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| Alakagom |
Posted on 16-10-2012 22:05
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Nice discussions going here, I don't mind them at all  And as Cio pointed out anyway Dombrowski should have 78 in his 2nd season and that's quite decent already. However his TT sucks so that will be a bit of handicap. We'll see how it goes, if opportunity presents - we'll definitely go for him - but there are many other nice talents in the DB as well.
To respond to viking90. We'd be definitely interested in Kevin Ista and could strike a deal when the transfer window begins. However we'll be making our plan for transfers in coming days and how we envision the team this year, more will come in few days about our trasnfers and those will include Ista rumour to join the team.
We'd opt out of Michiel Van Aelbroeck though as he doesn't really fit our plan.
Edited by Alakagom on 16-10-2012 22:08
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 21-10-2012 16:14
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Edited by Alakagom on 29-10-2012 13:14
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 24-10-2012 17:30
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Training Sessions in progress
On a team meeting, our 4 re-signed riders along some of our staff have been testing the new equipment and the jersey. The brand new helmets and accessories are still being designed, but here you can see some exclusive photos taken. Enjoy.
Edited by Alakagom on 24-10-2012 17:30
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 25-10-2012 16:27
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Specialized, and the maker felix_29 has made an outstanding job on the bikes we'll ride this year. We have two options, and would love you view on wchich one too pick ? So what's your view ?
The black coloured frame is sexyy as hell in my opinion, meanwhile the 2nd frame colour resembles our team's main sponsor colour and fits perfectly with our jersey. So which one would you pick ?
Edited by Alakagom on 29-10-2012 13:13
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| jt1109 |
Posted on 25-10-2012 16:30
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2nd one defiantly i think though there both great pieces of work. |
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 25-10-2012 16:33
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Yeah, go all purple |
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 25-10-2012 17:01
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I'd pick the black one. The contrast with the purple looks good in-game. Not so sure completely purple would look good.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 25-10-2012 17:17
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I really like the black one. 
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 25-10-2012 17:19
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Purple for me. Both look great, but I think that it matches the rest of your kit a bit better.
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 25-10-2012 19:45
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I prefer the black one but the purple one would go better with your kit so I suggest going with that one instead.
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| felix_29 |
Posted on 25-10-2012 21:34
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I like both frames  so i can´t help you make a decision, but my Zipp wheels with black labels would suit nicely.
https://pcmdaily.c...ost_595344
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Posted on 22-11-2024 12:05
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| CountArach |
Posted on 25-10-2012 23:15
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As others have said the black one is great but the purple one goes better. I think purple.
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 29-10-2012 13:20
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Thanks everyone for the input Well I'll check out the purple frame in-game today and see how it contrasts with the rider and the jersey. If it's alright then that's the frame I'll pick. Now just the accessories and helmet needed to be done and we're ready equipment wise for 2013 !
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 10-11-2012 15:36
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 18-11-2012 17:29
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 | [HC] E3 Prijs | Win |  | [C1] 5 Jours de Dunkerque | Win |  | [HC] Criterium Hainleite | Top 5 |  | [C1] Bahir Dan | Top 5 |  | Africa Tour Standings | Top 5 |
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 18-11-2012 17:29
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E3 Prjis
Our biggest goal of the season is the toughest one. The prestigious classic will be well contested, Team BPost will certainly be favourites after last year show and will want to take revenge, but we sure hope to spoil their party.
5 Jours de Dunkerque
To no surprise another win goal for us this year is rather cobbled stage race. Well to be honest, it has only one cobbled stage - but a very tough one at that. The same kind of rider we'll target this race again, with hopefully the right support we can achieve another objective here in France.
Criterium Hainleite
The German classic is another race hopefully suited to our team. However this race is rather unpredciatble, with only short lengths of cobbles it can come down to puncheurs along the cobbles to fight it out for the victory. We'll have hopefully two optional leaders in this race, and with good back-up, anything other than Top 5 would be quite disappointing.
Bahir Dan
Trying to spread cycling across the globe, we've decided to target few races outside of Europe. And this African race suits our team perfectly, I hope. With plenty of cobbles along way and the hill top finish, it suits our targeted leader perfectly. Top 5 is the target, but we hope for something even better than that.
Africa Tour Standings
The Standings goals are always tough to pick, and this one might shock few people. Well, especially for the new teams, picking this goal is very hard. With no team as of yet and no past experience in the division it's tough how the team you want to assemble will perform. The Overall Team Standing is way too risky for us to predict. Our choice was always going to be the Regional Standings.
Here was the tough choice between the European and African Tours. We opted for the latter one, in which only one race wouldn't suit our team really, out of all 8 races in .HC and C1. Meanwhile European calendar has wide variety, we don't want to go to any stage races with big mountains, and so the choice was made. We didn't want to be greatly optimistic with our goal here, and Top 5 here is a realistic target which we hopefully will achieve.
Overall, all our goals looks realistic and achievable. We'll need to be on the ball to achieve all of them, but with some luck we can do it. Team BPost will definitely want to cross our plans though and it will be interesting contest between us hopefully ( and everyone else too )
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| roturn |
Posted on 18-11-2012 17:37
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Nice goals.
We will meet pretty often. Boom won E3 last season and he might be there again depending on hte race days.
Criterium Hainleite is indeed unpredictable. Now with flat terrain different to last season. The cobbles on downhill.
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 18-11-2012 17:48
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Thanks mate. Boom was indeed amazing last year spoiling it for BPost. Hopefully we can do the same this year. And we'll definitely enjoying racing alongside you. Definitely we'll enter as well lot of races that Boom will want to win, with hills and time trial, so hopefully we'll have our own battles too
Criterium Hainleite is indeed risky, as break can make it. Top punchuer can make it. Or even a cobbler. So its a bit risky goal, but with 2 cobbled races in .HC - we had to pick both of them as our goals. Having a good team will be essential, whether to pull back the break or join the break yourself.
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| roturn |
Posted on 18-11-2012 18:06
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I would actually go for a sprinter in Criterium Hainleite.
Maximum a breakaway.
But never played it with PCM12.
Sure you will do great battles with Bpost in especially. |
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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 18-11-2012 18:52
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We might be seeing each other quite often on the African Tour. Looking forward to it
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