Interesting bit from Cyclingnews.com about the new Pro Tour team Davitamon-Lotto:

Davitamon-Lotto is official


The new Belgian team combining the sponsorship of Omega Pharma and the Belgian national lottery will be known as Davitamon-Lotto next year, and will become one of the teams in the Pro Tour. At a press conference announcing the new team today, Omega Pharma boss Mark Coucke said that he considered naming it "Restiva-Lotto" after the Omega Pharma hair care product, but decided to stick with Davitamon-Lotto to further promote the vitamin brand. "We have only been in cycling for two years and that is just a bit too little to establish the name," he said.


The team numbers 25 riders at the moment, and is largely composed of ex-Lotto-Domo and Bodysol-Brustor riders. Davitamon-Lotto holds several top sprinters in Robbie McEwen and Belgian national champion Tom Steels, as well as American Fred Rodriguez, who is coming from Acqua e Sapone and will be assigned as a lead out man for Steels. The experienced Peter Van Petegem will lead the team in the classics while Axel Merckx will no doubt be an excellent addition for the one day races as well.


Along with a healthy mix of Belgian and Dutch riders, Davitamon-Lotto will house four Australian riders in its ranks. Besides McEwen, there will be Henk Vogels (ex-Navigators), Cadel Evans (T-Mobile) and Nick Gates.


The team's budget is between seven and eight million euros, and it will ride on Ridley bikes, save for Axel Merckx who will use one of his father's machines.

The team's budget is between seven and eight million euros, and it will ride on Ridley bikes, save for Axel Merckx who will use one of his father's machines.
Does anyone know anything about Ridley bikes? Are they named for the woman in Alien?

Does anyone know anything about Ridley bikes? Are they named for the woman in Alien?

The woman in Alien was named after Ripley of Ripley's beleive it or not, because the guy who wrote the movie saw that actual alien's body in the Ripley's museum in St. Augustine, Florida. But somehow the alien's body has since been stolen..... some say that they were using the body from the Ripley museum as a prop in the film, and it may have just got up and walked off because it was actually only sleeping and not dead.

Does anyone know anything about Ridley bikes? Are they named for the woman in Alien?

Do a search on ridley bikes. I think Ridley is one of the biggest absentee in US road racing bicycle market. Sucks for us they dont have a distributor here.