Garmin have today announced that it has extended its title sponsorship of the ProTour cycling team Team Garmin-Slipstream for an additional three years.
Jon Cassat, Garmin’s vice president of communications, said: “The success of the team spans the globe and surpassed our expectations for the first year and a half of our title sponsorship, bringing Garmin’s reputation for quality, commitment, performance and productivity into countless households in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.”
Owned and managed by Slipstream Sports, Team Garmin-Slipstream is dedicated to promoting ethical sporting and developing the next generation of cycling champions.
Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president of worldwide sales, added: “Since signing with Slipstream prior to the 2008 Tour de France, Garmin has seen an outpouring of support from cyclists and sports fans across the globe, along the roads of major tours and in the stores of our retail partners,” added
A true team effort finished off the Jayco Herald Sun Tour for Team Garmin-Slipstream at the weekend, delivering race leader Bradley Wiggins to the final finish line for the overall win. Tom Peterson also clinched the final king of the mountains jersey for the race, while the team as a whole won the team classification.
Team Garmin finished 11th in the official 2009 UCI World Calendar final teams standings with 632 points, while the US team’s top ranked rider was Tyler Farrar who finished 18th with 212 points.
Riding with due care and attention is surely always a consideration when riding in public spaces, even for wannabe racer types "making a statement"...
Let's face it, he'd still be leading the Giro right now if he was riding an aluminium frame with mid-spec components priced under two grand.
I had the same thought when I saw those numbers. The absolute amounts are just as important as the relative amounts, and these profits are...
I don't buy this "opportunity" theory. Every driver will at some point be the first one at the lights. Every driver will at some point have the...
Totally this. Go back 100-120 years and say "you know old chap the time will come when everyone has got one of these infernal cars" and perhaps...
I assumed they were in a chain gang so looking straight at them she may not have seen a large group.
Isn't that what Chump says in court?
More likely they're just responding to a very skewed version of the incident presented to them by Royal Parks at face value.
I guess the FLock Light works best if you have paler legs for it to light up. Mine are actually blue (like any true Scotsman's legs they only turn...
Helmet zealots' lack of logic and knowledge, as evidenced by your post I responded to, exasperate me I'm afraid.