It’s all change at Ag2r next season, as the team becomes DecathlonAg2r La Mondiale from 2024 onwards, with the team ditching Citroën, BMC and their famous brown bibshorts and climbing on Van Rysel bikes for the next five years.
Alongside the announcement of five new riders for the French team – including Sam Bennett and Victor Lafay – the WorldTour squad showed off its new kit and bikes for next season.
Van Rysel, Decathlon’s premium bike marque, has worked with Swiss Side, Deda Elementi and Onera, the French aerospace research laboratory, to develop the RCR Pro road bike and the XCR time trial bikes. The frame, headset and handlebars are all Van Rysel, paired with Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 and Swiss Side wheels. The RCR Pro bike was claimed to weigh 6.826kg at the team presentation.
The kit is a smart blue and white affair, paired with black bibshorts, all made by Van Rysel, and will be accompanied by helmets and sunglasses from the same line. Three new helmets have been produced for the partnership.
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