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[CT] cycleYorkshire s/b ASDA - Savers 2015
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 26-03-2015 00:09
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I agree its a smart looking jersey, another great design from Maximka.
Off to celebrate with a nice cup of Yorkshire Tea 
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 26-03-2015 06:56
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Lovely jersey, one of my favourites for the next year, great job Maximka!
Good luck for 2015 ryant!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 26-03-2015 13:08
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Nice jersey indeed, but we will all miss the nice green version from last season |
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| Maximka |
Posted on 18-04-2015 14:56
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Well, I must admit that this season I'm not full of beans for making jerseys. But Yorkshire is one of my best makings ever
I hope this jersey will bring a bit of luck to the team!
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| ryant |
Posted on 29-04-2015 21:41
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@Maximka - thanks for popping up here, your work is much appreciated and I too hope that this will give me some good luck! 
Its been a while since our last update and with the season becoming ever closer it might be a good time for us to update our loyal fans on our goals for the 2015 season, our first time in the PCT division.
The goals are:
Top 20 Team Standing
 Win Manx International
Top 5 Tour of Britain
 Top 5 Seskin Classic
Stage Wins FBD Eire Tour
Overall, these are not too ambitious but we wanted to take some baby steps and keep the goals both simple and domestic, all of our race goals are in the UK and Ireland. Of course, our current team won't be able to complete these goals but with riders like Swift already stating their love of the team, it is clear to see we will have a top team in the future.
We can announce our equipment for the new season, designed by sgdanny we will use Cervelo frames in our pursuit of glory...
The Road Frame
The Time Trial Frame
With that we have nothing much else to say apart from our HC Bands, which we will announce later...
Edited by ryant on 04-06-2015 00:33
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| cio93 |
Posted on 29-04-2015 21:48
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Very regionally focused goals, which maybe make them a bit tougher to achieve than if you just went for a particular terrain.
Good luck with winning a stage in FBD Eire Tour though, that will be a sprinter party for anyone having enough race days 
And keep Swift where he is until I'm out of this division. Please.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 29-04-2015 21:59
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cio93 wrote:
And keep Swift where he is until I'm out of this division. Please.
I hear that in the unlikely event of Swifty coming to PCT i hear that he'd prefer to team up with old friend "G" and the amazing talent of Simon Yates
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| fintas |
Posted on 29-04-2015 22:02
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TheManxMissile wrote:
cio93 wrote:
And keep Swift where he is until I'm out of this division. Please.
I hear that in the unlikely event of Swifty coming to PCT i hear that he'd prefer to team up with old friend "G" and the amazing talent of Simon Yates
I can only say this: "Keep dreaming"
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 29-04-2015 22:35
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Ben Swift's legal team will be in touch shortly, after the publication of such a big fabrication.
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| ryant |
Posted on 29-04-2015 22:46
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SportingNonsense wrote:
Ben Swift's legal team will be in touch shortly, after the publication of such a big fabrication.
Does that mean my budget will be reduced? 
John St Ledger in Team Bunzl-Centrica and Team U25
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| ryant |
Posted on 12-05-2015 15:08
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With the transfer season now under way, we have now decided to begin to announce the races that we will be racing this year, starting with the HC bands. We were given bands 1, 2, 4 and 6, the races we will race will be shown below...
| Date | Country | Race | Division | | 10th Jan |  | Down Under Classic | HC | | 8th-10th Feb |  | Bayern Rundfahrt | HC | | 25th Feb |  | Strade Bianche | HC | | 7th Mar |  | Kenya Mountain Classic | HC | | 27th Mar |  | E3 Prijs | HC | | 23rd-28th Apr |  | Tour de Romandie | HC | | 1st-5th May |  | 5 Jours de Dunkerque | HC | | 16th May | | Berlin ProRace | HC | | 27th-31st May |  | Tour of the Czech Rep. | HC | | 2nd-5th Jun | | Eneco Tour | HC | | 20th Jun |  | Nelspruit Classic | HC | | 7th Jul | | Manx International | HC | | 15th Jul |  | Tour of the Batenkill | HC | | 26th-30th Jul |  | Post Danmark Rundt | HC | | 1st Aug |  | Clasica San Sebastian | HC | | 5th-15th Aug |  | Volta a Portugal | HC | | 7th-14th Sep | | Tour of Britain | HC | | 24th Sep |  | Rheden GP | HC | | 2nd Oct | | Paris-Tours | HC | | 4th Oct | | Giro dell'Emelia | HC | | 9th-13th Oct |  | Tour of Beijing | HC | | 18th Oct |  | Japan Cup | HC |
John St Ledger in Team Bunzl-Centrica and Team U25
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| ryant |
Posted on 20-05-2015 21:32
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Transfers done - Unveiling of new signings...
