Cricket Web Cycling Team

[Samuel_Vimes]

A well-tested idea, no doubt, and while we're waiting for AFL to kick alive the season might as well be occupied with a summer sport.

Anyway, you know the drill; we're all world-class athletes with the medicinal capacities of Eufemiano Fuentes to back us up, just waiting to be released on the world of professional cycling. We'll be racing all the major races, as well as some local races to appease the public. Highlights include:

January: Australian Championships, Tour Down Under
March: Omloop Het Volk, Tour of the Cape, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milano-San Remo
April: One-day classics, such as Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Tour of Flanders
May: Giro d'Italia
June: Dauphiné Libéré, Tour of Switzerland, National Championships
July: Tour de France
August: Clasica San Sebastian, Tour of Germany, Hamburg Cyclassics
September: Vuelta a España, Tour of Britain, Stuttgart World Championships

Sign-up form

Name:
Date of Birth:
Cycling nation:
Specialist (One of the following five: Time Trialler, Climber, GC Rider, Sprinter, Breakaway Rider):
Goal races (name up to three):
Domestique (professional rider who has not appeared in top six of a Grand Tour general classification, won a points jersey in a Grand Tour, or a World title, to strengthen the side):

Details (can be omitted, will be adapted to each position)

Enter values from 50 to 85 in each of these 12 parameters

Flat:
Mountain
Hills:
Downhill:
Time Trial:
Stamina:
Resistance:
Recovery:
Cobblestones:
Fighter:
Sprint:
Acceleration:

These must fit your specialisation, as follows:

For a TT:

Must be 78-83 in: Time Trial
Must be 70-85 in: Flat
Must be 70-80 in: Resistance, Stamina, Recovery
Must be 60-80 in: Fighter, Downhill, Hills
Must be 50-80 in: Cobblestones, Mountain, Sprint, Acceleration

All must add up to no more than 825.

For a Sprinter:

Must be 78-83 in: Sprint
Must be between 73-85 in: Acceleration
Must be between 70-85 in: Flat
Must be 60-80 in: Resistance, Recovery, Stamina
Must be 50-80 in: Fighter, Hills, Cobblestones, Downhill
Must be 50-70 in: Mountains, Time Trial

All must add up to no more than 795.

For a Climber:
Must be between 75-83 in: Mountain
Must be between 65-85 in: Downhill, Stamina, Resistance, Recovery, Fighter, Hills, Acceleration
Must be between 60-80 in: Flat
Must be between 50-75 in: Cobblestones
Must be between 50-65 in: Time Trial, Sprint

All must add up to no more than 820.

For a GC Rider
Must be between 75-85 in: Resistance, Recovery
Must be between 70-83 in: Mountain, Time Trial, Hills, Stamina, Acceleration
Must be between 60-83 in: Flat, Downhill
Must be between 50-80 in: Sprint, Cobblestones, Fighter

All must add up to no more than 870.

For a Breakaway Rider

Must be between 75-85 in: Flat, Fighter, Hills, Stamina
Must be between 65-83 in: Mountain, Acceleration, Resistance, Recovery
Must be between 50-83 in: Cobblestones, Downhill, Time Trial
Must be between 50-75 in: Sprint

All must add up to no more than 840.

Current team:

Fensome, Alex = Chubb
Gray, Jamee = Jamee999
Pickup, Neil = obv
Mørk, Håkon = Samuel_Vimes
Mitchell, Mathew = Matteh
Clapham, K. F. = Clapo
Rose, Xavier = roseboy64
Thomas, Greg = NZTailender
Forner, Josh = Josh
Dwyer, Chris = Bobisback
Gelman, Zac = pasag
Walsh, Craig = Craig
Reddlapalli, Manjunath = alternative
Davis, Heath T. = WHOOOOOSH
Dunn, Ryan = pinchy81
Pares, David = obv
Kearsley, David = kears_falcon_9
Hoy, Nathan = thewizard101
Kennett, David = David
Malone, Bugs = bugssy
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Arroyo, David
Arvesen, Kurt Asle
Dean, Julian
Hoy, Chris
Millar, David
Steegmans, Gert
Txurruka, Amets
Vansummeren, Johan
Vasseur, Cedric
Voigt, Jens
Wesemann, Steffen
Wiggins, Bradley

[Chubb]

As Gogol Bordello might say, Well why not?

Name: Alex Fensome
Date of Birth: 6/12/86
Cycling nation: Zimbabwe if I can't be Zimba, New Zealand
Specialist (One of the following five: Time Trialler, Climber, GC Rider, Sprinter, Breakaway Rider): breakaway rider
Goal races (name up to three): Paris- Roubaix, Tour de France stage win, Milan- San Remo

Details (can be omitted, will be adapted to each position)

Enter values from 50 to 85 in each of these 12 parameters

Flat: 75
Mountain:65
Hills: 80
Downhill: 72
Time Trial: 60
Stamina: 78
Resistance: 70
Recovery: 65
Cobblestones: 65
Fighter: 80
Sprint: 60
Acceleration: 70

[Jamee999]

Name: Jamee Gray
Date of Birth: 16/11/82 (Hey, why not)
Cycling nation: Romania
Specialist (One of the following five: Time Trialler, Climber, GC Rider, Sprinter, Breakaway Rider): Breakaway Rider
Goal races (name up to three): Tour de France stage win, Giro d'Italia stage win, Liege-Bastogne-Liege,
Domestique: Amets Txurruka

Flat: 80
Mountain: 70
Hills: 75
Downhill: 65
Time Trial: 65
Stamina: 85
Resistance: 70
Recovery: 65
Cobblestones: 55
Fighter: 80
Sprint: 60
Acceleration: 70

[Neil Pickup]

I'm going to base myself on a cross between my hero, Geraint Thomas, and one of my favourite riders growing up, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov. I'll let you wonder exactly how I'm going to manage that whilst I go and place my giant pizza into the oven.

