Lupus Racing Team kicks off 2016 with new talent and a striking new kit provided by Biemme Cycling Apparel
UCI Continental squad Lupus Racing Team, it was announced this week, will be rolling out in Biemme Cycling Apparel colours this season.
UCI Continental squad Lupus Racing Team, it was announced this week, will be rolling out in Biemme Cycling Apparel colours this season. Biemme, which has produced made-in-Italy cycling apparel since 1978, will partner with the U.S.-based team throughout 2016.
The kit that riders will be wearing, recently unveiled in Atlanta, takes advantage of new technologies to both increase performance and enhance the cyclists’ presence in competitions.
Owned and operated by Cycle Culture, Inc.—a Georgia-based company with offices in Atlanta and New York—Lupus Racing Team enters its fourth season of competituion in 2016, and officially, it second as a UCI Continental-licensed squad. The team boasts a roster of riders from across the United States, as well as from France, Brazil and Moldova, representing a cross-section of specialties, achievements and experience. This week, it was also announced that an especially experienced rider will be joining the team for 2016, when 44-year-old Chris Horner, the winner of the 2013 Vuelta a Espana, joins his fellow riders in that striking Biemme kit.
The 2016 Team #LookingGood pic.twitter.com/RohS0X3CLf
— Lupus Racing Team (@LupusRacingTeam) February 6, 2016
Horner comes to the team with a series of other commanding finishes under his helmet, too, ranking fifth at the Tour of Utah, fourth at the Tour d’Azerbaidjan, and at last year’s Tour of the Gila, rolling in to the top 10 in ninth place. He joins the team after Jure Kocjan of Slovenia, originally slated to lead the squad this season, was suspended by the UCI over a 2012 doping controversy.
Lupus Racing terminated Kocjan after the information was disclosed.
As the up-and-coming squad continues to gain prominence in the peloton, Biemme partners with Lupus Racing at a promising time in the team’s growth. The company, founded by textile entrepreneur Maurizio Bertinato, has long been an authority in providing technical, innovative apparel for the world’s top riders. Among the prestigious names who have competed in kits designed by the company include 1982 road champion Giuseppe Saronni and Marco Pantani, whose gilded series of accomplishments include major wins like those at the 1998 Tour de France and Giro d’Italia.
