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The OCTTO-Cervélo Team
The OCTTO-Cervélo Team will enter it's third year in 2014 after being established in 2012. Based in Toronto, Canada, the Team rides, trains and races primarily in the Greater Toronto Area and Southern Ontario, with forays into the Northeast United States (including New York State and Michigan) and Quebec province. Primarily a road racing team, with a healthy side of track and a strong dash of cyclocross, the Team has two main and related goals:
· Develop Elite cycling talent by supporting up-and-coming young riders in an environment where they can receive tutelage from the Team’s savvy veteran Elite mentors in the areas of training, racing, strategy, composure, comportation, professionalism, leadership and personal growth.
· Promote the Team’s sponsored brands through the riders as brand-ambassadors and promoting the Team, it’s riders and sponsors in electronic, print and social media, networking and word-of-mouth in always professional, positive, inclusive and engaging way. Currently, the Team has a balanced roster of 8 Elite (Men) riders, by age: One Junior under 19, One Espoir under 23, Two Seniors under 30, Two Seniors under 40, Two Seniors over 40.
The OCTTO-Cervélo team finished up it's sophomore season in 2013.Building upon a strong inaugural year, the Team in 2013 raced a full competitive calendar and made appearances at many sponsor's events.
In 2013, the distinctive OCTTO-Cervélo Team uniform was seen in these places:
· Silver medal at Ontario Provincial Criterium Championships in Toronto.
· Bronze medal at the Irish National Time-Trial Championships.
· 2nd place at the Tour di Via Italia in Windsor.
· Winner and 4 rides in the top Five at the inaugural Niagara Falls Gran Fondo.
· First place at the Tour of Waterloo.
· Featured in a Cervélo Cycles new bike launch promotional video shown on Cervélo's
You Tube Channel and at the Interbike Trade Show.
· Appeared in Cervélo Cycles autumn print catalogue.
· Team riders volunteered at Cervélo's Brain Bike dealer and press camps.
· Team riders volunteered at Cervélo's consumer support booths at Gran Fondo Whistler and Niagara Falls.
· Raced or appeared in Ontario from Windsor to Ottawa, Quebec, British Columbia,
New York, Oregon and Washington States.
OCTTO Components
OCTTO Components distill function into form and shun unnecessary flash. They are simply professional components: ride them often, ride them hard, ride them long.
OCTTO was created as a labor of love to pay tribute to the deep riding and racing culture in Southern Ontario. OCTTO Components can be described as Torontonians prefer to be described: clean, honest, reliable.
OCTTO Components Toronto was established in 2007 by Dave Anthony, the President and Chief Designer of Cyclo Mondo Ltd (CML). CML's core business is creation of exclusive cutting-edge designs for many world-famous bicycle brands and sourcing the best suppliers and factories for them.
Prior to starting CML and OCTTO, armed with a Master’s Degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science, bicycle design work took Mr. Anthony all over the world. A long time ago, he spent years in the employ of a major bike components factory in the global hub of the bicycle manufacturing in Taiwan. While a great place to live and work, he missed the richness of the riding scene of our hometown. So he returned from Taiwan to launch the OCTTO brand in Toronto.
One of the goals of OCTTO was to support cycle sport in Toronto and went on to sponsor these local projects:
· Jet Fuel Coffee Cycling Team - 2008~2011
· Peter Oyler RAAM (Race Across America) Ride - 2009
· Derrick St. John and Natasha Elliot - 2008
· Ontario Provincial Cyclocross Championships - 2008
· La Bicicletta Gran Fondo - 2009
· True North Cyclocross Races - 2009
Cervélo Cycles
Cervélo Cycles, also based in Toronto, was created in 1995 when two engineers, Phil White and Gérard Vroomen, decided to market their work developing faster time trial bikes.
Cervélo has grown from the dreams of these two budding engineers working out of Phil’s garage to a company with more engineers employed than bike models offered, using the same tools and techniques as the most advanced Formula 1 teams.
Cervélo was founded on the principle of designing and engineering better bikes. They believed that there were people out there that were looking for something better, not just something different. That functionally-driven design can be seen in every Cervélo.
In 1999, fresh out of Engineering school, Dave Anthony (who would later form OCTTO) joined Phil and Gérard as Cervélo’s first full-time paid employee. His first task was to develop the what would eventually become the iconic P3 superbike from a basic ID sketch of Phil’s to a tangible product.
In 2012 Cervélo became part of the Pon Bicycle Group whose resources will allow Cervélo to continue to grow and do what they do best - to engineer better bikes and surprise their customers with innovation that allows them to achieve their dreams and goals.
In autumn of 2011, Phil and Dave were out for a friendly pint. Dave mentioned his plans to start an OCTTO “factory and development team”. Having just wrapped up the great and massive Cervélo Test Team Pro Tour project, Phil was keen in going the other direction for micro sponsorship and immediately offered Cervélo as a co-sponsor this development team. Over the clink of a pint glass, the OCTTO-Cervélo Team was conceived.
