FIANDRE – The Italian name for Flanders, an area famed for tough races, tough weather and even tougher riders. The perfect name for a line of clothing designed to give the ultimate performance in the worst of weather. FIANDRE LIGHT WS JACKET For 2014-15 we’ve taken our popular Fiandre NoRain jacket, well known for it’s foul weather …
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Contador – from Abandon to Podium
On the 14th of July, during the 10th stage of the 2014 Tour de France, after 20km of battling on, nursing a leg injury (later discovered to be a fractured tibia), bruised, battered, wet and covered in road rash, a dejected Alberto Contador finally admitted defeat and climbed in to the Tinkoff Saxo team car. His …
Speed takes time…
When the 2014 Tour de France route was unveiled, almost a year ago, Tinkoff Saxo knew one thing – the individual TT would be the stage where they had most to gain or lose. What they needed was for every last piece of equipment to give Alberto Contador the best possible aerodynamic advantage. Sportful spent …
Get creative and WIN a CUSTOM KIT for your club!
At Sportful we make clothing that is designed for, tested and raced by the athletes of Tinkoff Saxo at the highest level of the sport. You too can take full advantage of our performance products with our Custom Collection – a range of clothing that is exactly the same as you see on the pro …
Majka goes Ultralight for the KOM
“We didn’t have a Plan B so we had to make a new Plan A” Said Nicholas Roche, shortly after Tinkoff Saxo lost their GC favourite, Alberto Contador to the slippery roads of the first week in the Tour de France. Plan A 2.0 turned out pretty awesome… three mountain stage wins and of course …
Dressed to WIN – Rogers & Majka take tour stage wins in new R&D
When most teams lose their star performer, in almost every sport it tends to ‘sink the ship’ and for the rest of the competition they lack any drive or direction. But most teams aren’t Tinkoff Saxo… With The GC favourite Alberto Contador out of the race (not before riding 20km on a broken tibia!) instead …
Drinks all round – the Sportful ‘bottle vest’
In this year’s Tour de France you may have noticed a Tinkoff Saxo rider moving up through the peloton distributing bottles from his unusual black ‘bottle vest’. It’s a simple innovation for a problem that has been in the peloton for as long as anyone can remember, a ‘why didn’t I think of that?!’ invention …
Hell and High Water – The ‘Fiandre’ hits Flanders : TDF 14
They thought the weather in England was going to be the problem… When the route for the 2014 Tour de France was announced many of the teams had one thing on their mind – ‘British weather’. The variable summer weather of the British Isles had the pros fighting over their rain bags to make sure they …
On Tour with Tinkoff Saxo
Following the hugely successful Grand Depart of the Tour de France in Yorkshire here are some of the highlights from our UK representative Paul Whitfield – The Tour de France is a 3-week stage race – you might have heard of it?! It’s one of the most revered sporting events in the world; the stages in the …
Behind the scenes with Tinkoff Saxo
There’s no denying the appeal and interest that the TDF generates, each stage is a the equivalent of a sporting “soap opera” 21 stages, only 3 short of what Kiefer Sutherland / Jack Bauer goes through… While the racing maybe compelling, it’s perhaps the stuff that goes on behind the scenes, the small details that …