Team ECS Cycling

[ECS Cycling]

Team ECS Cycling:

Country|Name
Spain |Enrique Gonzalez
USA |Graham Baker
France |Louis Blanchet
USA |Lucas brown
USA |Marcus Johnson
Canada |Michael Harwood
Czech |Ondra Horsky
USA |Phil Martin
Canada |Tobias Sagan
GB |Tomas Howland

First Major result:
Both Ondra Horsky and Michael Harwood finished within the top ten at Gree Tour of Guangxi

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Welcome!

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Early review of September and November
Nothing much in terms of results (barring results in the last race of my season on friday), no top 10 finishes other than Gree

Transfers
Leaving Riders
Ondra Horsky: After two seasons with the team, and some disagreements about team leadership, he decided to leave.
Louis Blanshet: After two seasons with the team, and some disagreements with ownership, he also left.

New Riders
Liam Murphy: 20yr old Irish sprinter, high hopes for results with him
Søren Johansen: 24yr old Danish Classic, high hopes for training to become better than martin.

Preview
Will go for GC at Indian Ocean Paradise tour, and Mithragen tour, while riding some one day races in between.

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Results much better this year, with a third place for Harwood on St 2 of IOPT and a third place for Murphy on St 6.2, as well as a 5th place in Catania-Etna. Still hunting my first win, hopefully it will come in January.

Riders Leaving
None

Riders Entering
Carson Stephens 20yr old flat rider, hope to turn into a pave classic.


Goals For January
GC at Vietnam, TDU, and Alula, while going for stages as well.

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Today, Michael Harwood got 1K points with a 3rd place at the Vuelta a Manizales, the first rider on the team to do it, nobody else is close, Martin is next with around 200 points.

1K Club

• Michael Harwood

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January
In January, the team's best result was a third place in the Vuelta a Manizales. The team also had it's best GC result with a fifth place in the AlUla Tour.

Riders Leaving
Søren Johansen: I decided that Johansen wasn't worth it, so I sold him.

Riders Entering
Marco Fermi: Italian climber and Stage Racer with good TT, will eventually become leader of the team.

Goals for February

GC at Valencia, UAE, and O Gran Camino, First sage win/palmares entry.

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February

A little late, but no news, no wins, didn't really have good results. Not much else to say.
Although, Fermi is getting too expensive, will most likely be sold at some point(I am terrible at buying riders).

Transfers
None

Goals
Get my first win

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March
Best result of the month was fourth at Milano-Torino with Michael Harwood, not really any other decent results besides a top 10 in Tirreno-Adriatico.

Riders Leaving
Michael Harwood
The best rider of the team, with the most eternal points, but he was old and it was time to let go and move on.

Marco Fermi
To expensive and not generating the results I wanted, so he left.

Tomas Howland
Again, he was old, and we needed to move into the future.

Riders coming in
Alex Harwood
Cousin of Michael Harwood, will become my climber and hopefully my leader.

George Roberts
Will become Classic helper

Mike Grant
Will become Classic leader and super-domestique

goals for april
Mountain Jersey at one of the four tours, good training for the 21yr olds.

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April
First win of team ECS Cycling! It came as a mountain jersey for Mike Grant in the Giro d'Abruzzo. No other major results

Riders Leaving
Marcus Johnson
Old flat rider, needed to move on.

Riders coming in
Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Japanese flat rider, hope for him to be one of the best flat riders on the team, as well as cobble helper for Stephens.

April Goals
KOM at Giro, top 3 white, a couple good stage results.