Incycle-Predator Components team registered in Puerto Rico
US-based C൩ontinental team created from ꦉCalifornia elite programs
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Incycle-Predator Components, born out of the merger of two Southern California domestic elite programs, has been registered as a UCI Continental team in the Caribbean Island of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pu𒐪erto Rico for 2014 rather than the US, team owner Micah Cloteaux has confirmed to Cyclingnews.
Cloteaux, who owns a bike distribution business in South America and boug✨ht part ownership of Predator several years ago, explained that altho🔥ugh the team is US owned, much of the its funding for 2014 comes from Puerto Rican sponsors, including Font Insurance, Hyundai San Sebastian and Cargo Risk Management.
The team had originally planned to remain with USA Cycling's domestic elite level next season but the Puerto Rica🍰n sponsors wanted to jump to Continental level. The 🌟sponsors increased their financial commitments toward the team's budget, and the team accepted the opportunity.
“I didn't look into this season with the intention of being pro,” Cloteaux said. “But a guy I know 🌠from Puerto Rico asked late in the season if we'd be interested. And I said, 'Yeah, if it's easy. But I don't know if we're ready or have the fundin🦹g.' He asked if we'd do it if they put up the money and made it happen. I said, 'Yeah, we'll do it.'”
The team applieܫd for Continental status earlier this year, Cloteaux said, and although it's waiting for final UCI approval of the team kit, it has receive🎀d word that its application has been approved.
“We've gotten a letter saying we were in, and they c🐓ashed all the checks,” he said. “I'm pretty sure when they've cashed the checks it's a done deal.”
2014 roster
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The 2014 roster includes n💃ine US riders, two riders from Mexico, and one rider each from Puerto Ric🌼o, Australia, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela and Colombia.
Puerto Rico i𓃲s a US territory♚, and residents there hold US passports, so all riders with US passports meet the requirement that 60 percent of a Continental team's roster have passports from the country of registry, Cloteaux explained.
“We abided by the US rules just to kܫeep it kosher,” he said. “The only difference between us and any US team – we have the same rider balance, the same everything – the only difference is where our license is drawn. You could transfer that license to the US and we would q🍃ualify. So we definitely wanted to keep it inline and do everything by the book.”
Desp𒆙ite the foreign license, the team will focus on USA Cycling's National Race Calendar and National Criterium Calendar, as well as the USA Crits Series and select UCI races in South America, Central America, Asia and the Caribbean, Cloteaux said.
Because last year's elite team was able to compete in the NRC, NCC🦩 and lower-level UCI races, the 2014 race program will deviate only slightly from the team's previous schedule.
“We don't intend to do any races next year that we didn't do this year, except for maybe [the Tour of Taiwan],” Cloteaux said. “Our first race last year was the Tour of the Dominican. We raced in Puerto Rico; that's how we kind of🏅 got noticed and met some people down there. Our last race last year – and it will be again this year – was the Tour of Tobago down in the Caribbean. So a lot of our big races, and most of our UCI races, were down in the Caribbean and South America. And that hasn't changed.”
Cloteaux said his team doesn't have the budget or the qualifications to be in the big UCI 2.1 and 2.HC races in North America, and those are some of the only r🐈aces a Continental team is allowed to compete in that an elite team couldn't. Amateurs are also not allowed in the US profe♑ssional championships.
“The only North Ame𝐆rican UCI races that we d🌸id and were invited to were [Tour of] Quebec and [the Parx Casino Philly Cycling Classic],” he said. “So there's no real difference.”
In addition to the UCI squad, the organi𒁏sation will also field a junior development and elite men's team.
Incycle-Predator Components for 2014: Emile Abraham, Jacob Arnold, Calixto Manuel Bello, Andres Diaz, Samuel Hunter Grove, Franco Font, Orlando Garibay, Stephen Hall, Sergio Hernandez, Rudolph Napolitano, Michael Olheiser, Diego Sandoval, Christian Leandro Tamayo Saavedra, Tyler Schwartz, Jonah Tannos, Euris Vidal
Growing up in Missoula, Montana, Pat competed in his first bike race in 1985 at Flathead Lake. He studied English and journalism at the University of Oregon and has covered North American ꧃cycling extensively since 2009, as well as racing and teams in Europe and South America. Pat currently lives in the US outside of Portland, Oregon, with his imaginary 🅠dog Rusty.