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Pinarello and Team Sky partnership extended until 2020

The happy partnership between Team Sky and Pinarello will continue for another four years

Team Sky will continue its successful partnership with Italian bicycle brand Pinarello for another four years, it has been confirmed today during the Tour rest day. 

Team Sky has been using Pinarello bikes since 2010, and it was love at first sight. It’s the most successful partnership in cycling at the moment, with Pinarello bikes being raced to 232 victories and 656 podium places.

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In those six years, Pinarello bikes have been riding to two world championship and, most famously, three Tour de France victories (Bradley Wiggins in 2012 and Chris Froome in 2013 and 2015, and he’s about to wrap up a third). 

The partnership has seen Pinarello rapidly develop its flagship race bike to ensure Team Sky has the best possible equipment to race with. Team Sky first started with the Dogma 60, which has evolved, through the Dogma 2 and Dogma 65.1, to the current F8 and the superlight F8X Light. The time trial bike has similarly been evolved and it has developed the Dogma K8-S for the cobbled classics. 

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“We have been working closely with Fausto and his team since our World Tour debut in 2010, and together we have won three Tour de France yellow jerseys as well as 656 other podium places across the world. Their love of our great sport, their attention to detail and continuous search for innovation is a perfect fit with our team,” said Dave Brailsford.

It’s clear Team Sky pushes Pinarello to produce bikes that provide the performance, handling, weight, stiffness that allows the racers to best do their job in the most demanding races, and to meet constantly evolving developments in the road bike market. 

There are likely to be new bikes in the next four years as well, with Pinarello bolding claiming in a video posted to its Facebook page, “And we’re only just getting started.” What might we see next from Pinarello? 

Chris Froome said off the announcement: “Having ridden Pinarello bikes since joining Team Sky, the greatest rides and best wins of my career have been on a Pinarello. The bikes are the embodiment of Pinarello’s long heritage in the sport and their unique understanding of racing.”

David worked on the road.cc tech team from 2012-2020. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds, and you can now find him over on his own YouTube channel David Arthur - Just Ride Bikes

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alansmurphy | 7 years ago
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Dnnnnnn | 7 years ago
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Is that a very large arm in the photo, or a very small bike...?

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