Sitting in the hotel lobby of an anonymous, if comfortable, motel right on the side of one of Flanders' major highways, watching the traffic thrum past and the rain drum down incessantly outside on a miserable Friday afternoon, is not exactly the recommended formula for boosting spirits for a small team of dark horse contenders to initiate their cobbled Classics debut.
But to judge from the upbeat answers, laced with good humour, provided by the riders in new US ProTeam Modern Adventure when asked about their prospects as a wildcard team for Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne on Sunday, that's actually not going to be a problem.
