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Custom paint jobs for national champion bikes
@hoops Colin? I have a lot of time for him.
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Brand spanking new all
Singing all dancing Team Busses. Fair enough for World Tour teams with big sponsorship money, but it is a huge extravagance for smaller teams.One Pro have a full size team bus, and two Aston Martin Team Cars.... not extravagant at all for Team that doesn’t even ride at Pro Contintal level!
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Was just chatting with Madison Genesis DS at start of ToB in Bristol this morning. Very much seems to be a case of Sky throwing money around like there is no tomorrow, and and smaller teams are spending huge amounts of money on non essential shit the they don’t really need so they don’t look amateur in comparison, and the consequences of smaller teams doing this over the last two years are starting to arise.
Shows how important it is for the lower continental level pros to have an exit strategy in place for when things go south unexpectedly. Quite a few National and Contintal/National level pros now retiring fairly early and taking up jobs in the media whilst they are still at the top of their game instead of continuing racing, fading away and getting dumped out out the back of the Team bus.
GCN’s recent and on going huge expansion of presenter talent is a prime example.