knockout wrote:

Promotion and four goals achieved. Now thats a succesful season! Congrats and im very happy to see you more often in PT now

Mick VD is the best of of our talents who are maxing this year. He has developed into a puncher who can hold his own on most climbs and can also ride a decent pace against the clock. We are really excited about what the future holds for one of our best home grown focus region riders.

Tim VD has developed into a super-strong flat rider, who will be an excellent addition to both our TTT squad and also the sprint train. We hope he can bring the double trouble with his brother, with them covering almost all terrains we ride in!

We love our all-rounders and Hoole is the latest in the line of talents who can hold his own on multiple terrains. Hoole would be another peg in the TTT unit for us, along with being a strong domestique for the cobbles squad.

The first Indian rider to max out in the MG is the Indian legend Naveen John, who will directly slot in to our stage racing and TTT units. We hope to see him also take some chances in the breaks.

Possibly the best talent we've ever recruited, Leo has taken another step towards his full potential, and immediately becomes a sub-top leader for stage races. We are looking forward to how well he can already cope up with increased responsibilities on his shoulders next season, in the PT no less!

Alben is another rider who takes the penultimate step in his development, and is now a versatile sprinter and roleur for the team. He should be able to immediately slot into those areas of the team next season.

The late bloomer improves in his core area of time-trialing but still has a way to go towards becoming a regular feature in that area of the team. Another spell on loan will probably help him out next season.

Our second Indian sprinting talent is also improved, but he too has a couple of steps left to take before he can start challenging at the top stage.

With a huge unexpected sprint win in his neo-pro season, the future looks bright for our flat beast Trizese, and we'll be along for the ride, wherever it takes us. We hope he turns into one of those riders who no one picks to do great, but always delivers unexpected standout results against more fancied opponents.

A quick recap of how we did in the National Championships, including loaned out riders:

Rider	RR	ITT
Damien Howson		Champion
Alexandor Cataford		Champion
Yanglem Rojit Singh	Champion
Naveen John		Champion
Aviv Yechezkel	Champion
Daan Olivier	Champion
Jonel Carcueva	Champion

We couldn't match our tally from last season, but this was still a good return for us from this season's National Championships. It remains to be seen how many of these riders will continue to ride in our colours next season.

The World Championships got off to a decent start for us, with the likes of Carcueva and Shirota helping their team leaders Quita and Amezawa to 3rd and 4th positions respectively.

Hayter kept up his good form from the Avenir to finish 5th in the U23 ITT.

The Elite ITT was a little less successful but Howson in 11th and Cataford in 17th was still a decent return.

Hayter rode the best race of his short career so far, attacking in the closing kilometers and holding on comfortably to win the U23 RR! He joins an elite list of just one more rider - Silvio Herklotz - to have won Avenir and the U23 RR in the same season!



And with that it's a wrap for the 2024 season! See you soon in the new season...