Formerly of Dave Kane-Northern Cycles, Adam Armstrong is back training hard and is on the move for the 2016 season; boosting an already strong Team ASEA (Photo courtesy of Ashleigh Thompson)
By Brian Canty
Team ASEA have been considerably boosted by the news that Adam Armstrong will ride for them next season.
The 28 year-old Newtownards man rode as a guest for the team towards the end of the 2015 season and will join an already powerful squad of riders for 2016.
Armstrong has not raced as much over the last three years but in 2012 he was one of the best riders on the domestic scene and has always been a very classy rider.
He proved he had what it takes to challenge for a Rás stage when he finished third on a brutally hard stage six into Killybegs that year and was one of the few county riders animating things during the week.
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He’s back in training ahead of 2016 and will join a star-studded squad that includes reigning national road race champion Damien Shaw.
Also in the ranks are classic league series winner Bryan McCrystal, the ever improving Ali Macaulay, the prolific Fraser Duncan as well as the powerhouse trio of Chris Reilly, Joe Fenlon and Roger Aiken.
The team will also announce one more rider for their roster in the coming weeks.
In their maiden season this year they had a fabulous run with Shaw’s national championships road race win the standout moment.
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However, there were many other high points for them including McCrystal’s Rás Mumhan stage win and epic An Post Rás ride on stage two.
They bagged two stage wins in the AmberGreen Energy Tour of Ulster and Shaw took three podium finishes at the An Post Rás as well as a host of other big results.
They didn’t manage to win any of the stage races over Easter, the May Bank Holiday or the August Bank Holiday.
But they were still a force in every race during the season and the acquisition of Armstrong will strengthen their hand.
He has ridden in the Irish colours at the Tour of Britain in the past while he also rode professionally for the now defunct Pezula Racing team in 2008.
Class act: Adam Armstrong (Dublin West-Eurocycles) sprints in for 3rd place during stage six of the 2012 An Post Rás. Over his left shulder in black and yellow is former Rás winner David McCann. Armstrong has the class to really impose himself on the scene once again next year.
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