Agisko/Dart/CyclingTV Pro Continental Cycling Team
New United Kingdom Team Based in Italy

Agisko/Dart/CyclingTV Pro Continental Cycling Team has already had its first training camp in Montecatini, Tuscany, Italy. Held for 7 days under the Tuscan sun. The camp gave riders a chance to get to know each other and for the teams management a chance to set each rider on track for their and our seasons goals.
Mile eater Duncan Urquhart clocked over 600 miles (1000 km) for the week, in preparation for his first target of the season, to win the Commonwealth Games Road race title in Australia in March. During the week we saw a great team sprit grow between riders and the teams management.

The Pro team is a new development for 2006, but the teams management brings many years of past experience to the sport.
Peter Cole:- Founder and owner for over 11 years the successful Prestige Vélo Club. This still remains an important part of our ethos and set-up. The club in its current incarnation is called AgiskoViner, the day to day running of the club is now over seen by Gary Kristensen MBE and his team of helpers. Within the club we will continue to support and nurture younger riders from the UK and develop suitable rider through to the Pro ranks. This club set up is also being replicated in the USA and South Africa in 2006 along the same lines.

Fred Morini:- A racing cyclists for over 23 years now, ex-Pro rider for Gerolsteiner, who due to a terrible accident in 2001 was forced out of the sport, now he is back! In the saddle and behind the wheel, the sports first “Player Manager” Fred’s experience is vast in all sectors of the sport.

Phil Leigh:- For the past 4 years Phil has run the UK’s leading Pro team, in its last year the Recycling squad was one of the most successful UK pro teams ever. Phil brings a vast amount of day to day experience to our set up.

Sponsors Agisko & Dart
The teams two principle sponsors are two Italian companies Agisko and Dart.
Agisko unique range of sports nutrition products, brought to the sport by the companies founder Paolo Adorni, have been developed with the help of many pro riders, inc Mr Morini and the elite riders of Agisko-Viner squad in 2004/5
Dart is a specialist Italian frame manufacture that builds almost exclusively in carbon. Now owned and run by former T-Mobile professional Francesco Frattini.
CyclingTV is the new cycling dedicated internet based TV channel, Cycling.TV will be covering the progress of the team and its riders through the year.

The team is basing its season around the British Premier Elite race series other key UK objectives including the Tour of Britain.

The team has also set aside 3 key periods when it will race abroad mainly in Italy;
Mid Feb to mid March, Mid May to mid June, Mid July to early August.
The team will be back in Italy during the year also for specialist training camps, in Tuscany, Umbria and the Dolomites organised by one of the teams sponsors Espresso Tours.
First race of the year will be ridden by Duncan Urquhart in New Zealand at the Tour Of Wellington, today.
In the UK the teams first race will be the Perfs road race on the 12th of Feb’
The team, through its USA club and USA contacts has also built a long standing relationship with top pro coach Rick Crawford. (Rick is coach to many top US riders including Levi Leipheimer, Tom Danielson, to name just two) Rick has sent over young riders to our team in Italy for the past two seasons, our 3 USA signings are his young protégées

Team Roster Agisko-Dart-Cycling.TV:
Duncan Urquhart (GB)
Kevin Dawson (GB)
Federico Morini (IT)
Eric Ransom (USA)
Rob Enslin (SA)
Gary Hand, (GB)
Graham Briggs (GB)
James Willamson (GB)
Alex Higham (GB)
Neil Coleman (GB)
Alex Hagman (USA)
Clayton Barrows (USA)

Team Staff
Team Manager: Peter Cole
Director Sportif: Phil Leigh
Director Sportif: Fred Morini
Technical Director: Alberto Pagnottini
Mechanic: Bob
Physio: Duncan Hards
Alex Higham (GB)
Neil Coleman (GB)
Alex Hagman (USA)
Clayton Barrows (USA)

Team Kit Agisko/Dart/cyclingtv

We would like to thank all our sponsors and supports, which include;
· Agisko natural sports nutrition
· DART bikes
· Parentini cycle clothing,
· REM cycle helmets and glasses,
· USE Saddles & Seat Pins
· Espresso Tours
· Technical support from Alberto Pagnottini at Racing Bikes
· Michelin Tyres
· Sports Bottle, drinking bottles
· Fine Line Photography
· Elite turbo trainers

Nous avons le plaisir de vous presenter aujourd’hui, la nouvelle equipe-pro britannique,
l’equipe AGISKO-DART-CYCLING.TV
L’EQUIPE AGISKO-DART_CYCLING.TV SUR LES ROUTES DE LA TOSCANE
Après une semaine d’entrainement en Toscane, la nouvelle equipe pro anglaise AGISKO-DART-CYCLING.TV est prete a debuter sa premiere annee dans la categorie des “Grands”.
Agisko-Dart-Cycling.tv sera la nouvelle equipe continentale pour la saison 2006.

Cette equipe, cree par Peter Cole et ses collegues Fred Morini et Phil Leigh (directeur sportif de Recycling Team)avec le soutien de ses deux sponsors italiens (Agisko et Dart) est composee de 12 coureurs et se concentrera sur les courses elite du calendrier britannique : les championnats nationaux, Le tour of Britain et toutes les courses importantes de la saison en Grande-Bretagne.

L’equipe sera aussi tres presente dans les courses italiennes de juin a aout, grace au soutien de l’ancien coureur Francesco Frattini (T-Mobile) et gerant actuel de l’entreprise Dart ainsi que de Fred Morini, ex-pro de l’equipe Gerolsteiner et coureur actuel de l’equipe Agisko-Dart-Cycling.tv ou il occupe aussi le poste de directeur sportif. Fred est de retour sur son velo, après avoir miraculeusement recupere d’un terrible accident en decembre 2001.

L’equipe se retrouvera de nouveau en Italie, le 30 janvier prochain, pour une dizaine de jours, a San Giustino ,en Ombrie region connue comme etant le Coeur vert de l’Italie la ou Peter et Fred vivent a present. Le precedent entrainement eu lieu a Montecatini et les coureurs ont parcourus plus de 800 km en 6 jours. Ces training camps sont organises par notre sponsor Espresso Tours.
Ce second rendez-vous sera tres important et devra permettre aux coureurs de mieux se connaitre, d’installer une simbiose ainsi que de definir le programme des courses de la saison a venir.
Cette saison qui devrait initialement commencer le 12 fevrier avec Perfs (Grande-Bretagne).
Bonne chance aux coureurs de l’equipe Agisko-Dart-Cycling.tv que sont : Graham Briggs, Gary Hand, James Willamson, Kevin Dawson, Alex Higham,
Neil Coleman, les ecossais Duncan Urquart et Gary Hand, plus trois
Coureurs americain, Alex Hagman, Eric Ramson, Clayton Barrows ainsi que le sud africain Rob Enslin.