After three career victories between FDJ and Wanty, that week in red jersey at the 2021 Vuelta with Intermarché and a three-year period without particular highlights between EF and Uno X, the thirty-year-old Norwegian (to be honest, he'll turn 30 in the last days of 2024) Odd Christian Eiking is ready to become the twenty-fifth rider of Tietema Rockets, the Professional team of former rider and highly followed cycling "content creator" Bas Tietema, sponsored by Unibet.

The official social announcement was quite funny, in the typical mood of this team: Eiking presents himself with the jersey of his new team "pixelated" to not really show it and starts by saying "This is the new kit of the..." but a staff member intervenes to reprimand him, we are still in December and it cannot be revealed for now.