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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 30-08-2013 07:00
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My leader for the Mountains is a 20yr old who has 68MO, 67HIL, 68DH, 63TT, 67STA, 66RES, 68REC and 63ACC.
My leaders for the flat stages are D'Amore, who has 76SPR and 74ACC, and Casper who has 76SPR and a disappointing ACC of 68.
For the cobble race/s I have De Winde who has 72COB, 66SPR and 65ACC and Barbe who has 70COB, 71SPR and 67ACC.
All round I have an alright time, aiming for good placings in the cobble and flat races and stage wins and a possible good spot in the GC for my leader.
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 30-08-2013 10:27
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Team Dexia is shaped as a sprinters team with decent sprinters such as Vanthourenhout, De Ketele and young Stenuit (borrowed from Pro Team Venchi - Sugoi) as the fastest guys on the line.
At the same time De Ketele is our strongest hilly rider making him a good bet for some good results in the many more or less hilly races expected to end in a sprint from a reduced group.
At first the team didn't have any climbers at all and since the mountains are scarce in Belgium we had to look outside the borders for someone to compete in races such as Andorra and Andalucia. We ended up with a Brazilian rider, Rodrigues, who will lead the team every time there is a mountain on the route.
We also felt we could do with a strong TT-rider, with special thought to Bayern Rundfahrt, where the TT is usually crucial for the GC. For that we went just over the border and signed Dutchman Berden de Vries.
There will be good support on the flat stages from the five strong Belgians Crombez, Dockx, Renders, Hovelynck and Mertens.
Spoiler | Last name | First name | Fla | Mon | Hi | TT | Sta | Res | Rec | Cob | Spr | Acc | Fig | Do | Pro | | Vanthourenhout | Sven | 70 | 61 | 64 | 57 | 70 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 74 | 67 | 78 | 57 | | De Ketele | Kenny | 68 | 69 | 71 | 67 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 66 | 73 | 75 | 54 | 67 | 67 | | Rodrigues | Jose Eriberto | 66 | 73 | 70 | 67 | 70 | 67 | 69 | 57 | 56 | 67 | 70 | 65 | 67 | | De Vries | Berden | 68 | 57 | 60 | 74 | 70 | 67 | 68 | 64 | 63 | 66 | 69 | 62 | 74 | | Crombez | Tijs | 70 | 56 | 68 | 60 | 71 | 66 | 65 | 69 | 62 | 73 | 58 | 56 | 60 | | Dockx | Bart | 71 | 55 | 65 | 61 | 71 | 68 | 72 | 68 | 62 | 69 | 63 | 64 | 61 | | Renders | Jens | 71 | 58 | 64 | 58 | 72 | 64 | 69 | 71 | 61 | 61 | 69 | 65 | 58 | | Hovelynck | Kurt | 72 | 51 | 66 | 54 | 71 | 67 | 70 | 68 | 69 | 65 | 66 | 54 | 54 | | Mertens | Tim | 68 | 57 | 63 | 72 | 63 | 63 | 68 | 65 | 70 | 71 | 70 | 71 | 72 | | Stenuit | Robin | 65 | 54 | 59 | 55 | 66 | 62 | 62 | 65 | 72 | 70 | 51 | 78 | 55 |
| Race | Type | Captains |  Tour of Rutland | Cobbled Classic |  Sven Vanthourenhout |  Tour du Haut Var | Hilly Stage Race | Kenny De Ketele | | |  Jose Eriberto Rodrigues |  Tour d'Andorra | Mountainous Stage Race | Jose Eriberto Rodrigues |  Giro di Padania | Mountain Stages/GC | Jose Eriberto Rodrigues | | Flat stages | Kenny De Ketele |  Vuelta a Andalucia | Classic Stage Race | Jose Eriberto Rodrigues |  Bayern Rundfahrt | Flat stages | Kenny De Ketele | | Time Trial/GC |  Berden De Vries | | Trofeo Matteotti | Hilly Classic | Kenny De Ketele |  Launceston to New Norfolk | Hilly/Mountain classic | Kenny De Ketele | | Copa America de Ciclismo | Flat Classic | Kenny De Ketele | | | Sven Vanthourenhout |  Hiroshima Curcuit | Flattish Classic | Kenny De Ketele |
