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[EPIC] Sojasun
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 23-02-2014 18:27
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Expanding Controversy
The recent events surrounding young Rider Ylvo Chelyakov has got a lot of people talking about cycling, and not for the good reasons. His direct boss LLDS is still missing, and it has now been noting that Sojasun manager TschoppChopp has also been missing for an extended period of time.
At first glances there is not a lot connecting the various events, until you notice that both teams play host to a Feunard brother and a welker owned rider. The rumors circulate that perhaps the new EPIC cycling league set up is not the clean revolution people were sold.
The angry take over of the running of professional cycling carried likeness to a number of Eastern European uprisings through time and allegedly there are documents in existence stating Mafia backing of the league. It all links together in a worrying way
hahahaha, oh fuck 
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 10-04-2014 06:39
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Firmansyah Sinaga would like to ride in
 NORWAY
Since that is the last thing left. |
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 10-04-2014 08:16
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Race days as well, please 
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 10-04-2014 13:09
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Ollfardh wrote:
Race days as well, please
Nobody forgets Cervero
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| Cycleman123 |
Posted on 11-04-2014 01:04
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Umm... Ok then?
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 11-04-2014 08:26
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Well, no racedays soon means you'll miss Norway as well 
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 11-04-2014 15:47
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5 for Norway?
13 so far?
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 17-04-2014 11:26
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Sullied Reputations
Earlier in the season Sojasun manager TschoppChopp was potentially linked in with the death of Ylvo Chelyakov and mafia activity in and around the Russia-Kazakhstan area. While there has still be no signs of the manager in several months the search is still ongoing, albeit with decreasing hope of a successful end.
The latest consequence of this has been to see Sojasun's Tour de France Wildcard withdrawn by the ASO. A brief statement from the ASO details the reasoning which can be summed up as protecting the image of the Tour de France and cycling. Since the takeover of the UCI there has been massive increases in cycling popularity because of a lack of controversy's and doping allegations.
This move to keep Sojasun out of the Tour de France is another sign that the new management system is serious about it's causes and is not afraid to make potentially unpopular decisions. The questions though continue from the Chelyakov Incident and conspiracy's are abound with draw in other missing riders and managers, and some even go so far as to relate them with theory's about missing plane MH370 and Kazakhstan.
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 27-04-2014 17:19
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Firmansyah in Norway
Hello, just letting you all know I'm still here. There was a little problem with sorting out my race schedule, especially with the boss being so mysterious (see above). Well, that was the first I heard about this whole incident.
Still, I managed to make it out to Norway, and I'm looking for a result. I may not be the best climber there, but there's only one real hilly stage, so with a bit of luck I could do well. The first few stages have been flat, so I have only been hanging around, maybe when the hills come around it'll be different. |
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 10-05-2014 00:50
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Introduction + Pre-Season
Hallo everybody, my name is Aquali Feunard, I’m one of the new guys joining the peloton this year. I’m 18 years old, from France. I’m riding for the Sojasun team this year but you probably guessed that, since it’s from the Sojasun page. What you probably haven’t guessed that I’m not from an average family. That’s because I currently have 7 siblings, 2 of which also joined the pro peloton this year. Those numbers go quick when your parents have triplets (which I’m part of) and twins twice. Well the mathematical geniuses here see immediately that there is one sibling missing, that’s because she was born only fairly recently. and since our parents already were busy with the second set of twins (it’s really degrading saying it like that) they asked me and my triplet brothers to maybe help out during the first part of the season. Of course we were a little hesitated with answering but when my brother Pyroli (who rides for Caja-Rural this season) said that he only had three races during the first part of the season we came to terms that we together should be able to care of her. Mostly the reason why I wasn’t able to make any introductions when I started riding for the team. But the last twins are now going to school and need less attention so me and my parents can go back to doing the things they like best. For me that’s cycling professionally and for them is taking care of my brothers and sisters.
