@Miguel: Yeah, thanks for notice. His best result is from Tirreno prologue this year, but he also did well in 20-30kms long TTs (probably not so strong in 30+), so maybe prologue a point or two better than actual TT.
Name: Juan Murillo Country: Venezuela Date of Birth: 01/09/1982 PCS: Link CQ Ranking: Link
6th in Vuelta al Tachira, 2nd in Vuelta Ciclista a Venezuela. Looks like an explosive climber with also good ability on small hills.
Name: Jonathan Camargo Country: Venezuela Date of Birth: 31/07/1988 PCS: Link CQ Ranking: Link
8th in Vuelta al Tachira, with top 10's in the mountain stages, while having small dificulties on small explosive climbs. 3rd in Vuelta Ciclista a Venezuela. Explosive climber who may suffer across small hills.
Name: Pedro Sequera Country: Venezuela Date of Birth: 07/07/1991 PCS: Link CQ Ranking: Link
18th in Vuelta al Tachira, beeing 2nd in the youth classification there. He improved that result in Vuelta Ciclista a Venezuela, where he finished in 7th place and also won the youth classification. He's a pure climber, suffering in short steep climbs as well. Also probably deserves potential 5.
Name: Eduin Becerra Country: Venezuela Date of Birth: 28/09/1985 PCS: Link CQ Ranking: Link
Winner of this year's NC from Venezuela, finishing in 5th place in Vuelta al Tachira. Also finished 4th in the ITT NC from Venezuela. Good climber, beeing to pass in the 1st group the hilly stage's. He also doesn't have a bad sprint and he's explosive in both long climbs and short steep climbs.
Sergey Belykh
4th of March 1990 https://www.cqrank...erid=16503
Sergey hasn't really ridden this year, but last year he was really good with a win and two 2nd place finishes. He might be able to reach 77 in sprint and 74 in flat in some years.
Matvey Zubov
22th of January 1991 https://www.cqrank...erid=16502
Matvey is a good rider, but hadn't has his luck this year. Though he won the youth classification in Five Rings of Moscow, he has not gotten any other great results. But he is still young and could be a decent timetrialler in some years.
Strong time-triallist, 2nd in the junior Euro TT, winner in the junior Chrono des Nations, 6th overall in the junior Niedersachsen Rundfahrt and 9th in the junior World TT last year and first in the Irish U23 TT this year. Won the Irish junior RR and TT in '11. He also had kermesse wins and wins in (I think) the Dutch junior tour and is rumoured to Rabo Continental next year: https://www.stickybottle.com/latest-ne...nterested/
On Chad Haga: Yes he is insanely good, I'd even venture at putting him around 72 MO/HI. He is one of the top domestic American pros, as he podiumed in Merco, Redlands, and Cascade, won Joe Martin, and has a ton of other top 10 results in both road races and time trials.
Name: Phillip Gaimon DOB: 28/01/1986 Nationality: USA PCstats:https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/...lip_Gaimon
He's an American who has been doing well in the domestic pro races, but is riding for Garmin next year. Won road stages of the Cascade and Merco classics, and the TT in San Dimas. 2nd overall at the Gila between Deignan and Mancebo, a bunch of other top 10's at NRC races. So he's pretty much an all-rounder who can climb and time trial best of all.
Name: Carter Jones DOB: 27/02/1989 Nationality: USA PCstats:https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/...rter_Jones
He's a breakaway guy/climber. Was all over the Tour of California in breakaways and ended up winning the KoM. Podium in a hill top finish of the Tour de Beauce behind Mancebo, and top 10's in GC in both the Gila and Utah. I'd give him a high Fighter stat and a decent Mountain/Hill, more mountain than hill.
Name: Alex Hagman DOB: 13/07/1983 Nationality: USA PCstats:https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider....?id=132999
A good American domestic pro for Jelly Belly. He's a pure climber and had some great results this year with top 10's in stages of Cascade and Valley of the Sun, and he won a mountain top finish stage at the Sea Otter Classic. I'd put him around 68/69 MO.
