Transfers and Rumours 2015 > 2016

[dirkprovin]

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[quote="yaco.

Thought OGE may go for a 27 man roster to help build up their race dates - Guessing their mature signings may race more often - It's worry when riders like Santoromita and Howard have less than 30 race days.

Anyway its a well balanced squad - of course winning a monument along with GC stages, and a good GC for Chavez is paramount but a few more wins in higher level one day races should be a priority.[/quote]

I have no real problems with who's there now. I do have question marks over Txurruka's value but since he's only a one-season signing, its not major damage if he doesn't work out.

As for Howard; it's frankly good riddance to a passenger. Like M.Harley Goss; he has a major tendency to "drop his bundle" and crack the mopes if things are not going his way. For most of the last 2 seasons, he's been a "list clogger". If IAM can make something of him, it will be a surprise but good on him if it works out.

Methinks the shift out of sprints at OGE will only gain more pace over the next few years. Matthews will remain one of their "main men" but maybe more as a classics man than a sprinter per se. Likewise with other young fastish guys like Cort. However, I think that the next season or two will prove very hard going for "little Caleb", especially with more exposure against the big boys. He'll no doubt get an extension at the end of 2016 but I'm not sure beyond that.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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Flens ain't been going to ride on if my memory is correct. He's fixed to retire I believe.

Poor Sella may should do the same. He's done. Same for Szmyd. Schumacher ain't been signed for two years by CCC? He had a horrible season. Hard to find a new team.

Ain't nobody wants to sign Anton? Might should get a contract from an Italian pro conti team like Southeast from my pov.

Euskadi BC-Murias Taldea have offered him a contract, he's holding out in the hope a bigger team might be interested. If they aren't, he'll probably have to take on Murias' offer or retire.

Such a pity, but he really didn't have the head for the top, I'm afraid, and he's too flaky and easily injured to become a silent Zubeldia type.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Team Wiggins sign Michael O'Loughlin, an Irish 18 year old. O'Loughlin is this year's designated "highly rated Irish child", Ireland being a country that's only big enough to have one per year.

(This makes it even more of a mystery where An Post are going to find five more Irish riders to make up the six they say will be riding for them).

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Flens ain't been going to ride on if my memory is correct. He's fixed to retire I believe.

Poor Sella may should do the same. He's done. Same for Szmyd. Schumacher ain't been signed for two years by CCC? He had a horrible season. Hard to find a new team.

Ain't nobody wants to sign Anton? Might should get a contract from an Italian pro conti team like Southeast from my pov.

Euskadi BC-Murias Taldea have offered him a contract, he's holding out in the hope a bigger team might be interested. If they aren't, he'll probably have to take on Murias' offer or retire.

Such a pity, but he really didn't have the head for the top, I'm afraid, and he's too flaky and easily injured to become a silent Zubeldia type.

In retrospect, getting taken out of the Vuelta while in the red jersey by a bit of wood on the road was the turning point of his career.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Idunno, inconsistent though he was in that race, he still won on Monte Zoncolan in the 2011 Giro. I think he never really fully recovered from that 2010 crash, but coming into the 2011 Vuelta as arguably the #1 favourite and wilting in the heat on a climb where 40 riders made it on the same time and even Michele "I melt above 20ºC" Scarponi didn't lose any time I think really was a hammer blow, followed a day later by being dragged across the line by Txurruka a minute back on the same climb he'd taken the lead on the previous year.

 

[TMP402]

Team Gadret is also retiring.

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Idunno, inconsistent though he was in that race, he still won on Monte Zoncolan in the 2011 Giro. I think he never really fully recovered from that 2010 crash, but coming into the 2011 Vuelta as arguably the #1 favourite and wilting in the heat on a climb where 40 riders made it on the same time and even Michele "I melt above 20ºC" Scarponi didn't lose any time I think really was a hammer blow, followed a day later by being dragged across the line by Txurruka a minute back on the same climb he'd taken the lead on the previous year.

Fedaia killed him in 2011. Never was the same. What a shitty climb.

 

[Breh]

Can anyone elaborate on the "Team Gadret" thing? Haven't been around here that long.

 

[Gloin22]

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Can anyone elaborate on the "Team Gadret" thing? Haven't been around here that long.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/roche-furious-at-gadret-for-not-helping-with-tyre/

 

[StryderHells]

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In retrospect, getting taken out of the Vuelta while in the red jersey by a bit of wood on the road was the turning point of his career.

It would of played a part but I lean more to the thinking that he just wasn't a true GT contender, when he was good he was a very good climber but when he was bad he'd fall to pieces. I think he was more a 1 week rider and stage hunter/KOM rider for GT's who lost to much of his career trying to be that GT contender.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Can anyone elaborate on the "Team Gadret" thing? Haven't been around here that long.

