tour de france teams

cyclopsbiker

anybody know where I can find details on the tour de france teams and where they train?

bigmat

Try posting in the Pro Race section, you'll get plenty of helpful answers there.

Gazzaputt

This time of the season you'll find most teams don't train together as a whole.

A lot of riders are based in Monaco and also Girona. Tuscany is also popular.

Early season camps are usually Majorca, Canaries and southern Spain.

All the protour teams have websites.

CyclingBantam

www.letour.fr

cyclopsbiker

thanks...I'm searching for a team from Sheffield/Derbyshire....any clues? I have limited access to the internet at the moment so all answers greatly appreciated! searching on my blackberry isn't easy!

tailwindhome

cyclopsbiker wrote:

thanks...I'm searching for a team from Sheffield/Derbyshire...!

In the Tour De France?

The only British team in the Tour are Sky - Black and blue kit?


I can't see any of the continental teams coming to Sheffield

deptfordmarmoset

The organisers of the Tour de France have completed selection of the 22 teams who will set off from the Vendée on Saturday 2nd July.

The following 18 teams have been selected in compliance with International Cycling Union rules:

OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO (BEL)
QUICKSTEP CYCLING TEAM (BEL)
SAXO BANK SUNGARD (DEN)
EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI (ESP)
MOVISTAR TEAM (ESP)
AG2R LA MONDIALE (FRA)
SKY PROCYCLING (GBR)
LAMPRE - ISD (ITA)
LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE (ITA)
PRO TEAM ASTANA (KAZ)
TEAM LEOPARD - TREK (LUX)
RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM (HOL)
VACANSOLEIL-DCM PRO CYCLING TEAM (HOL)
KATUSHA TEAM (RUS)
BMC RACING TEAM (USA)
HTC-HIGHROAD (USA)
TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO (USA)
TEAM RADIOSHACK (USA)

4 other teams, invited by the organisers, will make up the field for the 98th edition of Le Tour:

COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE (FRA)
FDJ (FRA)
SAUR - SOJASUN (FRA)
TEAM EUROPCAR (FRA)

From http://www.letour.fr/2011/TDF/COURSE/us ... zone165001

I can't see any team which might have a Sheffield/Derbyshire connection. As TWH says, Sky are the only British team.

FoldingJoe

I always look out for AG2R as they were a client of ours about 4 years ago and they once had one of the bikes in the reception of their head office. Long before I took an interest in cycling.

cyclopsbiker

thanks guys! much appreciated. I'll go back to the source of the rumour and see what other bits of information I can find out.

UndercoverElephant

There are other pro-cycling teams in the UK, though. Last month I was riding with* some of the Endura racing team and one of the Rapha-Condor racers on the Tour of East Lothian. Is it possible that your source mistook one of them for a TdF team?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:C ... ed_Kingdom

*Briefly, before they dropped me like a little pansy-boy.

I am the god of hell fire

Raleigh have a team bachelor pad in Crich