Name: Luke Keough DOB: 10/08/1991 Nationality: USA PCstats:https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider....?id=122069
Jake Keough's younger brother on United Health Care. Equally talented sprinter, if not better. He's currently sitting in 3rd in the National Criterium Calendar standings, behind 2 of his team mates. Not much on his PCS page because most of his races are domestic pro criteriums, but he has a ton of wins and podiums there: https://www.usacycling.org/results/?co...pid=229135
Name: Mirco Saggiorato DOB: 16/04/1988 Nationality: Swiss PCstats:https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/...Saggiorato
Looks like a stout climber. Won 2 mountain stages of the Tour des Pays de Savoie and finished 2nd in the Fleche du Sud, with a decent result in the Swiss RR Nationals as well.
Name: Oliver Hoffstetter DOB: 16/01/1990 Nationality: Swiss PCstats:https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/...Hofstetter
Leopard Continental website lists him as a sprinter/classics guy, from his results it looks like he is a decent sprinter who can make it over hills. He's probably another big engine guy.
Name: Enea Cambianica DOB: 21/11/1989 Nationality: Swiss PCstats:https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider....eason=2013
Riding as a staigaire for Lampre this year. He is listed as a climber. Looks like his biggest result was 7th at the Tour de la Guadaloupe last year.
Name: Jóni Brandão Country: Portugal Date of Birth: 20/11/1989 PCS: Link CQ Ranking:Link Rider ID: 835
First, change his name from Brandao to Brandão. Then, a big boost in his FTR and END skills, FTR to high 70's and endurance to high 60's, low 70's. He's also better on small steep climbs than on longer climbs.
The best Canadian talent at the moment good sprinting results which is his best discipline but he has also shown to be able to tackle small enough hills in stag races well but a sprinter to follow
This guy has come into his own this year in Canadian TT's winning almost every regional TT he entered he then followed up with beating Christian Meier though now 29 he's had his best year to date. Specialist TT rider
This guy deserves a massive boost for this season since the last update he's become a great hilly rider with a good bunch kick 10th in Quebec and up there in the Japan Cup he also won a stage in Catalunya maybe up to 74+ hills 73+ plus sprint and higher stamina
Thrives in the high mountains like in the Tour de Beauce see him in the sort of Peter Pancake mould but a bit better also good at getting in breakaways.
Hills loving rider who did well enough in last year in 2.2 hilll races also finished high up on a mountain top finish in Beauce this year so 70's in hill and mountain would be my guess with a preference to hills.
I couldn't resist when i realized he was a climber who couldn't do anything else has to be the best name in the man-game by far and he gets a stats boost next year!
Former Australian road race champion in 2011. Strong results this year including winning the Mount Fuji stage in the Tour of Japan and placing second overall in the New Zealand Cycling Classic. Clearly a decent Climber. Okay against the clock seems to prefer the longer tests too prologues. The Mount Fuji result was a bit of an overachievement but his other results do imply he is possibly a 68 or 69 Mountain climber possibly a bit less on the hills.
5th in the Australian TT championships this year and 6th in the less prestigious Oceania ITT. A decent rouler by the looks from his Tour of Sinkarak results, but looks like more of a pure chrono man.
Young Aussie chrono specialist, fitting their endless conveyer belt of men in that regard. 3rd in the U23 Australian TT at the beginning of the year to Howson, but edged Howson at the Olympia’s Tour in May on his way to 9th overall, implying he is slightly better than Howson on the hilly stuff. Also edged Howson again at the Thuringen Rundfaht, in both races was pretty ordinary in the shorter prologue well behind Howson implying he prefers the longer tests.
Current U23 Australian Road Race champion, who rode this years Santos Tour Down Under for the UniSA team, his best finish was 44th on the hilly finish into stirling. Featured in some breakaways there and has been getting some top 5 results mainly from breakaways in the small stage races in Morocco and Korea. Prior to this year Jordan is a bit of a Prologue specialist though finishes lower. down on some of the longer tests. Seems unable to deal with hilly stages too well at this stage.
