The Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team will use a range of accessories from Sweden’s POC including helmets – Octal, Octal Aero, Cerebel – and sunglasses; Do Blade and Do Half Blade.
A limited edition 10-year anniversary edition of the Octal and Do Blades have been unveiled with the team at this year’s Tour de France. These accessories will also be available for purchase online and in selected stores; and each Octal helmet will have a unique number.
POC is a leading manufacturer of skiing and cycling helmets, eyewear, body armour, apparel and accessories. It was founded in 2005 in Sweden, with a mission ‘to do the best we can to possibly save lives and to reduce the consequences of accidents for gravity sports athletes and cyclists.’
Slipstream Sports and POC have been working closely for a number of years and POC has been the provider of helmets and eyewear for the recently renamed Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling team since 2014.
Stefan Ytterborn, POC CEO and founder said “Any cyclist knows that the pinnacle of road racing is the Tour de France and through our close relationship with Cannondale-Drapac we have been able to use its unique high performance environment to continually improve, innovate and refine our award winning products.
“Therefore, to celebrate our first 10 years, where we have dedicated ourselves to support our mission, we felt it was natural to launch our limited edition Octal and Do Half Blades collection with Cannondale-Drapac at the Tour.”
Jonathan Vaughters, CEO of Slipstream Sports and the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team added “We’ve been partners with POC since the 2014 season, and several years later I’m still really impressed by their continual innovation. The helmets offer the team’s riders incredible protection and very good coverage over the back of the head while still managing to provide low weight and high ventilation.
“The design aesthetic of the helmets and glasses is immediately recognizable in the bunch, too. I’m proud to consider POC a partner to the team as they celebrate their 10th anniversary and I look forward to our continued relationship.”
POC’s Stefan Ytterborn, continued, “Creating POC was a big step, but from day one our vision, to offer the best in terms of personal protection, was crystal clear and we wanted to support athlete safety with products of unquestionable quality and relevance.
“To support the vision we set up two expert labs: POC lab – which works with some of the world’s leading medical experts in head and spinal injury and trauma – and WATTS lab – which focuses on performance and aerodynamics and includes experts from Cannondale-Drapac, amongst others.”
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