Annually because the season attracts to a detailed and sponsors change we regularly see ex-team bikes go up on the market on numerous official public sale websites. On condition that operating a biking crew is fairly costly, it’s a great way for groups to recoup some income, and make manner within the service course for the swift consumption of recent bikes for the subsequent season.
This 12 months we’ve noticed star rider crew bikes from Visma-Lease A Bike, Ineos Grenadiers, DSM-Firmenich PostNL, Lotto Dstny, Soudal Fast-Step, and EF Training-Easypost on the public sale website matchwornshirt.com. It’s a website, given the title, that tends to specialise in pre-worn soccer shirts off the again of well-known gamers, however has subsections for all the pieces from pace skating to handball memorabilia.
In case you’re fortunate (and no one else outbids you), on the time of writing you could possibly decide up Jonas Vingegaard’s Cervélo S5 for simply over £5,000. Given this is able to often set you again over £12k on this spec with out the professional connection it’s at the moment a mad cut price.
Different prime bargains are Geraint Thomas’ Pinarello Dogma F for £3,977, Egan Bernal’s equal however smaller bike for less than £3,059, and Richard Carapaz’ Cannondale SuperSix Evo for £2,989.
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Vingegaard’s Cervélo S5, used on the Tour de France this 12 months.(Picture credit score: matchwornshirt.com)
Thomas’ Pinarello Dogma F, used on the Giro d’Italia. (Picture credit score: matchwornshirt.com)
Asgreen’s S-Works Tarmac SL8 used at each the Vuelta a España and within the breakaway at Paris-Roubaix. (Picture credit score: matchwornshirt.com)
Carapaz’ Cannondale SuperSix Evo, although we’ve not been instructed at which race it was used. (Picture credit score: matchwornshirt.com)
Degenkolb’s Scott Foil RC Professional, as used on the Tour de France. (Picture credit score: matchwornshirt.com)
Maybe the most important cut price of all of them is double monument winner John Degenkolb’s Scott Foil RC Professional for less than £2,985. Certain there are 4 days left on all of those auctions, and the costs will undoubtedly shoot up, however an individual can dream, proper?
Are these bikes a very good purchase? Properly mechanically talking it’s a little bit of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they’ve been meticulously sorted by a military {of professional} mechanics all season, not some have-a-go-Henry in his storage with a half-baked toolkit and a YouTube video. Then again, they’ve been raced by the professionals. Meaning they’ve been ridden laborious in all circumstances all season.
Maybe the disclaimer beneath Degenkolb’s bike sums it up greatest:
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“It has been professionally maintained with the utmost care by the mechanics of Staff DSM-Firmenich PostNL and sure components of the bike could have been changed to ensure consumer security if the bike have been for use once more.”
