Tinkoff Saxo choose Sportful as clothing sponsor for another 3 years Sportful and Tinkoff Saxo are delighted to announce that our contract as technical clothing supplier will continue for another 3 years. Sportful have provided clothing for the team since 2010 when Bjarne Riis chose the company to clothe Team Saxo Bank. As one of the longest standing partners, during the past …
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Alfredo Martini, un Amico!
Un legame meraviglioso iniziato nel 2002 con il Mondiale di Zolder dove l’amicizia che ci ha sempre legato a Franco Ballerini ci ha fatto scoprire un Amico. Sincero, misurato, sagace, e capace di farti ascoltare nel silenzio di platee rapite dal tuo carisma. Con Franco ci hai regalato dei momenti indimenticabili e ci hai insegnato …
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 …
Inside the Tinkoff Saxo ‘Rain Bag’
Next time you find yourself riding the Tour de France and starting in Yorkshire, you’ll need to take extra care in packing your rain bag. Or in the case of the Tour de France, you actually put a bag in each of the two team cars. SciCon makes this easy for the Tinkoff Saxo riders …