 GP la Marseillaise
So now less excuses and more Cycling, that’s why I was hired here right . My season started chaotic in the GP Marseillaise, I tried to be in the break of the day but the group was too big and we couldn’t stay away and when the break was allowed to get away I wasn’t in it. So I rode with peloton as long as I could and had a nice chat with one of my brothers who apparently also started his season in France (not Pyroli but the other one, Voltali who rides for Accent Jobs). That got us thinking for something that will be talked about later. I finished 100th over 5 minutes back one the breakaway winner Alexsandr Dyachenko (Astana). But even another 5 minutes back finished Voltali, I couldn’t resist smiling a bit and laughing at him but he got his revenge sooner than I hoped it would be. My teammates Maxime Méderel got third outsprinting that annoying Thomas Voeckler (it’s true what they say about him)
GP di Lugano 
My next race was in Lugano, with was also the second meeting with my brother Voltali. With Julien Simon and one of the Allan’s as one of the favorites we were the team to make the race. However we as a team decided not do any work, forcing Saxo Bank, Katusha and FDJ of doing all the work. However that plan wasn’t working since a break won and Simon and the Allens only managed 31st, 33rd and 46th (in the peloton however so at least that’s something) to make matters worse Voltali finished 10 places before me (91st against 101st) over 17 minutes behind the winner Karpets (Movistar)
Paris - Nice
I ended the first part of the season with two stage races Paris – Nice and Criterium International, a nice test to see we’re I stand on World Tour - and Continental Tour level. Paris – Nice is easily summarized: best finish position was 122th at stage 6 which was one of the harder stages. I was only 15 minutes behind of Froome. The first few stages were nothing special, 22 seconds behind on stage one and caught behind the crash on the second stage so I lost time that day as well. Not that it is really important though. I’m not here for a GC. Stage 3 wasn’t important really, super flat. So I finished casually in the peloton. Stage 4 was a hilly stage and those aren’t my favorite thing in the world, and the blazing fast pace after the second mountain sprint, too fast for me to follow. However I feel like I’m getting better in shape, further shown in the next stage. I still finished well down the field but the finishing position was getting better and better. The sixth stage was one I looked forward to the most as it was not really hilly but more mountain oriented. I like that better then hilly stages, too much up and down. I was able to follow the peloton for a while but I spent too much energy trying to follow the peloton so when I got dropped, I dropped like a stone. Still managed to finish in my best finishing position as 122th place, over 15 minutes down on Froome. Guess he went full retard mode  . I was too exhausted to follow the peloton on the next stage as I was still tired from yesterday effort. During the final stage (the mountain time trail) I thought that I took it easy but when I finished,I was actually ranked 8th, the only bad thing was that only 35 riders finished at that time. I stayed around to watch the other riders that were the other guys. That’s a advantage to starting early in a time trail, there is enough time to shower and change to watch the top class riders, it’s not every day that you can watch a robot like Froome winning a stage. In the end I finished 162th in the GC 45 minutes down on Valverde. This pretty much shows that I’m not ready for the Word Tour yet
Criterium International
I then enjoyed a two week break (well break as in taking care of my siblings) and that next race was Criterium International. Which composes of three different kind of stages. A flat stage for sprinters, a time trail of time trailers and a mountain stages for climbers. I was looking forward to the last stage. The first two stages were kind of boring so I won’t waste too many words on those since I didn’t waste too much energy there. the stage that followed was the one I was looking out for. with the Allans as team leaders I was helping them keep out of the wind and fetching bottles of the other guys, I was feeling strong. It wasn’t until that I was dropped, giving one last round of bottles to the guys still in the peloton. I didn’t divide my energy well enough and I dropped back really fast, I was even overtaken by Basso, who did caught a second wind. I eventually finished 67th in the stage and GC and I was satisfied with that, my highest finish all season. with that the first part of my season finished and since I don’t have any more races I’ll continue with the with the next part.
Tour of Turkey 
my second part of the calendar was the Tour of Turkey and the two German classics Finanzplatz and Koln. the first stage started well, I joined the break of the day with Dermot Walker, another rider riding his first season, however we didn’t talk much during the stage, we just did our turns at the front and were only caught with 5 km’s to go and finished 70th place. during the second stage I just stayed in the peloton, recovering a bit from yesterday’s effort, El Fares only managed a 19th place in the sprint. in the third stage I did a lot of work for Travis Jones and he finished it off with a great 3rd place, with Hivert, Feillu and Pauriol also in the yellow jersey group so the GC ambitions stayed alive. stage four was really hectic, I finished and asked my team manager, what the hfil happened? he didn’t knew either, there were attacks all over the place. I stayed calm again during the 5th stage, El Fares only managed 21st still far away from points. the 6th stage was the only one that could still affect the GC, however it was less hard then the fourth stage but Jones still got 6th place. with El Fares, Hivert and Feillu all finishing in the top 20 I did good work for them this stage. in addition with all of them in the top 25 of the GC, I must have been doing a pretty good job. at that point the tour was pretty much over for us and I used rolled to the finish during stage 7 and 8. (87th and 119th)
Rund um den Finanzplatz/Rund um Köln 
my German campaign started in Finanzplatz with a free-role, try to get someone in the break and see how it ends. sadly we weren’t in the right break of the day, Delaplace only managed to get some time on the peloton but was quickly caught, I only finished 130th out of 141 finishers, not happy at all. we entered Koln with the same strategy and we got something out of it, with Tortelier getting 13th after a rider from Europcar took the win. I don’t really like that team, don’t really know why, properly because there are teams without managers and that team has two managers. that’s just my opinion and it’s not like what I think matters in the big cycling world yet, I just finished 122th in Rund um Köln, the UCI would properly just laugh if I say that I don’t agree with what they think maybe if I could some UCI points then maybe they don’t laugh as hard but after 2 thirds of my first season and still pointless I’m learning that I need a lot more training before I can actually win races. I’m looking forward to the my next race which is actually the Championnats de France (in other words the French National Championships )
