Wizards Cycling public relations

[NoPikouze]

Overbos and Coolen gone ?! Nab...

Do you have much money to build a new team ?

Oh and goodbye to Clausen, anyway I never liked that guy

[Lizard]

19.5 mio .. that should be enough to build a team without buying 21 year olds and selling them with 24 to make money

[Lizard]

I am drunk and wanted to buy some riders

Yes, that's a good statement. I hope I will like what I see after I've slept haha. Let's go, this is the new team for January:

Tom van Amstel, 26, NED: 71-79-74-50-64, 35 Reg
Eddy Eickendreyer, 21, BEL: 73-50-79-53-57, 58 Reg
Jamal Jemomo, 21, BEL: 55-74-56-49-56, 35 Reg
Guy LeBoque, 21, BEL: 55-67-57-50-64, 46 Reg
Michael Murphy, 21, AUS: 49-73-51-47-48, 46 Reg
Nico deNeeuw, 21, BEL: 48-60-46-47-48, 55 Reg
Ernie Oysters, 21, AUS: 54-73-61-49-56, 58 Reg
Mitchell Pique, 30, NED: 46-77-80-54-45, 48 Reg
Vincent Soneau, 21, BEL: 49-74-73-52-48, 46 Reg
Andrew Stockdale, 21, AUS: 72-55-66-56-54, 58 Reg
Peter deVlamingh, 21, NED: 48-53-52-51-82, 40 Reg

Wizards Cycling back to the roots. Climbing action for 2011 (if they train at least to 85...)

[flockmastoR]

I am drunk and wanted to buy some riders
Wizards Cycling back to the roots. Climbing action for 2011 (if they train at least to 85...)

then stop training with 96% at 21 ;D

[claw]

thx

he will humiliate everybody!

[Lizard]

Wizards Cycling 2010: A rise to professionality

As last year, it is now again the time to lose some words about the last year. Our personal highlights, greatest victories and best stories of the year might be read by the ones that actually want to read that much bullshit (I guess at least Roby will do so ). Enjoy.

The year 2010 began with a crucial change in the team. A new climber was bought: Philippe Laviniere. Our hope to come back to the times of Herbert Königsbauer - something that never should've happened. He was sold after Paris-Nîmes due to insufficient training. But something else happened in that time aswell - an old generation finally has gone bit by bit. First it was our personal favourite Adam Wollfinger, maybe a classic race hero by now. He made his career perfect in 2010: At Down Under he won one stage and got 3rd in the classement - against unbeatable OsorioBotello (75-83). In february it even got better: He won the well-known Etoile de Bességes including won stage, the first and also last general classement he was able to get. After winning the czech championship for the third time in a row and being close to even win Milano-San Remo he retired after Dwars Door Vlaanderen. Thanks for 13 months of awesomeness we will never forget!
From then on it was time for a new Wiazrds Cycling hero recruited from the transfer market after PeterMeter dropped him there with 26 years and 72-83-63-46-63. Who else than Manuel Clausen! Basil Broucek and Kato Wolfsong were his most important helpers in the beginning helping him to get the first important victory at no other race than Gent-Wevelgem! At the Ronde van Vlaanderen he was also close to win. If we take Onkel-Eddys wheel he probably wins the race. We wanted, did not and lost it to Eddy. That win would've made him eternal and we missed. Well, gotta live with that. There will be other holdings of this race in the future and we're gonna get it somewhen.
At the Giro we made a huge mistake that almost destroyed the team - without any possible chances for jerseys or general classement and no money behind (I think not more than 500.000), we started with I think if I remember correctly 473.000. Too much to even the score. Clausen wins two stages, Mbeki wins a climber's stage, great win out of an escape and Mbeki's most important. Sneijder, Laviniere's follower had to be sold. Broucek finally retires from cycling, another great rider lost then. But the year goes on and the team grows, by some time to even 13 riders, our absolute maximum we will again have until the Giro comes 2011 I hope. From then on with no climber, but for the important races it seemed better not to have. Clausen + Wolfsong is the duo of 2010, able to win stage races, one day races and huge classics. San Sebastian is the next in line - won again great Emanuele Terranova. Lombardia follows aswell. At the Cyclassics it is at least a 3rd rank. Not to be forgotten some smaller victories, e.g. from Mbeki by winning the king of the mountain classement at Austria being a great battle. Oh, and we forgot a stage before that - Tour de Suisse stage 3 won by Mark Enkeevelaert in a crazy rallye, Top 3 Lizard stages of the year! So, back to business: Enkeevelaert, a good point, he also won Paris-Bourges, glad he at least was able to win when not able to train.
Another important date is ENECO. Clausen shows what he's able to do, winning 4 out of 8 stages and getting the points classement. The tour was very important for this quite dutch year for our team. Glad we rocked it! At Western Canada Tour in September something strange happenes. Our breakaway-king Ndale Mbeki got into a group on the first stage and absolutely no one wants to chase. The group gets 25mins without peloton tempo and Overbos (also in the group) helps Mbeki winning the classement on day 1, crazy. Mbeki also got the points classement there. The last win of 2010 (I'm glad for it) was in December. On the Pavés de Noel Victor Overbos can win because of a present by Riding Stars who accidently puts in sprint by 500metres. Else Victor would've probably lost the sprint. So again we were able to at least win one of the nice one day races during December (even though not Nazareth-Bethlehem and La St Sylv like last year). Shortly before the end of the year the whole team is sold. Great riders leave, and many don't know why. It's quite easy... I was going to do a kind of restart anyways, had to do it somewhen. I'm not that calm to do it all the same way again and again. Some changes have to come. It should've been after the Ardennes-week, but afterwards there's the Giro, then there's this race, that race, there's always races. That is why I said the best time to restart is just now. And stupid Oijterkamp, PFFFF!!!! So, enough of the talkings.

