At the end of the 2021 season, the Irish rider Nicholas Roche withdrew from the circuit World Tour. However, the double stage winner The Vuelta It’s definitely not done by bike. First reintroduced as sporting director of the Irish selection, he later fell in love with a whole discipline, GravelHe will launch his own team in 2023. This is what he said Bike News. “I’m going to start a small team. I’ve fully embraced the gravel world, so next year I’ll be working on TV and continuing my commitments at Trinity Racing, but hopefully we’ll do between 12 and 15 races in the US and the European stage. I thought it would be good to put a team together, so We can travel and compete together.

Video – Nicolas Roche on his cycling act ahead of his final Giro

Nicolas Roche will launch a gravel team in 2023

Retired road pro to set up team while racing in Europe and US – ‘I fully embraced the gravel world’:https://t.co/jRIkqt09PB

— VeloNews (@velonews) October 23, 2022

“We haven’t elected our female representative yet”

A four-time championIreland Sur Route is supported by several famous sponsors (Bianchi, Echo, Asos). However, he still has a few details to settle, particularly finding other sponsorships as well as a woman to complete his workforce. “I thanked my little brother, so he will be part of the team and we will have a woman in the team. If we get a little more sponsorship, we will be 4 riders. It’s obviously not like that. A full team, but we will share that experience. We have not yet chosen our female representative, so that place Still available. It’s tough because there are a lot of women’s teams, and a lot of them are still road-focused, but I’m working on that. It’s going to be an adventure-focused team.” Revealed the fifth of the latest version of Big sugar gravel This Sunday there was a dispute in America.

Back to racing tomorrow at Bentonville! Thanks
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— Nicolas Roche (@NicolasRoche) October 21, 2022