is taking a lot of Valdarno's quality riders and superimposing the two former WCs from elsewhere onto it. Callovi will be a star. Cooke is already one of course and will be with team. Tatiana Guderzo is one of my favourite women's riders and I look forward to seeing her doing battle next year though I'm disappointed she won't be in the rainbows still. Most important for me is Marta though. Marta is awesome.

 

[Jamsque]

Nice to see Cooke on an actual team for 2011.

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

Endura racing have announced some transfer news. Jack Bauer has committed to them for 2011. They've also announced new signings including:

Jack Anderson, (Australia) from Team Sprocket
Paul Voss, (Germany) from Milram
Alexander Wetterhall, (Sweden) (stagiere Cervelo TestTeam last season)

Their line up is now:
Rob Hayles, England
Ian Wilkinson, England
Rob Partridge, Wales
Callum Wilkinson, Scotland
Evan Oliphant, Scotland
James Moss, England
Scott Thwaites, England
Dave Clarke, England
Rene Mandri, Estonia
Maarten De Jonge, Holland
Alexandre Blain, France
Jack Bauer, New Zealand
Iker Camano, Spain
Jack Anderson, Australia
Paul Voss, Germany
Alexander Wetterhall, Sweden

Endura look like having a very strong team for next season and I expect even more continental adventures for them.

 

[Anonymous]

Essentially the new Cipollini team is taking a lot of Valdarno's quality riders and superimposing the two former WCs from elsewhere onto it. Callovi will be a star. Cooke is already one of course and will be with team. Tatiana Guderzo is one of my favourite women's riders and I look forward to seeing her doing battle next year though I'm disappointed she won't be in the rainbows still. Most important for me is Marta though. Marta is awesome.

Theres a few single-minded ego's on that team, not least cooke. Will be very interesting to see how they work together. More importantly for cooke, having had a few team problems in the past will be interesting to see how she works with the Italians.

 

[DAOTEC]

- Kevin Hulsmans (32) from Quick Step to ride for Donckers Koffie - Jelly Belly Team in 2011

- Luis Maté (Androni) to ride for Cofidis in 2011.

- Christel Ferrier-Bruneau (Vienne-Futuroscope) to ride for Italian Team Gauss.

- Emilie Aubry and Patricia Schwager (Cervélo.) are 2 Swiss Ladies to help Vos at Nederland Bloeit in 2011.

- Maik Robert Cioni (31) renewed at Tusnad-Team for 2011.


- Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas) to ride for Telefónica-Movistar in 2011, if > ("C'est possible, mais son cas n'est pas encore totalement clair. On va voir comment son histoire va se terminer avec l'UCI") [http://habicicletas.com/] & [http://.Marca.com] & [http://acebook.com/Equipo-Team-Movistar]


-- Neo-pro Caleb Fairly, who was believed to be going to Garmin-Cervélo for the 2011 season signed on to HTC-Highroad with a two year contract

-- Gatis Smukulis, a Latvian rider, signed with HTC-Columbia on October 10th. Prior to HTC-Columbia, Smukulis rode for Ag2r (2009-2010). Smukulis is 23 and most recently he placed 2nd and 3rd at the Latvian National Road Race and Time Trial. [http://usprocyclingnews.com]

 

[ingsve]

Team Cykelcity.se has three new recruits, Michael Olsson, Philip Lindau and Jimmy Rönn.

Team Cykelcity.se is a swedish amateur team that has been around for 7-8 years but is now taking the step up to be a continental team next year.

source: cyclesport.se

 

[issoisso]

If that's true, Cofidis deserves a big F*** YOU.

Signing a guy currently being investigated in a doping ring with conclusive proof that he's on dope? Ridiculous.

 

[Michele]

- Kevin Hulsmans (32) from Quick Step to ride for Donckers Koffie - Jelly Belly Team in 2011

Why a guy like Hulsmans would end in a 2nd line team?
Nothing wrong with it, but I'd expect some teams aiming at Spring Classics to get him on board.

 

[ingsve]

Why a guy like Hulsmans would end in a 2nd line team?
Nothing wrong with it, but I'd expect some teams aiming at Spring Classics to get him on board.

Ya, he was rumoured to possiblt go to Saxo Bank. They could have really needed him.

 

[Fester]

Endura racing have announced some transfer news. Jack Bauer has committed to them for 2011. They've also announced new signings including:

Jack Anderson, (Australia) from Team Sprocket
Paul Voss, (Germany) from Milram
Alexander Wetterhall, (Sweden) (stagiere Cervelo TestTeam last season)

Their line up is now:
Rob Hayles, England
Ian Wilkinson, England
Rob Partridge, Wales
Callum Wilkinson, Scotland
Evan Oliphant, Scotland
James Moss, England
Scott Thwaites, England
Dave Clarke, England
Rene Mandri, Estonia
Maarten De Jonge, Holland
Alexandre Blain, France
Jack Bauer, New Zealand
Iker Camano, Spain
Jack Anderson, Australia
Paul Voss, Germany
Alexander Wetterhall, Sweden

Endura look like having a very strong team for next season and I expect even more continental adventures for them.

