Lidl - Trek 2026 Preview
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Patrick and Benji preview Lidl - Trek, a team that turned a big 2025 into even bigger 2026 ambitions, talking Ayuso’s blockbuster move, leadership between Pedersen and Milan & Skjelmose and Ayuso, and their expectations and predictions for next year.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro & 2025 recap
14:17 - Transfers
35:05 - 2026 leaderships & race calendar
49:55 - Predictions & hot takes
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🇦🇺 Patrick Broe - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@LanterneRougeCycling & https://www.instagram.com/the_lanterne_rouge_/ & https://www.twitter.com/lanternerougeyt
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🇳🇱 Luc Grefte - Producer: https://www.twitter.com/lucgrefte
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcasts of the Little Trek men's preview. |
| 0:05.0 | This episode is brought to you by Morton and Little Trek have had a very successful 2025, |
| 0:12.0 | even though we're going to be previewing the 2026 season for them. We have to acknowledge |
| 0:16.2 | 2025 was a major step up, I think, for the team in all aspects pretty much. |
| 0:22.1 | And we'll go through that. |
| 0:23.5 | We'll go through their transfers. |
| 0:24.8 | We'll predict what we'll be coming for them next year. |
| 0:28.4 | Maybe how we see the cooperation, collaboration, or lack thereof between some of the big riders in the team. |
| 0:38.2 | That's one of the big discussion points I think for this preview. |
| 0:43.1 | This episode is recorded on November 7th. |
| 0:46.2 | Not sure when it'll be dropping, but as of today, the team has full 2026, |
| 0:52.0 | no, 29 riders confirmed. |
| 0:56.7 | And maybe they'll add one more, |
| 0:58.4 | but I don't think it'll be particularly consequential if they do. |
| 1:02.3 | How do you rate their 2025 year, Benji? |
| 1:05.9 | Well, I think we need to look at where they came from even before that |
| 1:08.9 | was, I would say little, joining the |
| 1:12.1 | team, investing quite a bit of money, now even, I think, owning the majority of the team as well. |
| 1:16.9 | So it's now little. That is the host of the team. So it's a German team in the future, not an |
| 1:22.5 | American one, I'm pretty sure. That's going to have its effects maybe in the long term, but in the grounds |
| 1:28.3 | coming things, that simply means that they've got more money to spend. And we've seen that |
| 1:31.7 | on the transfers that happened last year, but also this year. Now, when it comes to their results |
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