Tom Pidcock will proceed to journey a Pinarello in 2025 regardless of the two-time Olympic champion’s high-profile swap away from Ineos Grenadiers, although the British rider will solely flip to the Italian model for off-road using.
Following a two-month, will-he-won’t-he change saga that started in mid-October, when Pidcock was ‘deselected’ from Ineos’ Il Lombardia squad, the 25-year-old has signed a mannequin new cope with the second-tier Swiss crew, Q36.5 Expert Biking, having left Ineos by mutual consent.
The Q36.5 Expert Biking Crew has a cope with Scott till the very best of 2025 and, honouring that deal, Pidcock will journey the Swiss company’s bikes on the freeway when he joins in January.
Nevertheless, Pinarello – Crew Ineos’ bike provider on condition that British outfit’s formation in 2010 – has now confirmed that Pidcock will proceed to make the most of the model’s bikes for off-road racing, via the course of his new three-year contract with Q36.5.
Scott for freeway, Pinarello for off-road
Scott, the bike provider to Q36.5 on condition that crew’s formation in 2023, has a well-earned fame for producing elite-level mountain bikes, together with the Scott Scale hardtail and Scott Spark full-suspension machine, utilized by ten-time world champion and long-time Scott rider, Nino Schurter.
Nonetheless, with Q36.5 Expert Biking working as a freeway crew, and with no pre-existing off-road sponsorship agreements seemingly in place, Pinarello has adopted Pidcock to Q36.5 to help his multi-discipline aspirations in a peculiar affiliation that’ll see Pidcock on two bike producers in 2025. Q36.5’s billionaire proprietor, Ivan Glasenberg, has had a controlling stake in Pinarello since June 2023.
On the freeway, Pidcock will wave goodbye to the Dogma F, Pinarello’s aero-lightweight race bike, and could have the Scott Foil aero bike and new Scott Addict light-weight bike (if it couldn’t fall foul of the UCI’s weight restrict) to select from with Q36.5. In time trials, he’ll journey the Scott Plasma.
Pinarello will maintain a part of the Pidcock image off-road, having labored intently with the crossover star to develop its differ of off-road bikes in his time with Ineos. Truly, Pidcock needed to be affected specific individual to get his fingers on a Pinarello mountain bike after first turning right into a member of Ineos in 2021, such was Pinarello’s care for all factors freeway on the time.
When Pidcock gained his first Olympic XC title in Tokyo in 2021, he did so on an unbadged BMC Fourstroke, on account of Pinarello didn’t have a related mountain bike in its differ.
Nevertheless, when Pidcock returned to the Olympics to defend his title in Paris in 2024, he gained on Pinarello’s Dogma XC, whereas his Ineos colleague, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, gained the ladies’s race on the Dogma hardtail.
Pidcock and Ferrand-Prévot have helped re-establish Pinarello as an elite mountain bike model, and Pinarello, with Glasenberg’s curiosity, is little doubt eager to proceed that success with three further years of backing for Pidcock, regardless of the presence of Scott at Q36.5.
Dogma XC, Crossista F and Grevil F
Primarily based totally on Pinarello, the Dogma XC will maintain Pidcock’s mountain bike of different via 2025, with the Crossista F – the bike Pidcock gained the 2022 UCI Cyclocross World Championships on – accessible for CX racing and the Grevil F on standby should Pidcock select to race any gravel occasions.
“Working with Fausto and the crew at Pinarello over the sooner 4 years has been a privilege, and a terribly pleasurable expertise. I’m so joyful I get to remain working with them on the entire thing off-road shifting forwards,” talked about Pidcock.
“Thus far, we now have developed three cyclo-cross and XC MTB frames collectively and all of them exceeded expectations from the second I sat on them, I couldn’t have requested for added. I felt so assured on them that I used to be in a position to race and win after the primary couple of rides.”
Pinarello’s president, Fausto Pinarello, added: talked about: “We’re thrilled to substantiate Tom will proceed racing on our cyclo-cross, cross-country mountain bike and gravel bikes. He’s an unbelievable rider with phenomenal technical expertise and it’s been a pleasure working with him on the Crossista and Dogma XC, each fashions in segments the place we hadn’t had bikes for a extremely very very long time.”