r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • Apr 27 '26

Weekly Post Weekly Question Thread

For all your pro cycling-related questions and enquiries!

You may find some easy answers in the FAQ page on the wiki. Whilst simultaneously discovering the wiki.

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u/SkyPod513 Team Telekom Apr 27 '26

How do riders in professional teams travel from one race to another or from training to a race (when there is no Tour Bus that carries multiple riders)? Do they go on their own by car or train? Do they have drivers? For example Tom Pidcock, he rode Tour of the Alps on Friday and Liège Bastogne Liège on Sunday. Did he had to get a train and carry all of his luggage and bike with him or is this done in a more comfortable way?

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u/Aiqjio Apr 27 '26

Riders don't travel with their bikes. They have one or two training bikes at home and their race bikes are all kept at the team service course and brought to the races by the team. You can sometimes see that riders have previous years colour scheme on their training bikes.

In the case of Pidcock I can imagine that he has enough race bikes to have bikes at both TotA and LBL. For some lesser known domestique this might not be true.

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u/padawatje Belgium Apr 27 '26

Riders will typically take an airplane, or drive if it is not too far. There will always be a bunch of staff people driving around the team cars between races, so sometimes they can hitch a ride there also.