Pro-cycling thread

The French team with French bike sponsor and Warren Barguil riding the TDF dissolve their sponsorship with LOOK with immediate effect because of reasons

Oh, Barguil, in a recent interview, said that adapting to the Look bikes has been one reason for his poor results. Don't know if he will be happy or hopping mad now.

Is there anything weird about them? Assume no gimmicks like single chainrings...

Not that I know of, he didn't elaborate.

Probably doesn't work with his bonkers bike fit

Can't believe there's nothing in the contract preventing that. What happens now then? Will they get a replacement sponsor in time or will they all just ride their own bikes?

BH are set to supply them with bikes for the rest of the season.

I'm disappointed the squad isn't heading down to Decathlon en masse this Saturday morning to get sorted out. One of them would come out with a canoe and some horse tackle.

BH aren't Bwtin

2 weeks to get team fitted to new bikes and paint jobs etc. is going to be fun

Yeah I know that. I was saying 'wouldn't it be funny if'.

I'll admit that, as a joke, it's withering under the lights somewhat.

This is a serious forum, please avoid attempts at 'humour' going forward

Justified burn.

I'm disappointed the squad isn't heading down to Decathlon en masse this Saturday morning to get sorted out. One of them would come out with a canoe and some horse tackle.

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Just whack a 140 mm stem on each stock model, slam it and you’re done.

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One of them would come out with a canoe and some horse tackle.

This is literally every one of my trips to Decathlon.

The mists are clearing; Barguil had binned off Look already and was riding a painted Argon 18 Gallium

Woah, can you do just do that or do you have to enter a special agreement with all parties? That's a lot different to wearing a de-branded Gabba.

I was probably thinking more of the TT bikes but then again

French Team

TT stage LOL!

It's as old as pro cycling itself. It's less common these days, granted, but it used to be very common for the top riders to ride a custom made bike by their builder of choice then rebadged as the brand their team rode.

I know for a fact that the bike Cipollini rode to win the Worlds at Zolder in 2002 was not a Specialized, because I was in the premises of a well known Italian bike builder when his team came to collect the new frame for the Worlds.

Did @hoops do the paint?

Fignon never rode a Raleigh, Indurain never won the Tour on a Pinarello. Cancellara had his frames made by his favourite builder, Ducati.

Did Lemond ride Serottas or something? Might be making that one up.