Ryan Mullen fills this new Cannondale-Garmin kit very well. He gets his big start at WorldTour level at the Tour of Britain. It gets underway in Wales, where he was born and grew up. So he should have plenty of support for his first day in the top ranks.
After impressing in time trials at major championships and against the pros in recent years, Ryan Mullen makes his debut at WorldTour level on Sunday when the Tour of Britain starts.
The national time trial champion will ride with Cannondale-Garmin as a stagiaire for the remainder of this year, having signed a contract with them from August 1st.
The Tour of Britain is his first race riding in the US-based squad’s colours. And his two-year deal proper begins with them from January 1st.
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Ahead of his debut, he's posted the shot above of him dressed in this new squad's kit.
Mullen, now aged 21 years, was 3rd overall in the Rás in May and best U23 rider.
He has is the reigning U23 and senior time trial champion and took the combined U23 and senior road race crown last year.
He has won several medals at major championships against the watch, as well as the national U23 title every time he has ridden that event.
On the podium with his U23 time trial silver medal at last year's World Championships. He missed out on the world title by less than half a second (Photo: Sirotti)
He took silver in the junior time trial at the European Championships four years ago and silver last year in the U23 time trial at the World Road Championships.
At the Worlds in Spain last September he was beaten to the title by less than half a second by Australian Campbell Flakemore.
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Mullen will once again go for the U23 TT title in Richmond in the US later this month as the rule excluding WorldTour riders for U23 title races does not apply to stagiaires.
He rode for Planet X as a junior and progressed to IG Sigma Sport, a UK-based Continental team for his first year out of the junior ranks in 2013.
Last year and to date this season he's ridden for An Post Chainreaction and now progresses to the biggest stage.
Below, we've put together some photos charting Mullen's progress through various teams since he was a junior.
From all at stickybottle, we'd like to wish him the very best of luck on this latest step towards what will hopefully become a top pro career.
The rise and rise of Ryan Mullen, in jerseys
In the colours of Planet X during his junior days; 2011 and 2012.
Riding for IG Sigma Sport in 2013.
Mullen has ridden for An Post-Chainreaction for the past two years.
Wearing the national champion's kit with An Post-Chainreaction having won the senior road title in June 2014.
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