New Megamo Gravel Racing: a powerful women's gravel team based in Girona

Megamo takes a strategic step in its relationship with competition with the launch of Megamo Gravel Racing, a new sports project focused exclusively on gravel and women's cycling. The Catalan brand, with its historical headquarters in Girona, bets on a structure that is born from within and connects directly with its trajectory in competition and product development.

Megamo Gravel Racing is born, the new competitive project of Megamo from Girona

The brand explains that far from being a one-off initiative, Megamo Gravel Racing is the result of a progressive and thoughtful process. A project they define as a natural evolution, based on coherence and a very specific way of understanding cycling and competition: building for the long term, without shortcuts.

The team is entirely based in Girona, the city where Megamo was founded in 1987 and which has now established itself as one of the major international hubs for gravel. It is not just a training location, but the vital and operational environment of the project.

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The team riders reside in the area, as do the Team Manager and the mechanic, reinforcing a stable structure closely linked to the territory. From Girona, the day-to-day management of the team is handled, and from here, its identity is projected onto the international calendar.

Megamo Gravel Racing will have four riders of different nationalities in its first season, all with extensive competitive backgrounds in gravel:

• Lucy Hempstead (Canada), a regular in the top positions of the Gravel Earth Series, where she has found in gravel a competitive and community environment that has marked her progression.
• Cassia Boglio (Australia), one of the most prominent riders in the Australian scene, with podiums both nationally and in UCI Gravel World Series events.
• Theresa Rindler-Bachl (Austria), national gravel champion, with international victories and podiums, and a record that includes a win at the Cape Epic.
• Sarah Diekmeyer (Canada), a specialist in long-distance events and the most demanding routes on the calendar.

With this lineup, Megamo positions itself among the first women's gravel projects that bet on a stable and independent structure, moving away from the occasional or semi-amateur model that still predominates in the discipline.

The management of the team falls to Alba Lara, Team Manager, with a focus on both sports planning and people management. The mechanical side is in the hands of Eduard Portal, who has extensive experience in competition and a past linked to Buff–Megamo, a world reference in marathon MTB.

The project is completed with a communication and content team formed by Oriol Roset and Marc Porras (Avanto Studio), along with Roger Salanova and Martí Miró, responsible for documenting the day-to-day life of the team and conveying its narrative from within.

Megamo Gravel Racing relies on an ecosystem of technical brands that cover all key areas of performance. SRAM will be the main partner, along with Zipp, Hammerhead, and Time. Fizik supplies saddles, helmets, shoes, and handlebar tape. Vittoria is responsible for the tires. Zéfal covers daily accessories. And Wera and Quadis collaborate by providing materials.

As for the equipment, the riders will maintain a common image in colors and design of the team, but each will use cycling clothing from the brand of their choice among Assos, Tanline, and Q36.5.

Megamo Silk: the team's bike

The official bike of the team will be the Megamo Silk, equipped with SRAM RED, Zipp components, Hammerhead and Time, Fizik peripherals, and Vittoria tires of 50 mm. It is the same model available to the public, the result of years of development and testing in competition, and not a specific version created solely for the team.

Sports objectives and calendar

The main sports objective of the season will be the fight for the overall classification of the Gravel Earth Series, without neglecting the national championships of each rider and participation in the main UCI Gravel World Series events.

The official launch of the project will take place on February 14 in Santa Vall (Sant Gregori), although the team will have a first competitive preview this Sunday, February 8, with Cassia Boglio, Lucy Hempstead, and Theresa Rindler-Bachl at the Bescanonina, in Girona.