| Race | Best Rider | Place | | Copa America de Ciclismo | Sven Vanthourenhout | 44th | | Giro di Padania | Kenny de Ketele | 26th | | Giro di Padania, St. 1 | Kenny de Ketele | 9th | | Giro di Padania, St. 2 | Kenny de Ketele | 20th | | Giro di Padania, St. 3 | Kenny de Ketele | 10th | | Giro di Padania, St. 4 | Jose E. Rodrigues | 15th | | Giro di Padania, St. 5 | Kenny de Ketele | 5th | | Tour du Haut Var | Kenny de Ketele | 30th | | Tour du Haut Var, St. 1 | Kenny de Ketele | 23rd | | Tour du Haut Var, St. 2 | Kenny de Ketele | 45th | | Tour of Rutland | Sven Vanthourenhout | 5th | | Tour d'Androrra, St. 1 | Jose E. Rodrigues | 5th | | Tour d'Androrra, St. 2 | Jose E. Rodrigues | 11th | | Tour d'Androrra, St. 3 | Jose E. Rodrigues | 3rd | | Tour d'Androrra, St. 4 | Tim Mertens | 19th | | Tour d'Androrra, St. 5 | Jose E. Rodrigues | 9th | | Tour d'Androrra, GC | Jose E. Rodrigues | 3rd | | Tour d'Androrra, Points | Jose E. Rodrigues | 2nd | | Tour d'Androrra, KOM | Jose E. Rodrigues | 4th | | Bayern Rundfahrt, St. 1 | Tim Mertens | 16th | | Bayern Rundfahrt, St. 2 | Tim Mertens | 28th | | Bayern Rundfahrt, St. 3 | Kurt Hovelynck | 34th | | Bayern Rundfahrt, St. 4 | Berden de Vries | 6th | | Bayern Rundfahrt, St. 5 | Berden de Vries | 29th | | Bayern Rundfahrt, GC | Berden de Vries | 6th | | Bayern Rundfahrt, Youth | Berden de Vries | WIN |
Edited by Atlantius on 13-02-2014 07:13
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| CountArach |
Posted on 30-08-2013 10:32
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You'll definitely be one of the teams I'm cheering for thanks to being from Belgium and having my former rider Stenuit on your team.
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 30-08-2013 10:35
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I see Atlantius. Good to know more about the competition.
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| ste_18 |
Posted on 30-08-2013 12:03
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BNPPARIBAS ON THE LINE: TEAM PRESENTATION
And here the race planning:
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| ryant |
Posted on 30-08-2013 15:51
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Team LKT
Today, new team LKT will be unveiled as a new team in the world of cycling, they feature mainly German riders, mostly to please their German sponsors.
They are:
The team gives an opportunity of leadership to many riders, and the team looks at giving itself a good showing during the series of cycling races.
Leaders:
Stefan Schafer: A rider with good ability to get over the hills and the ability to time trial pretty well gives Schafer the ability to captain the team in races like the Tour du Haut Var, Vuelta a Andalucia and Trofeo Matteotti. Other than that, he can be relied upon as a top domestique.
Peter Möhlmann: He is the teams only sprinter, he will have to rely on other sprint trains to get to the line, with the team not expecting much from him so top 9's will be great for the team.
 Gasper Svab: The teams best climber, although he lacks time trial ability, the team can hope for him to do pretty well in tough mountainous stages and can be an outsider for an overall victory. Svab can also ride for himself or for the benefit of the team in races like Vuelta a Andalucia because of his decent hill abilities.
Sven Krauss: He is the leader for the Tour of Rutland. Other than that, he will be a good team mate other the flats and can possibly be given the chance to break-away.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 30-08-2013 20:10
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My team presentation should be up tomorrow.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 30-08-2013 20:48
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So how does fitness work? Did I miss something on that? |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 30-08-2013 20:50
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Ulrich Ulriksen wrote:
So how does fitness work? Did I miss something on that?
