"I was born in Matane, Quebec. I come from a background of skateboarding and snowboarding, but I didn’t start cycling until the age of 17. I spent a few years racing for Team Canada as an amateur rider while I was a college student at the University of Sherbrooke. After graduating in 2003, I spent a season cycling full-time to try and achieve my dream of becoming a pro cyclist."

Bruno Langlois

"My name is Heather, but my racing friends call me Smash. I found my passion for cycling when I was 20 years old as a student studying political science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The local landscape inspired me to ride and explore. After several years of collegiate racing, I won the 2012 Collegiate National road race, which propelled me into my professional cycling career. Since then, I’ve charged up the Mur de Huy as a member of the US National Team, raced on the Champs-Élysées on a European UCI team, and I’ve suffered up the steep ascents of the high desert mountains of New Mexico and in the sweltering heat of the Ozarks."

Heather Fischer

"I got started cycling at a very young age. My dad raced on the regional circuit around Colorado and our "family vacations" always involved traveling to a local race. I fell in love with cycling right from the get-go and from before I can remember, I was obsessed with racing. The speed, tactics, metrics, and emotions that went into every race fascinated me and that fascination gave me the fuel to work my way up the ranks. At the age of 15 I begged Jonathan Vaughters to give me a spot on the 5280 development team and — with the exception of a "study abroad" year in 2008 with the French team Vélo Club La Pomme Marseille — I've been with the Ride Argyle squad ever since."

Alex Howes

"I grew up in Boulder, CO, home of the Coors Classic stage race of the '80s. From the age of 15 my path was clear the first time I pinned on a number: I was now and forever a bike racer. I went home, shaved my legs, and began to devour everything I could about the sport."

Colby Pearce

"I’m Emma, half New Zealander and half British, but I've always loved cycling wholeheartedly. I was studying sports performance in the UK and racing here and there on the national scene when I got offered a pro-contract in the US with Tibco in 2014. I leapt at the chance, moved my life out to Colorado and never really looked back. I've raced six seasons as a pro rider, working with different coaches and getting to grips with my own specialisms. I really shine on the climbs and know what going uphill is about - I got 9th on GC at the Tour of California in 2019, making most of my time on Mount Baldy."

Emma Grant

“I've tried to juggle professional racing and adventure cycling for the last four, five years. The opportunity to combine both those passions, essentially racing and exploration on a bike, that's what really speaks to me. To explore that mix and see where that gets us."

Lachlan Morton

"I was raised in Port Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia. I found cycling through a talent ID when I was 14 years old, and I was hooked by the challenging nature of the sport. I love the game of tactics alongside the physical pursuit of becoming better."

Lauren Kitchen

"I was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. I started cycling at the age of 16 after watching track cycling at the 2000 Olympic Games. Before then, I was busy playing cricket and rugby. I worked my way through the domestic ranks before turning professional in 2009 and moving to Holland to race with Dutch team Skil Shimano. I lived there for three years, racing with the team, before stepping up to the WorldTour with the Australian team GreenEdge in 2012. Under that team, I moved to Girona, Spain, and raced for six more years."

Mitch Docker

"I’m Oli, based out of the south west of the UK, and I’ve ridden bikes all my life. I've always been into the details of training, and that’s why when my 16-year pro career finished, I immediately turned to coaching, and am a qualified British cycling level 2 coach. As a rider, I specialized in cross-country MTB. I represented Britain at three Olympic games and took the national title 17 times in that discipline, but throughout my pro career, I wasn’t just riding flat bars, I also raced internationally at cyclocross and on the road, even taking the win at the British cyclocross national series in 2013. Over my career, I rode with some of the biggest names in cycling."

Oli Beckingsale

Growing up in Bozeman, Montana, I started cycling at the age of 10. When I was 16 I joined the 5280 junior team run by Jonathan Vaughters, who is now CEO of EF Pro Cycling. I competed in my first Tour de France with the HTC-Highroad team in 2011 and earned the King of the Mountains jersey after stage 8, becoming the second American (after Greg LeMond!) to earn the jersey in the history of the Tour.

Tejay van Garderen

"I was born and raised in the small country town of Prescott, Arizona, where I grew up playing soccer, running cross country, and riding BMX bikes all over town. I fell in love with bikes at a young age and eventually found myself wrenching at the local bike shop. It was at this shop where I discovered my passion for road cycling, and at the age of 19 I told myself I wanted to become a professional cyclist."

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