One day after waving goodbye to Chris Horner, Lampre-Merida have announced their next signing for the 2015 signing. Chun Kai Feng will join the team for the coming season and become the first ever Taiwanese cycling on the WorldTour.

Team Lampre-Merida is once again proud to be pioneer in the expansion of the cycling boundary, considering that it has signed the first Taiwanese rider ever in its history: in 2015, Chun Kai Fei will be the first Taiwanese to take part in the WorldTour circuit.

Born in 1988 in Qing'an Village, Feng is very popular in Taiwan, a country whose cycling industry is at the top of the world production.
Thanks to the cycling successes he achieved, Feng is the leading figure of the Taiwanese cycling movement: in 2007, when he was very young, he became Asian champion in the points race on the track; in 2010 he tuned pro, collecting during his career three national road title (2010-2011-2013), one national time trial title (2013), one stage in Tour of Thailand in 2012 and the gold medal in the 10 km scratch.

The deal with Chun Kai Feng was made official at a press conference in Taiwan where the rider was introduced by William Jeng, Merida Bikes company's senior vice president.

Lampre-Merida decided to give this opportunity of improvement to an athlete that is considered to be ready to face the challenge of the elite of cycling, endorsing the Asian cycling movement that in the next years will become more and more important for the cycling world.

"We think Chun Kai Feng has the skills and the fighting spirit to demonstrate that the Taiwanese cycling has come to a level that gives the opportunity to this leading figure to debut in the World Tour," team manager Brent Copeland explained. "The first part of the season will be important for him for getting settled and to adapt himself to the language and the European culture: our team's members are very warm and accepting people, so Feng will have no problem in receiving the necessary support by everybody in the team, especially by the most experienced cyclists.

"During the first half of the year we'll complete the evaluation of his skills and we'll give him the support for what concerns the training programs, aiming to set a race planning that will give Feng the opportunity to exploit in the best way his qualities during the second part of the season."