Tracy Moseley, Fabien Barel, Rowan Sorrell and Nico Vouilloz are among the 15 riders who are taking part in the Urge Cabo Verde challenge.

Here’s a quick word from Day 1 and photos from Sven Martin.

Monday, February the 7th:

Riders and staff met at Charles de Gaulle airport to fly to Praia, capital of Cape Verde… First episode: Hans Rey’s bike hasn’t arrived, it is somewhere between Los Angeles and Paris… we need to find a B plan… Landed on the archipelago around 3 in the afternoon, then to the hotel, first brief and discovery the city.

Program for Tuesday: meeting at the Pedro Gomez School with the children and the managers of two of the four associations Urge Cabo Verde will support. Then we board bikes and people on a boat to the… Fogo volcano, island where the first race will take place on Thursday…

To be continued…

Hans Rey, Rowan Sorrell, Mark Weir and Marco Nicoletti(?)

Fabien Barel tying the bikes on.

Barel

Nico Vouilloz’s Zesty

Nico and Lapierre decided to offer at the Urge For Cabo Verde auctions this unique bike as soon as it’s back from the race, as well as a jersey signed by Mister Vouilloz himself!

15 riders at Cabo Verde

The complete Riders List for this Urge Cabo Verde :

Fabien Barel (Mondraker) – France

Jérôme Clementz (Cannondale – Mavic) – France

Greg Doucende (Performance Parts – Trek) – France

Sabrina Jonnier (Groupama – Punch Power) – France

Dorothea Lindtke (Rocky Mountain – Brake Authority) – Germany (non-pro)

Anka Martin (Santa Cruz – Sram) – RSO/USA

Tracy Moseley (Trek World Racing) – UK

Marco Nicoletti (Niner) – Italy

Samuel Normand (Lol Racing – Yeti) – France (non-pro)

Sam Peridy (Scott) – France

Hans Rey (GT Bicycles – Adidas) – USA

Rowan Sorrell (Orange – Mojo) – Whales/UK (Editor/Billy: Not sure if that’s Blue Whale or Sperm Whale!)

Nicolas Vouilloz (Lapierre) – France

Mark Weir (WTB – Fox Racing Shox) – USA

René Wildhaber (Trek – Dakine) – Switzerland