2013 Transfers

FJS

Sportwereld suggesting both Katusha and OPQS have made Cav formal offers

Jose de Cauwer yesterday suggested Sep Vanmarcke to Rabobank - not sure whether that was his guess or inside info

frenchfighter

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-poi ... says-roche

LeicesterLad

frenchfighter wrote:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-points-system-is-ridiculous-says-roche

Cant he have a word with his dad? Or is he still too preoccupied with unzipped jerseys?

frenchfighter

Kiserlovski to RSNT

Turfle

Brian Smith on twitter (in my reading at least) seemed to suggest JTL to Sky might not be a cert.

Brian Smith ‏@BriSmithy
@UCI_Overlord @inrng @velochrono love all this speculation when you know the facts. Next you will be saying Cav to Endura ;-)

LangerDan

Turfle wrote:

Brian Smith on twitter (in my reading at least) seemed to suggest JTL to Sky might not be a cert.

Brian Smith ‏@BriSmithy
@UCI_Overlord @inrng @velochrono love all this speculation when you know the facts. Next you will be saying Cav to Endura ;-)

Cav is going to Endura :shock: If only I had a twitter account to spread the news.



Dan Martin re-signs with Garmin Sharp

DeadCalm

the Inner Ring ‏@inrng
Tiernan-Locke leaving Endura Racing and the British team likely to merge with NetApp

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/endura- ... rnan-locke

Richmond Racer

Turfle wrote:

Brian Smith on twitter (in my reading at least) seemed to suggest JTL to Sky might not be a cert.

Brian Smith ‏@BriSmithy
@UCI_Overlord @inrng @velochrono love all this speculation when you know the facts. Next you will be saying Cav to Endura ;-)

Brian Smith's been saying that about JTL and Sky since the rumours first started as early as March, just to keep people guessing...

rebs

Brian Smith does seem to have a big mouth at present. Talking about alot of stuff that shoudl not be talked about? He must be loving the attention at the moment :P

LeicesterLad

Still think Sky is a sh*t move for JTL - signing up to be somebody elses dogsbody

Richmond Racer

rebs wrote:

Brian Smith does seem to have a big mouth at present. Talking about alot of stuff that shoudl not be talked about? He must be loving the attention at the moment :P

Think there's a good dollop of that for sure

Turfle

He also said JTL has signed a letter of intent to sign for Sky, so maybe he is just having some fun.

And more interestingly, Endura to merge with NetApp possibly.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/endura- ... rnan-locke

tailwindhome

LeicesterLad wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-points-system-is-ridiculous-says-roche

Cant he have a word with his dad? Or is he still too preoccupied with unzipped jerseys?

Don't understand how a system where you can sign for a different team in August and move in January can ever work.

Will Roche be working for Contador in the Vuelta or AG2R?

BrianS

What should not be talked about?

Turfle

Brian, are you hopeful of hanging on to Rowsell and Thwaites for next year? Any other gossip?

RichN95.

BrianS wrote:

What should not be talked about?

Fight Club

lyn1

Turfle wrote:

Brian, are you hopeful of hanging on to Rowsell and Thwaites for next year? Any other gossip?

While there may be kudos attached to young riders being able to say they are at World Tour teams I'm not convinced its necessarily the best move. They probably end up bottle carrying for much of the time and would struggle to get rides in the really big races. In contrast, at a top Pro Conti team that gets invites to the top races, they would be higher up the pecking order and more likely to get meaningful rides. A top Pro conti team, including an Endura link if that's the way it goes, ,would IMHO be a good move for these lads.

cal_stewart

For JTL IMHO to. He would get to ride some bigger events as leader.

Tom BB

Lets not forget that a few years back JTL was riding for Plowman Craven ffs! Even if Endura do merge with NettApp and become a strong Pro Conti outfit, Sky still would be the better option. He may not get a leadership role at a GT there next year, but at least his team will be in all 3 GT's and all the big races guaranteed. He's got a chance to sign for arguably the biggest team in cycling, with the added benefit that it is his home team. I don't think thats too bad for a bloke whom a few years back was riding for teams that wouldn't have had a big enough budget to afford to put one the Sky buses through a service and oil change!

Good luck to him as he will be entering the big time slightly older than most so needs to make the most of his time there.

Also good luck to Brian Smith and the Endura team-it's been great to watch the progress over the last 2 years, and it will be a great shame if the team isn't around next year.

Turfle

JTL will be 28 by the time next seasonscomes around, so I can see why he'd want the World Tour move. Guaranteed entry to the hilly classics as well as the big stage races, and a little bit of extra money too.

Endura going pro-conti, with either NetApp, or preferably another sponsor would seemingly be ideal for the progress of riders like Rowsell and Thwaites.

It would be a bit of a shame if Endura did merge, and lost some of their branding/identity, but those are the financial realities I guess.

rebs

Netapp-Endura isn't really bad branding if this is the route they go for.

If it was something like Endura-Fred West then I might have issues!

Richmond Racer

Turfle wrote:

JTL will be 28 by the time next seasonscomes around, so I can see why he'd want the World Tour move. Guaranteed entry to the hilly classics as well as the big stage races, and a little bit of extra money too.

Endura going pro-conti, with either NetApp, or preferably another sponsor would seemingly be ideal for the progress of riders like Rowsell and Thwaites.

It would be a bit of a shame if Endura did merge, and lost some of their branding/identity, but those are the financial realities I guess.

Big wedge of extra money, more like, I doubt any of the Endura riders are living high on the hog. Agree with you that his age and wanting to make the most of the rest of his career would be a major incentive for Pro Tour. Of course he's not going to be a leader straight off - but Conti to Pro Tour is a massive step and he'll have to prove that he can make that transition successfully.

disgruntledgoat

I know a guy who rode full-time for Endura in their first season... He got paid a bike he didn't get to keep and a pile of kit. The kit was custom made, however.

lyn1

disgruntledgoat wrote:

I know a guy who rode full-time for Endura in their first season... He got paid a bike he didn't get to keep and a pile of kit. The kit was custom made, however.

That was the year they recruited a team of local Scottish cyclists more familiar with riding National B's and finished at the back of the Tour Series. Certainly before Brian Smith became actively involved.
In the last 3 years they have been the best paid of the British conti teams.

disgruntledgoat

He also brought Evan Oliphant to our club 2 up, which I thought was a little unfair.

rozzer32

Katusha have made an offer for Cavendish

bipedal

Devolder to RSN?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/devolde ... ack-nissan

tailwindhome

rozzer32 wrote:

Katusha have made an offer for Cavendish

Maybe they just want their waterbottle back.

ms_tree

Cycling fever have 'rumour' Tiernan-Locke to AG2R.

LeicesterLad

Ms Tree wrote:

Cycling fever have 'rumour' Tiernan-Locke to AG2R.

JTL started life riding in France with more than one French team before he got ill and took 3 years off. I always thought he would be better off going back to a french team (I had an incling that Cofidis might have been looking at him) As somewhere like AG2R or Cofidis he would probably be in with a fair shout of riding a couple of races for himself and still riding at the top level, where as at Sky, yeah he will get a pay rise, yeah he will be riding in WorldTour races, but with the likes of Froome, Wiggins, Henao, Uran and others it is highly unlikely he will ever get a ride for himself.