Tom Boonen

Ronde Van Vlaanderen – SRAM’s Gallery of Suffering

A look back at the Ronde photo gallery.

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Winning ways continue for SRAM RED Riders

Very early into 2013, SRAM RED teams and riders have already scored a number of prestigious victories: 30 on the road to date. With the World’s best-in-class components, Cannondale Pro Cycling, MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung , Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team, Saxo-Tinkoff Team and Specialized-Lululemon have already delivered impressive wins on the international stage. The top [...]

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Exciting and promising start to the 2013 season

SRAM RED and Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team on the front SRAM RED and Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team on the forefront With over 60 victories in 2012, the Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team and SRAM RED duo have already been incredibly successful. And it looks like 2013 will be even better. After only a few opportunities, the [...]

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Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team’s Specialized SL4 SRAM RED

Jason Phillips, European SRAM Road Sponsorship Manager, spends the majority of his time on the road with Pro Teams and athletes from all around the World. He works with mechanics and riders at races and at team’s Service Course to make sure all our components perform perfectly well. In the end, he makes sure the [...]

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SRAM 2013 Road Team Roster

World’s Best rolling RED in 2013 The World’s Best teams will look to again ride their way into cycling history by dancing over the harshest cobbles, flying up the steepest cols, sprinting to the most famous finishes, and conquering the loneliest time trials. Teams that have delivered some of the finest performances in recent years [...]

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The World Fastest Team powered by SRAM RED.

For the first time in the World Team Time-Trial (TTT) history, the 32 teams of six riders were not organized by nation but by UCI team. Tom Boonen (BEL), Sylvain Chavanel (FRA), Tony Martin (GER), Niki Terpstra (NED), Peter Velits (SVK), and Kristof Vandewalle (BEL) left their mark in the History book by winning the [...]

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Team Mechanic Kevin Desmedt (Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team) talks SRAM RED-2012

Kevin Desmedt, a top mechanic from the Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team, took a few minutes at the Tour de France to talk about some of his favorite features and benefits of the SRAM RED-2012 groupset. Desmedt is the guy who set up Tom Boonen’s bike with RED-2012 for Paris-Nice…first race, first success! Since then the [...]

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SRAM Wins Six of Eight at ATOC – Wrap-up

The 2012 Amgen Tour of California (ATOC) ended as it began, with an incredible sprint win by Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale). The fresh faced 21 year old phenom set the record for most stage wins this week (8) and was joined on the stage eight podium by Omega Pharma-Quick-Step’s Gerald Ciolek (3rd) and Tom Boonen (2nd) [...]

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Five Minutes (in pictures) with Boonen

 

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2012: The Spring of SRAM – Winning is a habit*

In February SRAM globally introduced SRAM RED-2012. One highly publicized fact about the new groupset is that we took everything we knew from original SRAM RED, and then we literally started over. Loaded with innovation and invention,  SRAM’s top-end groupset is all-new, yet remains the lightest, fastest, and most ergonomic groupset ever built. Beyond the [...]

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