Name: Matt Payne
Nationality: New Zealand (Kiwi)
Date of Birth: 17th June 1996 (19)
Height: 175cm
Weight: 72kg
Specialties: Technical Genius, Intelligent Rider (Although these will have to improve), Bad weather specialist.
Weaknesses: Can't sustain powerful efforts (may change in a few seasons), not great in hot weather (will become better as he gets used to it), can lose concentration at such a young age (will disappear with experience).

Biography: The 19 year old Kiwi started riding at a very ripe age of 6. Having grown up in Taupo, one adventure capital in NZ, he spent a lot of his spare time riding around the forests and hills just South of Taupo. His mum or dad would drop him and his best mate off and they would ride all day before being picked up shortly after sunset. Techincally he is one of the best you get in his age group having ridden some of the hardest tracks in the country and nailing them. He also knows that he is capable of and doesn't overdo himself, he knows his limits and will ride on the edge of them. Because of the rather varied weather in his home region he did a lot of riding in the rain, the cold and even the snow near Mt Ruapehu, he is fearless and keeps warm despite his average build. However, he tends to be left behind by early accelerations as he is not the most powerful of riders but he catches back up later in the race. He is not used to the hot weather in other parts of the world. His young age and lack of professional experience will sometimes let him down as he fails to see that he needs to put in an acceleration to keep up and has at times lost amateur races following an early attack where he simply didn't read the distance and time he had to close down the leader.
Matt looks forward to racing with and against others who share his passion for the sport and has been inspired by the results achieved by other New Zealand riders in the recent past, especially the likes of Josiah Bennett and Lachy Bauer.

Stats:
Bike Handling (technical): High
Sand: Low
Uphill: Medium
Cobblestones: Very Low
Sprinting: Low
Explosiveness: Very Low
Flat (TT/riding hard): High
Power: Medium
Running: Medium
Snow/Ice: Very High
Jumping: Low

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These stats are probably too high for a 19 year old so feel free to adjust if you want, just trying to show where his strengths and weaknesses are.

Name: Robin Huser
Nationality (region): Germany (Bavaria)
Date of Birth: 17.8.1996
Height: 1.64m
Weight: 65kg
Specialty: extreme strong acceleration
Weakness: impulsive rider
Biography: Robin was born and raised in the bavarian forest around Ansbach. That's why he became infected with the CX-virus early on. Although his parents weren't thrilled of his dream and also sceptical after the scandals around national hero Jan Ullrich and the Gerolsteiner Cycling Team in 2006 and 2008, they supported their son. The calm and unexcited youth of Robin ended with the diagnosis, that Robin's mother has cancer. Robin was 16 at this time. His mother died pretty fast, and his father didn't coped the lost of his wife and had a mental breakdown, so he had to go to an asylum and left Robin alone. Robin focused then on finishing school, because he thaught this was the will of her mother, but his goal is still the same: to make his mother in heaven proud and win a big cyclocross-race.
Stats: [Choose between: very low, low, medium, high, very high]
Bike Handling (technical): medium
Sand: very low
Uphill: very high
Cobblestones: medium
Sprinting: very high
Explosiveness: very high
Flat (TT/riding hard): low
Power: high
Running: medium
Snow/Ice: medium
Jumping: medium

Name: Daniel Brüggemann
Nationality (region): Germany (NRW)
Date of Birth: 1.5.1982
Height: 191cm
Weight: 81kg
Specialty: Consistency: Has Never a Bad result, never!, last lap
Weakness: Slow start
Biography: Daniel Brüggemann is a known face in cyclocross. U-23-World Champion in 2003, the only german until yet, he was a long time part of the cyclocross circuit. He had the reputation as a constant finisher, like Dobransky, but opposite to him, Daniel won just a few races. After he switched to road cycling, and retired from cyclocross four years ago, he now makes his come back, to finish his career where it started: in the mud.

Stats: [Choose between: very low, low, medium, high, very high]
Bike Handling (technical): medium
Sand: medium
Uphill: low
Cobblestones: high
Sprinting: low
Explosiveness: very low
Flat (TT/riding hard): very high
Power: medium
Running: low
Snow/Ice: high
Jumping: low