New Irish Cycling Team: Ryan Sherlock's New Team

CaoimH_in

Polygon Sweet Nice
This had been pretty solid for a while but not confirmed until now - happy to say what I'm doing in 2013.


Polygon Sweet Nice has been confirmed UCI Continental Status under the Irish Cycling Federation. PSN is an Indonesian based team in operation since 1999 racing primarily the Asian Circuit. For the 2013 season, they are registered as an Irish team with five Irish riders, namely Daniel Clifford, Mark Dowling, Stephen Halpin, Charles Prendergast and Ryan Sherlock.

The teams main focus will remain the Asian Circuit but the recently announced UCI 2.2 AnPost Ras will rate highly in the teams objectives as well as other European races as yet to be finalized.
Quote from Ryan Sherlock:

“We had been working on putting this together for a while – it had frustrated me that there has not been an Irish Continental team for many years and when the opportunity arose, I jumped at the chance to help setup PSN as an Irish squad. PSN has been successfully racing the Asian Circuit for many years with a great setup in place – I'm really happy we can join into this established team.

We hope that this will be the first year in a great development for the team and give an opportunity for Irish riders to race at a higher level.

Cycling Ireland have been fundamental on getting this off the ground – they made the process as smooth as possible and I would personally like to thank our federation for all their time and assistance.”


Full Team
CHRISTOPHER TJONDROKUSUMO Antonius
INA

CLIFFORD Daniel
IRL

DOWLING Mark
IRL

HALPIN Stephen
IRL

KUZMIN Sergey
KAZ

NOHALES NIETO Edgar
ESP

NUR ARIF PRAYOGO Dealton
INA

PRANATA Jimmy
INA

PRENDERGAST Charles John
IRL

RIYANTO Agung
INA

SHERLOCK Ryan
IRL


Sports Director
Mr. TJONDROKUSUMO HARIJANTO Sastra
Representative of the team
Mr. CARR Stewart
Polygon bikes: http://www.polygonbikes.com/

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manwithaplan

I would like to wish Ryan, Stephen and the lads every success with this. It's a bold move and fair play to all involved in making it happen.

dedocdude

CaoimH_in wrote: »

it had frustrated me that there has not been an Irish Continental team for many years

What are An Post/Sean Kelly?

wav1

dedocdude wrote: »

What are An Post/Sean Kelly?

Belgian registered.

dedocdude

wav1 wrote: »

Belgian registered.

Since 2010 -

2006-2009 - Irish registered Conti Team?

happytramp

wav1 wrote: »

Belgian registered.

In that case we've had several 'Irish' teams over the last few years. Colonago-CSF Inox, De Rosa, Ceramica Flaminia etc

Briando

Good luck to them all!

CramCycle

I was once ahead of Ryan on a Strava KOM, I then got it taken away by reporting the KOM as dangerous. I can now say i have done this to a member of an Irish Continental team, this day is improving.

Congrats Ryan, look forward to seeing the team in the near future.