Airgas-Safeway finished a week of training in Marin County on Thursday night by revealing its 2015 roster during the official team presentation in San Francisco.
Although 2013 Vuelta a Espana winner Chris Horner was the star of the show, the theme of the night focused on the second-year US Continental team's development mission and its younger riders.
Former pro cyclist John Eustice was the master of ceremonies for the event, which took place at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, part of the iconic Bay Area landmark that dates back to the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exhibition that celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal.
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Eustice set the stage for the evening before introducing team director Bart Bowen, a two-time US national champion.
“This young crew, some of them as young as 18 will be guided by two of the most accomplished veterans in the history of American cycling,” Eustice said. “The team will be one of only seven teams worldwide that can boast a Grand Tour champion, a Grand Tour winner, in their ranks. Only seven teams, and this is one of them. That's quite extraordinary.”
Bowen, who also won the Tour of Japan, the Sun Tour, the Cascade Cycling Classic, the Fitchburg-Longsjo Classic and the Tour of the Gila during his 10-year pro career, said his goal for his first year as a full-time director was to teach his young riders how to be “racers.”
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