Team Presentation

Team Leaders

The Estonian rider is primarily a sprinter, but his climbing skills make him a top rider at this level, and he should be able to get some good results in hilly sprints. Unfortunately, his terrible TT'ing will make it very difficult to win any Tours.


Russell returns from his stint at the big boys, Team Sky, and will hope to use his experience and undoubted speed to pick up some top results for the team. We hope he can get us some big wins.


JTL has developed to become a really explosive climber over the years and he will carry our main threat in the hilly races.


Iker is our best stage racer, being able to climb and TT, as well as having good powers of recovery. Being Spanish, he will, of course, be looking to achieve some good results in the Iberian races we enter.


Ian is not only a good sprinter, but he is also our best rider over the cobbles, so will be useful in the spring.

Protected Riders

Paul is a really exciting German time triallist. Not only that, but he is also a very good all-rounder. The only thing he can't do is climb mountains, but hopefully, Paul can do well when he gets the chance and improve this year.


Matt Cronshaw is a useful young sprinter that we have snapped up from Raleigh. Just like Voss, we hope he can gradually improve as the year goes on and get some solid results.


Another sprinter, this time from Down Under, Zakkari will certainly get his chances. He also possesses a very strong time trial, particularly over short TT's.


The only Frenchman on the team, we have high hopes for Blain. At the moment he is a sprinter, but he is aiming to become more of a climber with a different training regime.


Another new signing, we saved Dan from retirement because we feel he is just too good to leave cycling. His climbing skills will make him a very useful ally to Mandri and Camano, but he will get his own chances.

Team Mates

Season Preview


Our sponsors, Endura, provide us with a useful budget for a Continental team and we have two seasons with them before the contract is up. At the moment, due to the signing of four new British riders, as well as having 'big-name' Downing in the squad, they could not be happier with us.


Here are the goals that Endura have challenged us to achieve this season. They include two races, Ronde van Belgie and the 5 Jours de Dunkerque, that we have been refused entry to. Nevertheless, the others should be achievable with the right form and a bit of luck.


While the team's three Aussies start their seasons with the National Championships, the rest of the team continue to train together in Southern France. The team actually start racing in Malaysia with the important Tour de Langkawi, before at the end of the month, we return to Southern France for the GP la Marseillaise. The majority of our early season races are in France.