Cycling World

Mountain Biking

Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain.

Cyclecross CX

Races typically take place in the autumn and winter, and consist of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike while navigating the obstruction and remount.

Road Bicycle Racing

Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators.

Mountain Bike

A mountain bike or mountain bicycle is a bicycle designed for off-road cycling.

These typically include a front or full suspension, large knobby tires, more durable wheels, more powerful brakes, and lower gear ratios for climbing steep grades.

Cyclo-cross Bicycle

A cyclo-cross bicycle is a bicycle specifically designed for the rigors of a cyclo-cross race.

The major differences between the two are the frame geometry, and the wider clearances that cyclo-cross bikes have for their larger tires and mud and other debris that they accumulate.

Road Bicycle

The term road bicycle is used to describe bicycles built for traveling at speed on paved roads.

Some sources use the term to mean racing bicycle. They usually have more gear combinations and fewer hi-tech racing features
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Vacansoleil–DCM Pro Cycling Team was a professional road race cycling team from the Netherlands. The team was established in 2008, as the successor of P3 Transfer-Batavus, while also taking over many of the riders and staff of Cycle Collstrop. Vacansoleil–DCM was managed and owned by Daan Luijkx. The team distinguished itself with an aggressive style of racing and eager riders who took their chances. Wout Poels, Thomas De Gendt and Barry Markus made their professional breakthrough with Vacansoleil-DCM. The team’s main sponsor was Vacansoleil, a European company specialising in luxury camping holidays. DCM manufactures organic soil conditioning products.

Post 2013 season: overview

Neither Vacansoleil or DCM renewed their sponsorship of the cycling team after the 2013 season, having reached their sponsorship goals. The team closed down, but a new team created by Hilaire van der Schueren for the 2014 season with sponsorship from Wanty. Daan Luijkx launched international Pro Cycling squad Team Earth in October 2016. This time the sponsor was an online gambling website that has a sign up bonuses for casino players.

Vacansoleil-DCM riders: overview

Vacansoleil-DCM riders included six national champions over the years, including Uzbekistan Road Race champion (2009-2012) Sergey Lagutin; Pim Ligthart champion of the 2011 Dutch Road Race; Lieuwe Westra, Dutch Time Trial champion 2012-2013; Swedish Time Trial champion Gustav Larsson (2013); Venezuelan Time Trial champion José Rujano (2013) and Dutch Road Race Johnny Hoogerland (2013).

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 Major wins: overview

2009

Stage 4 Étoile de Bessèges, Bjorn Leukemans Overall Circuit de Lorraine, Matteo Carrara Stage 1, and overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, Johnny Hoogerland Arno Wallaard Memorial; Stage 1 and overall Tour de Picardie, Lieuwe Westra Stages 2 & 3 Tour of Belgium; Stage 1 Tour de Pologne; Stage 1 Tour du Limousin; Stage 6 Vuelta a España and 3rd Paris–Tours, Borut Božič

2010

Stages 1 & 2 Étoile de Bessèges; Stage 7 Tour of Britain, Borut Božič Overall Tour of Qatar, Wouter Mol Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, Bobbie Traksel Ronde van het Groene Hart, Jens Mouris Ronde van Drenthe, Alberto Ongarato Overall Tour de Luxembourg, Matteo Carrara Stage 4 Vuelta a Burgos; Stage 2 Tour de l’Ain; Grand Prix de Fourmies, Romain Feillu Stage 4 Tour de l’Ain; Stage 4 Tour of Britain, Wout Poels Druivenkoers Overijse, Björn Leukemans Münsterland Giro, Joost van Leijen Coppa Sabatini, Riccardo Riccò

2011

Stage 2, 3 & 4 Tour Méditerranéen; Tour du Finistère; Overall Tour de Picardie; Stage 2; Stage 5 Circuit de Lorraine; Stage 4 Tour de Luxembourg; Stage 5 Tour de Suisse; Romain Feillu Stage 1 Paris–Nice; Stage 3 Circuit de Lorraine; Stage 7 Tour de Suisse, Thomas De Gendt Classic Loire Atlantique; Prologue Tour of Belgium, Lieuwe Westra Hel van het Mergelland, Pim Ligthart Boucles de l’Aulne, Martijn Keizer Stage 2 Tour de Wallonie, Joost van Leijen Stage 3 Tour de l’Ain, Wouter Poels Overall Tour du Limousin; Stage 1; Druivenkoers Overijse, Björn Leukemans Tour de Vendée, Marco Marcato

2012

Stage 4 Étoile de Bessèges; Paris–Tours, Marco Marcato Stage 1 Paris–Nice, Gustav Larsson Stage 5 Paris–Nice; Overall Danmark Rundt; Stage 5 (ITT), Lieuwe Westra Stage 7 Paris–Nice; Stage 20 Giro d’Italia, Thomas De Gendt Ronde van Drenthe, Bert-Jan Lindeman Stage 2 Tour de Picardie, Kenny van Hummel Stage 3 Tour de Luxembourg, Wout Poels Grand Prix of Aargau Canton, Sergey Lagutin Druivenkoers Overijse, Björn Leukemans Tour de Vendée, Wesley Kreder

2013

Stage 7 Volta a Catalunya, Thomas De Gendt Stage 1 Tour of California, Lieuwe Westra Stage 5 Ster ZLM Toer, Pim Ligthart Stage 1 Arctic Race of Norway, Kenny van Hummel Stage 2 Tour de l’Ain, Grega Bole Stage 4 Tour de l’Ain, Wout Poels Druivenkoers Overijse, Björn Leukemans Amstel Curaçao Race, Johnny Hoogerland
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