The sporting year comes to a close with news that many in the cycling world had been expecting and hoped for. In 2025, Campagnolo will be back at cycling’s “top table” thanks to a partnership it has recently confirmed with one of the World Tour’s biggest teams: Team Cofidis.
Indeed, the company from Vicenza in Italy has just signed an agreement to completely equip the LOOK Cycle bikes that both the men’s and women’s teams will ride, from the groupset to the wheels. An agreement that will start on 1 January 2025 and run for 4 years.
A decision taken by Team Cofidis after the French outfit’s technicians and mechanics spent a protracted period putting Campagnolo’s components through their paces and then choosing them for its LOOK bikes, the team’s partner company. Indeed, the collaboration has seen the Italian company’s technicians work hand in hand with LOOK’s product managers who, with guidance from the team’s mechanics, have identified the ideal configuration for the bikes.
The Campagnolo components featured on the LOOK bikes.
The LOOK bicycles will be fitted with the Super Record Wireless groupset, offering fast, accurate gear changing together with powerful, modular braking, essential for dealing with a range of typical race situations. Strengths that have also been remarked upon by the riders. All this is complemented by multiple combinations of cassettes, cranksets and crank arm lengths, all configured to meet the specific needs of each rider. Also supporting the team is the MyCampy 3.0 app, the bike’s “control center” that makes it possible to customize the settings, from the screen selection to the gear shifting modes, including the management of the cyclo-computer.
Furthermore, the set-up of the team’s bikes will be completed by the new Bora ULTRA WTO wheels, chosen by the team’s technicians for their superior rigidity obtained from the G3 spoke system, which minimizes the dissipation of any of the power being transferred from the cyclist to the bike. Depending on the race conditions, the riders will be able to choose either a 45mm or a 60mm rim height, both of which, thanks to the 23mm 2-WAY FIT internal bed, offer excellent aerodynamic performance when paired with the 28mm or 30mm tubeless tires. Additionally, the wheel’s CULT bearings provide unparalleled smoothness, as revealed by numerous laboratory tests. In time trials, the Team Cofidis bikes will feature the Bora Ultra WTO TT disc wheel, loved by riders for its superior stiffness and lightness – just 930 grams – and, of course, it’ll be equipped with CULT bearings.
Campagnolo has been producing top-quality cycling components for 90 years, and the brand’s strength is reflected in its achievements at the very top of bicycle racing, with a trophy case that boasts 43 Tour de France victories, 30 Giro d’Italia titles, and 30 World Championships, to name but a few. An extraordinary array of achievements is also thanks to the top riders who’ve enjoyed the production excellence of an Italian company which, across a history spanning almost a century, has developed and registered over 1,600 international patents.
And so it is, Campagnolo is back on the World Tour, the natural environment of a company that’s driven by a desire to play a leading role in supporting the cycling world’s very best athletes: a commitment that requires significant investment in terms of in-depth research and meticulous testing, experimenting and investing to develop and produce components that push every single performance boundary.
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