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Picture posted by Bike Aid announcing their new rider Victor Vidal for 2026.
📝Victor Vidal -> Bike Aid
First new signing for Bike Aid shows they still like both their French riders and MTBers.
Vidal is a good punchy climber who has countless good results against the top of the French amateur peloton. He should have no problems performing at good Conti level!
📸Bike Aid
Picture of UAE Team Emirate GEN Z's Roster for 2026 including Moritz Mauss.
Confirming the rumours, German Junior Moritz Mauss is making the step-up into the U23 program of UAE.
He made a big leap in performance this year and has an interesting profile being pretty fast but surviving hilly terrain very well. A good racer too, so will be interesting to see him develop.
Nice to see Jannis Peter make the deserved step-up and becoming a Pro after with Unibet after years of consistent development in the Conti ranks.
Another reminder how important the established Conti teams can be to give riders a platform who would be long ousted from the big Devo programs.
Guess it isn't much of a surprise to see Sophie Alisch, the former boxer who announced her switch to cycling a couple months back, make her way onto the Canyon Sram roster given her immediate sponsoring by Canyon.
Will be interesting to watch how she gets on!
wmncycling.com/from-ring-to...
Picture of the RBH Rookies team line-up 2026
Looks like the RBH Rookies team will again be one of the strongest Conti/Devo teams around in 2026.
They signed Max Bock who was in Auto Eder for a year before & getting Magagnotti is a nice coup. Good to see Putz getting another year as well.
Looking forward to see Andersen on a new level too.
Interview with Max Bock that touches the reasons for him to not continue with Groupama.
'It's a bit sad, because I think that in an international team, every rider should have the same opportunities and the same race programme. At Groupama, that wasn't the case.’
www.directvelo.com/actualite/12...
Emilien Jeannière really is the biggest nearly man of the season.
Made such a huge improvement and had an incredible year but just keeps on missing that elusive win. Doesn't matter if it's the 2.2 Tour of Istanbul or a WT classic like Plouay, he's up there but being beaten again and again.
📝Mauro Brenner - REMBE rad-net
Mauro Brenner is switching teams to Rembe who should have a better suited calendar for him than Lotto had this season.
He is a good climber on his day but will need to make another leap to fight for GCs in stage races or stages on UCI level.
Rad-Bundesliga should see a new race in 2026 near Osnabrück: the „Sparkassen-Wiehengebirgs-Regio-Runde“
Plans for a 135km race, consisting of 7 loops around Schledehausen, Bad Essen, Ober- und Niederholsten and Astrup which includes a KoM at Bad Essener Berg.
www.noz.de/lokales/biss...
Some more infos about the new Sauerlandrundfahrt, Germanys new UCI stage race.
- already getting interest from international teams
- plans to include a TT stage
- Arnsberg likely involved
- as per the UCI status mainly a vehicle for Conti teams and developing riders
www.wp.de/lokales/arns...
Screenshot from the UCI 2026 calendar page of the new Sauerlandrundfahrt UCI stage race
The provisional 2026 UCI calendar confirms the Sauerlandrundfahrt Bundesliga race is planned as a 4-day 2.2 stage race in 2026.
Sauerlandrundfahrt 2026 (UCI 2.2)
www.uci.org/competition-...
Screenshot of the UCI calendar page of the Women Cycling Day 2026
The provisional 2026 UCI calendar confirms the possibility of a new one day race in Thüringen organized by the Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour organizers:
The Women Cycling Day (1.Pro) on 21st June 2026
www.uci.org/competition-...
Will be interesting to see how big a leap Kagevi can make within a WWT set-up.
Should turn into a very valuable rider with her allround abilities.
So far Karl has been similarly impressive in the Junior ranks as Emil.
Will be interesting to see how he develops the next few years.
Paula Blasi continuing her amazing season, could be two spanish wins in the youth cats today.
Linda Riedmann in 5th and almost surviving after being solo in front with more than a minute coming into the last lap. Still another very strong ride!
📝Max-David Briese -> REMBE rad-net
Max Briese is changing back to Rembe where he first started riding after switching to the road.
He's starting to make his way into the track Elite national team & combines that with his sprinting role on the road in which he has struggled so far on UCI level.
🇩🇪 Conti Transfer Thread 2026
Now that we get to know the first signings for 2026 I will try and gather them in a thread & give my two cents & thoughts for those interested. Same as the last years basically!
Expect the thread to fill towards the end of the year, it's still early.
Soloalbum ist schon länger her, aber Geese jetzt natürlich grad gehört. Fand Taxes als Single richtig gut, aber das Album als ganzes leider etwas enttäuschend aktuell.
Werd dem aber auch noch mehr Chancen geben
Verstehe den hype, aber komm einfach nicht rein in seine Sachen
01.10.2025 12:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just two seconds missing for Magdalena Leis against the best of the world for Euro title.
Very impressive ride by her which will hopefully secure her a good ride for next year. Maybe she can continue the streak of German Juniors picked up by Canyon Generation.
'One Battle After Another' das beste Kinoerlebnis und der beste PTA seit langem
30.09.2025 22:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good to see Benedikt Benz making the step-up to a WT Devo team.
Will be interesting to see into what kind of rider he develops out of the Junior ranks.
Kolobnev erasure
28.09.2025 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also has to be mentioned again what an incredible progression Max Bock has been on this year. From starting to perform at the highest level in the super hard U23 stage races to now even be up there in a one-day race like worlds with a cobbled climb.
Wasn't expecting any of this a few months ago.
Once again very interesting U23 race: Lorenzo Finn showing the best hardly need any time of adaptation between categories while Marco Schrettl shows how important it can be to do the full 4 years of U23.
And then Jan Huber, as a club rider, battling against the best Devo talents around.
Incredible race by Nahom Efriem going toe to toe with the best Juniors in the world and finishing 11th.
Let's hope we see him in Europe next year!
#Kigali2025
2006 class showing just how good they are even with arguably the best talent of them dropping early (ill?) in Cat Ferguson.
Still went 1-2 with Gery and Chladonová among their older peers in this race.
#Kigali2025
Really like how this looks for Célia Gery. Not sure the climbers like Holmgren can get rid of her on these climbs and she packs the punch to finish it off out of small groups #Kigali2025
25.09.2025 13:44 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Great race by the German U23 women so far. Will see if anyone of them (Riedmann or Czapla) can go with the very best in the final.
Selma Lanztsch definitely showing she would deserve to be on a UCI team. Developing really well despite "only" racing with a amateur team.
Really nice transfer by Q36.5 here.
Houcou has been one of the U23 revelations of the season and could develop into a very handy classics rider/sprinter.