Thank you everyone for that great year 2010 in which finally - after starting originally in 2006 - Wizards Cycling could prove that it's a team too dangerous to just leave aside, a team that is able to win the important races at least sometimes and is going to do it again 2011 - we hope. A special thanks goes out to Team Franconia and Quick-Step. Especially since this year it was always a pleasure to have Franco and Quickie at my side, mostly on ICQ but also in the race chats. Those two make my RSF-day again and again. Thank you guys, I really appreciate it!
So, now to call some other names we don't want to miss: 1st, finally the mathematician is back in the business, yeah! Stay there! And give me Schrödinger now!!! 2nd, glad to have found some rather new teams here in business but nevertheless successful and always nice to have around in RSF. In the first case I speak of teams like Wookie, Team Bearclaw, Team Kajutschka, of course also a french team that made a nice year 2010. Of course it's NoPikouze we're talking of. And thanks BSE for buying Eickendreyer, that's the way aha aha we like it
Well, I guess enough said. To complete this Year 2010 statement let's see our 2010 palmares (and btw: 2010 - no field 2 in the whole year!):

Table of 2010

Cat. 6:
1st Giro di Lombardia, Manuel Clausen
2nd Paris-Roubaix, Jan Vermaart

Cat. 5:
Stage 5 Giro d'Italia, Manuel Clausen
Stage 10 Giro d'Italia, Manuel Clausen
Stage 19 Giro d'Italia, Ndale Mbeki
1st Gent-Wevelgem, Manuel Clausen
1st Clásica San Sebastián, Manuel Clausen
3rd Vattenfall-Cyclassics, Manuel Clausen

Cat. 4:
Team classement Paris-Nîmes
Stage 3 Paris-Nîmes, Kato Wolfsong
Stage 6 Paris-Nîmes, Nicolas LaCroix
Stage 2 Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Nicolas LaCroix
Stage 1 Tour de Romandie, Ndale Mbeki
Stage 3 Tour de Suisse, Mark Enkeevelaert
3rd Giro del Piemonte, Kato Wolfsong

