Stephen Cummings will ride in 2015 with on the back the MTN Qhubeka jersey. The British rider, aged 34 years old, said he is not on the decline, quite the contrary. He feels in good shape, according Cyclingnews. "I feel better than I have done before so I don't feel like I'm ending… I feel super good. I just feel like a parachute has gone and I feel really good and I want to go."

This season, he won the individual time trial at the Tour Méditerranéen Cycliste Professionnel and the overall. "I would like win a race but I big one. This year I won the Tour Med but I'd like to win a bigger category. I can't tell you when or where but I'd like to win one… The Tour is obviously a big goal and everyone's dream is to win a stage. That's my dream as well." Between 2012 and 2014, he was a member of the BMC Racing Team. "I didn't really enjoy last year too much and I didn't really enjoy this year either. I said last year that I had a contract running through this year and after that I wanted to move and change. I wanted a new challenge. I thought I might talk to a French team or something like that, which would have been good but this was better."

MTN-Qhubeka headed for South Africa and Stellenbosch last week for a week-long training camp. Cummings signed for the team back in September but it was his first chance to meet his new teammates and see what equipment they will have at their fingertips come 2015. "I've been a bit blown away by the whole thing to be honest. They've got into great detail on every aspect of the bike and training, and I'm really impressed. There's a lot of guys here with experience and it they're a good group of guys as well as bike riders… We've just got to try our best and hopefully achieve the goal. I think that the team can get into the Tour de France. With the riders that we have, I think that we can win a stage and we've got riders who have done it."

This winter, the African team recruited some famous riders. Indeed, the team signed big names in World Tour. Furthermore Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp), the team hired Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky), Theo Bos (Belkin), Steve Cummings (BMC Racing Team), Matthew Goss (Orica-GreenEdge ) and Serge Pauwels (Omega Pharma - Quick-Step).