• Name: Guilherme 'Gui' Barbosa
• Nationality: Brazilian
• Specialization: Puncheur
• Favourite Team: Wilier Triestina - Selle Italia
• Career Goal: Become the 'Pele' of short, hilly tours and one-day classics - Tour of Turkey, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, La Fleche Wallone, etc.
• Height: 176 cm
• Weight: 66 kg

Born in Sao Paolo, Brazil on 22 September 1998, in a little shack in the Heliópolis favela, Guilherme Barbosa was always going to be different. 'Gui,' as he became known, was the firstborn son of Roberto, a former amateur boxing champion, and Susanna, a powerhouse of a cleaning lady. He stood out from an early age athletically, excelling on the football pitch despite carrying some extra pounds. Known as the chubby kid early on in school, he lost his baby fat as he was hitting puberty and started to use his powerful legs to fly past his contemporaries on the pitch. He was never a skilful player, but he stood out, nevertheless.

One winter during the offseason, star Brazilian cyclist Rafael Andriato came back to Sao Paulo, where he was born, to establish a training camp to build the popularity of cycling in Brazil. Serendipitously, Andriato walked by the 'pitch', an open concrete plaza, where Gui was playing football with his mates, and saw the youngster's power catching up to a wayward pass. He encouraged Gui to join him for a ride the following day at the training camp, and the rest, as they say, is history...

Gui became the star prodigy of Andriato's programme, and was given his first bike by the Wilier-Triestina sprinter. He also earned a scholarship to the Brazilian cycling development programme, enabling him to earn a living while attending school, and helping his parents to move out of the favela. His Sagan-esque raw talent allowed him to excel in the short, hilly races around Sao Paulo and the surrounding area, despite the lack of formal training or racing experience. The races were just easy for him. He was later signed to the Funvic/Soul Brasil Pro Cycling development team, and has been cycling across South America in youth races, though he realises that to make a very good living, he'll have to move to Europe and race against the big boys. He's now ready to take his talents abroad, and hopes he'll get his chance with his cycling idol's team, Wilier-Triestina - Selle Italia. Whether his skills are up to par remain to be seen, but his meteoric rise will surely be one to watch.

jandal7 wrote:
Absolutely love the rider type and the backstory Booker, great to see you in

Ripley wrote:
Lots of mountain stages, please.

Shonak wrote:
No lower tier cobbled classica? Think I made a mistake in rider selection.

trekbmc wrote:


Schaal Sells is cobbled in PCM and Le Triptique has a decisive cobbled stage and a lightly cobbled flat stage iirc too.

Link: https://www.dropb....xlsx?dl=0

- Download the file from the above location.
- Enter your Rider's ID in cell C3 of the 'Progression' sheet. The cells originally marked #N/A will populate. You can look up rider IDs in the 'Custom Riders DB' sheet.
- Cell F9 shows how many statpoints you can further allocate to your rider.
- F4-R4 shows your rider's current stats. F5-R5 shows the max stats your rider can achieve in each category.
- Enter the increase in statpoints (not actual stats) that you want against each stat in F6-R6.
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