[Neil Pickup]

Name: Neil Pickup
Date of Birth: 30/08/1985
Cycling nation: England/Uzbekistan
Specialist: Sprinter
Goal races: Milan-San Remo, Giro d'Italia (first half anyway, mountains might be a bit much, but worth a shot as a Tour warmup), ultimately the Maillot Vert.
Domestique: Gert Steegmans (QSI)

Flat: 78
Mountain: 56
Hills: 61
Downhill: 64
Time Trial: 50
Stamina: 64
Resistance: 62
Recovery: 74
Cobblestones: 50
Fighter: 68
Sprint: 83
Acceleration: 85

There's a bit of Magnus Backstedt thrown in.

EDIT: Incidentally, Hakky, how are you going to be simulating this lot?

[Samuel_Vimes]

A Welsh/Uzbekistani. The world knows no wonders.

Btw, forgot to mention one thing; as CW most likely won't have enough riders for a ProTour team, each of you is allowed to name one rider as personal domestique for the team. The only criterion is that he's never placed top six in the general classification of a Grand Tour or won a Grand Tour points jersey. Will add this to sign-up form.

Me:

Name: Håkon Mørk
Date of Birth: 04/10/81
Cycling nation: Norway
Specialist (One of the following five: Time Trialler, Climber, GC Rider, Sprinter, Breakaway Rider): Time Trialler
Goal races (name up to three): Tour de France stage win, World Championship ITT, Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Domestique: Kurt Asle Arvesen (CSC)

Details (can be omitted, will be adapted to each position)

Enter values from 50 to 85 in each of these 12 parameters

Flat: 74
Mountain: 60
Hills: 82
Downhill: 65
Time Trial: 82
Stamina: 75
Resistance: 76
Recovery: 70
Cobblestones: 54
Fighter: 67
Sprint: 56
Acceleration: 64

Also, sprinters have been given a slight boost as it seems impossible to make a decent rider otherwise.

As for simulation: Pro Cycling Manager 2006, updated to this year's database thanks to PPDB. Will replace Unibet.com with us, and throw out a few non-contracted riders and dopers.

[Chubb]

Cedric Vasseur for my domestique.

[PhoenixFire]

Originally Posted by Neil Pickup

I'm going to base myself on a cross between my hero, Geraint Thomas, and one of my favourite riders growing up, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov. I'll let you wonder exactly how I'm going to manage that whilst I go and place my giant pizza into the oven.

What a cool name, wasn't he from Uzbekistan or somewhere like that?

[Matteh]

Pretty good response for this so far it seems. Shall fill in a form now.

[Matteh]

Sign-up form

Name: Mathew Mitchell
Date of Birth: 30/06/87
Cycling nation: GB
Specialist: Time Trialler
Goal races (name up to three): TdF Prologue, TdF TTs, Giro TTs basically Big Tour TTs
Domestique: Jens Voigt

Details (can be omitted, will be adapted to each position)

Enter values from 50 to 85 in each of these 12 parameters

Flat: 80
Mountain: 55
Hills: 60
Downhill: 65
Time Trial: 83
Stamina: 75
Resistance: 75
Recovery: 75
Cobblestones: 50
Fighter: 78
Sprint: 55
Acceleration: 74

825

[Johnners]

Name: Kingsley Fernando Clapham - KFC (H)
Date of Birth: 24/06/1984
Cycling nation: Australia/Spain
Specialist: GC Rider (looks like im the greedy bastard who wants all the glory )
Goal races (name up to three): Tour De France, Vuelta a España, Giro d'Italia
Domestique: David Arroyo (GCE)

Details (can be omitted, will be adapted to each position)

Enter values from 50 to 85 in each of these 12 parameters

Flat: 72
Mountain: 82
Hills: 77
Downhill: 73
Time Trial: 79
Stamina: 78
Resistance: 80
Recovery: 82
Cobblestones: 52
Fighter: 65
Sprint: 60
Acceleration: 70

[Matteh]

Haakon, a DOB of 30/06/87 means i'm 20.

[Johnners]

Originally Posted by Samuel_Vimes

As for simulation: Pro Cycling Manager 2006, updated to this year's database thanks to PPDB. Will replace Unibet.com with us, and throw out a few non-contracted riders and dopers.

There goes half the field

[roseboy64]

Name: Xavier Rose
Date of Birth: 26/11/1987
Cycling nation: Jamaica
Specialist (One of the following five: Time Trialler, Climber, GC Rider, Sprinter, Breakaway Rider): GC Rider
Goal races (name up to three): Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España
Domestique (professional rider who has not appeared in top six of a Grand Tour general classification, won a points jersey in a Grand Tour, or a World title, to strengthen the side):Bradley Wiggins

Details (can be omitted, will be adapted to each position)

Enter values from 50 to 85 in each of these 12 parameters

Flat: 61
Mountain: 83
Hills: 82
Downhill: 60
Time Trial: 83
Stamina: 80
Resistance: 77
Recovery: 70
Cobblestones: 72
Fighter: 61
Sprint: 72
Acceleration: 80

[Matteh]

Wiggins is a current World Champion tbh, but it's on the track. Will leave it up to Haakon to decide.