Races are played in stage race / classic mode, so it has no impact
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 30-08-2013 21:29
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Thanks. Are injuries possible? |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 30-08-2013 21:30
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Ulrich Ulriksen wrote:
Thanks. Are injuries possible?
Not from one race to another, but in stage races yes. |
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| Luis Leon Sanchez |
Posted on 31-08-2013 00:35
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Are we all doing Team Presentations?
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 31-08-2013 00:37
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Luis Leon Sanchez wrote:
Are we all doing Team Presentations?
It's personal choice  |
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| 547984 |
Posted on 31-08-2013 01:18
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Node4 - Giordana Team Presentation
Spoiler | Last name | First name | FL | MO | HI | TT | STA | RES | REC | COB | SP | ACC | FTR | DH | PRL | | Hawkins | Peter | 72 | 54 | 64 | 64 | 72 | 65 | 73 | 55 | 76 | 73 | 57 | 53 | 68 | | Horton | Tobyn | 72 | 53 | 66 | 57 | 67 | 64 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 78 | 72 | 64 | 57 | | McNally | Mark | 70 | 64 | 67 | 63 | 71 | 69 | 69 | 68 | 74 | 70 | 66 | 67 | 63 | | Last | Tom | 70 | 52 | 62 | 61 | 66 | 65 | 64 | 69 | 74 | 77 | 56 | 69 | 61 | | Downing | Russell | 69 | 57 | 70 | 60 | 68 | 66 | 63 | 61 | 71 | 71 | 69 | 66 | 60 | | Swift-Metcalfe | Tomas | 67 | 70 | 65 | 62 | 70 | 66 | 66 | 55 | 57 | 71 | 65 | 65 | 62 | | Cassidy | Timothy | 70 | 61 | 67 | 63 | 70 | 69 | 67 | 57 | 66 | 71 | 72 | 62 | 63 | | Edmondson | Alexander | 66 | 57 | 60 | 64 | 66 | 64 | 65 | 58 | 68 | 69 | 67 | 63 | 71 | | Nose | Tomasz | 68 | 73 | 70 | 62 | 69 | 67 | 71 | 56 | 58 | 61 | 57 | 60 | 62 | | Simunek | Radomir | 66 | 67 | 64 | 56 | 68 | 69 | 68 | 72 | 67 | 63 | 59 | 80 | 56 |
Peter Hawkins is undoubtedly our best sprinter and he will lead us on all flat stages. He can also climb some hills so unless the stage is too steep he will be able to contend for the win.
Radomir Simunek is our best classics specialist, and he will no doubt lead us at the Tour of Rutland. We are also looking forward to his downhilling ability in some of the other races, as he could easily be one of the best descenders, given he places an attack.
Tomasz Nose is our climber/GC guy. We will be going for him on every mountain stage. He has shown that his ability to recover is exceptional and no doubt he will be our man when it comes to mountainous stage races.
Let's be blunt: Node4 is a pure sprinting team, with only a couple of climbers and one cobbler. That means we will focus on getting stage wins in stage races; our main focus of the season is obviously to achieve good results in the flat classics.
Top 20 Tour of Rutland - 25th - Simunek
Top 3 on Stage Tour du Haut Var - Stage 1 - Cassidy (4th)
Finish Tour of Andorra - 31-01-14, BONUS: Nose - Stage Podium
Stage win(s) Giro di Pandania - Stage 3 - Hawkins
Stage win(s) Vuelta a Andalucia
Points Jersey Bayern Rundfahrt - 6th - Hawkins
Top 15 Trofeo Matteotti
Top 5 Launceston to New Norfolk Classic
Podium Copa America de Ciclismo - 9th - Hawkins
Win Hiroshima Circuit - 10th - Hawkins
What was the logic behind the free agent signings?
Ideally we always want to sign riders that are important to the sponsor's region but we realised that Mountains and Cobbles were too much of a weakness to ignore.
Who may be your biggest rival?
Definitely Miche. Their DS by the name of B. Lover and I are always at it in the sprint stages. We will admit that they are better but that doesn't mean we can't beat them!
What happened when the Tour of Andorra route was revealed?
I found myself in the emergency room, they told me I suffered from a heart attack.
