Simon Yates has never been one to beat around the bush, and when he is asked about the reason behind quitting Jayco-AIUIa, his lifelong professional team, for Visma-Lease a Bike, he gets straight to the point. After over a decade at Jayco, he says, he felt he was repeatedly at the upper limits of what he could achieve with the Australian squad.
"Maybe I'll do worse here [in Visma], but I got the feeling I had got the best out of what I could do there [in Jayco]," Yates told a small group of reporters at his new team's media day this January.
