Former World Tour pro Phil Guymon will be joining a new Jukebox Cycling, which will offer riders the opportunity to join a small team of six riders who will experiment with gravel, road, cyclocross, and "different ways to embrace cycling for a sense of community." Join a team.

The team includes 12-year-old Xander Graham of Tour of Britain fame, cyclocross racer Ruby West, and three gravel riders focused on the Lifetime Grand Prix: Dylan Johnson, Alexey Vermeulen, and Adam Robarge. A diverse mixed gender roster was announced, including.

The Jukebox Cycling team has posted the roster and event program on their official website (opens in new tab), and Guymon will be riding for the team at his Phil's Cookie Fondo in Malibu on October 30.

"We want our athletes to all be different. We want to empower our athletes to push the limits of what is possible in cycling," said team founder Loredo Luckin, CEO of jukeboxprint.com, a global printing company based in Canada.

"Our athletes are not tied to a single discipline.

In a press release, the team said it will support riders on adventures across multiple disciplines throughout the year, as well as host a series of Zwift rides and online webinars.

Guymon had spent most of his career at the continental level, last racing at the World Tour level with Cannondale Pro Cycling in 2016. In the five years since his retirement from the pro peloton, Guymon has left his mark by founding Phil's Cookie Fondo cycling rides, writing three books, starting a podcast, and going after Strava's KOM for the world's toughest climb.

Vermeulen is another former World Tour rider who spent two seasons with Lotto NL Yumbo. Now 26, the Colorado native turned to gravel and mountain bike racing, finishing second at this year's Chequamegon MTB Festival in Wisconsin. The race is now one of six events in the Lifetime Grand Prix, and Vermeulen is one of 60 elite riders competing for a $250,000 prize purse.

"I love the fact that the team is open to different goals and disciplines and very open to developing those goals beyond just racing fast," Vermeulen said.

"When I left the road, one of my goals was to establish more of a community.

"This is not a team as such, but a team in the traditional sense of the word team. It's not. We all have different sponsors. Each event we go to is different. But we do go to some events together and we all get to experience cycling in a way that suits us.

The Lifetime Series will also include Robarge and Johnson. Robarge has competed in Continental-level road racing for the past six years, but switched to gravel in 2021, winning the Belgian Waffle Ride Tripel Crown Series and the inaugural Big Sugar Gravel. Johnson has experience in mountain bike ultra endurance racing and has spent the past year on the gravel scene, finishing third overall at the BWR Tri-Pel Crown and winning the men's pro division of the South East Gravel Series.

West is the only woman on the team so far, a 22-year-old Canadian cyclocross rider who finished second in the first elite women's cyclocross event at the Pan American Championships.

"It's a dream come true to work with such a supportive and exciting staff at Jukebox, with other riders who love cycling as much as I do and are doing great things in the sport. It's exciting to be part of a group of people who really genuinely love cycling," said West, who is eager to complete her cyclocross season and mix road, track, and mountain biking.

On the final climb of stage 7 of the Tour of Britain, Graham attracted attention as he cycled alongside a five-man breakaway group on the sidewalk. As Graham slowed, Pascal Enckhorn of Jumbo-Visma handed him the bidon.

On the final stage the next day, Enckhorn presented Graham with the Jumbo-Visma jersey and musette and invited Graham to the podium before the race. It turned out that Graham had won a silver medal at the British U12 National Criterium Series in the morning and then cycled to see stage 7. No mention was made by the team of his race plans at Jukebox Cycling.

Jukebox Cycling will launch its website and all media channels on January 1, 2022, with a Facebook Live webinar dedicated to gravel with Vermeulen, Johnson, and Roberge on Thursday, January 13 at 7 pm ET. The plan was to.

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