A collection of the Pro Tour team jerseys from 2006 onwards. 2012 Updates: Additions:Australia’s first Pro Tour team, Orica Greenedge;The return FDJ to the Pro Tour Deletions: The HTC team is no more; Major Changes: Leopard Trek folded into the Radioshack team to become the Radioshack –Nissan team; Garmin picked up a new sponsor in Sharp;Omega-Pharma Lotto parted ways creating two separate teams with Omega-Pharma...
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Based on my hugely popular UCI Pro Tour Stats post I have now turned the data into an interactive set of graphs using some really cool software called Tableau. Once again this data was taken from the publically available UCI archives. The only thing I have done is to represent the raw point score as percentage of the yearly total to even out the differences...
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Being one of the more obvious pieces of kit the pro riders use I thought it would be interesting to see who is using what in 2011. Why do I appreciate this is largely driven by sponsorship deals, it is still interesting to see what is in use. As a summary the Specialiized S-Works Prevail seems to be the helmet of choice with 4 teams...
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All the data for these stats came from the UCI Pro-Tour website http://www.uciprotour.com. The term “Neo” is equivalent to a rookie, I guess it is a Euro thing. The age format used below is year:days and the age is taken as of 1 Jan of each year Year Total Riders Neo No: of teams Avg Age Avg age of Neo Biggest Team Smallest Team 2006...
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One thing that has always fascinated me about the Pro Tour is, who are these companies who support the sport? For most people in Europe these companies are probably all too familiar but for the rest of us, consider this Pro Tour Sponsorship 101. While some of the them are obvious, a few of them do have an interesting story behind them. ...
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