{"id":181239,"date":"2021-01-18T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=181239"},"modified":"2021-01-18T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:45:27","slug":"equipment-changes-for-the-2021-worldtour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/01\/18\/equipment-changes-for-the-2021-worldtour\/","title":{"rendered":"Equipment Changes for the 2021 WorldTour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every few years when contracts end, the cycling WorldTour experiences a veritable merry-go-round of equipment sponsorship changes driven by a number of motives such as money (of course), product innovation and changes in team ownership.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For example, in 2019 BMC Racing became CCC Team and switched to Giant, Team Sunweb moved from Giant to Cerv\u00e9lo and Dimension Data signed with BMC. This year sees a similar triangular upheaval involving Bianchi, Cerv\u00e9lo and Scott. Mitchelton-Scott will become GreenEdge Cycling, which is the name of the team’s operating company, and switch to Bianchi bikes. Jumbo-Visma will leave Bianchi and ride bikes from Cerv\u00e9lo while Team Sunweb rebrands to Team DSM, ending its partnership with Cerv\u00e9lo and leaving an opening for Scott to step through.<\/p>\n

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Team Jumbo-Visma moves to Cerv\u00e9lo. \u00a9 Profimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But that\u2019s not all. French team AG2R Citro\u00ebn hops off Eddy Merckx bikes\u00a0<\/u>in favour of Swiss company BMC.<\/a> That\u2019s good news for the team\u2019s new signing,<\/u> Greg Van Avermaet<\/a>, who has enjoyed great success with the company\u2019s carbon-fibre bikes. \u201cI\u2019ve won Paris-Roubaix, the Rio Olympics and all my major victories on the BMC Teammachine SLR01,\u201d he said. \u201cThe AG2R Citro\u00ebn Team project was very attractive to me for various reasons and the chance to ride BMC again eventually made my decision an easy one to take.\u201d<\/p>\n

The contract runs from 2021 to 2023 and three BMC road bikes <\/a>have been confirmed for training and racing duty: Teammachine SLR01, the Timemachine Road and the Timemachine. This means that Eddy Merckx’s<\/a> bikes leave the 2021 WorldTour and BMC’s presence in the peloton grows from one team to two as it is currently in the last year of a three-year deal with Doug Ryder’s South African outfit, which was recently renamed Qhubeka-Assos<\/a> after NTT Pro Cycling left the team.<\/p>\n

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Team Qhubeka ASSOS is excited to present its UCI continental feeder team, which will race as Team Qhubeka in 2021! <\/p>\n

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Full Squad: https:\/\/t.co\/4gYwgmLPjX<\/a>#BicyclesChangeLives<\/a> \ud83d\udd90\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/SKzZWI7UUc<\/a><\/p>\n

— Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team (@Q36_5ProCycling) December 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n