This new team will exist alongside the CLLCTV teams such as the Canyon CLLCTV Factory Team and the Canyon CLLCTV FMD Team. While the established CLLCTV teams clearly have their sights set on podium finishes, the Canyon CLLCTV Pirelli team will focus on nurturing special talents and helping them to gain experience and progress in the UCI DH World Cup Series.

One thing is clear: you need an uncompromisingly fast setup if you want to achieve ultimate performance and compete for the best times on the track. That's why the Canyon Sender CFR frame will form the heart of the bikes - complemented by hand-picked add-on parts from selected sponsors. An important partner is tire giant Pirelli, which brings a completely new approach and a high level of ingenuity in tire development from the world of motorsport to the MTB race track. Pirelli will work with the team to optimize its new Scorpion range of gravity tires. Dainese will also play a key role, equipping the athletes with clothing and protectors.

The team, which will be officially announced by the UCI in a few days and led by DH veteran Roberto Vernassa, consists of four young, promising riders from the gravity world. Italian Loris Revelli, former Italian DH and Enduro champion, young American gravity hopeful Dante Silva, Frenchman Antoine Pierron, the youngest racer in the Pierron family, and promising young German rider Henri Kiefer: they will all be competing in downhill races.

Of course, this wouldn't be a Canyon CLLCTV Race Team without the support of French DH and Enduro legend Fabien Barel, one of the driving forces behind this project. He explains: "Canyon CLLCTV Pirelli is the result of an ambitious project to find the next generation of top riders. I am convinced that we have put together a great team. It's really exciting to see how these riders are performing today thanks to Pirelli, Canyon

and Dainese are taking an important step into professional racing. In my opinion, many of them will soon be seen in the front ranks."

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