Deins Kanepejs | Age: 22 | OVL: 67.64 | Puncheur | Wage: €50,000 | Pot 4 | Level: 1.00



Deins Kanepejs is supposedly one of three triplets separated at birth, alongside Asgreen and another who cannot be named yet, the trio have practically the exact same stats and Netia dreamed of having three of the same rider, unfortunately it transpired that we only ended up with one, fortunately Deins is talented and has an appropriately hard to spell name, so he's really a perfect fit.

FL	MO	HL	TT	STA	RES	REC	CB	SP	ACC	FGH	DH	PRL	Type
67	64	69	68	65	67	67	55	61	66	63	64	68	Current
70	67	77	69	72	71	70	55	62	71	68	69	69	Max

*Could be trained as Stage Racer for 75 TT/74 HL

Filip Bengtsson | Age: 22 | OVL: 66.57 | Sprinter | Wage: €10,000 | Pot: 4 | Level 1.55



Filip Bengtsson comes into the team on request of our sponsor, Sandvik, he is our first ever Swedish rider and also our second Scandinavian rider who isn't kind of Danish, which is strange because we used to be half Norwegian. Bengtsson is a young sprinter with a lot of potential who we hope can shine with the team.

FL	MO	HL	TT	STA	RES	REC	CB	SP	ACC	FGH	DH	PRL	Type
64	57	61	60	65	71	61	57	70	71	72	63	62	Current
71	57	62	61	66	76	65	57	77	78	72	64	62	Max

Szymon Rekita | Age: 23 | OVL: 66.75 | Time-Trialist | €10,000 | Pot: 7 | Level: 2.67



Last transfers, neo-pro Szymon Rekita was swept up by the Berg Cycles team, known as Karcher at the time. We had no space in the team to contest him, despite desperately wanting one of Poland's biggest talents on our roster. Late in this transfer window however, we were shocked to see him sacked! Unfortunately we did not have the budget to resign him as a full free agent as we had spent the last on an offer the day before. However, we assembled the best offer we could, the minor wage of a stagiare and waited for an overbid, but, amazingly, he signed with us! Even better, our trainers claim that missing a good portion of the year will not impede his development and that it may even be better for him in the long run, to not over race him this year. Either way, Szymon will experience 2017 and many future seasons in Netia's colours

FL	MO	HL	TT	STA	RES	REC	CB	SP	ACC	FGH	DH	PRL	Type
67	56	59	71	64	67	67	62	65	66	62	72	70	Current
73	56	62	79	70	73	73	62	71	70	62	73	78	Max

Bikex wrote:
Rekita is a great signing as a stagiare, I have checked his stats after I saw your bid right after his sacking. If I wanted to take a stagiare this season, I probably would've contested you. Kind of surprised that noone else did, though.

Martii_Scots01 wrote:
Nice squad, your stagaires look like they have good potential for the future, especially Rekita, and hopefully your leaders like Sanchez and Panayatov will score you lots of points this season. Best of luck mate, as always liking the Central/Eastern European/Scandinavian team theme.

trekbmc wrote:


Thanks! Unfortunately this year Panayotov has left for VMP - Argon and Sanchez will likely spend a fair bit of the season on domestique duties for Kwiatek, although he will get some chances for himself as well.

Maxime Vantomme kicked off his season in Australia for the second time in a row but this time skipped the tour in Adelaide. This race was an important test of form for him, against a strong field, however he delivered, taking place behind Lo Cicero in the Valio train when he realised many of his key support riders were either held up in crashes or too tired to support. However, he still sprinted to third place behind Óscar Guerao and Mathew Goss.

This PTHC event in Sri Lanka was Michal Kwiatkowski's first race with the team. We also rather cruelly decided that Mads Pedersen and Mark Padun could begin their pro careers against ProTour teams, so bravo to them.

A break formed on the final climb and Michal was absent, relying on Stachowiak, Honkisz and Rabottini to draw it back together in the peloton, however they were unable and Kwiatek had to sprint it out for 12th, finishing second to Peter Sagan.