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LowestRates Cycling Team to Ride Opus Bikes in 2017

February 5, 2017 By Lowest Rates Cycling Team Leave a Comment

The LowestRates Cycling Team is happy to announce that they will be riding aboard Opus Bikes for 2017. The team will ride the Opus Vivace 3.0 at races throughout the season, and the riders are looking forward to be working with an innovative Canadian brand.

The Opus Vivace 3.0 team bikes will be outfitted with Easton Cycling cockpits, providing the best contact points, ride quality and weight savings for the riders.

The LowestRates Cycling Team is excited to work directly with the marketing department at Opus to help further the brand.

“Opus is one of the four biggest [bicycle] brands in Canada. Not long ago, we decided we had to add more depth to our company. We are attempting to create a culture and a brand, and so we thought it was time to work directly with an elite racing team that has big ambitions, both on and off the bike.” Martin Rancourt – Marketing Coordinator at Opus/OGC

The team will be involved in furthering the cycling culture Opus is creating, including taking part in social rides with the Opus Rouleurs cycling club.

Opus Bikes are distributed by Outdoor Gear Canada (OGC). The LowestRates Cycling Team is excited to be partnered with OGC for the upcoming season, and is equally excited to be using some of its quality cycling brands including Opus, Bell Helmets, and Easton.

 

ABOUT OPUS BIKES

Opus Bikes is one of the four biggest Canadian bicycle manufactures. The Quebec based cycling brand aims to simply get people on bikes. Opus makes bikes for all manner of riders, and currently has a line-up of over 100 bicycles. Aside from promoting a strong bicycle culture, whether it is racing or urban riding, Opus also values the environment, employee health and the wider cycling community.

 

ABOUT OUTDOOR GEAR CANADA

Outdoor Gear Canada was founded in 1979, and is a distributor of premium cycling products to retailers across Canada. Started in the apartment of David Bowman and a friend, OGC has expanded to serve hundreds of local retailers through distribution centers in Montreal and Vancouver, and represents some of the best and most recognizable brands in cycling.

 

ABOUT LOWESTRATES CYCLING TEAM

Founded by Frédérick Gates, a Gatineau cycling enthusiast and visionary, the team’s identity has been evolving over the past two seasons, while achieving impressive success both on and off the bike. The LowestRates Cycling Team has distinguished itself in UCI sanctioned races in Europe, Africa, the United States, and in Canada over the last year. Aside from racing, the team has committed itself to raising awareness and contribute to the development of cycling in Rwanda.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bicycles, Brand, Canada, Canadian, cycling, Cycling Team, Easton Cycling, Elite Cycling, Lowestrates, Opus, Opus Bikes, Outdoor Gear Canada, road bikes, road cycling, Sponsorship, UCI

Rwanda NewTimes: Tour du Rwanda excites Rusizi residents

November 26, 2016 By Lowest Rates Cycling Team Leave a Comment

Tour du Rwanda excites Rusizi residents
By: PETER KAMASA
PUBLISHED: November 18, 2016


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Lowestrates.ca rider chats with young cycling fans in Rusizi on Wednesday. (Faustin Niyigena)


For the first time in the history of Tour du Rwanda, the race reached Rusizi District in the Southern Province causing excitement among the area residents.

On Wednesday the annual UCI Africa Tour category 2.2 road race reached the furthest part of the country following the addition of two new routes; Karongi-Rusizi (115.9km) and Rusizi-Huye (140.7km) through Rwanda’s vast tropical rainforest of Nyungwe.

The third stage on Wednesday was taken by prologue winner, Timothy Rugg, who rides for Canadian side Team Lowestrates.ca after clocking 3h18’16’’ and was followed by Les Amis Sportifs rider, Joseph Areruya by a difference of two seconds. Race leader, Valens Ndayisenga finished the stage in 7th place.

“This is a great moment for the people of Cyangugu (Rusizi), we have waited for so long to see the tour come to our place, finally we are happy to see the riders with our own eyes and not to wait to see them on TV, ” said Casmus Niringiyimana, a resident of Rusizi.

Another resident, Samuel Karamaga, noted, “We are very excited about the race, but more especially that our riders are doing well, and even when we can’t follow them in every stage, we are all behind them, personally, I’m happy to see Tour du Rwanda for the first time and I can’t wait for next year.”

The two routes; Karongi-Rusizi (115.9km) and Rusizi-Huye (140.7km) are characterized by hills, mountains, sharp corners where riders have to be careful so that they don’t crash. The riders have to brace for the rains and chilly weather as they go through Nyungwe forest.

Since becoming an International Cycling Union (UCI) certified race, Tour du Rwanda has produced a different winner each year.

In 2014, Ndayisenga became the first Rwandan rider to win the Tour since its inception on the UCI Africa calendar in 2009, and was dethroned by teammate, Nsengimana.

However, both riders have since joined professional teams—the former signing for South Africa’s Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka while the latter, joined Germany-based Stradalli-Bike Aid.

editorial@newtimes.co.rw

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Africa Tour, Canadian, Centre du Vélo LaShop, Dimension Data, Lowestrates, LowestRates Cycling, Qhubeka, Rwanda, Stradalli-Bike Aid, Tour du Rwanda, UCI

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