Its Sept 1st. Lets play musical chairs.

iainf72

Hondo to Lampre

afx237vi

Loving the new Evil-Lampre!

frenchfighter

Bjorn Brems, Stijn Minne, and Gil Suray (Roubaix-Lille Metropole team)

Maxim Debusschere (Katusha stagiaire)

20-year-old Briton Mark McNally (Team Halfords)

Joining An Post Sean Kelly

iainf72

afx237vi wrote:

Loving the new Evil-Lampre!

New Evil - Dude, 4 positives in like a year = plenty evil.

afx237vi

iainf72 wrote:

afx237vi wrote:

Loving the new Evil-Lampre!

New Evil - Dude, 4 positives in like a year = plenty evil.

Yeah, I know that, but their new signings for next year are hilariously new, new, new levels of evil. Like pantomime villain we-don't-give-a-shit-evil.

Maybe ASO have bunged them a big wad of cash and said "give us a chance to deselect you next year and we'll make it worth your while"

iainf72

Rumour de jour

Kolobnev to Katusha

GroupOfOne MkII

Bjarne offloading him before his mobile bill comes in?

frenchfighter

BMC looking at Fabio Baldato for DS. He has had a great career most notably in the Classics.

frenchfighter

Liquigas-Doimo squad:

Valerio Agnoli
Ivan Basso
Daniele Bennati
Maciej Bodnar
Francesco Chicchi
Jacopo Guarnieri
Roman Kreuziger
Aliaksandr Kuchynski
Vincenzo Nibali
Daniel Oss
Franco Pellizotti
Manuel Quinziato
Fabio Sabatini
Ivan Santaromita
Sylwester Szmyd
Alessandro Vanotti
Brian Bach Vandborg
Frederik Willems
Oliver Zaugg

New additions:
Francesco Bellotti (Barloworld)
Davide Cimolai (neopro)
Tiziano Dall’Antonia and Mauro Finetto (CSF Group-Navigare)
Robert Kiserlovski (Fuji-Servetto),
Kristjan Koren (neopro)
Maciej Paterski (neopro)
Peter Sagan (neopro)
Elia Viviani (neopro)

frenchfighter

Jean-Christophe Péraud to Lotto.

32 year old
Current French national time trial champion
2nd Chrono des Nations
12th TT World Championships 2009

secretsqirrel

Muravyev from Astana to Shack.
Interesting, the Shack bags themselves a Kazakh :?

kickerbri

The Guardian speculate that Ben Swift will become a Team Sky rider by monday morning.

kickerbri

The Guardian speculate that Ben Swift will become a Team Sky rider by monday morning.

blazing_saddles

I'll believe this one, when I see it!
http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/no ... p?id=19855
:shock: :shock: :shock:

Art Vandelay

iainf72 wrote:

Rumour de jour
Kolobnev to Katusha

Confirmed.

The strong rider Alexandre Kolobnev, recently silver medal at World Championship 2009 in Mendrisio (CH) signed a two years contract with the Andrei Tchmil Team. Kolobnev will be another strong cyclist for the one-day race classic.

Tuttobici
I quite like Kolobnev, think he'll produce the results now he's racing for the Mother country.

Art Vandelay

I have been very happy to be a part of Team Saxo Bank and the time on the team has developed my talent to a higher level. I am grateful that Bjarne gives me the opportunity to accept an offer from a team where I will have a leading role.

Kolobnev

frenchfighter

Jaroslaw Marycz from the Italian Team Fidibc.com and Lucas Sebastian Haedo (the other Haedo's brother) to join SaxoBank.

Sicard who has moved to Euskaltel will debut in Santos Tour. Looking forward to following him throughout next year.

blazing_saddles

garmin-slipstream now called garmin-transitions

http://www.slipstreamsports.com/2009/11/27/team-garmin-slipstream-officially-renamed-team-garmin-transitions

Lucky, not quite transfusions. :oops:

iainf72

Spezialetti to Lampre

frenchfighter

Quick Step may sign trackie Iljo Keisse.

Rassmussen nearly signed with AMPO Murcia but apparently they are in serious trouble as AMPO need to sign something or other with the UCI today or the team will get disbanded. The UCI have given the all clear to sign him his biological passport in order.

frenchfighter

Mentioned in another thread but to keep this one up to date:

Kreuziger in verbal talks with Omega-Lotto who are prepared to buy him out of Liquigas.

Would be a great move for him as it gives him sole leadership. A great move for Omega as it gives them a GC hitter. A good move for the fans as it will mean another competitive team in the Grand Tours.

andyp

But a bad move for Jurgen Van Den Broeck who would see his GC ambitions curbed by Kreuziger's arrival.

frenchfighter

Yes that is true to an extent. I really liked VDB this year and he is an exciting prospect for the coming years. They might be able to work well together although it wouldn't be too fair on VDB if RK took over everything given he is older by about three years and been a pro for a couple more than RK and hasn't had the opportunity with Evans in the picture. That being said, RK is probably a better bet for GT podium in the coming years than VDB.

andyp

Definitely. I think Kreuziger has far more ability than Van Den Broeck and he wins races, but he's not Belgian so if he does move to Omega-Lottohe'll need to understand that sometimes this will work against him.

teagar

Van Den Broeck will probably be #1 in the Giro and then play superdom for the Tour if Kruezinger turns up.

frenchfighter

20-year-old Italian Davide Appollonio and 31-year-old Spaniard Xavier Tondo Volpini are joining Cervelo.

Keisse has been sent a 1 year contract by QS.

frenchfighter

Official now for Keisse joining QuickStep for 1 year.

calvjones

frenchfighter wrote:

Official now for Keisse joining QuickStep for 1 year.

Why would I believe a man who can't even proofread his own sig line?

frenchfighter

Haha - thought I had corrected that already. Thanks.

frenchfighter

2010 BMC Racing Team Roster:

Alessandro Ballan (IT)
Chris Barton (USA)
Chad Beyer (USA)
Brent Bookwalter (USA)
Marcus Burghardt(GER)
Cadel Evans (AUS)
Mathias Frank (SUI)
Thomas Frei (SUI)
George Hincapie (USA)
Martin Kohler (SUI)
Alexander Kristoff (NOR)
Karsten Kroon (NED)
Jeff Louder (USA)
Steve Morabito (SUI)
Alex Moos (SUI)
John Murphy (USA)
Scott Nydam (USA)
Mauro Santambrogio (IT)
Michael Schär (SUI)
Florian Stalder (SUI)
Jackson Stewart (USA)
Danilo Wyss (SUI)
Simon Zahner (SUI)