Following on from Orica-BikeExchange's best season to date since its 2012 debut into the WorldTour peloton, a refreshed and rested Simon Gerrans is ready for a big Australian summer. While the team celebrated two monument victories, two grand tour overall podium results, a classification jersey at the Tour de France along with several other wins, the 2016 season wasn't as successful for Gerrans with the 36-year-old aiming to get back to his best on home soil next month.
"I finished my season after the Tour of Spain so I had a good break. I had it nice and early with a good amount of time off the bike and started my pre-season nice and early. I feel like I am right on track at this stage preparation wise for a good summer," Gerrans told Cyclingnews ahead of the Australian 'summer of cycling'.
Although Gerrans didn't enjoy great personal success in 2016, he revelled in the team's success explaining the rise of the young riders was a particularly pleasing facet.
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"Without question, it was the team's most successful to date and that has been many years in the making," he said of the year. "What was the best thing from the team perspective was that we had so many different riders winning and a few young guys who have been with the team from neo-pros have really risen right to the top and are winning at the highest level. It's an exciting time for the team to see this talent that we signed a few years so, really come to the forefront and do it so quickly.
"It was also really good to see the team winning right from the start of the season through to the end so we had a good consistent year as well."
Having made his Olympics debut in London four years ago, Gerrans was aiming to again represent his country at the Rio Olympic Games in August. A gust of wind on stage 12 of the Tour de France took out Gerrans' front wheel and left him with a broken collarbone that not only ended his Tour, but also ended his Olympic dream.
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