Team Picnic PostNL revamp technical set-up ahead of 2025 season

With 2025 just around the corner Team Picnic PostNL are delighted to reveal a new and updated technical set-up for the upcoming season as they welcome back some familiar faces and create some new and exciting partnerships.

Collaboration and Innovation

One of the key pillars of Team Picnic PostNL is their Keep Challenging approach; working together with others, bringing each other up and utilising each other’s strengths to push forward.

Team Picnic PostNL are renowned for pushing the boundaries of possibilities in terms of technical innovations, with the co-creation of their personalised up4® sports nutrition range, their custom high performance athletic race wear with Nalini and their DRIIVE race eyewear together with Nexeye noted as their proudest achievements to date.

New bike partner Lapierre to build base for the future

Lapierre, a part of the Accell Group (Accell) is named as their new bike partner; a company with a long and rich history in professional cycling, having been a part of wins at the highest level of the sport such as all three Grand Tours in both the Men and Women pelotons, plus World, Olympic and European time trial titles.

Lapierre has recently invested heavily in innovation – with the creation of the Accell Commando Engineering Team (ACET) – which also gives chance to integrate the expertise of Team Picnic PostNL’s Science group to further accelerate development of their bikes on both a short- and long-term basis. Lapierre’s return to the highest level of world cycling demonstrates Accell’s strategy and investment in positioning its Lapierre brand as a benchmark in top-level, high-performance sport and innovation.

For the 2025 season, the professional riders of Team Picnic PostNL competing at UCI World Tour level for men and women, as well as the development team at UCI Continental level, will ride the brand new Xelius DRS performance bike for all road events, and the Aerostorm DRS for time trials.

CEO of Accell Group, Tjeerd Jegen said: “We’re confident that this partnership will lead to extraordinary success both on and off the road, advancing our brand in the competitive world of professional cycling and inspiring cyclists everywhere. This is how we move the company forward and bring great innovation to life. We look forward to achieving new milestones together.”

Team Picnic PostNL CEO Iwan Spekenbrink said: “We are delighted to partner with Accell and Lapierre and are impressed by their recent development to become future proof in what has been a challenging cycling manufacturing industry for the last years. We share a mindset regarding our commitments to technology, innovation and performance. Our R&D experts are looking forward to working closely with their engineering and technical specialists to integrate input and feedback in the development of the next generation of our road bikes, which we will already see out on the road mid-next year.”

Welcoming new technical partners on board

Following suit, 2025 will see a revamp of Team Picnic PostNL’s technical set-up as they welcome on board multiple new partners to further accelerate their equipment set-up.

Ursus is also welcomed as the team’s road racing wheel partner creating an optimised set-up for road racing. . The teams’ riders will be comfortable and fast on Prologo saddles, and the team welcomes back a familiar face, Lazer, as their helmet partner. XLC, part of Accell Group, will be the partners for travel and bike accessories.

The team’s long-standing partner Shimano continue as the team’s group set, component and race shoes partner, while the team can take advantage of Vittoria’s best-in-class tyres and the premium DRIIVE race eyewear.

With these updates, Team Picnic PostNL is excited for what the future brings in the coming years as they look to help push innovation and be a front-runner in the sport in terms of technical set-up.

Team Picnic PostNL Head of Science, Narelle Neumann said: “Professional cycling demands continual improvements in materials to optimise aerodynamics, weight, handling and comfort to perform at the highest levels and in all conditions. Through these new partnerships we are able to develop and realise a long-term technical roadmap. Projects already underway involving innovative topics, underpinned by wind tunnel testing and incorporating the highest quality materials will allow continual innovation in all aspects of bike materials on an accelerated basis. This will ensure we will maintain our position as a frontrunner on the technical aspect of cycling.”

Technical set-up for 2025:
Lapierre: bike
Shimano: groupset, components & race shoes
Lazer: helmet
DRIIVE: race eyewear
Nalini: race clothing
Ursus: road racing wheels
Vittoria: tyres
ELITE: bottles, bottle cages & trainers
Prologo: saddles & handlebar tape
Wahoo: bike computer, heart rate monitors & watches
XLC: travel gear & bike accessories
Lezyne: training lights
SENA: communication system