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{PCT} Flores - Ceitec HQ
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| The Rider |
Posted on 21-01-2016 20:41
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2014:  Bonsucro CT - 2nd
2015: Bonsucro PCT - 20th
2016: Flores - Ceitec PCT
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'(Uncontrollable laughter...) Well when we made this deal no one had THAT nickname in mind! But it is fitting and we like it. No: we love it!'
^ The boss on realizing an appropriate nickname for the team would be 'Flower Power': fitting with the main sponsors being 'Flores Online' and 'Ceitec Semiconductors'.
Edited by The Rider on 22-06-2016 19:02
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| The Rider |
Posted on 21-01-2016 20:42
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Sponsors:
Look at these sponsors. All of them 'transparent'! 
Seriously we realize there is a choice between a sustainable world and no world at all: a fact we take to heart and we like to think our sponsors feel the same.
Equipment:
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Goals:
| Win | Volta Catalunya (4) | | Top 5 | Tour d'Andorra (4) | | Top 5 | Tour of America (3) | | Top 5 | Vuelta al Tachira (3) | | Top 10 | Team Standings (3) |
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| The Rider |
Posted on 21-01-2016 20:42
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Current Team: (After renewals)
| | | 2015 | 2016 |  | Contador | Alberto | 650,000 | €460,000 |  | Mansilla | Luis Miguel | 170,000 | €105,000 |  | Castañeda | Jaime Alberto | 110,000 | €90,000 |  | Ramos Ticona | Basilio | 90,000 | €55,000 |  | Reijnen | Kiel | 74,000 | €50,000 | | Manarelli | Carlos Alexandre | 65,000 | €50,000 | | Egidio | Christian | 50,000 | €50,000 | | Diniz | Alex | 50,000 | €50,000 | | Santos | Emerson | 50,000 | €50,000 | | Bulgarelli | Otavio | 50,000 | €50,000 |  | Soto Pereira | Jorge Adelbo | 50,000 | €50,000 |
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| The Rider |
Posted on 21-01-2016 20:42
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Results:
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To do list:
- More GIFS!
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| The Rider |
Posted on 21-01-2016 20:43
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Final Reserve and......
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Team Bus:
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 21-01-2016 20:46
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Awesome gifs, premise and jersey <3 I'd love to see more  Best of luck this season, this HQ should be one to follow with your talent for graphics and eye for a nice layout 
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 21-01-2016 21:37
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Go Flower power!
One of my favourite teams, even if we'll be in the same division this year and I like the jersey and HQ design. 
Good luck this season! (but not too much )
Really surprised you're not renewing he who must not be named, do you expect his wage to be too high? 
Edited by trekbmc on 22-01-2016 06:34
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| matt17br |
Posted on 21-01-2016 22:34
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You keep surprising as a jersey designer as well, nice work with those colorful kits!
And of course, best of luck onto finding a decent co-leader for the hilly classics. It will be hard to do worse than last year in that field. And tons of luck for everything else too!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 21-01-2016 23:32
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Liking the jersey |
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| Silvio Herklotz |
Posted on 22-01-2016 18:47
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Maan, I'm feelin' the San Francisco attitude already..
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| DaveTwoBob |
Posted on 22-01-2016 23:28
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... be sure to wear some flowers in your helmet
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 22-01-2016 23:49
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Feel the LOVE !!!!
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| The Rider |
Posted on 09-06-2016 13:18
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Spoiler ^ Turning this into gif central!
^^ Thanks, we are learning. Prefer the jersey combo to last season already!
^^^ Feel it!
#1
| *Some good renewing!? | | *Goals & HC Bands | | *Roy won't be leaving! | | *New Mantra |
*Some good renewing!? 
| | | 2015 | 2016 | | Contador | Alberto | 650,000 | €460,000 | | Mansilla | Luis Miguel | 170,000 | €105,000 | | Castañeda | Jaime Alberto | 110,000 | €90,000 | | Ramos Ticona | Basilio | 90,000 | €55,000 | | Reijnen | Kiel | 74,000 | €50,000 | | Manarelli | Carlos Alexandre | 65,000 | €50,000 | | Egidio | Christian | 50,000 | €50,000 | | Diniz | Alex | 50,000 | €50,000 | | Santos | Emerson | 50,000 | €50,000 | | Bulgarelli | Otavio | 50,000 | €50,000 | | Soto Pereira | Jorge Adelbo | 50,000 | €50,000 |
How about that. 11 riders offered something and 11 riders renewed. The headline has to be Contador is here, and on amiable terms, with a 190,000 decrease: worth it or is he on too much? Chilean champ, Mansilla, drove a hard bargain but we are happy to keep him after his two stage wins. Castañeda could be our top sprinter again but may look attractive for other PCT and CT teams, as will Manarelli, who, after a barren season, is down to the minimum.
