It’s quite amusing how Archbold has slotted into the very limited “Irish” cycling infrastructure. His move to the European Tour was with An Post. His first European win was at the Ras. He was brought to Bora to support Bennett. After Bora dropped him after he missed most of a season injured, he was signed by Aqua Blue. When Aqua Blue went under, he went to Evo Pro. And then he was brought back to Bora to support Bennett and now follows him to DQS. He should really be entitled to an Irish passport at this point.
Is he the only rider of any nationality who rode for all three Irish UCI teams (not counting the Italian teams that used to domicile themselves in Ireland for tax reasons)?
Fellow NZer Aaron Gate has only ever rode for those 3 teams professionally. But I don't think they were the only 3 Irish pro teams. One of the McQuaids had a team and there was definitely 1 more but maybe like the Italians it was a shell company it's too far back for me to remember