I think Morocco doesn't have youth riders


But I had a quite similar idea and did an all-African custom team led by a certain Mr. Teklehaimanot

I created some known African riders like Grmay, Teklit or Reguigui (thanks SN for Rapha Condor ) and signed Dan Craven and some other Africans (although I left out the South African guys like Impey or Hunter).


As far as I know, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tunisia produce young riders, so there will be some talents to sign for the future.

Now isn't it just funny how you exclude in the 'best shots' the only monument so far this season where Sky got something better than 19th

I am not going explain why was that PR in PCM is definitely winnable as Sky but tougher.

Unsure if I'll win a monument in the first season, I'm going to need quite some luck to win 2. But GC wise it is looking quite good.
I'll post updates as the season proceeds.

If anyone decides to use one of the scenarios in this thread, will you please be so kind to update us on how it is going

Can't say this went as planned. Wiggins fell and punctured from victory in Paris - Nice on the last stage. Flecha was injured in Gent - Wevelgem, and missed Paris - Roubaix and RvV. Uran was injured in Pais Vasco and missed the Ardennes. Can't say this is motivating me...

Wow. Very unlucky, probably unluckiest season I've ever heard about ; / Win the Tour now !

This is nice idea
-What about winning all the monuments with Sagan in one season, lets say till 2014? I dont know if it is possible (hard,extreme). Obviously P-R would be the hardest one with lower cobble stat, and L-B-L would be hard too.

With some luck, this is absolutely doable.

Froome and Thomas has done well though. Froome won Tirreno and was 4th in a tough MSR. Thomas was 3rd in E3, 10th in RvV and finished 3rd in Roubaix after a successful breakaway.

A nice team to play with is Team Europcar, get Rolland in top 10 in the Tour, Voeckler can also surprise.

I started a save some time ago, that I completely forgot about, and it might be interesting for others too.

Austria has a two very promising riders in Denifl and Preidler. Create a custom team ( 0% ) with Denifl and Preidler as team leaders. However, if you find this too difficult you can sign either Rohregger or Eibegger, or even both. Österreich Rundfahrt has to be won every year during the save. Do a podium in a GT in minimum 5 years, and also win a monument during those 5 (GdL is recommended). And you are only allowed to sign Austrians, a good scout is very recommended.

I have reached 2018 and can post how I've been doing if someones interested.

I'm very interested to hear about that!

A little typo there, I've actually reached 2021, I had reached 2018 when I started playing on the save again. I don't have any screens of the previous squads, but will do my best to remember how the races went. Will see if I have time to post it tomorrow.

Would you mind showing some screens from 2021? i've never reached that far, it would be interesting to see who the best riders are, etc.

Yes, of course. I'll do a complete review tomorrow.

Very nice approach. But how do you afford a good scout? You have basically no money and I guess you don't earn much in the first season with price money.

I edited the balance when I started the save. It is hard enough to find good riders with a legendary scout, so if the save was to last I had to have a good scout.

The team started out as Erste Cycling in 2012, with the vision of developing young austrian riders. I chose .4 rider development and random potential. Preidler, Denifl, Brändle, Schöffman, Konrad, Schaller, Hofer and Hrinkow were the riders I started out with, the rest was scouted riders when creating the team. I was very lucky when picking youth riders, as there were 4 riders I couldn't scout, one of them was Matthias Huber. I decided to take a chance and select the last four riders, which was a very good decision. But I will get back to that later.

The premise of the save, as already mentioned, was to do a podium in 5 years and also win a monument. On previous saves I had never cared about the "Exploits" found in the Archives, but on this save I decided to go for as many as I could. I also decided to go after Coppis 5 Lombardia victories.

Here is a short summary of my accomplishments so far:

Note: some of my previous riders has retired, so I might not remember their results.

2012












2013

In 2013 I did my only 2 signings during the career. Both Rohregger and Eibegger were signed, to speed things up a bit. But as both of them has retired I won't look through all of the races to find their results.













It doesn't get very interesting until about 2016/2017 as I decided not to do any GT before I knew I could do a podium. I wasn't interested in spending numerous hours to do top 10s. I'm also considering writing a short story of the concluding season where I plan to do a GT treble with one rider.

I'll just cut to the chase, and list our most significant victories.

Giro d'Italia





Tour de France





Vuelta a Espana



Giro di Lombardia



Stefan Denifl also has a lot of top 10s in the smaller tours, and has won Tour de Romandie in one occation.

My Team before the 2021 Giro:


Is there any interest in me doing a story where I try to win all three GTs in one season with Huber?