So here we see the core of a defunct, yet surviving, Bonsucro team as the framework for Flores - Ceitec. The question is how can we add to this bunch with a fledgling budget? Time will tell whether this will be viewed as a good batch of renewals. For now: we are happy with how it turned out.
*Roy won't be leaving! 
... Roy won't be leaving - that's right! - because he has already left! Though it won't surprise the regulars among you that there was one last three-stooges' moment with the Frenchman.
After all of his falling, failing and fortieth place finishes last year, notwithstanding his decline over the winter, what does he do? He asks for a wage increase of up to 400,000! -!-!--!---!
Needless to say he, along with 13 others, didn't even receive an offer from us. Good-bye! Good riddance! Hooray!
*Goals & HC Bands 
| Win | Volta Catalunya (4) | | Top 5 | Tour d'Andorra (4) | | Top 5 | Tour of America (3) | | Top 5 | Vuelta al Tachira (3) | | Top 10 | Team Standings (3) |
Bands: 1,3,4 & 5
In hindsight we may have been too ambitious to go for a top 10 team placing and a Tour of America goal. But we are up for it.
Notably we miss out on band 2 so no Interlagos GP for us. So we miss out on the only Brazilian race on the calendar - and - we are glad. As highlighted by the recent protests in Brazil where millions took to the streets, there are vast divides between ethics and standards in the society: our standards don't match with those of the Interlagos GP organisers.
That said we will be, otherwise, heavily involved in the Americas calendar. We spot a healthy contest in the making with the three other S.A PCT teams (Aeropostal Venezuela Ciclismo, Coldeportes & SanCor) as we all occupy the same bands.
New Mantra 
Finally .... in contrast to last season expect all Flores - Ceitec riders to be on a pescatarian or vegetarian diet. So if you see Contador over-performing don't go pointing to a steak ... unless it is a veggie steak that is!
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| Shonak |
Posted on 09-06-2016 13:22
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Good to see you keep Bertie. Vamos campeón!
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| knockout |
Posted on 09-06-2016 13:24
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Roy
Imo Contador is still worth it but it's certainly good to see only wage cuts here. Gives you plenty of cap space to add a second and third big leader!
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 09-06-2016 13:27
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I did hear somewhere that Contador quite likes Tofu
I think Conta's still got a lot left to give and with the goals you've announced, you should be reasonably confident. I think we'll be targeting many of the same races this season, I look forward to racing you guys!
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 09-06-2016 16:17
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Certainly some good renewals! I spy with my little eye something that might interest the Minions
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| Stromeon |
Posted on 09-06-2016 16:57
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Pretty impressive wage cut for Contador there, you must be very happy about that! Looking forward to the South American battles in the HC bands
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| The Rider |
Posted on 15-06-2016 10:16
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^ Yes! The battles are raging on.
- Shonak: I think I will need Conta to pull a whole bunch of rabbits out of the hat this season.
Forget Gilbert. Forget Uran.....
... Forget all the big names coming to the PCT. For Flores - Ceitec's first and only signing is the best rider in our country! The tops! You all know who I am talking about, it can only be Gustavo Miño. With this signing Flores - Ceitec can surely look forward to a golden period. The Flores - Ceitec boss had this to say '[Sigh] Well he is the only one we have signed so far ....'
What praise! He must be good, great, if he is the only signing of a team well into the transfer period! The mind boggles at the races he must, inevitably, be leading this season! All putting Paraguay on the highest echelons of the cycling map.
- Brought to you by the Paraguay Cycling Asunción 
Spoiler | Last name | First name | Flat | Mountain | Hill | TT | Stamina | Resistance | Recovery | Cobbles | Sprint | Acceleration | Fighter | Downhill | Prologue | | Miño | Gustavo | 72 | 71 | 73 | 74 | 71 | 70 | 74 | 69 | 68 | 71 | 68 | 72 | 75 |
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| Shonak |
Posted on 15-06-2016 10:20
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Soo, any comment on Roy finding a new home?
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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