Feunard Games
since it’s unlikely that me or any of my brothers are going to win something this year or maybe even the years after it. we wanted something to cheer about so we came up with our own sort of championships, which we called the Feunard Games. how it works is simple: we are racing against each other, inside the races we normally do and when two of us both join one race, the one that finishes first gets 1 point and the one that finishes last gets nothing and if we all three are racing in a race, the winner gets 3 points and the number two gets 1 point. obviously number three gets nothing. so without actually winning races and earning UCI points, we still win and earn Feunard points (working title ) this way. we actually had some races already. GP la Marseillaise (me v Voltali), Strada Bianche (Pyroli v Voltali), GP di Lugano (me vs Voltali) and Finanzplatz (me vs Voltali again). I sadly only managed to win one of the races against Voltali and that was at GP la Marseillaise (100th against 110th), good thing that Pyroli won his match against Voltali meaning that Voltali now has 2 points and Pyroli and me both have 1 point. with the French NC next up and we all three present the winner of that race will take over the standings lead. I’m already training for it so I’m signing off now, I’ll add the races and standings of the Feunard games and a picture gallery to this (way too long) blog. see you next time
- Aquali Feunard
| Race | First | Second (if possible) | Last | | GP la Marseillaise | Aquali (100th) | | Voltali (110th) | | Strade Bianche | Pyroli (59th) | | Voltali (132th) | | GP di Lugano | Voltali (91th) | | Aquali (101th) | | Finanzplatz | Voltali (80th) | | Aquali (130th) |
| Best of Three | First | Last | Points | | Voltali (Accent Jobs) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | | Pyroli (Caja-Rural) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | Aquali (Soajsun) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
me trying to get in a successful break @GP Marseille
going after Dermot Walker of NetApp forming the break of the day @Tour of Turkey-Stage 1
pesky Walker beating me at the intermediate sprint @Tour of Turkey stage 1 |
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| brewers90 |
Posted on 10-05-2014 01:09
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SSJ2Luigi wrote:
pesky Walker beating me at the intermediate sprint @Tour of Turkey stage 1
Ha, get owned. 
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 10-05-2014 09:50
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Hmm, better late then never for that introduction post
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-05-2014 12:56
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That blue text doesn't half play havoc with the eyes |
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 10-05-2014 13:29
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sutty68 wrote:
That blue text doesn't half play havoc with the eyes
if you have a problem with that you should have said something when I signed the riders up.
I guess you can always avoid the Sojasun, Accent Jobs and Caja-Rural threads
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 10-05-2014 13:43
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SSJ2Luigi wrote:
sutty68 wrote:
That blue text doesn't half play havoc with the eyes
if you have a problem with that you should have said something when I signed the riders up.
I guess you can always avoid the Sojasun, Accent Jobs and Caja-Rural threads
Nothing wrong with Blue.... in moderation!
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 23-07-2014 14:35
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As requested, Sojasun races part 3:
Tour de Wallonie
San Sebastian
Danmark
Varesine
Plouay
Parix-Bruxelles
Fourmies
GP Wallonie
Vendee
Paris-Tours
Chrono
Hainan
Do it the same as before, post the races your rider wants to ride, and then the racedays part 1 + part 2 + part 3 = total racedays.
Edited by Ollfardh on 23-07-2014 14:36
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 05-08-2014 01:31
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after a long time of thinking I can finally conform my calander for the last part of the season. if you want to see me race, you know now where to find me
Tour de Wallonie
Danmark
Fourmies
Vendee
Paris-Tours
this would give me 13 + 10 + 14 = 37 days in the saddle this season
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 12-08-2014 17:19
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Firmansyah Sinaga would like to ride....
Everything except Chrono des Nations
18 so far
This time 22
Give me a minute.... 62, yes, thats right 62 race days spent. What brilliant season planning hoping to ride the Tour and building my season around that.
Spoiler not like I've only spent 40 or anything |
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| The Hobbit |
Posted on 14-08-2014 19:56
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Jumping Ship
Firmansyah Sinaga is happy to announce that it looks unlikely I will be at Sojasun next season. 2 great teams have come into make an offer, offers which normally I would be stupid to reject. One of them has to be rejected though, and I am still making that decision.
For now though, one team is definitely looking like they will win, so you can expect an announcement in just a few days. I am really looking forward to the next season, which will hopefully be an improvement, both in terms of organisation, and performances. This development has given me a new found strength, so maybe I will perform more strongly in my packed end of season run in. |
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 16-08-2014 00:39
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If you are a fan of my brothers blogs and have read their updates on the Championnats de France (France national championship) this is going too sound repetitive. It was a classic case of no teams wanting to chase and the result was only three finishers before the organizers took the rest out of the race. Huge disappointment for me and the other guys. Also a no result for the all important Feunard games.
The next race scheduled for the games is the Post Danmark Rundt. 6 stages against the sprinter, Voltali. Hopefully I’m able to survive the harder stages to take some points back there . |
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