Specialised has introduced a brand new partnership with ladies’s WorldTour group FDJ-Suez which can 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 girls’s skilled biking.
The transfer additionally implies that Dutch famous person Demi Vollering, winner of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2023, can even stay on S-Works bikes after shifting to the French group from SD Worx in October.
In accordance 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 help in creating high-performance bikes” subsequent yr.
“We’re extraordinarily proud to enter into this collaboration with Specialised, an undisputed chief within the biking world,” stated FDJ group boss Stephen Delcourt. “This partnership represents an incredible alternative for our group to achieve new heights by combining our strengths and experience to attain our bold objectives.
“It is 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 group introduced the top of an eight-year partnership with bike model Lapierre. The swap got here as the boys’s group, Groupama-FDJ, swapped from Lapierre to Wilier after 22 years with the French producer.
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Specialised’s Scott Jackson stated: “FDJ-SUEZ instantly impressed us with their dynamic worldwide method to racing, daring imaginative and prescient for the long run and wealthy historical past in French biking.
“Collectively, we stay up for 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.
“It is a nice day and a brand new step for the group. Demi is an immense champion and we will not wait to work on her improvement and see her compete within the group’s blue white and crimson jersey,” Delcourt stated in October when the signing of Vollering was confirmed.
“With our sponsors, FDJ and SUEZ, in addition to our historic companions, we have now been working for a number of years to construct a aggressive world group on a wholesome and steady basis. Let’s trip.”
