"They're not following. They don't know how good you are" were the words ringing in Zeb Kyffin's ears from his sports director in the moments after he made what is bound to be a career-changing move at the Petronas Le Tour de Langkawi: an inspired late dash with 15km to go to join forces with a lone rider who was fighting to hold off the pursuing bunch.
The winning move as the race roared toward Medini on stage 7 wasn't mapped out well in advance, in fact Kyffin said it was more like it was planned 20 seconds before he went. The only expectation the Unibet Tietema Rockets rider born in Britain had gone to Malaysia with was a desire to "show myself" and the rider without a contract for 2026 certainly fulfilled that aim.
