Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge cycling podcast with Benji Nice and here on our Sunday night stormy weather outside, but that doesn't stop us rolling through this tea's, uh, 2021 season previews.

Benji and I embarked upon this mission because we, I don't know why we did the Israel one kind of because we wanted to troll I think about how damn Martin and Mike Woods are going to be put in a sticky situation in the Tour de France.

And then we realized when people really liked it, okay, you listening, but now we have to do every single world tour team want to do every single women's world tour team, and then we, Benji looked at the Caledown was like, you realize, there's actually not much on, so now we're recording like four a weekend and turning them out, but if you appreciate it, if you like it, drop a like on the YouTube channel, the video on the YouTube channel, the pod or, if you're listening on a podcast player, follow us on there,

the Lantern Rouge cycling podcast, Twitter handle, which Benji is kindly put together and and running because Benji actually knows how social media works and can do it, whereas I am pretty much full boom mode and near my hand held in all regards in that sense, but yeah, how you going, Benji, what are you been up to this weekend? I know it's snowy in flanders.

Yeah, it's been, it's been a pretty harsh weather, it's been snowing for like two, three days now, which is kind of unusual, it's been like three years since I think I've seen proper snow, two years perhaps.

Me too.

But I haven't come outside since it's snowing, so I haven't had to come outside since it started snowing, so that's, that's always fun. I've been inside a recording podcast with you doing some stuff for our socials and stuff, and yeah, quite a, quite a relaxed weekend, I'd say.

But we're not here to talk about my weekend, we're here to talk about one of the world tour teams, right? Team bike exchange.

Yeah, world tour on paper, team bike exchange, they've changed name because obviously it's cycling and having continuity of brand is a bit too much to ask for, so just so every Australian who casually follows cycling in January at the Twitter and under et cetera can be more confused.

Egyptian Scott, formerly Aureka Green Edge, are now team bike exchange for you, Europeans, Americans and Brits, which is like 93% or non-Australians who listen to the podcast and not missing out on you, Asia, you form a pretty high part of the pod too.

Non-Australian bike exchanges are, I'm not sure if it is overseas, but it's an online retailer of bikes or like an aggregator for bike shops and stuff.

Not just growing it very well, pretty sure it's owned by Harvey, who owns J-Co, who's sponsored and might still sponsored by J-Co AIS, second Australian development team,

and sponsors Australian races, so and co-owned Metropolitan Scott and our team bike exchange, so they're the sole name sponsor.

I'm not seeing their bikes are pretty nice aren't they Benji? What are they on now? They've changed from, they've changed from the sea, or they're on Scots to Bianchi.

Yes, and who's on Scott now?

DSN?

I don't know, no clue.

I think there was a musical chairs between Jumbo, Mitch return and DSN, between Bianchi, Cervello and Scott.

I know that Jumbo is on Cervello now and...

DSN on Scott.

Bike exchange is on Bianchi, so DSN has to be on Scott.

So they all swapped around and yeah bike exchange, the new kit, not a massive fan of it, to be honest.

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