Although it may not seem like it, the team management have been working hard in recent days to desperately sign new riders for the team in our bid to stay in the Pro Continental ranks for 2016, albeit with varying degrees of success. No Swift was seen to venture into the teams base in Leeds or any other high profile rider in that case. But we feel we have managed to sign a few riders who may give us some results over the course of the season, but time will tell if this is enough for us to avoid relegation
 Serghei Tvetcov
| Flat | Mtn | Hill | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Sprint | Acc | Fght | Downhl | Prl | | 71 | 76 | 75 | 74 | 72 | 71 | 76 | 58 | 72 | 73 | 73 | 64 | 75 |
Tvetcov will be our stage race captain for this year, he is far from the strongest rider around but he packs a sprint, something we hope may deliver some stage victories...
 Vladimir Karpets
| Flat | Mtn | Hill | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Sprint | Acc | Fght | Downhl | Prl | | 67 | 76 | 71 | 74 | 71 | 74 | 76 | 50 | 54 | 55 | 63 | 62 | 74 |
Vladimir is old and experienced, his days in the peloton are now numbered but he will give some vital assistance to the younger members of the team, who knows? he may pull a win out of the bag as well...
 Ignas Konovalovas
| Flat | Mtn | Hill | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Sprint | Acc | Fght | Downhl | Prl | | 71 | 68 | 76 | 75 | 73 | 75 | 71 | 65 | 61 | 74 | 76 | 61 | 75 |
Ignas has had a decent season last year and has been rewarded with a transfer to our team, he has a high wage but if he can perform like last year, he could score multiple top 10's in smaller tours.
Rohan Dennis
| Flat | Mtn | Hill | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Sprint | Acc | Fght | Downhl | Prl | | 71 | 72 | 74 | 76 | 71 | 74 | 65 | 53 | 65 | 68 | 69 | 56 | 79 |
Rohan is a young rider with lots of potential, not being fully developed at the moment. He will play a key role as a domestique, but he has a decent time trial on him, meaning he could sneak a few good GC placements along the season.
 Bernhard Eisel
| Flat | Mtn | Hill | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Sprint | Acc | Fght | Downhl | Prl | | 74 | 56 | 65 | 63 | 73 | 69 | 73 | 76 | 75 | 71 | 60 | 63 | 70 |
Bernhard is another experienced rider that should prove helpful over the season. He is the leader of our team for the cobbled classics and we hope he can pull out similar results to last year, where he won the Dwars Door Vlaanderen, but some points on the table is what we need, no matter how he gets them.
Marco Corti
| Flat | Mtn | Hill | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Sprint | Acc | Fght | Downhl | Prl | | 72 | 61 | 63 | 62 | 74 | 64 | 77 | 59 | 78 | 76 | 66 | 63 | 62 |
Marco is a decent enough sprinter, signed from Venchi. He will fulfil any role we see fit, from being a lead out to main sprinter for some stage races where the competition is weaker. We hope he can prove to be a nice signing for us.
Roberto Ferrari
| Flat | Mtn | Hill | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Sprint | Acc | Fght | Downhl | Prl | | 70 | 54 | 62 | 59 | 74 | 67 | 73 | 55 | 77 | 80 | 57 | 63 | 67 |
Ferrari is one fast man, although he may struggle on those pesky speed bumps... Roberto will likely be our lead out man but if he can fight for placings at the end of stages, we wont mind.
Steven Lampier
| Flat | Mtn | Hill | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Sprint | Acc | Fght | Downhl | Prl | | 68 | 70 | 73 | 66 | 70 | 72 | 71 | 71 | 70 | 71 | 70 | 66 | 66 |
He is a little known rider we have picked up from the domestic scene, Steven is capable on all terrains and will be a great domestique to have in a variety of races from tours to the classics, none seem to faze this man...
 Juan José Haedo
| Flat | Mtn | Hill | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Sprint | Acc | Fght | Downhl | Prl | | 69 | 54 | 64 | 58 | 68 | 66 | 73 | 66 | 78 | 73 | 64 | 62 | 71 |
Once a rival, Haedo will now be a part of our team in our bid for survival. He may not be what he was, but he will be useful as a road captain at the very least.
 Curtis Dearden
| Flat | Mtn | Hill | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Sprint | Acc | Fght | Downhl | Prl | | 71 | 53 | 62 | 75 | 70 | 71 | 65 | 52 | 56 | 71 | 66 | 65 | 70 |
Wow, this is a long post isn't it? Doubt you will read this but Dearden will form a part of our team time trial set up. He may not be useful as a leader but hopefully he will be aggressive and be a part of many break aways, just to justify his signing
With this we can now announce our whole team line up for the season, hopefully these riders will have enough within themselves to keep us up, lets get this season started!
John St Ledger in Team Bunzl-Centrica and Team U25
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 20-05-2015 23:31
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Although it may not seem like it, the team management have been working hard in recent days to desperately sign new riders for the team
Watching the choas from the sidelines I can certainly believe you have been working hard!
Some useful riders but no standout performer. I really hope they can keep you in the PCT division so you can build up the team next year.
