Peter Sagan signs for Tinkoff-Saxo

'Off' is the old Prussian/German version of 'ov'. Judging by Tinkoff's website, complete with coat of arms, Tinkoff is branded to seem more like a venerable, trustworthy Teutonic financial company - rather than a Russian finance company owned by a middle aged bloke who likes to lead training rides with his own pro team.

I can't wait to see the butterfly of irrepressible charisma that is Sagan meet the cold dead fly swat of charm that is Riis.

Didn't Sagan ride Spesh in his early mtb days? So it might not be much of an issue to him.

He's gone to a better team, good choice. Tinkoff Saxo needed a Puncheur, he'll be their classics rider. Easily one of my favourite teams now.

About the bike manufacturer, Sagans sponsorship with Cannondale is very strong, let's see if it's stronger than Contador's and Specialized's partnership.

Shame about Roman Kreuziger, I thought he looked like a machine at the tour of the Basque country, I wonder if he was on something then....

Oleg Tinkov is a legend though. I do wonder why the team is called Tinkoff and not Tinkov though?

Yep, they appear to be throwing the towel in. Could possibly be linking up with the soon to be defunct Garmin team and forming a new setup. I hope the bikes find a team for next year, as they are some of the very best currently around. Good luck to Sagan. He ultimately seems to have gone where the money is. And why not? You're only at the top for a few years.

I think that it is a good move both for Sagan & the Team. The one thing that they were obviously missing was a decent sprinter, meanwhile, Sagan can look after himself in the sprints & seems to make a reasonable job of it...
It does leave the Cannondale team very empty though, are they packing up?

"help him to improve". Hah hah, who is he kidding with this. Yeah, go on Riis, Sagan would be loads better full of the good stuff. And don't worry, CrackoneOff will just sue the UCI if they dare to suggest you are a massive cheat, so no worries.

All aboard for the dope train!

Bertie to Alonso's team then?

"..team owner Oleg Tinkov deliberately messing with fans' and journalists on social media."

What the f*** else is social media for? 20 billion trolls can't be wrong....

@notfastenough

i just see him as the flavio briatore of cycling, just a really eccentric honest guy.
probably awesome to go and have a few ciders with.
i sort of hated the saxo team previously but i think hes swaying my opinion on them, they seem a bit better than most teams at the social media and what the teams do etc

orica do it but i think they have overdone the cheese a bit to much.

i will say though a shame to see sagan on a specialneedz, fingers crossed saxo get a decent bike sponsor next year.

You never know whether he's serious on twitter. I wonder if he's as difficult to assess in person as on social media.