Movistar is a major telecommunications brand owned by parent company, Telefonica. The company mostly operates in Spain but provides services to countries such as Portugal and Andorra. It is the largest mobile phone operator in Spain with 22 million customers and over 40% market share. The Movistar cycling team, whose foundations were laid way back in 1980 as Reynolds, have won an impressive 13 grand tours. The Tour Down Under isn’t a grand tour, but it is the first UCI World Tour race on the calendar, and an important proving ground for new team equipment.
Speaking of equipment, Movistar’s relationship with Canyon bikes continues into 2017, along with long time component supplier, Campagnolo. This team bike is assigned to German rider, Jasha Sütterlin. Jasha turned professional at the young age of 18, spending his first three seasons with Thüringer Energie Team, before joining Movistar in 2014. Click on through to see more of Jasha’s Canyon Ultimate CF SLX.
Like the other World Tour team sponsored by Canyon, Katusha-Alpecin, Movistar brought just one variety of team bike to the 2017 Tour Down Under; the Canyon Ultimate CF SLX. Not as aero as the Aeroad, the Ultimate is well suited to the stages of the Tour Down Under – hilly with some moderately hard climbs, the light weight of the Ultimate is appreciated by the Movistar team riders.
Movistar is one of the few World Tour teams fielding a Campagnolo groupset. All of the riders in attendance at this year’s Tour Down Under were on the company’s flagship groupset, Campagnolo Super Record EPS.