Former mountain biker punchy type who currently rides for Raleigh as one of their hilly leaders. Good enough to finish with the bigger guns in the Tour of Haut Var and recently won a mountains competition in the circuit des Ardennes. Former stagiere for HTC- Highroad in 2011, but had a blank year in the one following. Before joining HTC had some good results in the Tour of Taiwan and Tour of Wellignton. Seems to have some mountain ability also possibly MO 64 to 66ish and hills perhaps as high as 70. Not to bad against the clock like must Aussies.
Kiwi all rounder who seems to climb okay when feeling good, but seems to be more of a hardman sprinter type. Finished behind Caleb Ewan in the top 10 on a couple of occasions in the Thuringen-Rundfaht. 5th in the New Zealand TT championships implies some okay TT skills.
Kiwi sprinter who has several top tens in Asia Tour races. Currently racing in the UK for Node 4 Giordana, with some good sprint results over here. As always does okay in TTs, notably finishing in the top 20 of the opening ITT in the Tour of Langkawi 2012. Possibly sprint as high as 71 – with the potential to slightly improve with some experience. Climbs okay over the small hills, but no results to speak of over the mountains. Has plenty of stage racing experience.
Young Italian climber who finished a highly credible 23rd in this years Giro (5th in the Youth standings), followed this up by and impressive 5th at the Route du Sud finishing just behind the lead group. Has had good results in hilly classics but seems better as a mountain climbing stage racer. Finished 66th in the long ITT at the Giro – around the same time as Betencur.
Long time Euskaltel climbing domestique seem mainly hauling Sammy Sanchez up the climbs at the Giro. Pretty ordinary against the clock, has had a few decent results on the hillier stages. Somewhere around 73 Hill and 71 MO or possibly a notch or two higher – your classic minimum wage climbing domestique, with the capability to climb with 30 to 40 lead groups. Not known to have any real sprint speed.
Team Colombia sprinter who battled through this years Giro D’Italia finishing 11th behind Cavendish on the flat stage 6. Has achieved top 10 in sprint stages across Europe this year (Burgos, Luxembourg, Turkey and Algarve. Had been improving in the Americas Tours prior to this season certainly has the potential to improve to a 78/79 level sprinter, shown little climbing or chrono ability, though can at least claim to have finished the majority of stage races he starts (i.e. Not Bos levels of hill hating!)
Very good Italian TT specialist 8th in this years long TT at the Giro 2013, 4th in the opening prologue in 2012 and second in the short TT at the Crit International. Seen by some as having the potential to win small stage races as long a climbs are not too severe. Won the mountains classification at this years Volta ao Algarve. Has possibly the potential to get up to around 79/80 in the TT, could argue is already around this number with 7th at last years Chrono des Nations. Would say can survive hills okay but mountains are a bit iffy. Something like 72/73 HI and 68/69 MO and medium sprinting in the low 60’s.
Italian journeyman chrono specialist – relied on by Liquigas often as a reliable Team time trial rider. Has regurlarly finished in the top ten in his national Time trial championships, including 3rd in 2011. Has ridden and finished all three grand Tours and usually features in the top 50 of the chrono stages whilst being a regular in the autobus. A classic TT rouler type who can do okay in hilly classics domestiquely and has experience of the cobblestones, possibly high 60’s HI, low 60’s COBB, high 50’s MO and high 70’s TT. Seemingly uninterested in Sprinting or Prologues so low stats there.
Currently fully XP MO 58, HI 66 and I think following a strong Giro and narrowly failed to deny Voeckler a win in the Dauphine stage into Grenoble surely needs a climbing boost to something around 76 MO and 73 HI or something in the region of that. Possibly with higher STA, Rec, RES as well. A really decent climbing domestique for Movistar who could be a very helpful rider for Valverde in the upcoming Vuelta.
Lvl 1 0 rider not picked up last year with a potential of 4. Fairly average stats in the database across the board. Looks to have the potential to be a strong climber so based on Dauphine KoM jersey this year and some reasonable climbing performances at the Giro.
