Written by Finz of NightmareChaos and Brad W of Sky Youth Devolpment
The weekly update gives you the information you need of what happened in OCM, who won what and what is regarded as market value. We have seen a period filled with tours. We will give you the highlights.
The tours
 Essex Tour
England, the calm Essex country is waiting for what lies ahead. The roar of one-hundred twenty cyclists through the countryside. All following one man. Sandro Montelbano, fresh from Wales with a win under his belt, his morale is as high as the white cliffs of Dover.
Let us take a look at who finished second and third, with a steady tour Richardas Mikaitas finished second overall and with a great timetrial Freddy Beaulieu beat Sandro Montelbano in a one to one. But in the end Sandro won for the sixth time.
1.  Sandro Montelbano, Matrix team
2.  Richardas Mikaitas, Nairobi City Cycling Club
3.  Freddy Beaulieu, Die Tour Phantome
 Cymru Taith
First we start with Cymru Taith. This three day venue in Wales saw a surprise entrant in the name of Sandro Montelbano. His team bought their way into this second division tour by purchasing Tom Gustavsen solely to enter Montelbano. It was no surprise that the top three was as followed;
1. Sandro Montelbano, Matrix team
2.  Alan Klostergård, ABK
3.  Griswald Pepper, old town racing club
And for the Youth Classification we had the follwing top three;
1. Griswald Pepper, old town racing club
2.  Wilfried Doderwinkel, Hommerts Cycling Team<
3.  Maruyama Dai, SilenceLotteFan
 Perm Tour
Perm was once again a tour in the Russia that saw many familiar faces and some new entrants that were just a surprise for the regulars as well as the spectators. This race is every year different but gave us this year a surprising winner. A home rider winning his home tour with a home team. Korney Agliullin did not disappoint his teammanager and justified his time trial center training at age 30. The crowed was extatic with this home rider winning | | their tour. The complete top three;
1. Korney Agliullin, NightmareChaos
2. Hartmann Sadolin, Team WonderDee
3. Jozua Bodde, Eriknogwat
In the four stages there was not only overall victory to be chased, the sprinters wanted their hands ont he blue jersey. In the end it was the winner of the last stage that took home the spoils.
1.  César Zelda, team tdb
2. Sam Velasquez, Cremtec
3.  Drew Weis, Burren Connemara
And the best youngster was the rider that almost won the tour. He beat the other young guns by a fair margin. We will surely hear for this young rider more, the top three;
1. Hartmann Sadolin, Team WonderDee
2. Marco Italiano, Cyclocomotiv
3. Sam Velasquez, Cremtec
The Wolrd Tour
 Lisboa – Peniche
The top ranked teams in the world tour headed to the hills of Portugal. The pace was incredibly high as the top teams looked to keep the peloton together for the sprint and in a very close finish a brilliant performance from Benjamin Kervel from NECFTW won the title for the Netherlands. Nobodies' Jimmi Borders finished a strong second ahead of Gradient Levelers' powerhouse Evan Tomkins who picked up a third for England.
 Stavanger – Hauge
As the teams headed to Norway to participate in the hills around Stavanger we saw the return of Scotland under the management of Rob from Seeds2. Rob soon proved his worth winning the race through The Hippies' Byron McVining. Peddelens' Anatoliy Michala finished second for the Czech Republic in a close photo finish against Croatia's Vid Lazic.
Aberystweth - Llanelli
Division C went to Wales and Aberystweth - Llanelli provided an entertaining race with many teams. Welsh fans hoped for a Hartley Rich win but it was not to be. Victoriano Carderas from teamsi grabbed the second win out of two for Colombia and promoted them to Division B. Following closely in his wake and riding for Laos was the recent winner of Vuelta de los Castillos, Anousone Keovilay from Asymm Projet. BennysBadekar's Jasper Sófussson finished third for the Faroe Islands
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Bergen Rundtur
For the sixth time Anghel Ghidarcea stood empty handed when he finished Bergen Rundtur. But that did not stop him from cheering. He had just won Bergen Rundtur, the division one classic, for the sixth time. The fact that there still is no trophy did not bother him at all. They will come, he said, when they make one suitable for my great achievement here. He beat the two Englishmen Tomkins and Wenner.
1.  Anghel Ghidarcea, WV De Dommel
2. Evan Tomkins, Gradient Levellers
3. Felix Wenner, IGF
Rotterdam Classic
The port of Rotterdam was host to the division three classic Rotterdam Classic. Many teams had gathered on the Coolsingel to be cheered away by an enthousiastic crowed of cyclingfans. After a complete flat race that saw us a few breakaways fail it was a bunchsprint in Rotterdam again.
It was young Spanish superstar Abelardo Giron who finished first and was present the anchor trophy. He beat Gabbrielli and Hofstetter.
1.  Abelardo Girón, Rupon CC
2. Antonio Gabbrielli, Pink Piyama
3. Forrest Hofstetter, GQP 76rs
Antwerpen – Huy
From Antwerpen to Huy is a race in top division and passes many Flemmish cobblestreets on their way to Huy where they are greeted by a steep uphill finish and some long cobbled streets. In the end only the best cobble riders will win here as the long list of specialist winners show. Viljo Teravainen is such a specialist. A Finnish Flamand. He was better then Baird and Vivas on the hill of Huy.
1.  Viljo Teravainen, omega pharma lotto
2.  Rowan Baird, Team Tirilla
3. Severo Vivas, Jonas Pro Cycling
Lappi Sea GP
The race in Finland is known for its hills and sometimes cold temperatures. This time it was a pretty decent -10 Celsius. The hills and cold had the riders drink hot soup and cocoa while they were racing just to stay warm.One by one dropped off only a few were left to catch the breakaway. The breakaway did not made it, just a top nine place for them. Biggest surprise this race was that a Colombian from a Argentine team won. How did he survive the cold.
1.  Marcos Jurada, blast
2.  Truman Hulsey, Squiffinator
3. Jacinto Aldeia, Onie
Top 10 transfers
1.  Etienne Brandt; from California Mist to Hommerts Cycling Team for 325K
2. Fergus Harrold; from EricV to peddelen for 320K
3. Jonathan Bullock; from speedyb to California Mist for 310K
4.  Henrijs Cepels; from Hommerts Cycling Team to nrk form 300K
5. Manny Aguila; from Vagabundos to Ultras Spirit for 290K
6. Hugo Jensen; from Team Revolutie to Vientiane Cycling for 270K
7. Werner Bouma; from nonnies to NECFTW for 255K
8.  Bardh Shkreli; from NECFTW to Manisaspor for 210K
9. Calvino Fiz; from aussie555 to Yuri SuperTeam for 210K
10. Edward Mackay; from Team Tassie to omega pharma lotto for 200K
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