#Mercato - Que Caleb Ewan soit libre de partir de Lotto n'est plus un secret. L'équipe veut se débarrasser de son contrat (2 millions d'euros) et est même prête à payer une indemnité de départ. Selon @hlnsport, il envisage même d'arrêter sa carrière. hln.be/wielrennen/opm…
Lotto Dstny will ride Orbea bikes next year after breaking on-going contract with Ridley
CyclingWednesday, 30 August 2023 at 10:00
Lotto Dstny will no longer ride Ridley's bikes next year. That rumor had been circulating for a while, but it has now also been confirmed by the team management itself. HLN reports that the Belgian team has signed a contract with the Basque Orbea.
Orbea is no stranger to the cycling peloton. For example, they sponsored the Spanish team Euskaltel for years and they also supplied bicycles to Cofidis, B&B-Hotels and Ceratizit for a while. Furthermore, they were mainly active in mountain biking.
"Our collaboration with Ridley will indeed end at the end of this year. We are switching to a new bicycle brand," confirms general manager Stéphane Heulot. "Not so much because we are not satisfied with the quality of the Ridley bike. We choose a different brand because we want to improve ourselves financially. That is necessary to be able to keep our current core."
Heulot also indicates that it is a "complicated case". This has to do with the contract that Lotto Dstny still has until 2025. That contract will therefore be broken, but according to HLN it is not yet clear how Lotto Dstny will resolve this.
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