After good thinking I made my descision. I chosed a team that promiced me the biggest salary (3000 euros per month), an Absolute leader status and thet will race across East Europe and Italy. I choosed team Moscow.
Yesterday I signed very cool sponsorship with Prostior telecom company, they will sponsor me and the team I will choose. Tomorrow I going to Moscow for sign a contract and meet my new team mates and bosses.
I will start career with PCM Club database but I still waiting for PCM Daily with EE add-on and will quickly jump into it when it will be releaseed.
I don't like Moscow. I mean Moscow city. It's too big city for me, I feel nervous in such big cities. People are cheerless, concentrated on their money... I like my home city much more. Well, I think you are too. Anyway, I came into Moscow yesterday evening and had time only for settle in hotel. Today morning I came into team centre.
One thing I think you should know about team Moscow. It is a very young team; it was organized only in November 2008 on the basis of Moscow Physical Culture and Sports Department. It has UCI registration as continental team. With Katyusha CT, Lokomotiv and Kuban we have four continental teams in Russia. Team Moscow wants to be the best of course; we have a long-time development program which involves even inviting non-russian staff and riders.
My team jersey
My new team
For now we have 16 riders in the team. But there is one thing - no one have a contract yet. And our manager, Alexander Tolkachev, said, he wants to invite more riders. The reason is to pick up strongest riders. There are riders who are likely will stay in team. They are Sergey Kolesnikov, Alexander Khatuntsev, Andrey Klyuev, Sergey Valynin and me. I know that the team is talking with Egor Silin and Pavel Kochetkov. My new team will take part in East Europe and Italian races. Also we''ll race in some other races.
Moscow team has Moscow city as main sponsor, Colnago, Prostor telekom and velosport.ru cycling shop as secondary sponsors. Of course, we are riding on Colnago bikes. It's Colnago CLX 2.0. It took a couple of hours for me to choose a bike on which I will race this season. Finally I've choose a 57 cm frame. It is equipped with Shimano Dura-Ace derailleurs and Fulcrum Racing wheels with Vittoria tires. It's just awesome bike! I can't wait to try it on long training.
My new bike
It won't be long. In two days some of riders are heading to Jayco Bay Classic Series race. The captains will be Kolesnikov and Valynin. All other riders (me too) will go to Sochi for first pre-race training. There I could try my new racing and training bikes. Oh, I forgot to say. I now have also a new training bike. It's Colnago Arte with Shimano Ultegra equipment.
I know, you are interested in my racing plan. For now I only know that I'm riding Tour of Wellington and Giro della Provincia del Grosetto. So, I will ride my first race afret comeback even earlier than Lance