Cat. 3:
3rd Tour Down Under, Adam Wollfinger
Points' classement ENECO Tour, Manuel Clausen
Climbers' classement Österreich-Rundfahrt, Ndale Mbeki
Team classement Tour Down Under
Stage 3 Tour Down Under, Adam Wollfinger
Stage 1 De Panne, Manuel Clausen
Stage 8 Österreich-Rundfahrt, Kato Wolfsong
Stage 1 ENECO Tour, Manuel Clausen
Stage 3 ENECO Tour, Manuel Clausen
Stage 5 ENECO Tour, Manuel Clausen
Stage 6 ENECO Tour, Manuel Clausen
1st Tro Bro Leon, Jan Vermaart
1st Olympia Route, Jörg Abplanalp
1st GP Miguel Indurain, Wesley Sneijder
1st Paris-Bourges, Mark Enkeevelaert

Cat. 2:
1st Etoile de Bességes, Adam Wollfinger
1st Tour de Wallonie, Manuel Clausen
1st Tour de L'ain, Manuel Clausen
3rd Tour des Pavés, Dick Eickendreyer
Young riders' classement Sachsen-Pavés, Jan Vermaart
Young riders' classement Tour des Pavés, Dick Eickendreyer
Stage 3 Sachsen-Pavés, Jan Vermaart
Stage 4 Etoile de Bességes, Adam Wollfinger
Stage 3 Tour du Méditerranéen, Basil Broucek
Stage 4 Tour de Wallonie, Manuel Clausen
Stage 4 Tour de L'ain, Manuel Clausen
Stage 5 Tour de L'ain, Manuel Clausen
1st CN/NM February, Adam Wollfinger
1st CN/NM February, Kato Wolfsong
1st La Route d'Adélie, Manuel Clausen
1st Japan Cup, Manuel Clausen
1st Pavés de Noel, Victor Overbos

Cat. 1:

1st Tour de Marmara, Basil Broucek
1st Western Canada Tour, Ndale Mbeki
3rd Ardéchoise, Ndale Mbeki
Points' classement Western Canada Tour, Ndale Mbeki
Points' classement Guyane, Manuel Clausen
Young riders' classement Ardéchoise, Samuel Albany
Team classement Western Canada Tour
Team classement Guyane
Stage 4 Tour de Marmara, Basil Broucek
Stage 2 Ardéchoise, Samuel Albany
Stage 1 Western Canada Tour, Ndale Mbeki
Stage 4 Western Canada Tour, Mark Enkeevelaert
Stage 2 Guyane, Manuel Clausen
1st 70. Giro del Mendrisiotto, Nicolas LaCroix
1st Kurnool - Komarolu, Ndale Mbeki
1st West Virginia Heights, Manuel Clausen
1st Athens - Sparte, Manuel Clausen
1st Bantay - Nueva Era, Tom van Amstel

We list:

General classements: 5
Points classements: 3
Climbers classements: 1
Young riders classements: 3
Team classements: 4
Stage wins: 43

[Lizard]

Bla bla, interesting title.

Didn't touch this thread for like ever. So here is the new bro for march. Bla bla. Something with skills. Bla bla. Some lame story of the dude. Bla bla. Legendary. Bla bla. Awesome. Bla bla.

Name: Barney Stinson
Age: 20
Place of birth: Adelaide
Nationality: Belgian
Skills: 56-73-73-55-53, 54 Reg

[Robyklebt]

Belgian

[flockmastoR]

Bla bla, interesting title.

Didn't touch this thread for like ever. So here is the new bro for march. Bla bla. Something with skills. Bla bla. Some lame story of the dude. Bla bla. Legendary. Bla bla. Awesome. Bla bla.

Name: Barney Stinson
Age: 20
Place of birth: Adelaide
Nationality: Belgian
Skills: 56-73-73-55-53, 54 Reg

Fatou mit 56-73-78-54-55 am Start und aus dem selben Refresh gekommen ;D

Belgian

[Lizard]

Yeah, that was a good one with belgian. Right? Right?
Of course all on purpose!!!!

[claw]

ja, da habt ihr zwei nette jungs ergattert..

btw: wundert mich, dass noch niemand einen barney stinson hatte^^

[Lizard]

ja, da habt ihr zwei nette jungs ergattert..

btw: wundert mich, dass noch niemand einen barney stinson hatte^^

Weil sie alle wollten, dass der größte Freak der Serie die Charaktere kauft.

