Cervelo Pro Test Team

In the wake of Team CSC/Saxo Bank switching to Specialized after many years of success, Danish bike manufacturer Cervelo are to form a Pro Cervelo Test Team in association with Zipp, Speedplay, Vittoria and 3T.

Gerard Vroomen, co-founder of Cervelo said - “We are proud to have played an important part in taking Team CSC from fourteenth to first in the team world ranking and in Carlos Sastre’s Tour de France victory. It was the dedication to excellence by both the equipment sponsors and the team that made it happen. Most of all we appreciate the confidence Bjarne Riis had in us back in 2002 and thank him for these past six years. The financial realities of pro cycling today have caused a change in priorities for the team, and we respect that."

Cervelo say that the main reason to work with a team is to develop new products, "and how better to accomplish that than by owning the team."

Andy Ording, President of Zipp said - ”Cervélo TestTeam will be managed by Cycling United Racing out of Switzerland, together with the professional women’s team currently known as Team Cervélo-Lifeforce. As a partner of the women’s team, we have seen their very high level of professionalism and their impressive results. “So it was a natural decision to use the current platform and reinforce it with additional staff.”

A four-year commitment of additional private funding provides a competitive budget to race at the highest level. With the core of the roster now confirmed, detailed announcements will be made in the next few weeks.

Cervélo TestTeam is a working title, a team name, title sponsors and riders are to be announced at a later date.