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| TestTeam |
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| The bike industry’s thought leaders have put a new spin on professional cycling and product innovation with the formation of the Cervélo TestTeam. Though the arrivals of 2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre and sprint ace Thor Hushovd leave no doubt about the performance level of the team, racing success is not the team’s only goal. Of equal importance to the partners in this project, is the involvement of the Cervélo TestTeam riders in product development and technical feedback. For more information, visit the team’s webpage.
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| Hot Tubes Cycling Team |
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The Hot Tubes team is an institute in Cycling Development. Over the past decade, the team under direction of Toby Stanton has won almost every Junior race there is to win in North America and abroad, and many of its riders have flowed through to the Pro ranks. Since 2002 the team has been on Cervélos.
But Hottubes is much more than a cycling team, it is also a custom paint facility, and it has produced some of the most stunning custom-painted Cervélo frames on the road.
For more information, please visit the team website here.
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| Team Ultralink |
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| Team Ultralink is an Elite Women's Team of experienced and race hardened Canadian and American riders who have already succeeded at the national level in North America. The roster includes both English and French speakers who balance elite level racing with professional careers and studies. |
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| Team TBB |
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TeamTBB is both a high-performance triathlon team and a development project. It gives talented pro triathletes a chance to focus completely on their sport, instead of having to balance sport and making a living.
It also offers athletes from less affluent areas of the world (predominantly Asia and Brazil) a chance to develop in a professional environment. In the past 30 months, teamtbb athletes have won the following titles aboard their Cervélos:
• 24 Ironman titles
• 10 Ironman 70.3 titles
• 2 Ironman World Championships (2007 and 2008)
• 1 ITU Long Distance World Champ (2008)
Just in the past few months teamtbb athletes booked their first two Ironman wins on a Cervélo P4.
12 Teamtbb athletes have qualified for IM Hawaii 2009 who will all be riding their P3 and P4 machines.
For more information, please visit the team website (www.teamtbb.com).
teamTBB athletes include:
- Bella Bayliss
- Erika Csomor
- Lisbeth Kristiansen
- Lucie Zelenkova
- Tereza Macel
- Rebekah Keat
- Maki Nishiuchi
- Donna Phelan
- Caroline Koll
- L.C. Langit
- Jocelyn Wong
- Angela Naeth
- Stephen Bayliss
- Andrew Johns
- Jonathan Caron
- Hiroyuki Nishiuchi
- Joseph Spindler
- Mat O'Holloran
- Cam Watt
- Keegan Williams
- Zack Ruble
- James Cunnama
- Manny Aherta
- Rowel Odonio
- Luiz Felipe
- Travis Woodford
- Reinaldo Colucci
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| Lisa Bentley |
 Lisa on her way to winning Ironman Canada 2007
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A long-time Cervélo rider, Lisa is without a doubt one of the most couragous athletes in the sport. At the 2005 Ironman Hawaii she even started the race with a ruptured appendix (she didn't know although she did have some pain - no kidding!) and it wasn't until halfway through the run that the pain finally became unbearable and she had to drop out. She went home and only the next day, when the pain wouldn't subside, did she go to the hospital. There she was immediately underwent emergency surgery.
1st Place 2007 Ironman Canada
1st Place 2007 Pucon Half Ironman
2nd Place 2006 70.3 Half Ironman World Championships
3rd Place 2006 Ironman Hawaii World Championships
1st Place 2006 Ironman Germany
1st Place 2006 Ironman Australia
1st Place 2006 Pucon Half Ironman
1st Place 2005 Ironman Germany
1st Place 2005 Ironman Australia
1st Place 2005 Pucon Half Ironman
4th Place 2004 Ironman Hawaii World Championships
1st Place 2004 Subaru Ironman Canada
1st Place 2004 Disney Half Ironman
1st Place 2004 Ironman Australia
1st Place 2004 Pucon Half Ironman
5th Place 2003 Ironman Hawaii World Championships
1st Place 2003 Subaru Ironman Canada
1st Place 2003 St. Agathe Triathlon
1st Place 2003 Dairyland Half Ironman
1st Place 2003 Guelph Lake Triathlon
1st Place 2003 Muskoka Triathlon
1st Place 2003 Utah Half Ironman
1st Place 2003 Ironman Australia
3rd Place 2003 Ironman New Zealand
1st Place 2003 Pucon Half Ironman
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| Joanna Lawn |
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New Zealand Ironman Championships
2009 2nd Pro Women
2008 1st Pro Women (Course record) - 9:16:00
2007 1st Pro Women
2006 1st Pro Women
2005 1st Pro Women
2004 1st Pro Women
2003 1st Pro Women
2002 2nd Pro Women
2001 4th Open Women (first race as a pro)
2000 1st 25-29yr
Women New Zealand Long distance Championships
2009 2nd Pro Women
2008 1st New Zealand Champ
2007 1st New Zealand Champ
2006 1st New Zealand Champ
2003 4th Pro Women
2000 1st 25-29yr Women
Ironman World Triathlon Championships
2008 14th Pro Women
2007 4th Pro Women
2006 7th Pro Women
2005 4th Pro Women
2004 5th Pro Women
2003 13th Pro Women
2002 10th Pro Women
2001 11th Pro Women
2000 1st 25-29yr Women
Quelle Challenge Roth
2007 2nd Pro Women (Under 9 Hours) - 8:58
2006 1st Pro Women - 9:01
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| Bryan Rhodes |
 Bryan on his way to win the inaugural Ironman UK on his P3
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One of the first triathletes to ride a Cervélo, Bryan and Cervélo have been a team since his earliest Ironman success in 2001. In 2005, he put the P3 on the map with a decisive win (wire-to-wire) at the inaugural Ironman UK.
