Flakemore to retire after just one year
Campbell Flakemore has decided to call an end to his time at BMC after just one season as a professional cyclist. Flakemore signed a two-year deal with the BMC team after winning the under-23 World Championship time trial title in 2014, but that has been dissolved following the young Australian’s decision.
Flakemore had a tough induction into the WorldTour when he crashed on stage 2 of the Tour Down Under and broke his collarbone. He returned to ride some of the classics and the Tour of California, and finished his season at the Vattenfall Cyclassics in August. According to the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper, Flakemore is likely to take a year away from cycling.
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"I haven’t got any plans (to keep riding), maybe after 12 months. I've ridden my bike once in the last 10 weeks, so I haven’t really got any drive to do it," he told the paper. "It wasn’t something that happened overnight. Even last year I was umming and ahhing whether to go another season, then you get a professional contract and it’s pretty hard to turn down. It was something I owed to myself and sadly it didn’t work out but I’m happy."
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