60,000 bidons, 800 jerseys and 200 bikes: WorldTour team reveals stunning numbers of material needed to run the team year by year
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Jayco AlUla enters the 2025 season in purple mood, but that doesn't mean the spirits are down! The Australian formation went for courageous looks with their new kits and the result's one of the best-looking kits in the peloton. All of that was also possible thanks to the clothing company MAAP who spent several days measuring at an October team camp, with attention to detail to allow each rider of Jayco AlUla, Liv AlUla Jayco and Hagens Berman Jayco feel as comfortable as possible in their new outfits.
Just two months later, at the December training camp in Spain, riders then received 10 jerseys and some of the materials for the first part of 2025. "Usually," explains Kabir Lenzi in Jayco AlUla 'Team Talk', who is the head of the team’s 18 masseurs and is responsible for the distribution of the kit. "The material is distributed directly to the cyclists in two tranches. The first between December and January, the second before the Giro d’Italia and mainly concerns the material for the hot seasons."
In practice, each athlete is given 18 new jerseys in addition to other clothing to use until the end of the season. "For the women’s WorldTour team, there's slightly less material since they do fewer races," adds Lenzi. "In total, between men and women WorldTour, we deliver over 800 jerseys to the athletes."
As the preparations continue for the forthcoming season, the new team water bottles have arrived at the service course. In total, across all of the teams, there are over 60,000 – the vast majority of which end up in the hands of fans at the end of the day.
With so much racing between even just the two WorldTour teams, everything comes on a grand scale. Last year, more than 1,000 tubeless tires were used over the whole season.
The men’s WorldTour team has over 200 Giant bikes available between Propel, TCR, and TT models for the road and time trials. How long does it take to set all or up to a group of 20 mechanics? Jayco states the assembling process starts in November and finishes in early January.
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