{"id":77817,"date":"2025-08-18T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77817\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:30:07","slug":"eddie-dunbar-confirms-move-to-q36-5-pro-cycling-team-from-jayco-alula-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77817\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Dunbar confirms move to Q36.5 Pro Cycling team from Jayco-AlUla \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland\u2019s Eddie Dunbar<\/a> is to join the Q36.5 Pro Cycling team on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n

The Banteer cyclist departs Jayco-AlUla after three years and is set to join the Swiss team\u2019s ranks this winter.<\/p>\n

Despite finishing seventh overall in the 2023 Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a> and winning two stages in last year\u2019s Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a>, Dunbarr acknowledged he is yet to fully deliver on his talent.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrand Tours suit me well because I always get better towards the end. I absorb the workload of a three-week race well,\u201d the 28-year-old said on Monday, confirming the move.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been glimpses of what I can do but due to crashes and illness I haven\u2019t reached my full potential there yet. That\u2019s something for the next two years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kurt Bogaerts is head of performance at Q36.5 and has strong experience of working with Irish riders. He previously ran the Sean Kelly racing team and has managed Irish national sides.<\/p>\n

Bogaerts also worked with Dunbar at Ineos Grenadiers, and believes he can help get the best out of the Cork man. <\/p>\n

One area they will seek to improve is Dunbar\u2019s placement skills in order to avoid the types of crashes which have affected him in the past. While bad luck has been a factor in some of his falls, Bogaerts said Dunbar has acknowledged he must also work on his bike handling. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can have healthy conversation, and we have that already, we know we need to work on that,\u201d said Bogaerts. \u201cWe are both on the same page. I think that\u2019s already a big step in the right direction that we both agree that we need to improve this. But we also don\u2019t need to make it bigger than it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dunbar will be racing alongside the Olympic mountain bike champion Tom Pidcock, who came on board as team leader earlier this year. Dunbar competed with Pidcock during their respective stints at Ineos, with Bogaerts noting they get on well. <\/p>\n

The Belgian believes Dunbar will provide important support for Pidcock, but added that his strength means he will also be a leader in his own right. The team may take a dual leader approach in some races, including the Tour de France<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But Pidcock\u2019s well-acknowledged handling skills may also be an asset as the opportunity to study the Briton\u2019s descending technique could serve Dunbar. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a few things we can do to help him achieve his potential,\u201d Bogaerts said. \u201cWe, as a performance team, can definitely support him well, in the coaching and also other areas. There are a lot of topics now around heat and altitude training. I think we have the know how to really ensure he is doing all the efforts to get more out of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dunbar will next line out in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, which starts on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Eddie Dunbar is to join the Q36.5 Pro Cycling team on a two-year contract. The Banteer cyclist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,59255,59572,85,2845,39562],"class_list":["post-77817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-eddie-dunbar","tag-giro-d-italia","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france","tag-vuelta-a-espana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}