25 year old Dutch climber who has ridden the last two Giro’s with improving results in the final week. Very much a rider with potential at this stage and in riding for Lotto seems off the radar of the dreaded Dutch fanboys. Had some good results back when he was a U23 rider in those races on the harder climbing stages.
Young Italian sprinter who can get over small hills. Was 22nd up Green Mountain this year finishing 4th on the Youth Classification and in general seems to have okay stage racing attributes in the 60’s in the main as is no disgrace against the clock. Certainly has a kick to his finish finishing in the top 15 four times at the Giro including the stage that Degenkolb won and third in the opening large group sprint in last years Tour of Austria and winning a stage at 2012’s Tour of Langkawi from a large breakaway. Possibly one for the medium developed riders.
Whilst the ‘real-lfe’ Oleg Tinkov may disagree with me (not the MG manager) the MG Hernandez stats have led to Bertie’s mate being overlooked by MG teams. Currently surely amongst the better climbing domestiques around (no doubt if he had to work for himself would struggle to replicate results but even so). Recommending a rework of stats for a late MG career, possibly of course in one of the Spanish outfits around. Currently MO 62, HI 61, TT 59. I’d argue for MO 76, HI 71, TT 66 (allowing for him being 33 next year, the normal MG wind down period).
One of Sojasun’s better climbers in this years Tour who gave a battling performance on the penultimate stage to finish 20th. Has done pretty will in his first full year as a professional could improve in the future, to become a really decent climber. Doesn’t appear to be too bad against the clock and has an okay finish to him also.
Free agent who showed some excellent sprint speed at this years Tour with a couple of top tens, most notably down the Champ D’Elysees. It should be noted also that Reza finish 5th on the opening flat sprint stage of the Tour de Romandie this year as well. Seems also okay at mediam level hills so a slight hill boost is perhaps in order. Climbs the high mountains in the gruppetto – but impressively held his energy levels okay. MO 53 -> 56, HI 59 - > 65 and SP 57 - > 74 ACC 62 - > 70, STA 64 - > 69?
Is not in the database I don’t think. Europcar hardman rouler with a decent finishing speed also. Numerous stage wins in La Tropicale and this year grabbed a stage in the Route de Sud in a field sprint, can defenately mix it with the sprinters. Won a stage at the Tour de Langkawi back in 2009 again out of a field sprint. A weak climber but very good on the flat as seen often at the head of the pack in 2011 when Voeckler had his stint in yellow. I’d say FLA 75, COB 67, SPR 76/77 ACC 74/75, will be 33 next year.
Second rank Spanish (basque) sprinter (actually racking my brains there is not to many top rank Spanish sprinters around at the moment!). Did well in Majorca in the early season and at the Tour de Haut Var. Numerous top tens and some good stand out results including 5th into Lyon in this years Tour. Won Last years Paris Correze. Possibly could be an Impey like late bloomer – currently I’d say around 77 SPR with HILL’s around 66 to 67, possibly higher has finished a number of Basque Country stages in the top 10. Raced on the cobbles this year and last year also and did okay for a Spanish rider.
That is a great list Smowz, i forgot Boaro is not in the database and i was going to post Rosa and few other italians too, so thanks for saving some of my time.
Anyway, here are some of my fellow countrymen and input on them:
Hirt is already a free agent, but i think he needs a second look (he has 4 potential now), actually he is maybe one of the best climbing prospects around. He is sriding for Leopard CT for second year and he has some nice results this year, like winning mountain stage at Tour de Azerbaijan by more than 4 minutes. He also came 4th overall at Tour Alsace (2.2), where he was one of the few to challenge Herklotz in mountain stage. He was also 2nd in GC at Course de la Paix U23 and is doing well now in Portugal (14th in mountain stage).
Together with Vakoc biggest czech shot for the future,but more of a pure climber. I would not fear giving him the 6 potential, with possible reach to some 78 at climbing. Also his accelation needs boost, bad TT is fine, but he is doing well in TTTs, so no abyssmal.
