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[PT] Los Pollos Hermanos
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 14-11-2025 21:10
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Cool to see Higuita stealing the Grand-Duché! Also nice to see the youngsters already showing themselves.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 16-04-2026 10:22
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A small update of our biggest successes in the last months, which we can pin down to four races. To be fair, the fact that we're still somewhat in the fight to avoid relegation succeeds our expectations, so we are definitely not complaining. In fact, since we already calculated relegation in the team's future planning, we would have a problem if we actually stayed in PT 
First of all, two great highlights in the first GT of the year, the Giro d'Italia  . Kristoffer Halvorsen sprinted to an early victory in stage three, making it his second stage win in two GT's in a row, with his win in the Vuelta last year.
And later in the race Orluis Aular went on to win the penultimate stage in great fashion, also leading to a top-10 in the final GC and fourth place in the KoM-ranking.
A bit unexpected perhaps, but a big highlight came in the Tour of East Java  . Three flat stages and one mountainous queen stage, and it is on that stage where the chickens rose up. Philipinian national champion Jonel Carcueva finished fourth, just ahead of Orluis Aular, leading to two great GC results for us there.
Next GT then, with the Tour de France  . Although he came close several times on both hilly and mountainous terrain, Sergio Higuita was unable to snatch a stage win in France. A good GC also wasn't an option after a terrible team time trial for him, but he did make us proud with the win in the KoM-rankings, stepping in the footsteps of another legendary Colombian hybrid, Edward Beltrán.
Also a great result very recently in the Deutschland Tour  for our homegrown and trained Victor Alejandro Ocampo. Fourth in the individual time trial and final GC, definitely couldn't hope for anything better than that.
Only a handful of races remaining now, including of course another GT and a monument. A stage win in the Vuelta would be fantastic, but it remains to be seen if Aular likes the profile of the race.
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 16-04-2026 10:52
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Some great results in some of the biggest races of the season! Well done 
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| Caspi |
Posted on 16-04-2026 12:51
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Regardless of how the relegation battle goes, it seems you can enjoy some great highlights from the season
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 22-04-2026 01:45
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Will either be an awesome survival season and go down as a massive memorable heist given the talent signings and fantastic young leaders, or a very memorable relegation one and the plan continues. Seems like a win of a year either way, but survival would be amazing and truly establish you as one of the top potential teams of the future. Really scary prospect to be honest
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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| Nemolito |
Posted on 11-05-2026 21:01
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No stage win in all GT's in a season, but  Lopez Nolasco definitely came close with a second and third place in two stages in the  Vuelta a España. A great GC result from  Aular, who finished fifth in Spain.
But today, let's talk about our talents. We'll have a quick overview of the guys who gained their stats recently, and how they will look like next season. We will do them alphabetically, to make things complicated to follow. We'll be highlighting some key stats (for us).
 | Nikiforos Arvanitou | 1 > 3 | 2003 | Spr, Spr |
| FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | 70 | 60 | 65 | 70 | 60 | 68 | 72 | 65 | 60 | 69 | 71 | 64 | 61 | 65 | | … | | 73 | 60 | 66 | 71 | 60 | 71 | 73 | 68 | 62 | 73 | 75 | 64 | 61 | 65 |
We are not sure what path to follow with Arvanitou going from 3 to 4, but the good thing is that we didn't have to decide on that yet.
| Juan Ayuso | 3 > 4 | 2002 | Stage race |
| FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | 68 | 75 | 73 | 71 | 73 | 75 | 72 | 73 | 62 | 62 | 70 | 67 | 68 | 71 | | … | | 69 | 79 | 76 | 73 | 75 | 77 | 74 | 76 | 62 | 62 | 71 | 68 | 69 | 73 |
Solid stage racer next season already, who'll be sure to score some points as well. But of course he'll really start performing well the season after (I hope).
 | Finn Fisher-Black | 3 > 4 | 2001 | TT |
| FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | 65 | 65 | 66 | 66 | 66 | 68 | 73 | 65 | 60 | 60 | 72 | 70 | 67 | 76 | | … | | 67 | 66 | 67 | 67 | 70 | 70 | 75 | 67 | 60 | 60 | 72 | 72 | 68 | 80 |
One day he'll be the best prologue rider in the game!
 | Alex Malacarne | 3 > 4 | 2002 | Cobble |
| FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | 70 | 56 | 62 | 67 | 59 | 72 | 69 | 61 | 72 | 71 | 65 | 70 | 60 | 60 | | … | | 72 | 56 | 62 | 68 | 59 | 74 | 71 | 62 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 71 | 60 | 60 |
Will turn out to be a solid domestique if we would find ourselves a good cobbler!
| Matteo Milan | 1 > 3 | 2003 | Spr, Spr |
| FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | 67 | 55 | 59 | 63 | 61 | 69 | 68 | 65 | 63 | 73 | 73 | 62 | 59 | 63 | | … | | 70 | 55 | 59 | 63 | 61 | 69 | 70 | 74 | 63 | 76 | 76 | 62 | 59 | 66 |
Our shot at a stage win in the 2026 Avenir. And hopefully more (stage) wins once he's maxed.
 | Hector Exequiel Quintana | 2 > 3 | 2002 | TT |
| FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | 71 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 69 | 72 | 68 | 60 | 66 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 72 | | … | | 72 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 74 | 70 | 74 | 69 | 60 | 66 | 64 | 67 | 69 | 74 |
Part of our future TTT unit with an okay flat skill and decent enough to get some individual points as well when maxed.
 | Jakob Soderqvist | 1 > 3 | 2003 | TTT, TTT |
| FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | 72 | 57 | 59 | 61 | 70 | 68 | 68 | 66 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 68 | 72 | | … | | 75 | 57 | 59 | 61 | 74 | 71 | 72 | 69 | 66 | 69 | 69 | 68 | 68 | 76 |
Good flat, good time trial and a good prologue. He'll be important for us.
 | Mathias Vacek | 3 > 4 | 2002 | Stage race |
| FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | 68 | 68 | 69 | 69 | 75 | 70 | 68 | 69 | 60 | 64 | 69 | 64 | 69 | 74 | | … | | 69 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 77 | 72 | 70 | 71 | 60 | 64 | 70 | 65 | 69 | 76 | |
Versatile time trialist. Hopefully in the future a good bet in races like Ukraine.
 | Casper Van Uden | 3 > 4 | 2001 | Spr |
| FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | | 68 | 64 | 64 | 63 | 66 | 70 | 73 | 69 | 52 | 74 | 74 | 63 | 72 | 65 | | … | | 70 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 66 | 72 | 74 | 78 | 54 | 76 | 76 | 63 | 73 | 65 |
A solid second sprinter for the future.
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 11-05-2026 21:35
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What an awesome batch of talents, didn't even realize you got so many of those! Now it would be great to see you pull off a miraculous last-minute save, so I don't meet them again next year
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 17-05-2026 12:50
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That's such a nice bunch of talents! And fighting against relegation until the end is just the more impressive with that background.
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| SotD |
Posted on 17-05-2026 13:53
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Crazy amount of talents here. Obviously looking interestingly at Arvanitou now I couldn't land him myself. Can only hope that I can acquire him at some point in the future
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 17-05-2026 15:02
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Others have pointed out the wild amount of talent, and that is on top of your current leaders being quite young as well. I don't think there's another team with higher-value assets overall. Well done for sure
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 21-05-2026 06:53
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The Juan and only and all the other talents will remain in PT! Guess the riders didn't follow team orders
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