Cannondale, Rapha, and POC joined forces with Palace Skateboards to make the Schooling First (EF) Professional Biking group’s 2020 Giro d’Italia package — and turned some heads within the course of.
Now, The Professional’s Closet will raffle off one of many few authentic Cannondale SuperSix EVO’s from the race. The bike is the grand prize, and the matching Rapha group jersey and POC group helmet go to the runner up.
What’s on the block? Cannondale x Palace x EF Professional Biking gear
James Whelan rode the bike for EF Professional Biking in 2020. Whereas he crashed in stage 2, the outcomes for EF and the Cannondale SuperSix had been quite a bit higher. New signing Ruben Guerreiro gained the blue jersey because the race’s finest climber. And Whelan’s bike appears to be tip-top now — right down to the brash cartoon duck insignia from Palace.
The story goes that the group developed the package to face out within the peloton with out leaning on its regular purple-and-pink loadout. Looking for distinction from the general chief’s pink jersey, they put collectively the gaudy design, which BikeRumor beforehand known as “fully bonkers.”
Whoever wins the public sale will get one in a measurement medium, together with a (extra understated) EF Professional Biking POC Ventral Air Spin Helmet.
EF’s 2020 Giro d’Italia bikes had been additionally aesthetically quieter than the jerseys, however nonetheless popped due to the graphics. Cannondale splattered SuperSix EVO, SystemSix, and SuperSlice TT bikes with graphics to match the Rapha assortment.
The 56cm Cannondale SuperSix EVO on the block has high-spec digital shifting and disc braking due to its Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 R9170 11-speed groupset. Its carbon tubeless appropriate wheels are Imaginative and prescient SC 55’s. On the open market, you’d pay 5 grand on the low finish for the groupset and wheels alone.
Raffle particulars
To get within the raffle, you don’t must pay anyplace near that. However you’ll most likely must get astronomically fortunate. The Professional’s Closet limits entries to 1 per particular person. Price? $10.
The raffle will probably be dwell for precisely every week. It begins this Thursday, March 17, at 12 p.m. EDT, and ends on the similar time on March 24.
It’s laborious to say whether or not entrants will quantity within the hundreds, lots of of hundreds, hundreds of thousands or just about another quantity of people that caught the Cannondale x EF x Palace buzz two years in the past.
For EF Professional Biking followers or anybody who couldn’t take their eyes off that brightly festooned group, although, the price of entry figures to be a pittance.