Petr is experienced flat rider, could be useful as the first lead-out man, with decent ability to get over the hills and sprint for himself if needed (he was 3rd in czech nationals road race this year). Not much potential left, as he is 27 already.
Best stat suggestion: Flat/Sprint 70
Another czech cycling talent. Specialized on cyclocross races, where he starts to crack top10 in U23 world cups, but he also did well in some road races on czech soil in 2013. 6th at national road race in senior category, or 29th in GC at Czech Cycling Tour (2.2).
As majority of cross riders, he should be explosive on short climbs, with good descend and finishing kick. I think he can become a solid climber or puncher, maybe around 74, with 5 potential.
O course also Kreuziger, Barta and Stybar could use some polishing,as they are completely off, but Milka is "blocking" them all.
One of the biggest talents in Slovakia, cycling is obviously came to spotlight thanks to Terminator and new faces arise. He is current national U23 TT champion,also came 6th at seniors road race at age of 19 few days after (beating Velits and few other known riders). He has some other results too this year, like 20th at Trofej Porec or 5th at Carpathian Couriers Race U-23 (2.2U).
I think he can become a very good stage racer, but preferably a great puncher (not explosive) with strong TT. He would be someone to build on (obviously and honestly i am thinking on my team,as i miss some slovakian talents who would fit in, i had to abandon slovakian sponsor because of that ). I would suggest 5-6 potential with possibility of maxed around 76hill/TT.
I know also about some 1995 born talents from Slovakia, but i will save that for next year.
Avin Wargunnson wrote:
O course also Kreuziger, Barta and Stybar could use some polishing,as they are completely off, but Milka is "blocking" them all.
Yeah, seriously they would need to, but if I release them I will never see them again, they are too good and they wages will go sky high. Anyway thank you for your effort to get more Czech-o-Slovakians to the game.
I will add some suggestions as soon as I will have a possibility to get here on a PC, it would be too hard for me to get all links here on my mobile phone...
Contrary to what his name implies he is actually a sprinter. He struggles if there are bumps along the course but he isn't quite at Theo Bos levels Had a win at Ronde de l'Oise (2.2) and was 6th at Ronde van Zeeland Seaports.
Eritrean road race champion as of this year. 4th at the Tour of Eritrea. He seems to be a decent jack of all trades - TTing seems to be pretty much the only thing he isn't too good at.
An Italian sprinter who will be riding with Bardiani as a stagiare until the end of the year. He won 2 stages of the 2.2 Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Did well in the Tour de Abitibi a year ago in the TT the holding onto a good GC postion on the flat stages could become a good TT and Flat guy in the Grand Tours to protect a leader or to launch a sprinter.
Has shown that he can sprint well as well as find his way into a breakaway could have a potential to reach 75+ sprint and 70+ plus fighter has struggled in TT but has also got a good result in an uphill finish Stage 6 Tour de Abitibi
Probably deserves an increase in his sprint now following a good ride in the Ride London classic and good results in the Ras and Under 23 nations cup
Flat up more, Sprint up to Potiential of 76-79 Pot up to 5-6
Name: Felix English
RiderID: 7077
May need a boost in sprints due to some good results this year in criteriums he also has improved on the road maybe boost him to experience 2.0 using the sprinter stats boost.
Good junior but struggled to get better recently did well in beuece last year could become a good conti domestique pot mountain and hill 72-74 exp level 2
The best chance Britain has of a tour winner yes he is that good generation he won the tour of wales last year also performed well in a Elite tour performing well against Dean Downing and Tom Murray and has made good progress this year for Rapha performing well at the Mzani tour never been on the british academy which is why he has no Ncup results but still he should become the best British tour rider in the ManGame so 79-80 potential in mountains 74-76 hills High TT 73-75 and high recovery 78+
Winner of the very hilly Tour of Korea this year as well as being up there in the Ras mountains classification and up there in the Chrono des nations last year should become a good Conti leader 73-74 hill then 70TT low mountains good recovery 70's exp 4.0 as he could improve again
This guy beat some really good british riders in the Tobago Classic and has been quite impressive in the Pan America games considering he's being given no funding he is a bit special being the only rider form his country and I think he should be given stats to show that
67 mountain 74-77 hill 70-71 sprint exp 2/3/4.0 gives him the chance of being taken by a protour team also could give Banco Costa Rica and other teams sponsored by Central American teams a chance to get a leader from their area.