It started when he refused to give his then team leader Nico Roche a wheel in the Tour. And then gained more traction when one one of the 2011 Giro mountain stages both he and his teammate, Dupont, attacked the leaders group. Instead of working together, Gadret rode 20 metres ahead of Dupont for km after km. And then there was a later incident when he "failed to see" his team leader Peraud on the side of the road waving at him for a wheel and just kept going.

At the time it seemed like he just wouldn't help anyone for any reason. At the end of his career, he doesn't seem to have caused any problems as a domestique at Movistar, rather disappointingly. His entertainingly selfish behaviour, combined with the fact that he looks like he'd steal your hubcaps if your left your car unattended, made him a cult hero here.

The sport would be more fun if more domestiques randomly went rogue for no obvious reason.

 

[Stilletto]

- Cambell Flakemore leaves BMC
- Lampre might have some more spots open as both neo's Simone Consonni and Edward Ravasi will ride from 2017
- Jan Brockhoff ex AWTGreenway to Leopard Cycling

Rumours
Manuel Porzner ex Team Stölting to Voralberg ?
Matvey Nikitin ex Seven Rivers Cycling Team to Astana ?

 

[Stilletto]

By the way has anyone heard whats happened to Aleksandr Dyachenko ?
looks like he has left Astana already this season? (contract terminated ? )

 

[pastronef]

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- Cambell Flakemore leaves BMC
- Lampre might have some more spots open as both neo's Simone Consonni and Edward Ravasi will ride from 2017
- Jan Brockhoff ex AWTGreenway to Leopard Cycling

Rumours
Manuel Porzner ex Team Stölting to Voralberg ?
Matvey Nikitin ex Seven Rivers Cycling Team to Astana ?

ends career? !!

http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/Campbell_Flakemore

 

[Gloin22]

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- Cambell Flakemore leaves BMC
- Lampre might have some more spots open as both neo's Simone Consonni and Edward Ravasi will ride from 2017
- Jan Brockhoff ex AWTGreenway to Leopard Cycling

Rumours
Manuel Porzner ex Team Stölting to Voralberg ?
Matvey Nikitin ex Seven Rivers Cycling Team to Astana ?

ends career? !!

http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/Campbell_Flakemore

Home sickness plus also motivation the two main reasons.

 

[pastronef]

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- Cambell Flakemore leaves BMC
- Lampre might have some more spots open as both neo's Simone Consonni and Edward Ravasi will ride from 2017
- Jan Brockhoff ex AWTGreenway to Leopard Cycling

Rumours
Manuel Porzner ex Team Stölting to Voralberg ?
Matvey Nikitin ex Seven Rivers Cycling Team to Astana ?

ends career? !!

http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/Campbell_Flakemore

Home sickness plus also motivation the two main reasons.

any word from him?

 

[StryderHells]

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- Cambell Flakemore leaves BMC
- Lampre might have some more spots open as both neo's Simone Consonni and Edward Ravasi will ride from 2017
- Jan Brockhoff ex AWTGreenway to Leopard Cycling

Rumours
Manuel Porzner ex Team Stölting to Voralberg ?
Matvey Nikitin ex Seven Rivers Cycling Team to Astana ?

ends career? !!

http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/Campbell_Flakemore

Home sickness plus also motivation the two main reasons.

any word from him?

Story on Cyclingtips
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/11/campbell-flakemore-quits-cycling/

 

[markene2]

Kashechkins pro team is moving forward, he still has not given up.

http://radiotochka.kz/17026-kaka-ve...rivezet-evropeyskih-turistov-na-baykonur.html

http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2828200

 

[TMP402]

Mederel has left Europcar.

 

[Stilletto]

Oleg Zemlyakov ex Vino4Ever might move to the big team(Astana)

 

[Domulec]

Calvin Watson and Jasper Bovenhuis to An Post

 

[damian13ster]

De La Parte in CCC

 

[TMP402]

Two Australians, Jesse Kerrison and Ben Dyball to Dynamo Cover, the later moving from Avanti.

 

[StryderHells]

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Two Australians, Jesse Kerrison and Ben Dyball to Dynamo Cover, the later moving from Avanti.

Both solid signings, Kerrison is only 21 and done well in our NRS and won stages in some Asian races. Dyball is a nice little climber who was the first non Irainian home (and we all know about the Irainians) on the Mt Fuji stage of the Tour of Japan this year.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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Calvin Watson and Jasper Bovenhuis to An Post

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/an-post-chain-reaction-announce-new-signings-for-2016/

The other signings for the 2016 season include David Montgomery, Daniel Stewart, Oliver Kent-Spark, Nicolas Vereecken, Sean Bennet and Jacob Scott, with three more signings to be announced.