There was a young Scot called Ross Creeber on this team, who rode a great race at the British Championships, where's he racing?

 

[DAOTEC]

- Omar Bertazzo is leaving his dads team (La Trevigiani Dynamon Bottoli ) to ride for Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni in 2011.

- Stac Plastic has confirmed yesterday to stay on as sponsor also in the new entity De Rosa-Flaminia.

 

[Christian]

AG2R for 2011:

• Julien BERARD (français)
• Guillaume BONNAFOND (français)
• Maxime BOUET (français)
• Dimitri CHAMPION (français)
• Mikael CHEREL (français)
• Cyril DESSEL (français)
• Hubert DUPONT (français)
• Martin ELMIGER (suisse)
• John GADRET (français)
• Ben GASTAUER (luxembourgeois)
• Kristof GODDAERT (belge)
• Sébastien HINAULT (français)
• Steve HOUANARD (français)
• Blel KADRI (français)
• Yuriy KRIVTSOV (français depuis 2010)
• David LE LAY (français)
• Romain LEMARCHAND (français)
• Julien LOUBET (français)
• Sébastien MINARD (français)
• Lloyd MONDORY (français)
• Matteo MONTAGUTI (italien)
• Rinaldo NOCENTINI (italien)
• Jean-Christophe PERAUD (français)
• Mathieu PERGET (français)
• Anthony RAVARD (français)
• Christophe RIBLON (français)
• Nicolas ROCHE (irlandais)

Basically they got rid of all the eastern europeans and replaced them by frnechmen. I hope this will not have a negative effect on the overall strength of the team, but I fear it will. I always thought they were the strongest french team cause they had the leasr frenchmen. First traditional get-together will be from Dec 8-17 in Salou/Spain. They're one of my favourite teams with the coolest jerseys, hope they will have a good season next year.

Source: http://www.cyclismactu.net/news-2011_ag2r_la_mondiale_au_complet_pour_2011-10532.html

 

[roundabout]

Am i the only one thinking that PT teams are getting smaller in 2011? AG2R with 27 almost seems to have the biggest number of riders.

 

[luckyboy]

De Rosa-Flaminia-Stac Plastic in 2011.

De Rosa & Flaminia are merging for next year?

Edit: Oh yeah http://translate.google.com/transla...011&hl=en&safe=off&client=opera&hs=3xY&rls=en

 

[ingsve]

Am i the only one thinking that PT teams are getting smaller in 2011? AG2R with 27 almost seems to have the biggest number of riders.

What are you basing that on?

Garmin, Sky, Liquigas, Rabobank, Omega Pharma, Astana, Lampre, RadioShack, Geox, Saxo Bank are all either getting bigger or staying the same.

Katusha was already at max so they might drop 1 or stay the same. AG2R drops 1. Eukaltel might lose 1. HTC, Movistar, Quickstep might drop 2-3.

Note though that we haven't seen the final lineups of these teams so there might still be more recruits that are yet to be announced.

FDJ and Milram who were to of the lightweights at 23 and 25 riders this year are both gone. Luxembourg will at least be as big as FDJ and probably bigger. BMC has 27 riders so they are also bigger than the teams leaving. Vacansoleils size will depend on if they get the license or not.

In the end I think the number of riders on PT teams will increase by 4-5 riders overall.

 

[roundabout]

Thank you for the info. Indeed, there's more reason to feel optimistic.

Seeing HTC only up to 24, Lux stopping with the announcements, Saxobank not hiring, the seemingly protracted transfer season and teams going bust i got a liitle concerned.

 

[auscyclefan94]

BMC 28, Sky 29 from my caluclations

 

[ISDfan]

Am i the only one thinking that PT teams are getting smaller in 2011? AG2R with 27 almost seems to have the biggest number of riders.

In 2011 Lampre-ISD will have 30 riders in roster.

 

[Christian]

Andersen said he signed 25 riders

 

[cobblehead]

Ya, he was rumoured to possiblt go to Saxo Bank. They could have really needed him.

he said in the belgian press that he had been negotiating with saxobank for about three months (nuyens dropped his name with riis) but that while they kept saying they wanted to sign him, they never actually offered him a contract and that therefore he now decided he couldn't wait any longer for saxobank to make a move and signed with jelly belly - donckers..

the small advantage he has now is that he won't be a helper there but the big gun in every big and small race they start in in Belgium and France and that he may actually win something + his new team has ambition, they've also signed hovelynck (QST), Ricardo VDvelde (garmin) en huub duyn (ex-garmin)...