Ahh didn't read you right first time SN I understand now, well
they all have results in pro races and have ridden in the pro's all year if you wish for me to send you more national results for the riders I don't mind just PM me.
Okay, well, as you may know Burry Stander died earlier this year. His ID is 2057.
I think Jacques Janse van Rensburg is severly under-rated. I recommend changing Burry Stander to Jacques van Rensburg, i.e. just deleting JvR's old ID (6312) and just replacing Stander's name with JvR. In other words, JvR now adopts Stander's stats and Stander is removed from the db.
Name: David Maree
ID:5190
Country: South Africa
DoB:31/08/1889 PCS CQ
A very promising young rider. This year he won the KoM at the Mzansi Tour after being in a lot of breakaways. David was also the only rider who was able to follow Hunter's wheel after a massive attack on Stage 2 of the Mzansi Tour. He's always very active in local races in terms of attacking. Not a pure climber, but descent on hills, strong on flats and does have a sprint finish.
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FL 73; MO 66; HIL 72; TT 68; COB 62; RES 70; SPR 67; ACC 70; FTR 74
Name: Jay Thomson
ID:6301
Country: South Africa
DoB:04/12/1986 PCS CQ
A rider that loves long breaks. Attacks on all terrain: flat, hilly, mountain. He's also a strong workhorse for team leaders, but proved he's a very strong rider when riding away from the bunch at SA NC. However, long TT are probably his strong point. Jay was used as a lead out for Jake Keough at UHC.
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FL 75; MO 65; HIL 73; TT 75; PRL 70; COB 53; RES 72; SPR 66; ACC 70; FTR 76
Name: Martin Weseman
ID:1090
Country: South Africa
DoB:19/03/1984 PCS CQ
Very similar to Jay, but not as strong in Time Trials. Martin loves attacking with ~30km to go and tries to ride solo to the line or just attacks straight from the gun. He's also very good at pulling the bunch the whole day long. Very strong domestique.
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FL 75; MO 61; HIL 71; TT 72; COB 65; RES 70; SPR 59; ACC 66; FTR 73
Name: Paul van Zweel
ID:N/A
Country: South Africa
DoB:05/04/1990 PCS CQ
Another up and coming rider. Won't develop into a superstar, but will be a strong rider one day. Seems to be a descent climber and can TT too, so most likely more a stage racer. These stats suggestions are for when he's maxed out, but should probably start on XP level 1 or 2. Had a strong ride during Mzansi Tour.
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FL 71; MO 74; HIL 73; TT 72; PRL 68; COB 52 ; REC 68; RES 70; STA 71; SPR 59; ACC 68; FTR 66
Name: Dusty Day
ID:N/A
Country: Dusty Day
DoB:04/09/1988 PCS CQ
Younger brother of Tyler Day (ID 86). Also a sprinter, but not as talented as his brother. Still has room for development though. Not really good on climbs, TT or cobbles. Stats are for when he's maxed out.
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FL 71; MO 54; HIL 64; TT 63; PRL 63; COB 57; RES 66; REC 63; STA 68; SPR 73; ACC 73; FTR 64
Name: Nicolas Dougall
ID:N/A
Country: South Africa
DoB: PCS PCS CQ
Seems to be some confusion over his nationality, but I believe he's South African (races for World Cycling Centre Africa). He won a local race, Tour de Boland. The race includes a TT and hilly stage, both of which he won. Overall strong rider.
