Transfers 2017 : Rumours and fact

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  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    So is Swift leaving Sky?
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Looks like a transfer from Cannondale to Sky for Castelli (POC to Cannondale)
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • jscl
    jscl Posts: 1,015
    Gweeds wrote:
    Looks like a transfer from Cannondale to Sky for Castelli (POC to Cannondale)

    Does look like that.

    I'd heard from someone I consider fairly reliable that Wiggle were bidding with their dhb brand, but that doesn't seem to have come to anything.
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Gweeds wrote:
    Looks like a transfer from Cannondale to Sky for Castelli (POC to Cannondale)


    Cannondale can keep those ghastly POC helmets and glasses *shudder*
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    I hear that.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Just can't see how this one would work:-

    http://www.cyclingpro.net/velopro/road/ ... e-chez-sky
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Just can't see how this one would work:-

    http://www.cyclingpro.net/velopro/road/ ... e-chez-sky



    Ach, jeez non, Kenny, non
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Perhaps Sky are bringing out a new range of kids bikes.
  • markwb79
    markwb79 Posts: 937
    Markwb79 wrote:
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    New kit supplier for Team Sky, anyone?

    DHB and Wiggle are in the running, so I hear


    And BC should be announcing their new sponsor replacing Sky next year, after Rio


    Castelli and Under Armour I heard.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Isn't Elissonde in the same Nice circles as some of the Sky riders? He hasn't progressed much at FdJ since he won on the Angliru three years ago, so a change might be a good idea, but he just doesn't seem like a Sky rider.

    Although having said that, he's sort of a French Mikel Nieve.
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    Done deal apparently.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Leaving Elissonde's "fit" at Sky could this be the start of Sky's offensive at winning over the French cycling press and fans? Brailsford has famously said it would be good trying to cultivate a French winner of the TdF, whilst I don't necessarily see Kenny in this light maybe a French Maillot a Pois would do wonders for Sky's kerbside appeal in July
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    He'll just be mountain train fodder. It really does seem an odd fit for someone who likes a mountain breakaway and collecting polka dots points. I can't see him sitting second from last man in the mountain train.
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Leaving Elissonde's "fit" at Sky could this be the start of Sky's offensive at winning over the French cycling press and fans? Brailsford has famously said it would be good trying to cultivate a French winner of the TdF, whilst I don't necessarily see Kenny in this light maybe a French Maillot a Pois would do wonders for Sky's kerbside appeal in July

    Good call, and maybe a sign that someday Froome will do the Giro and Vuelta for a season after he's won 5-6 tdf's and got bored.
  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    Confirmed today.


    Why do people expect Sky's doms to be anything other than that, so many teams have riders who never do anything other than helping duties. Froome's main guy won a monument this year.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    I think sky and others are going to change up there riding pattern in the hllls. just having a full train is not going to cut it in future as tactics are moving on. superdomestique trains seem to be the ultimate tool to launch your big rider up the climbs but it tends to be the same 2 or 3 guys every day no matter what team tries it

    meanwhile you get very little front time from a fair few of your squad who get blown out early by your own tactic.

    changes are afoot across the style of the sport...for the good too. grand tours are being won in diverging manners.
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Confirmed today.


    Why do people expect Sky's doms to be anything other than that, so many teams have riders who never do anything other than helping duties. Froome's main guy won a monument this year.
    Between them Froome's eight Tour teammates have more World Tour points than eleven of the WT teams, so they must be getting chances somewhere.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Confirmed today.



    Is it, though?

    A link would be handy. I can't seem to find anything on the team website.

    Thanks.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Confirmed today.



    Is it, though?

    A link would be handy. I can't seem to find anything on the team website.

    Thanks.


    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... elissonde/
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Confirmed today.



    Is it, though?

    A link would be handy. I can't seem to find anything on the team website.

    Thanks.


    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... elissonde/
    "according to a report published Monday on VeloPro"

    Not confirmed then
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  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    RichN95 wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Confirmed today.



    Is it, though?

    A link would be handy. I can't seem to find anything on the team website.

    Thanks.


    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sk ... elissonde/
    "according to a report published Monday on VeloPro"

    Not confirmed then

    That's been edited since I read it, it said confirmed earlier.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Alberto Contador has finally confirmed he's going to Trek. He's taking his butler Jesus Hernandez and his personal trainer Steve De Jongh with him
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  • jscl
    jscl Posts: 1,015
    I did say this, but you all shot me down...
    Banking giants HSBC are set to replace Sky as the sponsors of British Cycling with the official announcement expected this weekend when the bank stage their first bike festival in Birmingham.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... mpics.html
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    RichN95 wrote:
    Alberto Contador has finally confirmed he's going to Trek. He's taking his butler Jesus Hernandez and his personal trainer Steve De Jongh with him


    That's not a massive entourage to take. Times have changed.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    RichN95 wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Confirmed today.


    Why do people expect Sky's doms to be anything other than that, so many teams have riders who never do anything other than helping duties. Froome's main guy won a monument this year.
    Between them Froome's eight Tour teammates have more World Tour points than eleven of the WT teams, so they must be getting chances somewhere.

    That's a fascinating fact.
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    ^Rich's eye for detail strikes again!
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    inseine wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Confirmed today.


    Why do people expect Sky's doms to be anything other than that, so many teams have riders who never do anything other than helping duties. Froome's main guy won a monument this year.
    Between them Froome's eight Tour teammates have more World Tour points than eleven of the WT teams, so they must be getting chances somewhere.

    That's a fascinating fact.

    Also reflects the quality of that Tour team - Rowe (5th in Flanders), Stannard (3rd P-R), Poels (1st LBL, 4th FW), Nieve (KoM & Stage in the Giro), Geraint T (1st P-N), Henao (1st point & 2nd GC at Tour Basque, 6th GC at P-N) - even Landa with all his issues won a stage in Tour Basque (where Henao was 3rd). And that's just the WT races.

    Sky's top 6 GC Placings at the TDF:
    1, 12, 15, 17, 28, 35


    Problem Kenny E has got is that there's not many races that actually suit him beyond chasing KOMs.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    mididoctors wrote:
    I think sky and others are going to change up there riding pattern in the hllls. just having a full train is not going to cut it in future as tactics are moving on. superdomestique trains seem to be the ultimate tool to launch your big rider up the climbs but it tends to be the same 2 or 3 guys every day no matter what team tries it

    meanwhile you get very little front time from a fair few of your squad who get blown out early by your own tactic.

    changes are afoot across the style of the sport...for the good too. grand tours are being won in diverging manners.

    Quoted because it's a good post.
    _
  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    Swift to Lampre. Apparently.

    What a terrible move.
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Swift to Lampre. Apparently.

    What a terrible move.

    Chinese money talks? Hope it works out well for him, he seems like an unfulfilled talent in need of a change of scene / change of luck.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/41991871@N ... otostream/

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