AT85 team collapse
The British domestic team, AT85 Pro Cycling, formerly Wiv-SunGod, is reported to have folded after the sponsor was unable to meet their financial commitments.
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/long-standing-british-team-at85-pro-cycling-collapses
This leaves just two domestic pro squads, Saint Piran and Trinity Racing, although the later is very much a u23 European focused project. Factor in the cancellation of the Tour Series this year, and the financial challenges that the Women's Tour is facing, and the current climate for domestic road racing is bleak.
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/long-standing-british-team-at85-pro-cycling-collapses
This leaves just two domestic pro squads, Saint Piran and Trinity Racing, although the later is very much a u23 European focused project. Factor in the cancellation of the Tour Series this year, and the financial challenges that the Women's Tour is facing, and the current climate for domestic road racing is bleak.
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Feels a bit like the late 90s, possibly even worse. That big cycling bubble didn’t last long, I guess those controlling the purse strings in the marketing departments of large UK companies have move on to doing other trendy hobbies.
Well that's what I think but it's just an opinion
We’ve never had a British GT winner and yet under this Conservative government we’ve had 5 who between them have 7 TdFs, 2 Giri and 2 Vueltas between them. The Tories have made the UK into world beaters in cycling
To be fair, it probably wouldn't have happened without John Major's National Lottery.
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Agreed. Major's cabinet would have fitted in with Blair more than the current Tories. Major was a decent man and his sport legacy is something he can be very proud of.
I mean Amaury Sport Organisation is now employing goats. Cheaper apparently.
[Pity about the Tour series. It came to my home town and was well frequented.
I really enjoyed it.
On the web page it states that they are taking a 'one year hiatus'. I guess the organisers are hoping that things will pick up though I doubt they will.]
This is like going back tot he 80's, never mind 90's.
Is it going to be a case that any aspiring young cyclist better hope to go through the BCA and be promoted by it or join a French club as a 2nd cat or join an equivalent Pepsi Fanini style pro-am squad because the racing scene is so thin on the ground?
That's where the money comes from to host these races.
At the grass roots level the sport is being / has been killed by the insurance and marshalling requirements for real open road events, rather than riding a Motorsport track or 'cycling circuit'. That detracts from the racing experience as a participant and spectator, further losing interest to a generation.