The new strengthened Felt racing team from 2009 will become Felt-Colbornes Race Team this year. With five new riders and two new sponsors, the team is ready for 2010.
Joining the team as a headline sponsor are www.colbornes.co.uk, Audi, VW and Skoda making the team more competitive with the other full time teams in the Premier and Tour Series events.
With help from Saddleback ltd the distributor of Felt, Castelli , SRAM, Zipp and Vredestein. We are able to add an additional seven riders including the 2006 National Circuit Champion James Taylor, and brothers Matthew and Richard Kipling, Tom Smith, Ian Legg, Peter Wager and Garry Clark.
“The key part of the team is we all get on well,” said Team Manager Justin Hoy, “we all have fulltime jobs whilst not full time professionals, the superb past results and strong team spirit means that the Felt-Colbornes Race Team expect to be competitive with the UK’s best and aim to cause a few upsets along the way.”
At the end of February, the team is planning a training camp in Gran Canaria to prepare for the season starting off at the Severn Bridge RR on the 7th of March as this is sponsored by Saddleback.
Justin Hoy (Team Manager)
Tim Elverson
John Wager
Lee Smith
Richard Mardle
James Taylor (former PCA rider)
Tom Smith (AW Cycles)
Ian Legg (Owen Cycles)
Matthew Kipling (Team Kenesis)
Richard Kipling (MTS Cycle sport)
Peter Wager (VC Meudon)
Garry Clark (Banjo Cycles)
For more information:
www.feltracing.co.uk
www.saddleback.co.uk
Thor Hushovd knew he needed to extend his lead in the competition for the green jersey in the Tour, and there was a chance he could do something on the stage to Le Grand Bornand, but he knew it wouldn’t be easy.
Looking back on cycling highlights of the previous year, Hushovd fought with Cavendish for the green jersey in the Tour de France. He could not match the speed of Cavendish, but rode intelligently, picking up points in intermediate sprints by going on the attack and winning his second green jersey.
The Cervélo rider attacked on Comet de Roseland which was coming right at the start of the stage, then descended into the valley and took the points. With six more points on offer at the second sprint at Cluses, Hushovd had a choice, he could sit up and wait for the bunch ot he could keep going alone. It was a long solo ride through the valley, and over the second-category climb Côte d’Arches. Hushovd keept going on, it was a heroic solo mission, but justice was done when he crossed the line to take another six points.
When the bunch finally caught him on Col de Romme, he went back through the already shrinked bunch like a hot knife through butter. But he still had a smile for the television camera and the satisfaction that his efforts had brought a smile to the faces of the millions watching at home.
Thor Hushovd winning his second green jersey.
Photo: © TDWsport.com
Following their amazing debut season Cervélo TestTeam’s men and women’s riders, Sports Directors and management along with our TestTeam Partners were gathered in Portugal this past weekend for the pre-season training camp and official team presentation of the 2010 Cervélo TestTeam.
The success in 2009 was achieved with 25 victories for the men’s while the women scored 43 victories, finishing first in the UCI standings.
Going into the team’s second season, new General Manager Joop Alberda has set an even higher goal for the squad. “We want Cervélo TestTeam to become the new standard in cycling,” said Alberda. “What happened on the team last year was amazing. The standard they set is already pretty high. It will be up to the cyclists to challenge themselves. We will be there to help them.”
Success isn’t measured by victories alone however, something that Alberda says makes the Cervélo TestTeam and the brand stand out from the pack. While podiums are the ultimate goal, the team is also focused on its groundbreaking product development, fan access and hospitality initiatives.
“Cervélo TestTeam is one of the few teams in modern cycling that has a clear vision. They have core values and they want to stick to them,” Alberda says. “Winning is beautiful, but winning isn’t the only thing. We want to work as a unit on our core values and become the team that everyone wants to join.”
Hushovd and Haussler each want a cobbled classic victory in 2010.
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Catching up with Cervélo’s Irishman, Philipp Deignan. (part 2.)
When you won stage 18, it was cold and wet. How was that?
Growing up in Ireland helped. I know you have to wrap up warm at the beginning, then just get the bad weather out of your head.
You were very active in the group of 16 riders that went away, did you feel especially good?
I was very comfortable over the first cat climb.
Kreuziger attached on a descent, you followed and that is how you two got away. Did you have to take risks?
No, the roads were drying out by then. There were good wide bends, and it was a good time to go because everyone relaxed after the climb.
Can you take us through the final?
Kreuziger attached with 500 meters to go, I caught him and sat on. Then, I went with 200m to go, but what you couldn’t see on the television was that the last bit was slightly uphill, and I think he ran out of energy on that.
Has finishing ninth in a Grand Tour changed the wasy you see yourself as a bike rider?
It’s made me think, I gained a lot of time on the stage I won, but I lost a lot during the first week due to illness. Overall I was quiet constant.
Read the rest of the interview, part 1.
When meeting up with the Cervélo TestTeam in November, we gave one pair of the Fulmine bibtights with nano-technology treatment to two riders that every year are facing a lot of kilometers in wet and chilly winter conditions.
Roger Hammond who live’s in the heart of Belgium is doing most of his winter training in the area of Brussels and in the UK. Carlos Sastre lives about 1000m above sea-level in the mountains north of Madrid in Spain. He was looking for something to keep him warm but more important dry during his specific winter preparation. The conclusion was the same from both riders:
“This new water-repellent fabric not only bounce off the water drops, it insulates and wicks the moisture away quickly so I don’t get that cold, clammy feeling any longer.”
Exclusively engineered by Castelli, the Nanoflex water repellent fabric is one of those fabrics that seems miraculous. On a dry day its as warm and breathable as our normal Thermoflex fleece fabric, but when it rains the water just runs off thanks to the 5 phase nanotechnology treatment. We’ve used an innovative construction that minimizes seams to keep you as dry as possible. While its not 100% waterproof, its the best solution we’ve ever tried for staying comfortable in any condition.
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New for September 2010, Water-resistant warmers and bibtights, COOL!
