Specialised has introduced a brand new partnership with ladies’s WorldTour workforce FDJ-Suez which is able to begin in 2025.
With relationships with SD Worx-Protime and AG Insurance coverage-Soudal in place, the American model will now provide bikes to a few groups on the WorldTour on the high degree of ladies’s skilled biking.
The transfer additionally signifies that Dutch famous person Demi Vollering, winner of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2023, may also stay on S-Works bikes after transferring to the French workforce from SD Worx in October.
In line with a press launch from Specialised, the likes of Vollering and Juliette Labous will “profit from top-tier biking expertise in addition to Specialised’s experience and assist in growing high-performance bikes” subsequent 12 months.
“We’re extraordinarily proud to enter into this collaboration with Specialised, an undisputed chief within the biking world,” mentioned FDJ workforce boss Stephen Delcourt. “This partnership represents an amazing alternative for our workforce to achieve new heights by combining our strengths and experience to attain our bold objectives.
“This can be a relationship constructed on belief, pushed by innovation, and devoted to supporting the ambitions of our athletes and the game of biking as a complete.”
In October, the workforce introduced the tip of an eight-year partnership with bike model Lapierre. The change got here as the boys’s workforce, Groupama-FDJ, swapped from Lapierre to Wilier after 22 years with the French producer.
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Specialised’s Scott Jackson mentioned: “FDJ-SUEZ instantly impressed us with their dynamic worldwide strategy to racing, daring imaginative and prescient for the longer term and wealthy historical past in French biking.
“Collectively, we look ahead to elevating the way forward for ladies’s sport, driving innovation, and sharing our ardour to pedal the planet ahead.”
The acquisition of Vollering within the autumn represented a large coup for FDJ after SD Worx boss Danny Stam revealed in March that the Dutchwoman’s contract wouldn’t be prolonged.
“This can be a nice day and a brand new step for the workforce. Demi is an immense champion and we won’t wait to work on her improvement and see her compete within the workforce’s blue white and crimson jersey,” Delcourt mentioned in October when the signing of Vollering was confirmed.
“With our sponsors, FDJ and SUEZ, in addition to our historic companions, we now have been working for a number of years to construct a aggressive world workforce on a wholesome and secure basis. Let’s trip.”