Best of Luck!
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 21-05-2015 06:12
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I fear that won't be enough. There's some huge difference between newly promoted CT teams, I feel.
Will follow Dennis closely. I'm repeating myself, but it's a shame he won't be maxed. You should have given him a year in ProTour
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| ryant |
Posted on 04-06-2015 23:28
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With the season now truely on the horizon, the team have now decided to unveil their full racing schedule for the year ahead... We hope that our planning has given us a chance of avoiding the drop in a division where many people think we will struggle, something we hope to prove wrong!
| Date | Country | Race | Division | | 10th Jan | | Down Under Classic | HC | | 8th-10th Feb | | Bayern Rundfahrt | HC | | 25th Feb | | Strade Bianche | HC | | 1st-8th Mar | | FBD Eire Tour | C1 | | 7th Mar | | Kenya Mountain Classic | HC | | 13th Mar |  | Duo Differdange | C1 | | 17th Mar | | Gent - Wevelgem | C1 | | 27th Mar | | E3 Prijs | HC | | 29th Mar | | Seskin Classic | C1 | | 14th-19th Apr | | Tour of South Africa | C1 | | 23rd-28th Apr | | Tour de Romandie | HC | | 1st-5th May | | 5 Jours de Dunkerque | HC | | 4th-9th May | | Tour of Japan | C1 | | 16th May | | Berlin ProRace | HC | | 22nd-28th May | | Olympia's Tour | C1 | | 27th-31st May | | Tour of the Czech Rep. | HC | | 2nd-5th Jun | | Eneco Tour | HC | | 6th Jun | | Lincoln GP | C2 | | 20th Jun | | Nelspruit Classic | HC | | 29th Jun |  | Monterrey TTT | C1 | | 5th Jul | | Isle of Man TT | C1 | | 7th Jul | | Manx International | HC | | 15th Jul | | Tour of the Batenkill | HC | | 26th-30th Jul | | Post Danmark Rundt | HC | | 1st Aug | | Clasica San Sebastian | HC | | 5th-15th Aug | | Volta a Portugal | HC | | 2nd-22nd Sep | | Tour of America | C1 | | 7th-14th Sep | | Tour of Britain | HC | | 24th Sep | | Rheden GP | HC | | 2nd Oct | | Paris-Tours | HC | | 4th Oct | | Giro dell'Emelia | HC | | 9th-13th Oct | | Tour of Beijing | HC | | 18th Oct | | Japan Cup | HC |
Key races in bold
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 05-06-2015 17:30
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Looking forward to the season starting and following the Yorkshire team, got my Yorkshire tea ready for a brew to celebrate any successes .
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 05-06-2015 18:43
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On the one hand, I'm concerned how you've highlighted the Ras and the Sean Kelly classic. On the other hand, it's only Rowe and JTL. 
Nah but seriously, tough season ahead for you, and compared to even Stobart, I don't see the one clear point scorer in your team. Clever race planning can work miracles, but I think there's a stormy season brewing for the team (pun intended ).
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| ryant |
Posted on 22-06-2015 18:24
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Bay Cycling Classic Criteriums
Down Under Classic
We also participated in the Down Under Classic in January and with Rowe, we were very much the underdogs. We failed to make the break or the late attack, which was disappointing as the late attackers made it to the line first. Rowe finished down in 17th but at least that gave us a few points to start our season.
Rowe finishing down in 17th...
We start the season rather quietly, we only have two races in February so lets so lets see what we will race...
Bayern Rundfahrt
A rather hard race to predict... We have experience racing here last year, but we didnt manage anything of note. With Konovalovas, we hope we can manage a top 10 GC, but other stage results are welcome, especially with Stannard in the TT...
The team:
Ignas Konovalovas
Ian Stannard
Roberto Ferrari
Curtis Dearden
Rohan Dennis
Adam Semple
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke
Michael Woods
Strade Bianche
The second race we will ride will be the Italian semi classic. This will be a very tough race for us as the team dont necessarily have a dedicated puncheur for this style of race. Kono will try to pick and choose the right move and we hope to have some exposure in this race.
The team:
Ignas Konovalovas
Steven Lampier
Simon Richardson
Matthew Brammeier
 Alex Meenhorst
Adam Semple
 Wang-yip Tang
Chun Hing Chan
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 23-06-2015 21:28
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Quiet start to the season. Hope it picks up.
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| ryant |
Posted on 05-07-2015 21:51
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Bayern Rundfahrt
We knew it would be hard for us to compete in such strong competition and we struggled a lot in general. Still we managed 15th place in the GC, thanks to Semple's break away heroics in stage 3. Stannard finished 6th in the TT while Semple managed a 9th in stage 3.
Semple in the break on stage 3
Strade Bianche
At first glance, you would have thought we didnt even race here but we managed to join the break in the shape of Chun Hing Chan, Kono finished way down in 53rd so no points from this race...
Chan attacking to join the break!
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