[Quick]

Und der "größte" Freak macht ihn zu nem Australier? ...

[claw]

Und der "größte" Freak macht ihn zu nem Australier? ...

ja hab ich auch gedacht^^

müsste man glatt trotteln!

[Robyklebt]

Belgier!

Jetzt muss ich googlen, wer zum Teufel ist Barry Stinson?

[claw]

Belgier!

Jetzt muss ich googlen, wer zum Teufel ist Barry Stinson?

barry?

[Robyklebt]

The brother Barneys, I thought if I find Barry I'll know who Barney is. Try to keep up Claw.

[claw]

The brother Barneys, I thought if I find Barry I'll know who Barney is. Try to keep up Claw.

gettin rid of the claw? no way, dawg

[Lizard]

Pfff... I make riders whatever nation I want em to be... already thought of buying a czech Robin Scherbatsky haha

[claw]

Pfff... I make riders whatever nation I want em to be... already thought of buying a czech Robin Scherbatsky haha

im against girls in men-cycling-sports..
your luck its also a mens name

[Lizard]

Next rider for coming month

After a deal with classic talent Barney Stinson we were able to make a contract with a tunisian talent.

Name: Karim Boutannassimi
Age: 20
Place of birth: Tunis
Nationality: Tunisian
Skills: 52-72-54-46-60, 37 Reg

[Lizard]

Volta a Catalunya: Back on the road

Guess it's time to write something here again. The team went to the Volta a Catalunya which ended yesterday. With Petit Singe the team was able to force several bunch sprints, all in all 4. We weren't able to get Peter into the right position for a stage win but the tour was a great success. Not only did Eddy Eickendreyer win the jersey of the best young rider, he also became 2nd in overall behind John Watson (bergwerk). Furthermore the peloton went out to be probably the best since a half year. With Petit Singe, Quick-Step, Wookie, Team MBak and Psychopathen we met managers we've been riding against for many times, but the others also did a nice job so that the tour was full of activity aswell in the chat as on the road. Thanks for a very great tour, Wizards Cycling appreciates it!

[Lizard]

Upcoming: De Panne

Wizards Cycling starts at De Panne today. And finally it seems like we start to like sprints. Therefore the management decided to buy one more sprinter in the coming months and the right pacemakers aswell. De Panne might be a chance to earn prize money for it. We are looking forward! And the scouts already search for the right one. Rumors say it might be a belgian rider, but for now we don't want to send out false information.

[Lizard]

De Panne

Last year it was Manuel Clausen to win the first stage of De Panne. With royal sprinter Fokke Zylstra we expected no chances for any other than the first stage. van Amstel though was on Milano-San Remo shape, Volosjuk obviously for Gent-Wevelgem. Chances were low to win the first stage, but with a very close 2nd Tom did a nice job I guess. On the second day Peter - who was in good shape the last days - became 2nd behind also dutch sprinter Zylstra. Today it was Peter with the right wheel to take the win aswell as the green jersey for the best sprinter. Due to our good cooperation yesterday and today we hope this victory is all in all okay for Peter, after many attempts at Catalunya were he failed to Conti he really deserved his first victory. His next goal: Beat Conti!

[Lizard]

New talent safe for May, deVlamingh voted rider of the month

Headline tells us all. After a month of many bunch sprints involving Peter deVlamingh he finally was able to oversprint 2nd and 3rd place (I believe it was close to ten times podest) and win the last sprint at important De Panne. His first victory at Cat. 3 aswell as the points jersey made the month a great success after two months of no victory. For winning again Peter was voted rider of the month.
Not only he was in a good shape: Even though Andrew Stockdale didn't show his best performance at Tirreno-Adriatico Eddy Eickendreyer was in a superb shape when riding Catalunya. He ended 2nd in overall and won the U25-classement. Another rider in a great shape was Maksim Maasikas who was scouted a few days ago. He signed up for next month and will be Wizards Cycling's first Estonian rider.

Name: Maksim Maasikas
Age: 20
Place of birth: Haapsalu
Nationality: Estonian
Skills: 51-74-62-55-47, 37 Reg