Notes

• Orbea DS Alex Díaz was very pleased with his young charges' overall performance in the Mallorca Challenge which came to a close yesterday. "The evaluation is very postive", he told the team's website. "We're very ambitious, and we'll continue to show this ambition in the coming races. We'll do our utmost to show what we've got."
• Naturgas Energía, la Fundación Euskadi's sub-23 team, will start it's season tomorrow at the Essor Basque. For this first rendezvous of the season, DS Arberas will send the following ten riders: Álex Bilbao, Igor Merino,Karl Baudron, Jon Larrinaga, Aitor Ocampos, Carlos Barbero, Damien Garcia, Loïc Chetout and Fernando Grijalba. "We'll do our best to animate the race", was Arberas comment.
• La Fundación Euskadi has generously decided to donate two Orbea's to the '200 bikes to Sahara'-project, a project aiming at giving that amount of bikes to youngsters in Tindouf, Algeria.