Visma–Lease a Bike

Not like, just like closing out his career sort of thing is how I'd see it.

like the last couple of seasons of his career, he's like, oh, you know, actually being with Visma, they kind of gave him his big opportunity, but he might go, you know, I'm taking up opportunities for younger riders and people who deserve Grand Tour opportunities and yeah, maybe going to the Scandi Allegiance will be how he wants to go.

I just don't see it, to be honest.

I think it would be really, really odd.

I mean, he would fit in quite well with, like, they have some good climbers around him.

But...

Yeah, I think the only way he would go there would be if Uno X had a better support team than Wismar Liseberg to try and win him another Tour de France.

Even though you said in the Wismar review episode that he'll probably not win a Tour de France again.

Well, I think we've seen that.

We've seen that with a few other teams like Visma and Trek.

I think we've had that sort of story.

But anyway, no, it's an interesting one.

Do you take

initiatives? This has got strong and stable vibes, Johnny.

Do you connect people with creativity and enthusiasm that helps elevate Visma's communication to the highest level?

Do you want chaos with another Dutch communications graduate or do you want strong and stable media leadership under Johnny Long, Visma, Lisa Byke? Can you imagine?

The Pinarello P36.5 is also not going to happen.

Uh, then what else did we see? Maybe Visma returned to Visma, uh, that now has also been denied.

So these talks probably have happened, but, and then, yeah, uh, the rockets, um, I don't know, I don't know how they can make that happen.

Um, I don't see that a match, but Hey, who knows, you know, I think Primoz has decided he wants to race for one more year.

So, you know, it's still Primoz Roglic, right? So if he decides he wants to race another year...

Um, I think personally, Primoz would probably have a better shot if he says, I want to do another, another year, but I have no problem putting myself at the service of a strong leader.

Then I could actually see him at UAE, uh, or even at Visma.

Um, but I think the fact that he has these personal ambitions, um, I think makes it a bit more difficult for him to find a big team or a bigger team.

very briefly in in this video podcast whatever you want to call it but i think that visma have been you know a team which has shifted especially like their transfer policies into less gargantuan signings and seemingly filling very specific niche roles within the team and We'll talk also about their transfers, who's been kind of successful transfers and the ones that they're making going into the 2027 season and what impact we think they might have.

But I think on the whole, Wismar have had a pretty decent year.

Would you agree?

Yeah, I think the, well... don't really want to spoil too much of what we're going to talk about.

Got a win in the Tour de Pologne as well.

So did Bart Lemmon.

I think that those, you know, it's not all just about the top guys in Wismar.

I think that they've got a good second tier and a good amount of squad depth where they can still get victories in Wismar.

And then they take this and they sort of like catalog all the guys.

But the thing is, is that's not a race, right? And, you know, now races are Especially I think when UAE is there with a leader, it used to be Visma who did this, but now it's more UAE.

But they will just ride super hard the whole day.

And it's like sort of this like stunner pace, you know, that's like no one can go anywhere kind of, you know.