Other Teams & Athletes

In addition to our own Cervélo TestTeam and Team TBB, we support several other teams and athletes in road cycling, track cycling and triathlon. On this page we will introduce these great athletes who have already achieved major success on our bikes.

Team Plussbank Cervélo

Team Plussbank Cervélo is a Norwegian licensed, UCI Continental Cycling Team, based in Grimstad, Norway. The team consists of nine competitive riders and is in its debut season. Grimstad resident Thor Hushovd, who rides for Cervélo TestTeam, owns Team Plussbank Cervélo. read more

Hot Tubes Cycling Team

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. read more

Danish national Track Team

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. read more

Polish national Track Team

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. read more

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.

Lisa Bentley

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. read more

Joanna Lawn

Wellington-born, Auckland-raised Lawn has taken a roundabout route to the top of triathlon racing. She played every sport ever invented during high school and was a member of the New Zealand cycling team for the Commonwealth Games in 1998. After placing 4th in her first attempt at Ironman New Zealand, she has won the event for the past six years. She also holds the course record at 9:16. In 2007 she finished 4th in the Ironman world championships held in Kona, Hawaii. read more

Bryan Rhodes

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. read more

Yvonne van Vlerken

For several years now, Yvonne van Vlerken belongs to the absolute top in the triathlon sport. She won numerous international duathlons, triathlons and several Dutch titles. Her greatest achievement so far was set on July 13th 2008 in Roth Germany, where she improved the world record on the full distance triathlon. With a time of 8 hours 45 minutes and 48 seconds she remained five minutes under the old record. read more

Rebeccah and Laurel Wassner

The Wassner twins are world-class competitors. Rebeccah was named 2009 USA Triathlon Athlete of the Year and won 7 major races in 2009. Laurel is a cancer survivor who was named 2008 USA Triathlon Rookie of the Year. Together they race to win, but also to inspire and motivate others who have been affected by cancer.

As members of Nike’s Team LIVESTRONG and representatives of the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, they work to raise awareness for the 70,000 young adults diagnosed with cancer each year and to promote the importance of early detection and a healthy lifestyle.
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Kwok Ho Ting

Riding for the Hong Kong Pro Cycling Team. Kwok Ho Ting has had great success this year on the track, including winning the Madison at the Beijing World Cup in January 2010, and placing second in the Points race at the Manchester World Cup in October 2009.

Eduardo Sturla

Argentinian Eduardo Martin Sturla has been a triathlete for 18 years. He is the only professional triathlete who lives and trains in Argentina. In 2001 he became the first South American athlete to win an Ironman competition at Ironman Brazil, the only official Ironman that takes place in South America. read more