Bart Bretjens' new KMC MTB Racing Team will race on Ridley mountain bikes

Cycling legend Bart Bretjens is the manager of one of the biggest and most traditional teams in the XCO World Cup, and he has just announced important changes in their sponsorship with a view to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. KMC will now be the main sponsor of the KMC MTB Racing Team and they will race with Ridley mountain bikes.

New KMC MTB Racing Team 2023, Bart Brentjens' team changes sponsors and will race with Ridley bikes

The news has just been published by the team itself on its website, but this movement of sponsors brings forward others that were already rumoured. If the manufacturer KMC will now be the main sponsor of Bart Bretjens, it means that the KMC Orbea team will undergo changes that we will know about in the coming weeks.

But let's focus on the new KMC MTB Racing Team 2023 and the statements of its manager: 

“I am proud that KMC will be the main sponsor of our international mountainbike team from 2023, on the way to the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. KMC, the largest chain producer worldwide, has been 2017 a loyal and committed sponsor of the Team.”

With this change, the team farewells their sponsor CST, with whom they have been collaborating for 14 years, and Bafang, although PostNL will continue to work with them. 

Ridley will be at the MTB World Cup

Another important change is the arrival of Ridley as a bike supplier. This move is important for the team, which will leave American Eagle to start racing with Ridley's Raft XC and Probe RS models, but also for the bike brand, which will be represented in the top XC competition.

With the announcement of the new KMC MTB Racing Team it was expected that they would confirm their riders or announce any changes, but this has not been the case. The team is currently composed by Yana Belomoina, Anne Tauber, David Nordemann, Martins Blums, Sasha Hudyma and Lotte Koopmans.