Pezcyclingnews: Team Axeon Gets Pez’d



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Matt McNamara has been lucky enough to see the workings of Team Axeon at their recent Californian training camp and get the word on this years riders from the main man Axel Merckx. The project has brought some big names to the Pro peloton in its seven years and there are much more to come. Team Axeon rolls in from another day in the saddle. The sun is bright, the riders tired and hungry. They have one more task before they can descend on the food. A quick round of marketing shots. Head on. A couple of passes each for the press guides. The riders move through the responsibility efficiently and depart for showers and the coveted food, secure in the knowledge that they are one day closer to racing.post ride…Meet The TeamTeam Axeon, an amalgam of the team owners own Axel Merckx Project and primary team sponsor Neon Adventures, is entering its seventh year upsetting the status quo in the pro peloton. Over that time they have consistently shaken impressive results from the tree in both the U.S. and Europe. Taylor Phinney, Lawson Craddock, Ian Boswell, Joe Dombrowski, Gavin Mannion, and others all have matured here and moved up.Axeon Cycling Team training in California. Pic:Davey Wilson http://daveywilson.com/Afew weeks back I spent a couple of days with the team at the end of their camp. This years squad, twelve riders averaging just 20.2 years in age, is one of the youngest theyve fielded. And while the prestige of the...

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