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North American Transfer News: One Stop Shopping!

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On the subject of transfer news, Podium In Sight has a fab-dab-u-lous chart of all the comings and goings in the North American scene. HealthNet-Maxxis, Toyota-United, Jittery Joes, and Symmetrics are all stopping next season. New teams include OUCH and Kenda Pro-Spinergy.

Check out the whole chart. Also, be sure to read the comments for some intriguing anonymous updates!

Not enough? Read more transfer news here and here.

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Lyne….what a fab recap!! I see you have been having fun in the off season…heh-heh

Interesting news about Flavia!!…wow.

by steph- on Nov 12, 2008 3:53 PM EST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

yahoo!

this guy is happy to have a license again…and to think, i left midseason for europe with no intention of coming back. they love me. it must be my dashing good looks. or maybe not.

by jered on Nov 12, 2008 5:09 PM EST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Congrats on the contract

does that mean you get to ride the Tour of Turkey and the like?

by Monty. on Nov 12, 2008 5:29 PM EST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Fantastic!

Great news. Keep us updated :-)

by Albertina on Nov 12, 2008 6:09 PM EST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Just a question;

For comparison purpose; would someone be kind enough to provide an estimate for the following category races in the US (in Km/hr if possible) and average distances, I’m interested in comparing them to France/UK

Cat 3 only
Cat 2/3
Cat 1/2/3
Cat 1/2

Many many thanks.

by bradBordeaux on Nov 13, 2008 3:11 AM EST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

for those wondering about the Swiss family reunion at BMC...

BMC is an “American-Swiss team” sponsored by Swiss bike co BMC, Assos, and a swiss hub and spoke company with a cool flash intro page (no, really), some nice still shots, and a wonderfully geeky spoke calculator webtool.

BMC got the only wild card slot at the Tour de Romandie in 2008. I guess the implosion of Gerolsteiner gave them a chance to build up the Swiss part of the roster. Like…the Swiss national champion. Not too shabby. Too bad leakygas got Zaugg, though. It would have been nice to collect the full set [grin].

BMC (USA) – Pro Continental Arrivals
Matthias Frank (SUI) – Gerolsteiner
Thomas Frei (SUI) – Astana
Florian Stalder (SUI) – Volksbank
Marcus Zberg (SUI) – Gerolsteiner

by JFS_PGH on Nov 13, 2008 10:54 AM EST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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