{"id":15613,"date":"2019-01-18T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2019\/01\/18\/hynek-launches-new-team-vitalo-future-cycling-r7675\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T05:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:31:36","slug":"hynek-launches-new-team-vitalo-future-cycling-r7675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/hynek-launches-new-team-vitalo-future-cycling-r7675\/","title":{"rendered":"Hynek launches new team Vitalo – Future Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2014 Absa Cape Epic winner, Kristian Hynek, will race the 2019 event in the colours of his new team, Vitalo – Future Cycling, alongside exciting young rider Petter Fagerhaug.<\/p>\n

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2019 is the year of fresh starts for a number of experienced Absa Cape Epic campaigners and this statement rings most true for 2014 race winner, Kristian Hynek. The Czech, two time World Marathon Championship bronze medallist, has announced his intention to race the sixteenth Absa Cape Epic in the colours of his new team: Vitalo – Future Cycling. Alongside the 38 year old, when the new team rolls down the start ramp, will be the 20 year old Norwegian, overall U23 XCO World Cup series winner, Petter Fagerhaug.<\/p>\n

Having been a member initially Topeak Ergon and then Canyon Topeak from 2012 to 2018 it will be take some time for mountain biking fans to get use to Hynek racing in his new team\u2019s predominantly blue kit. \u201cI spent 5 unforgettable years in the Canyon Topeak (Topeak Ergon) and after the team stopped with the end of 2018 season, I saw a chance for new beginning\u201d the popular Czech explained. \u201cIn the end I have decided to go for sure the more difficult way and start my own project. It is one that I believe will last longer than my active professional career. One of the impulses for this decision was meeting Vitalo. Their interest gave me the motivation to build a new team and also help other young guys to improve and follow my way into the highest level of marathon racing\u201d Hynek elaborated. <\/p>\n

Future Cycling Bike & Coffee is Hynek\u2019s bicycle shop in Prague, which was designed by his architect wife, Sarka. While main sponsors Vitalo is a premium Czech chocolaterie. The connection to cycling was an obvious one for Hynek: \u201cThe connection with chocolate makes sense to me \u2013 first cyclists love chocolate and second high-quality chocolate supports endurance, which has been scientifically proven by many researchers.\u201d The team will not feature an all new sponsorship line-up however; some of Hynek\u2019s long-time supporters have joined his new venture. \u201cAnother very important aspect for me is that thanks to our sponsors I will be able to race on the best material available and bikes that I am already used to. The team will be riding Canyon bikes, which includes both the well-proven and highly successful carbon hardtail, Exceed CF, as well as the latest version of the Lux CF\u201d he confirmed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are very glad that we can add mountain biking to our long-term supported activities\u201d Gabriela Mike\u0161ov\u00e1, the CEO of Vitalo Manufaktura said. \u201cEuropean champion and two times Worlds bronze medallist, Kristian Hynek, belongs among the best mountain biking marathon riders in the world, so him and his team was a clear choice when we were deciding which way to extend our support of the Czech sport. Supporting sport is our marketing strategy, we are already sponsoring FC Ban\u00edk Ostrava and now we add cycling. I am sure that together we will accomplish big goals\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n

Vitalo – Future Cycling\u2019s line-up is completed by Czech riders Martin Sto\u0161ek and Dominik Buksa, though only Hynek and Fagerhaug will compete in the 2019 Absa Cape Epic. With Hynek\u2019s long-time stage race partner, Alban Lakata teaming up with fellow veteran Karl Platt, the obvious point of comparison for fans during the Absa Cape Epic will be Christoph Sauser. With Sauser partnering Simon Andreassen an interesting battle, within the larger general classification race, between the teams combining extreme youth and massive experience could well develop as the race unfolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2014 Absa Cape Epic winner, Kristian Hynek, will race the 2019 event in the colours of his new team, Vitalo – Future Cycling, alongside exciting young rider Petter Fagerhaug. 2019 is the year of fresh starts for a number of experienced Absa Cape Epic campaigners and this statement rings most true for 2014 race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,469,470],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-15613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-cape-epic","tag-kristian-hynek","tag-petter-fagerhaug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15613"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=15613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}