Stradalli Cycle And Bike Aid Continental Cycling Team Join Forces For 2016

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - Nov. 25, 2015 - PRLog -- United States carbon bicycle manufacturer, Stradalli Cycle, becomes official title sponsor and bike sponsor of German professional cycling team Bike Aid.

The official team name for 2016 will be Stradalli/Bike Aid. The team will race with the goals of winning clean and helping African athletes to race with the top level World Tour professionals. They will race as well as support many community and charity projects to help cycling worldwide.

Eric Haus, President of Bike Aid, said the decision to cement the relationship with Thomas Steinbacher and Stradalli Cycle was the obvious choice.

“For us it was difficult to change the club’s infrastructure and combine everything with a professional team. The concept of the club is to help African athletes with the bike aid club. We accomplished a lot giving to African athletes.”

“We had lots of success worldwide in races, in the media and bringing athletes into the worldwide community. We needed more money. The international, three year multi-million dollar engagement with Stradalli Cycle will allow us to build a bigger and more successful team.”

“It’s not easy to find a sponsor that agrees to help with our belief of helping the African people. Stradalli stands behind the idea. They are more than just another sponsor. Thomas Steinbacher, CEO of Stradalli Cycle, liked the idea and was fully committed to help the Bike Aid Program. He wanted to help get the word out, work for a good cause and give back to the worldwide community.”

“It is much harder to bring athletes from Africa as opposed to European athletes because of the legalities regarding nationalities and borders, but it will be much easier now that we have better partners.”

“The sponsorship consisted of bikes, gear and a high six figure Euro payment, but the exact amount will remain confidential.”

Stradalli cycle will support the next three years with high quality carbon bicycles. Stradalli will be the title sponsor, bike sponsor and provide most of the budget necessary for a professional team to operate successfully.

Stradalli will bring the experience of nine years of United States professional racing. Stradalli Cycle has had major sponsorship deals with several professional teams in the past. Stradalli Cycle was recently the sponsor for the Colombian National Team for the UCI 2015 World Championship races in Richmond, Virginia.

The new team’s race calendar will have races from all continents with a full professional racing calendar. Stradalli and Bike Aid want to show how cycling moves people and brings worlds together. This high ranking race calendar will challenge the racers with races in UCI categories from 2.2 to 1.HC. Stradalli Bike Aid will be at 1.HC races on the starting line with all the World Tour teams.

Steinbacher said the opportunity to work with Bike Aid was not something he could pass up.

“We have been looking to find the perfect team for a long time and we found the most synergy with Bike Aid. We believe in the cause of Bike Aid and the people behind the scenes of Bike Aid. We believe that Stradalli/Bike Aid will bring a lot of good, positive and clean changes to the cycling world.”

“All new teams are hard in the beginning, but this will be a great year for us and we are looking to step up to a World Tour team in the future.”

For 2016, we also have a United States professional criterium team, Stradalli/Safetti. We have a women’s amateur elite team, Stradalli/Papa John’s and we have a junior development team Stradalli/Wizard Racing Team.

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