Interesting story on a race, EKZ Züri Metzgete Stats when maxed out:
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FL 70; MO 71; HIL 73; TT 74; COB 60; RES 72; SPR 63; ACC 67; FTR 70
Name: Costa Seibeb
ID:N/A
Country: Namibia
DoB:07/02/1992 PCS CQ
Seems to be very promising. More of a hilly specialist with a sprint finish than anything else. He won the recent EKZ Zuri Metzege in Switzerland where he outwitted some IAM, BMC and EKZ riders. Click the link to read up on him, Nic Dougall and Till Drobisch (who was in one of my earlier posts). Maxed stats:
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FL 71; MO 65; HIL 77; TT 64; COB 58; RES 73; REC 67; STA 74; SPR 72; ACC 75; FTR 71
I know very little about cycling talents, but bring on the frenchies and greek riders! Surely there must be a greek talent that I haven't already snatched
Having gone through the World Tour results of this season, including watching a fair bit of the races myself I would make a few suggestions towards riders currently at Free Agent, but performing "well".
I'm sorry if I'm mentioning a lot of riders already mentioned, but I thought I would give it a go, so pick what you agree on, and leave everything else.
Riders already in the DB, but needs tweaking:
Daniele Pietropolli - 1980 Ingame
- Showed that he was a decent finisher at the Tour Down Under with a couple of top 10s, while he showed strength in both finish and upgoing in Tirreno-Adriatico, Amstel Gold Race and a single stage of the Giro d'Italia. 33th of the Amstel Gold Race indicates more than 63 HI and 65+65 END and RES.
Jonathan Cantwell - 1982 Ingame
- Sprinted decently in the Tour Down Under. Also showed last year that he was a pretty good sprinter for Saxo Bank. Not a top sprinter, but a fairly strong rider, that would essentially be a decent leadout.
Juan Jose Lobato del Valle - 1988 Ingame
- Is a decent talent ingame, but he showed that he is a much better sprinter, especially at this years TdF. Atm he will max around 77SPR, 76ACC and 71FL, while I think he could actually be better. 3 times in the top 10 this TdF and also a top 5 Tour of Romandie and a low top 10 Tour Down Under proves that he is there at times. Also he seems decent at going over bumps.
Using maxed stats
Recommended: 71TT -> 75TT. 71PRL -> 78PRL.
Cyril Lemoine - 1983 Ingame
- Lemoine did decent in timetrials throughout the season, and with 13th at the Tour de Suisse and Tour de France he showed he is a fairly competitive TTer. He also sprinted well, especially at the Tour de France with 9th, 11th and 14th, but similarly at the Tour of Suisse with 12th and 13th.
Jens Debusschere - 1989 Ingame.
- Some decent sprintresults in Paris-Nice and Tour de Suisse must give him a better setup than currently. He can be 69SPR and 70ACC, but with 3 WT top 10s already he should improve a bit.
Recommended: 69SPR -> 75SPR. 70ACC -> 76ACC.
Alberto Losada - 1982 Ingame
- Ingame Alberto Losada is a shit rider who is best on the flats. However he climbed very well at the Paris-Nice this year ending in 11th GC.
Recommended: 57MO -> 75MO. 68HI -> 73 HI. 64TT -> 70TT. Possibly slightly better at the End, Res, and Rec.
Luca Paolini - OLDIE
- Don't know if you want to correct decent riders from the past back into decent riders, but Paolini has been riding very well this season, in all kinds of terrains. He should be top 30 cobblers in the world and he is a very nice puncheur aswell - Also around the 30 best in the world.
Yoann Bagot - 1987 Ingame
- Pretty nice talent in the db already, and mostly he's spot on, but with 61 ingame he'll do absolutely nothing. IRL he did quite a lot of nice results, basically finishing around 15-35 in all mountain and semihard stages.
Mads Christensen - 1984 Ingame
- A pretty useless "talent" ingame, but in real he is a pretty consistent TT'er and also a pretty good rider to make the BotD. He got a few top 25 TTs this season, best was 8th at Tour de Suisse TT.