1st Place 2005 Ironman UK
1st Place 2005 First New Half Triathlon
3rd Place 2005 Ironman New Zealand
1st Place 2004 Desaru Malaysia Triathlon
2nd Place 2004 Half Ironman Singapore
2nd Place 2004 Ironman Japan
3rd Place Ironman Huatulco Mexico
1st Place 2002 Ironman Malaysia
1st Place 2001 Ironman Malaysia
4th Place 2000 Ironman California
6th Place 2000 Ironman New Zealand
3rd Place 1999 Ironman Canada
1st Place 1999 Kelowna Apple Triathlon
1st Place 1999 Great White North Half Ironman
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| Danish national track team |
 The Danish national team training on their new P3 Track
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After seeing the Polish team at the World Cup, the first federation to contact Cervélo about becoming a P3 Track customer was Denmark. Led by Heiko Salzwedel (who by coincidence gave one of Cervélo's biggest fans, Jens Voigt, his first pro contract), the Danish track team is very young and full of ambition. To fulfill their Olympic dreams in 2008, Heiko has been given the mandate to create the best possible environment for the riders, including the best equipment. This is what he had to say after the first couple of rides of the team on the new P3 Track:
"We are really proud and excited about the sponsorship deal with CERVÉLO . I really have to say that you have produced the best aerodynamic bike currently on the market. The "tail", speak the delayed seatpost is a brilliant idea!!! We are confident that we can repeat the success from Sydney (Silver medal behind Russia) with a new Danish record (4.07,5) at the upcoming World Cup in Moscow tis weekend and smash it again. let's cross the fingers... Again, thanks for your support. This is going to be a wonderfull partnership..."
Since, the Danish pursuit team has gone on to break National record after record, culminating in a Bronze medal at the 2007 World Track Championships. Now it's on to the Olympics.
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| Polish national track team |
 Poland in the team pursuit
 First race, first victory
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Poland’s track cycling team, under the spirited guidance of renowned cycling coach Eddie B, is looking to move up. The big goal is the Olympics in Beijing in 2008, and Eddie B has gathered a team of very young riders for the pursuit, team pursuit, scratch, points and sprint races.
With the riders secured, the next step was to pick the equipment. With his forty years of experience, Eddie has a vast network of contacts and most of the equipment was quickly selected. The big exception was the frames, as he was not impressed with any of the available options. Scouring the Eurobike tradeshow in August 2005, he made a point to visit the Cervélo booth. Eddie knew Cervélo didn’t make track bikes, but its time trial bikes are world-renowned and the step from a great time trial frame to a great track frame is minor. As fate would have it, Cervélo’s co-founder Gerard Vroomen was at the booth that day so the two could discuss the possibilities. Unbeknownst to Eddie, Cervélo had already been working on a track version of its top-of-the-line P3 time trail frame, the frame used by Dave Zabriskie to post the fastest ever time trial in the Tour de France last year.
“It was rather funny”, recalls Eddie B. “I went to the Cervélo booth with what I thought was an outlandish question, asking them if they could make a track frame for me, and he almost pulled one out of his back pocket.” Well, not quite, but the track frame project was well under way by then. Cervélo’s internal development schedule showed the P3C Track to be ready for production by April. Says Gerard Vroomen: “We really don’t want to over-promise, so although we were very excited about the prospect of working with a legend like Eddie B, when he asked if his team could ride the new frame at the World Championships in April 2006, I said no.”
Never to be slowed down by a minor inconvenience, Eddie B stopped by the Cervélo booth again at Interbike in Las Vegas one month later. “I had looked at everything, and I wanted the Cervélo, so all I had to do was convince them.” In the end, Eddie and Cervélo agreed the Polish team would get dibs on the first available P3C Track frames, but without the promise it would be in time for the World Championships.
Back at Cervélo, the race was on. Even though nothing was promised, the company was determined to meet the deadline for the World Championships. With Cervélo’s two other big projects, the new P2 and R3 frames ahead of schedule, some engineering time could be freed up and the P3C Track frame went through its testing phase faster than anticipated. All testing was successful and instead of April, the first frames were delivered to the team in February.
At the World Cup in Sydney on March 3, the P3 Track was entered in competition for the first time. Rafal Ratajczyk took his P3 Track, lined up for the Scratch event, broke away with four other riders and left them all in the dust in the long drawn-out sprint to the finish line. His race was a perfect showcase for the superior aerodynamics of the P3 Track, a distinct advantage when at the head of the pack at great speed.
After this successful debut, the P3 Track went on to pocket a Silver Medal at the World Championships. Team Poland will once again be on the P3C Track this year.
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