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A cycling team is a group of cyclists who join a team or are acquired and train together to compete in bicycle races of any kind, whether they are recreational or professional. Cycling teams are most important in road bicycle racing, which is a team-sport, but in track cycling and cyclo-cross, collaboration between teammembers is also important. The following focuses on road cycling. Cycling is a recreation, a sport, and a means of transport across land. ...
In bicycle racing sports bicycles are used in a competitive way, most often speed, sometimes a style competition. ...
Road bicycle racing is a popular bicycle racing sport held on the road (following the geography of the area), using racing bicycles. ...
Track cycling is a form of bicycle racing usually held on specially-built banked tracks or velodromes (but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow). ...
Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. ...
Like in other team-sports, different team members will have different specializations. There are climbing specialists who grind away on the hard inclines, sprinters who save their energy for crucial sprints for points and position, time trialists who work with great efficiency to keep speed high over great distances, and domestiques who guard the team from aggressive riders and assist in ensuring the team stays properly hydrated and fed. A climbing specialist is a road bicycle racer who can ride especially well on highly inclined roads, like on hills or mountains. ...
A cycling sprinter is a road bicycle racer or track racer who can finish a race very explosively by accelerating, sometimes using the slipstream of another cyclist or group of cyclists tactically to gain greater momentum. ...
In the sport of road cycling, a time trialist is a cyclist who can maintain extreme speeds for long periods of time, to maximize performance during time trials. ...
In the sport of road cycling, a domestique is a cyclist who works solely for the benefit of his or her team and leader. ...
Successful teams are oriented towards the goals of a leader (such as Lance Armstrong or Jan Ullrich) who must combine all those skills and be able to act as the "face of the team" to the media and other teams. The group leaders are called allrounders, and these ride for the general classification. Not all teams have a leader, though. Most professional teams keep between 10-20 riders at any given time. Teams will also usually have a director, coaches, mechanics, and other hangers-on. Lance Armstrong (born September 18, 1971) is an American cyclist from Plano, Texas. ...
Jan Ullrich in the T-Mobile Team uniform during the Prologue to the 2004 Tour de France Jan Ullrich (born December 2, 1973) is a professional bicycle racer. ...
Teams are generally sponsored by companies in exchange for advertising in the form of the team name, prominent placement of logos on official jerseys, and other endorsements. Sponsorships range from small "mom-and-pop" businesses contributing largely in the name of good fun to local teams, to multimillion-dollar deals funding the latest in cycling technology in exchange for television and other advertisements. The need for sponsor recognition is part of what drives teams to burn themselves out early to gain a temporary lead in multistage races as opposed to giving a long, balanced effort and never finishing highly enough for the sponsor's investment to pay off from a marketing standpoint. Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ...
Traditionally, marketing has been a term applied to the craft of linking the producers (or potential producers) of a product or service with customers, both existing and potential. ...
Some prominent road cycling teams
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