Bauer signs with Oz team

AUSTRALIAN cycling outfit OricaSCOTT have signed New Zealander Jack Bauer on a two-year-deal.

It ends a one-season stint with Belgian team Quick-Step Floors for 32year-old Bauer, who contested this year’s Tour de France and helped set up German Marcel Kittel to five wins.

Orica-SCOTT sporting director Matt White said Bauer was a rider they had targeted for some time.

White said the looming reduction in team rosters made versatile riders such as the big Kiwi valuable.