Pez Cyclingnews, 9 August 2013
One of the most surprising signings of the 2012/13 transfer season was the move from the US amateur team Californian Giant to mighty World Tour outfit Astana by 22 year-old Evan Huffman from Elk Grove, California. Huffman produced some startling time trial results in 2012, beating the likes of Tom Zirbel in the McLane Pacific stage race TT and then besting Rory Sutherland at the Tour of Gila TT before taking the US U23 TT title. Californian Giant and Astana share the same bike sponsor in Specialized, who spotted Huffman’s potential and recommended him to the Kazakh squad. His first result of note came in 2008 when he won the US national junior road race title and by 2011 had made the podium of the national U23 road race championship – before his breakthrough season in 2012. We thought we’d better have a word and see how things are with the team from the far side of the Caspian Sea.