Team Sky Signs New Training Supplier

Team Sky has agreed a new partnership with Wahoo Fitness, who becomes the Official Supplier of Turbo Trainers to the winners of the 2012 and 2013 Tour de France with immediate effect. 

Through the exclusive collaboration, Team Sky will be provided with KICKRs for use during the racing season with each rider provided with an individual KICKR for “at home” training sessions. 

Team Sky will use the KICKRs for pre-race warm up and post- race warm downs, which allows full resistance control during training sessions via Bluetooth 4.0 and ANT+ technology. 

While pedaling, users can increase or decrease resistance, structure interval workouts or simulate real world bike courses all from their smartphone.

‘Wahoo Fitness is a young and innovative company, who has produced a fantastic product in the KICKR which will meet our requirements both in racing and training,’ said Tim Kerrison, Team Sky’s Head of Performance Support. 

‘Team Sky and Wahoo share a common approach when it comes to innovation and continuous improvement. We believe they have developed a market-leading product and we are excited about using the KICKR in the team and working with Wahoo to continue to develop and improve their products. We love the wheel-off design and the big fly-wheel which gives an excellent, smooth feel. The ability to precisely control the resistance, whilst retaining the smoothness, gives us the opportunity to do great quality and high intensity training efforts on the KICKR.’

Chip Hawkins, CEO of Wahoo Fitness, added: ‘It is awesome that Team Sky chose us to work with as it further validates our rapid growth and shows the world that Wahoo Fitness has created the best trainer ever.’

‘This collaboration gives us the opportunity to develop future products while enhancing existing products in cooperation with an organization who understands the kind of training necessary to win. We look forward to a successful 2014 and Wahoo Fitness equipment quickly becoming synonymous with victory.’