Maxime Mederel - 1980 Ingame
- Did decent at the Tour de France and Tour de Suisse, atleast in the mountains. No top results, but very consistent in the region of 30-45.
And now for riders I don't think exist in the DB, but probably should:
Davide Malacarne - 1987 IRL
- Consistent climbing throughout the year, also with some decent punchy stuff. He got home with the favorites of stage 3 in the Paris-Nice. A couple of top 35 stages at the TdF (Hard mountainstages). 26th Milano-San Remo. 49th GC Tour de France. In 2010 he won a fairly tough stage at the Volta a Catalunya and in 2011 he won the Mountains Jersey at Tirreno-Adriatico.
Recommended:
- Somewhere in the region of 73-75MO, 72-74HI, ~70FIG, ~70REC and END. 71-75DH. 71-74ACC. Or the possibility for him to get to that level in a year or so.
Bart de Clercq - 1986 IRL
- Very nice mountain rider. Not much else I suspect though. Won a stage at the 2011 Giro d'Italia and did quite some nice results in lower races GC wise this season. 5th Andalucia, 7th Tramuntana, 9th San Luis. Also climbing fairly well throughout the season with some highlights in Paris-Nice, Pais Vasco, Dauphine and of course Tour de France, where he lid up in the final stages of the race.
Recommended:
- 75-77MO, 72-74HI. Don't know much else. He could potentially be lvl. 4.00 with potential to 77MO.
Egoitz Garcia Echeguibel - 1986 IRL
- 15-20 like sprinter at this years TdF, also a single pop-up at Pais Vasco (7th) at a semitough sprint. According to Wikipedia he seems to be getting significantly better also performing at subtop races like Haut Var and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.
Recommended: Dunno. Probably some decent allrounder with a reasonable kick.
Alessandro de Marchi - 1986 IRL
- Climbing very well, and should definately be in this game. 25th Liege-Bastogne-Liege, 25th GC Tour of Romandie, Stagewin at Dauphine (Mountain)+30th GC, Two top 20 Mountaintop finishes at Tour de France
Recommended:
- Should already be a good rider, but in the future perhaps something like 76-77MO, 75-76HI or so. Don't know his potential, but he seems very promising.
Manuele Boaro - 1987 IRL
- Nice Timetriallist, who can also survive the first bounce of hills/mountains. 8th at the Giro TT this season, and 17th at the prologue of Romandie. Last year he finished 3rd at Danmark Rundt, and in 2011 he finished 2nd in the Italian TT Nationals. He won the mountains classification of Ao Algarve this season.
Recommended:
- Something like 69-70 MO and hills. 76-77TT and 74-75PRL.
Diego Rosa - 1989 IRL
- Nice little italian climbing talent. 23th at this years Giro d'Italia GC is a nice result and stagefinishes in the range of 14th to 28th on the mountains bodes well for his future, and also indicates he is a stabile rider. Rute du Sud for 5th overall is a nice little bonus.
Recommended:
- Don't know his actual talent, but a rider from 1989 who is 23th at his first Giro must be better... So I estimate that he should be 76MO this season with potential to become 78-79MO.
These riders I know very little about, but their names popped up with a decent WT result:
Maurits Lammertink - 7th at a stage in Volta a Catalunya, mass sprint.
Gaeten Bille - Sprinted subtop at Tour of Romandie.
Jorge Azanza - 33th overall Giro d'Italia. Decent climbing underway.
Marco Canola - 3 top 15 sprints at the Giro.
Luis Angel Mate Mardones - Climbed well at the TdF, and seems reasonably fast at the line.
Gorka Verdugo - 5th at prologue Tour de Suisse
Reto Hollenstein - 6th at prologue Tour de Suisse
Then, a big boost in his FTR and END skills, FTR to high 70's and endurance to high 60's, low 70's. He's also better on small steep climbs than on longer climbs.
Anyway thank you for your effort to get more Czech-o-Slovakians to the game. 
Maxime Le Montagner - 20th July 1991
Meron Teshome - 13th July 1992
Nicola Ruffoni - 14th December 1990
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