Edited by 547984 on 15-02-2014 21:28
baseballlover312, 06-03-14 : "Nuke Moscow...Don't worry Russia, we've got plenty of love to go around your cities"
Sarah Palin, 08-03-14 (CPAC, on Russian aggression) : "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke"
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 31-08-2013 02:13
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547984 - Nice presentation  |
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 31-08-2013 02:30
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"I'm clueless" says Ulriksen
In an unusual press conference earlier today Ulrich Ulriksen manager of iBanesto.com, the Madrid-based cycling team, admitted to being "clueless".
He went on to say "that he had no idea why a Spanish team with a Spanish-speaking roster would hire him as general manager" but that he would "give it a go" and that "while most of his experience is in the small appliance industry he had watched the Tour De France a few times".
He also commented that he was "glad to have the young Austrian Postlberger on the team because that made two of them who didn't understand anything going on in team meetings."
As far as the season ahead he said that "as a team of Spanish climbers we will obviously target Andorra, Andalusia and Padania with our best riders" and "try to persuade the rest of the boys to show up at the remaining races". He finished his comments on the season plan saying that his "biggest hope was that one of the team would actually finish the Tour of Rutland inside the time limit"
He concluded the press conference cheerfully, noting that "if we don't win anything at least I have already got a good recipe for fried plantains from Pedro [Sibila Romero, one of two Cuban riders on the team]" |
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| 547984 |
Posted on 31-08-2013 02:39
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sutty68 wrote:
547984 - Nice presentation
Thanks sutty, it's the first time I've been doing anything serious on the site in the past week.
baseballlover312, 06-03-14 : "Nuke Moscow...Don't worry Russia, we've got plenty of love to go around your cities"
Sarah Palin, 08-03-14 (CPAC, on Russian aggression) : "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke"
Big thanks to jdog for making this AMAZING userbar! |
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 31-08-2013 04:56
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FUJI
Team Presentation
The Riders
Fan Hsin Chu:
Specialisation: Climber
Important Stats: MOU:73, HILL: 72, RES:70, ACC:72
Fan Hsin Chu will be our main leader in the mountains, we think that with both his mountain and hill abilities combined, he's the best climber in the division. Needless to say he will lead us in the mountains.
Dario Diaz:
Specialisation: Sprinter
Important Stats: FL:70, MOU:65, HILL:64, TT:72, STA:70, SP:75, ACC:74, PRL:74
Dario is a real gem that we picked up from free agency, with great sprinting ability, and enough climbing skill to shake off other sprinters uphill, Dario is a huge contender for all sprint finishes wether in the peloton or a reduced bunch. Diaz is also a good time-trialist, and make look for some good results riding alone, too.
Parno Parno: 
Specialisation: Climber
Important Stats: MOU:70, HILL:72, STA:71, FIGHT:73
Adam Pierzga:
Important Stats: SP:75, ACC:77
Chin Lung Huang:
Shengjun Wu
Shinagawa Masahiro
Badr Mohamed Banihammad
Rudolf Zhilenko
Objectives
TOP 35-TOUR OF RUTLAND
Fuji are definitely an all-rounded team, but what we don't have is a cobblestone rider.
STAGE WIN(S)-TOUR DU HAUT VAR
WIN-TOUR OF ANDORRA
The biggest race of the season, it should be tough, but I believe in the team.
TOP 3-GIRO DI PADANIA
STAGE WIN(S) AND TOP 3-VUELTA A ANDALUCIA
STAGE WIN(S) AND KOM JERSEY-BAYERN RUNDFAHRT
TOP 5-TROFEO MATTEOTI
TOP 12-LAUNCESTON TO NEW NORFOLK CLASSIC
TOP 3-COPA AMERICA DE CICLISMO
WIN-HIROSHIMA CIRCUIT
Press conference with the manager coming soon.
Edited by Cycleman123 on 31-08-2013 04:58
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 31-08-2013 05:00
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547984 wrote:
Win Hiroshima Circuit
It seems we have a problem...
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| ste_18 |
Posted on 31-08-2013 07:59
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Nice presentations guys! Unfortunately mine is looking a bit awful   |
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