The Official 2009 Back Pocket Season Preview

by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 30, 2009 3:26 PM EST in News

Over the winter months I have been putting out team previews for 2009, one at a time and as quickly as circumstances and brainpower allow. Taken together, these previews will resemble something like the overpriced paper mag you can buy at your LBS, only without the screaming, cliche'd "he's baaaaack" headline about Lance. And, of course, the PdC preview is available for the low, low price of... bubkis.

This page will be lodged in the features section until staleness sets in (or May 1, whichever is later), and dredged up in November for accountability purposes. Each team for which you see a link (purple-ish lettering) has a stand-alone Back Pocket Preview. At some point they all will. List of teams and links... on the flip!

AG2R La Mondiale

BBox-Bouygues Telecom (a/k/a Bweeg)

Caisse d'Epargne

Cofidis

Euskaltel-Euskadi

Les Francaise des Jeux

Garmin-Slipstream

Fuji-Servetto

Quick Step

Silence! Lotto

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Whoa!

You are now officially the Ian Wright of Cycling.

by ursula on Jan 30, 2009 3:45 PM EST reply actions

Is that the order in which you'll be rolling 'em out?

I was kinda jonesing for a Cd’E preview this week.

by swells on Jan 30, 2009 8:45 PM EST reply actions

While you're waiting...

Have you seen Caisse d’Epargne’s newly-updated website?

Google is my domestique.

by majope on Jan 31, 2009 2:43 PM EST up reply actions

Wow, that confirms all my stereotypes

In the box at the top where you can choose language you can choose french…………and french only. It’s stuff like that the rest of the world find so endearing about the french.

by Jens on Jan 31, 2009 4:35 PM EST up reply actions

Despite the language thing, which is bizarre considering they're really a Spanish team,

I think it’s better than the last one where you had to sit through countless moving graphics pretending you were cycling along a road, which always jammed my computer up good and proper! You know, it took me a ludacrous amount of time to realise that the Caisse logo is supposed to be a squirrel….the little squirrels on the site kinda drop you a hint, but it still looks more like random lines…

by Albertina on Jan 31, 2009 4:41 PM EST up reply actions