Pezcyclingnews: Worlds Pez Talk: Floris Gerts

Floris Gerts is the next young rider to join the all-powerful BMC team and much like his predecessors he has a fine palmars already. Ed Hood caught up with Dutchman just after he crashed out of the Tour of Britain as his stagieire position was about to become a full time Pro contract with the team for 2016.BMC are masters at spotting and nurturing young talents; Silvan Dillier, World Pursuit Champion Stefan Kung, Taylor Phinney all hit the ground running for the men in red and black and were able play with the Big Boys very quickly. And it looks like their latest stagiaire, Floris Gerts may well be in the same mould; settling in to his role with the team very quickly having stepped up from the BMC Development team after a spell with the Rabobank Continental Team.Indeed, we’d hardly finished transcribing this interview when this press release arrived from BMC:Floris Gerts finished third and teammate Jempy Drucker was fifth Saturday for the BMC Racing Team at the Primus Classic Impanis-Van Petegem.Gerts was on the attack in the final kilometers after following a move by eventual race winner Sean De Bie (Lotto Soudal). “I was trying to keep the pace high in the peloton for Jempy when one of the Lotto guys (De Bie) jumped from behind,” Gerts said. “I tried to get him back and looked back and saw we had a gap. But I made the mistake by taking over and riding also. I should not have...

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