Thanks to differing early season schedules, New Team Sky colleagues Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish won't be racing together until next summer's Tour de France.
Wiggins confirmed his early season plans at a press conference on Wednesday evening, when it became apparent that fans will have to wait until the road season's showpiece event in July before seeing them team up.
"I'll start off at the Tour of Algarve before moving on to Paris-Nice and the Tour of Catalonia," Wiggins said. "So I won't see Mark until the Tour de France. I still haven't really had a look at the route for the Tour yet. It's still only December and I'll get Christmas out of the way first. After that my team will start drip-feeding me my training plans and bit of information about it."
Wiggins was part of the Great Britain team that helped Cavendish to victory at the road world championships in Copenhagen in 2011, an experience he claims is the highlight of his year.
"It was the Worlds that gave me most satisfaction, especially after my crash in the Tour de France," he added. "To perform so well after everyone was writing us off throughout the race on Twitter and the like was hugely satisfying.
“Afterwards, of course, we were the best thing since sliced bread. The way Cav was able to come through and do it was amazing and I doubt we'll ever see anyone do it like that again. It's rare to get so much satisfaction from seeing someone else win."
