Diego Johnson's management would like to announce that he has signed to ride for Team Astana for the remainder of the season. He told us, I think that the atmosphere of the team, suits me and will help me to develop as a bike racer. I am very much looking forward to ride with the quality of riders on the team, and hope that I can learn from my experiences in the team.

These are open again, you won't be able to race until next season though.

Does this mean i can make the rule mandated third rider at last?

So Chelyakov is not returning in zombie mode? Sure, go ahead then

Let me do some thinking

why do the riders need to come to a team for a contract and not the realistic way, where the teams go to the riders looking at you Colombia and Champion System

Ok, for those who want to replace one or several riders, you can use the age your old rider owuld have had. So if you want to replace an 18 year old, you can make the new guy 18 or 19 next season.

Sorry if you feel insulted, that was not what I meant to do. I would really like to go for interesting riders myself, but I don't have any kind of list of future free riders. However, there is still plenty of time, and I will probably have a look on all the inactive team's rosters. Just in case some rider thought like "Man, that is a good team, I would really like to ride for them, but they are surely not gonna ask me about it." Then they are granted the ability to go for it themselves.

we had that in the first season part that teams just said, "if you want to ride here, contact us, we won't contact you" disquised in a cleaverly written story. just wanted to make clear that that shouldn't happen here.

So,we won't contact with the riders????????

No, he meant it the other way around. In his (and my) opinion, the teams should contact the riders they want, just as in real life. He was fearing that the teams only said "contact us", so the custom riders had to contact the teams.

understood thanks.

	1	Petar Apostolović	Matica Hrvatska	5h31'59
	2	Hrvatin Knežević	Hrvatska Elektroprivreda	s.t.
	3	Balázs Papp	Zagreb Montaža Group	s.t.
	4	Boris Filipović	Team Velika Gorica	s.t.
	5	Fran Popović	HEP – Proizvodnja	s.t.
	6	Cvetko Aha�i�	Slovenia	s.t.
	7	Zlatko Sorko�ević	Matica Hrvatska	s.t.
	37	Špiro Milošević	Podravka - Radio Rijeka	+ 13

	1	Špiro Milošević	Podravka - Radio Rijeka	2h39'48
	2	Dragutin Grubiša	Jadranski Naftovod	s.t.
	3	Petar Apostolović	Hrvatska Elektroprivreda	s.t.
	4	Nikola Harambašić	Serbia	s.t.
	5	Prvoš Jurišić	Zagreb Montaža Group	s.t.
	6	Balázs Papp	Zagreb Montaža Group	s.t.
	7	Attila Nagy	Podravka - Radio Rijeka	+ 2

	1	Vladimir Miholjević	Podravka - Radio Rijeka	3h45'48
	2	Riccardo Riccò	Italy	+ 16
	3	Patrik Sinkewitz	Team Velika Gorica	+19
	4	Tadej Valjavec	Slovenia	s.t.
	5	Ulpëtin Ruçi	Albania	+ 46
	6	Grgur Horvat	Zagreb Montaža Group	+ 1'11
	7	Dalibor Ugrenović	Team Velika Gorica	+ 2'02
	DNF	Špiro Milošević	Podravka - Radio Rijeka	DNF

	1	Špiro Milošević	Podravka - Radio Rijeka	2h55'03
	2	Dragutin Grubiša	Jadranski Naftovod	s.t.
	3	Sefik Kolašinac	Bosnia & Herzegovina	s.t.
	4	Attila Nagy	Podravka - Radio Rijeka	s.t.
	5	Balázs Papp	Zagreb Montaža Group	s.t.
	6	Boris Filipović	Team Velika Gorica	s.t.
	7	Vjekoslav Zvonko	Matica Hrvatska	s.t.

	1	Nikola Harambašić	Serbia	2h15'33
	2	Petar Apostolović	Matica Hrvatska	s.t.
	3	Attila Nagy	Podravka - Radio Rijeka	s.t.
	4	Cvetko Aha�i�	Slovenia	s.t.
	5	Balázs Papp	Zagreb Montaža Group	s.t.
	6	Boris Filipović	Team Velika Gorica	s.t.
	7	Špiro Milošević	Podravka - Radio Rijeka	s.t.

Å piro

I never thought you could have a rider blog without a team, but you are definetely proving me wrong *thumbs up*

Are you going to make any custom riders Silvio? It would be nice to get a few replacements for the mass exodus at the end of the season at least.

I've thought of it of course. But I really don't know how much time I will have from October onwards. I do even fear that I won't really have time to keep the team HQ updated and the team is what is more important to me.

However, I'm still thinking of it, but I fear those guys wouldn't be too active.

But if I'm even asked for it, I think I gonna give it a try

I've chosen to create three custom riders in the end and I'm looking forward to next season with them already.
I tried to make these guys relatively real, so I hope they are to everybody's liking.
However, I will post only two of them as I can't find a name for the third one.

Name: Иль� (Михайлович) Кузнецов - Ilja (Michailovich) Kusnezov - for those who don't know: Ilja (son of Michail), the Smith
Age: 23
Nationality: Russia
Rider type: Powerhouse
Short Bio: will follow when he's signed

Flat: 77 (33)
Hill: 68 (13)
Mnt: 64 (9)
TT: 75 (25)
Prol: 74 (23)
Cob: 58 (3)
Spr: 64 (9)
Acc: 66 (11)
Desc: 69 (14)
End: 72 (19)
Res: 69 (14)
Fight: 71 (17)
Rec: 70 (15)
Total: 205

Aaaand the second one:

Name: Husani Mashaba
Age: 18
Nationality: South African
Rider type: Fighter with allround abilities
Short Bio: will follow when he's signed

Flat: 71 (17)
Hill: 67 (12)
Mnt: 65 (10)
TT: 58 (3)
Prol: 59 (4)
Cob: 58 (3)
Spr: 63 (8)
Acc: 65 (10)
Desc: 61 (6)
End: 66 (11)
Res: 65 (10)
Fight: 75 (25)
Rec: 66 (11)
Total points: 130

No, you still need to follow the age rules, otherwise I would have no 18 year olds next year

And Res is 65 minimum cause it desn't work on PCM13.

Changed that. What about the too much points Ilja?

Wait, did I understand it right that I have to spend 10 points on RES? Or does RES just start at 65 without spending any points?

You can lower Flat since Time Trialists actually don't need Flat stat that much. I think kentaurus or lluuiiggii said something along those lines.

So if you lower it to 75 and save one point in Descent and reduce Resistance to normal 65 (you spend those points), than all's fine with the points.

But points are hard earned in the game as you know, and not sure if it's fair to just allow higher points scaling for a later entry.

Either way, liking both riders. Really balanced, which is always to my liking with no 55 stats.