After such a long stint in cycling's top tier, it must have taken Graeme Brown a bit of getting used to being back at Pro Continental level, but the Australian has been relishing it.
The 36-year-old spent nine years with Rabobank – which became Blanco and later Belkin – and along the way racked up nine stage wins at the Tour de Langkawi, three at the Tour Down Under, and others at races including the Tour of California and the Tour of Poland.
But since the start of the year he has been with Australian outfit Drapac Professional Cycling, bringing with it a slightly more relaxed lifestyle and a chance to spend more time at home.
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"I love it – it's great being based in Australia," Brown told Cyclingnews at the Tour of Turkey. "I spent nine years with a Dutch team, talking Dutch, now I can talk Australian and live at home, have that as the base for the year – I'm really enjoying it.
"Obviously a smaller team has a smaller budget so you don't have any big buses like Rabobank, but they do everything you need. Basically the principle behind it is the same, just at a smaller level.
"Rabobank in 2006 was like stepping into the biggest budget pretty much in the world – well there wasn't really a budget, there was a bank, and if you went to the bank you got more money. As you can see now, money doesn't buy results; it buys good riders but not results."
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