Jan in the US?
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I suspect it would get pretty expensive to have both Ivan and Jan on the same team...
I wonder if Ivan will ride the Giro and TdF going for the double next year?
I wonder if Ivan will ride the Giro and TdF going for the double next year?
That's right. JU is desperate, aging for a purportedly top-tier professional cyclist, teamless and license-less. He is going up against a younger, stronger, better coached, better supported, team-imbued and national association-blessed Basso. 
You know you have marketability issues if a non-Protour team chooses a 35-year-old, just-completed-doping-ban Tyler Hamilton before choosing you.
You know you have marketability issues if a non-Protour team chooses a 35-year-old, just-completed-doping-ban Tyler Hamilton before choosing you.
musette said:That's right. JU is desperate, aging for a purportedly top-tier professional cyclist, teamless and license-less. He is going up against a younger, stronger, better coached, better supported, team-imbued and national association-blessed Basso.
You know you have marketability issues if a non-Protour team chooses a 35-year-old, just-completed-doping-ban Tyler Hamilton before choosing you.
I would suggest that Bianchi would differ with you regarding your definition of marketability.
musette said:
Both were/are coached by Luigi Cecchini. Ullrich is (and has always been) quite open about this. Basso claimed Riis had replaced Cecchini (at this year's Giro IIRC). Personally I think that statement was PR ********. You don't abandon the trainer who's taken you to the podium of a grand tour and then win the Giro by 9 minutes (?).
Unless of course you mean Basso will now benefit from the Carmichael Training System? LMFAO.
Well if CSC is coming in for Jan, as suggested they might by Limerickman, then most of what you wrote means nothing.musette said:That's right. JU is desperate, aging for a purportedly top-tier professional cyclist, teamless and license-less. He is going up against a younger, stronger, better coached, better supported, team-imbued and national association-blessed Basso.
You know you have marketability issues if a non-Protour team chooses a 35-year-old, just-completed-doping-ban Tyler Hamilton before choosing you.
Come on - we are adults on this forum not in a play ground - look at what you are posting.musette said:That's right. JU is desperate, aging for a purportedly top-tier professional cyclist, teamless and license-less. He is going up against a younger, stronger, better coached, better supported, team-imbued and national association-blessed Basso.
You know you have marketability issues if a non-Protour team chooses a 35-year-old, just-completed-doping-ban Tyler Hamilton before choosing you.
I never think (I just can't, believe me... I tried...) But I know something as well.jhuskey said:I don't only think, I know things.
The Ullrich bikes was another reason for his visit. Jan and Tobias want to introduce the bike on the US market next year.
cyclingheroes said:I never think (I just can't, believe me... I tried...) But I know something as well.
The Ullrich bikes was another reason for his visit. Jan and Tobias want to introduce the bike on the US market next year.
Yes I know. He asked Thomas to be a distributor and I am not sure if he was joking or not.
Either way it will be a hard sell plus Tobias tells me it has been a legal nightmare of paperwork
Edit: Maybe Mussette could give assist with some legal advise on import/export.
cyclingheroes said:I never think (I just can't, believe me... I tried...) But I know something as well.
The Ullrich bikes was another reason for his visit. Jan and Tobias want to introduce the bike on the US market next year.
Hey CyclingHeroes - There was a Spanish team that rode bikes labeled ULLRICH a few years ago. Do you know the story there? I don't remember them ever being available before but maybe they were in Spain. The attached photo is from 1999.
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