Caleb Fairly is the latest American to join the Giant-Alpecin team for 2015, making it four Americans (with three of the men from Texas) on the German registered squad.

When Fairly signed from Garmin-Sharp, he wasn’t completely new to the Giant team as he had previous contact with the team.

“We ‘considered each other’ two years ago but the timing wasn’t quite right. So we were familiar with each other and the timing was good this time,” he revealed in an interview with PEZ Cycling.

The 27 year old says he knows his race schedule for 2015, but he wasn’t willing to give away any information on where he will be racing. He says Giant-Alpecin are very organized, something he couldn’t say the same for his previous employers when it comes to letting guys know if they were being kept on.

“Jonathan Vaughters isn’t known for great communication with his riders. I had gone ahead and made a deal with Giant. You can’t wait around in this business.”

He rode his first Grand Tour at the 2013 Vuelta, which he says changed him as a rider. But he was very disappointed to be left off all three grand Tour rosters for 2014.

“It did (change me ed.)– (It was my) first grand tour, etc. But mostly because I developed a saddle sore on Stage Three due to a mechanic’s mistake with my bike that, among other things, required me to stand entirely for three days. After being told it was too bad to go on, we instead did an impromptu hotel-room surgery. It was the most painful 5 minutes of my life. I wasn’t healthy until Stage 16 so my best days of my first GT were in the last week. To go through that for my team and then get left off the 2014 Vuelta was a disappointment.”

Roster problems were also highlighted when he was asked what his season highlight for 2014 was.

“The Mallorca early season races and a March training camp – which is sad. I rode the first 1.5hr of day three in Mallorca (the Trofeo Platja de Muro, ed.) in the break, and then later was able to climb with the best 20 over the big climb of the day and finished 16th – then didn’t race for 6 weeks.”

He said his role at Garmin was fairly vague, but he knows exactly what he ahs to do for the Giant-Alpecin leaders in 2015.

“Like most guys it was to help the leaders. That’s a pretty broad space, and was not always clear. At Giant, my role will be to provide support in some of the harder stages of stage races and perhaps a couple hilly classics.”