Florian Lipowitz Archives

Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe Goes for Broke on Grand Tours

January 9, 2026 at 4:19 pm2 min reading

Road cycling

Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe needs to have a very good 2026. After poaching Remco Evenepoel from Soudal Quick-Step in one of the most publicised transfers ever, paying a reported €2 million to buy out the last year of his contract and signing him to a three-year deal…

Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe Beefs Up for the Tour de France – and the World

November 19, 2025 at 12:03 pm2 min reading

Road cycling

If you open the Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe website and scroll down, you’ll find a story about Tom Pidcock titled “5 legendary moments from Tom Pidcock” and a video, Tom Pidcock on racing road, cyclocross and MTB. If you keep scrolling down, you’ll also find an article…

Evenepoel’s Move to Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe Dominates Early Transfer Market

August 13, 2025 at 12:22 pm3 min reading

Road cycling

If you’re a journalist, the confirmation of Remco Evenepoel’s move from Soudal Quick-Step to Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe reduced all future transfer market news to the level of anti-climax. Long rumoured and impatiently awaited, the step by the double Olympic champion has already provoked a flurry of…

Some Takeaways from a Chaotic, Shambolic and Utterly Thrilling Tour de France

July 28, 2025 at 8:31 am4 min reading

Road cycling

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike) fought yet another tooth-and-nails duel for three weeks, though some of the suspense fell out of it after the Dane lost 1:05 to his Slovenian nemesis in the stage 5 time trial. Vingegaard’s deficit…

Four Tour de France Stars of the Future

July 24, 2025 at 7:37 am3 min reading

Road cycling

As expected, this Tour de France has been another showcase for three- (and soon to be four-) time race winner Tadej Pogačar. But from this fan’s perspective, the more exciting, and perhaps more important, feature of this Tour has been the emergence of four young…