Team Bikes for 2011

sonny73

Does anyone know the new bike - team set ups for 2011, obviously Cervelo are with Garmin, but where are Felt off too?
Also Team Lux are on Treks is that right? HTC are on Spesh, but what about any other moves and GEOX, Pegasus and the like?

iainf72

Pegasus on Scott
Saxo on Spesh
Liquigas now being co-sponsored by Cannondale
Astana on Spesh

Pokerface

Felt are sponsoring a women's team. No men's Pro team on the books as of yet.


GEOX are on Fuji for 2011.
Ridley with Vacansoleil.

inseine

Specialized are really sinking some big bucks into the sport.

Wheelspinner

inseine wrote:

Specialized are really sinking some big bucks into the sport.

True, and I wonder if it is paying off in road bike sales for them? Around where I ride, Specialized would be by a long way the LEAST popular road bike brand amongst the race bike fraternity (and sorority!) I see three times as many Colnago out on the roads.

dougzz

Maybe that's why the heavy investment. Specialized are fighting an uphill battle against the established dream machines like Colnago.
As an analogy Honda made a superb car in the NSX that was by all accounts wonderful to drive and and much better than a comparable Ferrari in every respect but one, it didn't have a prancing horse logo. You can't just win market share by making the best product, it's way more complicated.

RichN95.

dougzz wrote:

Maybe that's why the heavy investment. Specialized are fighting an uphill battle against the established dream machines like Colnago.
As an analogy Honda made a superb car in the NSX that was by all accounts wonderful to drive and and much better than a comparable Ferrari in every respect but one, it didn't have a prancing horse logo. You can't just win market share by making the best product, it's way more complicated.

Yeah, but how many Accords and Civics have Honda sold.

Specialized make most of their money on bikes under £1000, not the high end stuff.

They just want a champion they can associate their brand with to get brand well known (see Trek and Armstrong from example)

Wheelspinner

dougzz wrote:

Maybe that's why the heavy investment. Specialized are fighting an uphill battle against the established dream machines like Colnago.
As an analogy Honda made a superb car in the NSX that was by all accounts wonderful to drive and and much better than a comparable Ferrari in every respect but one, it didn't have a prancing horse logo. You can't just win market share by making the best product, it's way more complicated.

The NSX was indeed terrific, and in *some* ways better than a Ferrari, but not all (I've driven the Honda and several Ferraris), but it's biggest problem was cost. Nobody argued it was not a great car, but most figured that it should be cheaper than a Ferrari (or Porsche in particular), and it wasn't, not by much here anyway.

Also, IMO, the "best product" rarely has the most market share. See "Campagnolo" for example...

Runs for the exit.

Gazzaputt

Canyon continue with Omega Pharma Lotto.

Focus are on board with Katusha.

HTC are on Specialized.

rick_chasey

Makes no difference what bike they're on beyond a bit of advertising.

redddraggon

Now that High Road are on Specialized, does that mean they change from that awful yellow kit?

greasedscotsman

redddraggon wrote:

Now that High Road are on Specialized, does that mean they change from that awful yellow kit?

Looking at the Spesh they are going to be using, I would guess not...

frenchfighter

Cavendish on a ..... while he checks out the 2011 Worlds

stfc1

Cofidis staying with Look.

greeny12

Presumably Colnago staying with Bbox/Europcar now they've been saved?

Pokerface

frenchfighter wrote:

Cavendish on a ..... while he checks out the 2011 Worlds

He's riding a Willier Izoard XP Veloce R5 - with some of the name taped over to hide it. Name taped over on the chainstays also.

redddraggon

greasedscotsman wrote:

redddraggon wrote:

Now that High Road are on Specialized, does that mean they change from that awful yellow kit?

Looking at the Spesh they are going to be using, I would guess not...

That's a shame, they only took on the yellow because of Scott.

Scrumple

When I saw the shirt Cav had on after "Chasing Legends", I decided his taste was lacking,

Having seen him on a Wilier, I'm reconsidering!

I'm guessing Wilier are still with Lampre?

inkyfingers

frenchfighter wrote:

Cavendish on a ..... while he checks out the 2011 Worlds

Cav's clearly at his winter weight now....

Wheelspinner

redddraggon wrote:

greasedscotsman wrote:

redddraggon wrote:

Now that High Road are on Specialized, does that mean they change from that awful yellow kit?

Looking at the Spesh they are going to be using, I would guess not...

That's a shame, they only took on the yellow because of Scott.

It's not the yellow that's the problem with the HTC kit, the colours alone are quite good, especially for a TV sport. It's the graphic design. Looks like whoever drew it up could not decide whether it was for a pro bike racing team or a Halloween party. It's just hideous. My LBS has a rack full of the stuff on sale at giveaway pricing, and it's still sitting there months later because no matter how nicely made it is, it just looks effing dreadful.

Pokerface

SKY are giving their team bikes away to anyone that can beat Wiggins or Geraint on a 1-mile virtual course on a Watt Bike:

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... swift.html

Not an easy task for sure.



And if you win the bike, you might also get a 2 year contract to ride with Sky

No_Ta_Doctor

frenchfighter wrote:

Cavendish on a ..... while he checks out the 2011 Worlds

When was that?

Cav In Denmark? I'd have popped over to say hello, and give my regards from Tush... ;-)

gsk82

i think htc have just about the best jersey going to be honest. in rotterdam last year and on the roads of east yorkhire there was/ is hardly a more popular jersey

Alex_Gill

the new Luxembourg team are on trek this coming season.
not sure what components they'll use though, i guess the Schlecks will do alot of testing to see which brand keeps the chain on best.

ozzzyosborn206

from the half of the writing you can see i would say wilier but who knows?!?

sonny73

Pegasus Scott: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/photos/more-details-emerge-about-pegasus-team-bikes/149763

Pokerface

In case anyone is interested - article on what all the teams are riding/using in 2011 on CyclingNews:

2011 Team Equipment

frenchfighter

Katusha

frenchfighter

frenchfighter

Video of VS's bikes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9443nxuzDbA

Rodrego Hernandez

BMC on DI2 and Liguigas on SRAM. The seemingly bottomless pit of SRAMs marketing budget buys another team as well as Katusha.