Tom Pidcock CONFIRMED To Q36.5 Cycling Team | Cycling Transfers 2025

[@thart6103]

It’s nice to see these two together again.

[@DeborahH78Deborahh78]

No Patrick is better…

[@swissbiggy]

@@DeborahH78Deborahh78 , That is your opinion of course, which not everybody will share. Luckily we all have the right to have our own opinion. ✌

[@HsN-fi8yp]

@@DeborahH78Deborahh78 Be nice to Patrick!!!! Please......! Keep your negative comments to yourself please!

[@thart6103]

Wait. Do you mean: No, Patrick is better than Ewan? Or Not having Patrick is better? 🤷‍♀️

[@zaralundcy8884]

Thank you for great video and great to see Evan again! Sad Patrick couldn’t be there he always has some great views!

[@butterflyfarms3541]

Meanwhile, Ineos Grenadiers' current deal with Pinarello expires at the end of 2025. Q36.5's financial backer, South African mining billionaire Ivan Glasenberg, reportedly bought Pinarello last year in a deal said to be worth €250 million.

[@Shelleysnail]

I happy that he’s happy. It’ll be an interesting watch.

[@Chiller11]

He’s chosen the big fish in the small pond route. In a way it’s an admission that he’s not in the same class as a Pogacar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel or Roglic.

[@Andy_ATB]

You need to realise that there's more to pro cycling than just road cycling....... He'd tear them a new one off-road as his skills are in another league compared to them.

[@Chiller11]

@Andy_ATB True but he won’t be as widely recognized because mountain biking, cyclocross, gravel have much smaller fan bases. Secondly he won’t make the same kind of money. Because he doesn’t have the same exposure he can’t demand the same kind of salary or attract as many lucrative endorsements as his roadie counterparts. That may be just fine for him and he may be the best mountain biker in the world but for better or worse the general public, especially the European public, see the roadies as the top of the heap.

[@Chiller11]

@Andy_ATB True but he won’t be as widely recognized because mountain biking, cyclocross, gravel have much smaller fan bases. Secondly he won’t make the same kind of money. Because he doesn’t have the same exposure he can’t demand the same kind of salary or attract as many lucrative endorsements as his roadie counterparts. That may be just fine for him and he may be the best mountain biker in the world but for better or worse the general public, especially the European public, see the roadies as the top of the heap.

[@StopTheRot]

@@Andy_ATBI’m not convinced he’d tear Pog a new one in cyclocross.

[@JUST-TAP-IT-IN]

He'll do good. No ambiguity about who is the team leader. Everyone is clear. Everyone will worm towards one goal. Ineos the water was too muddy. No-one had direction. Next year will be good. He did right for him.

[@ssiowi]

Thanks. Curious, hopeful for the team, and interested to see what Doug Ryder achieves leading and developing all of this talent. Appreciate you two and your work here!

[@pompeymonkey3271]

Pidcock is a one-day man. Perfect choice for him. :)

[@claire2088]

Tudor sponsor the Giro so they're more likely to get a Giro invite above Q36.5, I can't really see Q36.5 getting invites to any of the Grand Tours tbh (I can't see any of the GTs dropping their tradition of inviting local teams anyway, and if they do then Uno-X and Tudor are probably more interesting prospects than Q36.5) I think this is a really solid sign from pidcock that he has no Grand tour ambitions (and I think we've seen he doesn't necessarily like racing GTs especially when he has to take his turn working for someone else)

[@michaelbergfeld8751]

Maybe you're right and there is after all a Tom Witcock project in play.

[@denisspratt926]

Carl Fredrik Hagen retired 2 weeks ago. So he is not with Q36.5 anymore.

[@thecyclingdaneEXTRA]

Oops my bad

[@denisspratt926]

@@thecyclingdaneEXTRA easy to miss since it was that late and not from a big team or big rider.

[@jerrychicken967]

Just looked at Pidcock's new Team and there's quite a few Olds on there and some unknowns. Hmmm.... Hope he's not going to need Team Mates in these Classics at the pointy end of the races.

[@brockjennings]

Q36.5 FM Classic rock at its best!

[@edrcozonoking]

And what is Q36.5? A British radio station?

[@charlybeagrie1119]

Will he be paid less than he received at Ineos, Ineos appeared to feel that it was not getting it's money's worth?

[@kengorski5957]

Is he going to race 'cross?

[@johnstanding7617]

Mark Donovan….. Great team mate - just sayin’ 💥

[@igaroot]

bring back qubeka 🖐

[@DeborahH78Deborahh78]

I’m happy we won’t see him in world tours, hopefully this is the end of hearing his name he is such a selfish rider no pressure now😂

[@NeilLavitt]

You obviously don’t like him - I went to school with his dad - good man - also a strong athlete. He’s a very talented mountain bike rider and he’ll do well in the classics and maybe develop GT credibility. Now that the pressure and spotlight is off him he can flourish on the road. That is where he wants to focus. Just that Ineos are poorly managed right now and in free fall as a competitive team and he has been burdened with that and used as a scape goat in not being the next big GC success. Let’s give him a chance.

[@DeborahH78Deborahh78]

@ maybe. He needs someone to look after his PR because he just doesn’t present that well, for me that over shadows any talent. Though maybe part of his attitude and arrogance goes with being terribly unhappy at Ineos, for whatever reason. Like you say it’s a new opportunity for him to shine and hopefully he does. Maybe there’s just too many ‘big’ personalities at Ineos and on a team with no reputation he can have more say. I wish him well and I’m always happy for him to step up and prove me wrong, but he’ll never win the TDF he’s just not that rider

[@skorpion3993]

@@DeborahH78Deborahh78​​⁠As someone who raced against Tom a few times in MTB at youth level, I can definitely back up the fact he’s both a big personality and a good teammate at the same time. Always was there to congratulate his teammates on good results as well as showing respect to other fellow riders. He’s definitely a leader and whilst he might not deal with having to work for someone on the road I believe he’ll be a good project to build a team around.

[@DeborahH78Deborahh78]

He has no heart for GT racing

[@cyclingnerddelux698]

Is that a cycling team?

[@Shelleysnail]

Yes they are. Swiss team concentrating on road racing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q36.5_Pro_Cycling_Team

[@boomshankah1123]

There may not be an 'I' in team but there is an 'I' in Pidcock. Probably the biggest waste of dosh since IPT splurged on Froome.

[@MikeAG333]

Make sure to come back here and acknowledge your error, won't you, if he wins one or two of the classics.

[@boomshankah1123]

@@MikeAG333 He'll only win if he strategically avoids Pogacar, Evenepoel, WVA, MVDP etc. He won on Alpe d'Huez from a weak breakaway; geez even a post-crash Froome was third!!!!. He was only a fourth or fifth choice GC rider at Ineos!!!!! He's shown nothing that hints he can hang with the big dogs. He's like a local parkrun champ - he looks great against lesser talent. The same argument applies to cyclocross. When the going gets tough Pidcock is MIA. He's only a legend in his own lunchtime. There, I've given you plenty of ammunition to prove me wrong, but methinks it ain't gonna happen.

[@stevegriffiths605]

So Strava Bianchi doesn’t count?

[@boomshankah1123]

@@stevegriffiths605 It's a win, but does it warrant 'superstar' status and a multimillion quid contract? Methinks not. Pidcock is the Michelle Wie of cycling - he's caught up in believing his own hype machine.

[@MikeAG333]

@@boomshankah1123 No-one has ever claimed he's a GT GC rider. ........and two Olympic gold medals? They give them away, right?

[@JUST-TAP-IT-IN]

My guess is he will ride Scott on the road and Pinarello off road.