Madison.co.uk Professional Cycle Racing are a British

United Kingdom

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 cycling team. At the beginning of 2009 they were known as Plowman Craven-Madison.co.uk and were a UCI Continental bicycle racing

Bicycle racing

Bicycle racing is a competition sport in which various types of bicycles are used. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, bike trials, and cycle speedway. Bicycle racing is recognised as an Olympic sport...

 team.

History

Sponsored by geomatics

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 company Plowman Craven in its inaugural season, the team won three National

British Cycling

British Cycling is the national governing body for cycle racing in Great Britain. It administers most competitive cycling in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man...

 and one World title with Malcolm Elliot also taking the Elite Circuit Race Series. UK

United Kingdom

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 bicycle

Bicycle

A bicycle, also known as a bike, pushbike or cycle, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist, or bicyclist....

 retailer

Retailing

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 Evans Cycles

Evans Cycles

-The history:The first shop was originally known as F.W. Evans Cycles and was located on Kennington Road in south east London. Evans Cycles traded from this site for thirty years.The business was eventually purchased by Joseph Smith in the fifties...

 became a title sponsor after the first year to launch their own brand Pinnacle Bicycle range. Evans Cycles then pulled out of the sponsorship after the first year of sponsorship.

The team's focus is senior professional events in the United Kingdom and second-tier road races such as the UCI Europe Tour.

PCA was among the first professional cycling teams to introduce "doping passports" to prevent blood doping

Blood doping

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 in cycling when it launched its Race Clean initiative before to the 2007 Tour of Britain

2007 Tour of Britain

The 2007 edition of the Tour of Britain stage race was run as a UCI 2.1 category in seven stages starting in London on 9 September and finishing in Glasgow on 15 September. The Tour was extended to seven days for 2007, with the extra day being used to run a stage in Somerset for the first time...

.

2006 Riders

• Kevin Barclay
• Brian Biggs
• Simon Gaywood
• Tony Gibb
• Fredrik Johansson
  Fredrik Johansson (cyclist)
  Fredrik Johansson is a Swedish professional racing cyclist.-Career highlights:# 2003: 1º in Stage 4 3 dagars Hammarö, Hammarö # 2004: 3º in General Classification Tour du Brabant Wallon, Ottignies...
  
  
• James McCallum
  James McCallum (cyclist)
  James McCallum is a Scottish racing cyclist who rides for . He represented Scotland in the Team Pursuit, Points & Scratch Races at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, and again in 2006 in Melbourne in the Scratch, Points & Road Races, winning a bronze medal in the Scratch race.Until 2007,...
  
  
• Gordon McCauley
  Gordon McCauley
  Gordon McCauley is a cycling competitor for New Zealand. The five time winner of the New Zealand National Road Championship, competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne where he won a bronze medal in the Individual Time Trial.-Career highlights:199619992000Gordon McCauley is a cycling...
  
  
• James Millard
• Adam Norris
• James Taylor
• Chris Badger

2007 Riders

• Tony Gibb
• Gordon McCauley
• James Taylor
• Simon Gaywood
• James McCullum
• James Millard
• Richard Wilkinson
• Freddy Johansson
• Adam Norris
• Brian Biggs
• Jason Allen
• Kevin Barclay

2008 Riders

• Tom Barras
  Tom Barras
  Tom Barras is an English professional road racing cyclist. Barras is also the son of former professional racing cyclist, Sid Barras. Barras is ranked 13th in the UK national road rankings at the end of the 2007 racing season.-Palmarès:2007...
  
  
• Neil Coleman
• Simon Gaywood
• Tony Gibb
• Alex Higham
• James Jackson
• James McCallum
  James McCallum (cyclist)
  James McCallum is a Scottish racing cyclist who rides for . He represented Scotland in the Team Pursuit, Points & Scratch Races at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, and again in 2006 in Melbourne in the Scratch, Points & Road Races, winning a bronze medal in the Scratch race.Until 2007,...
  
  
• Craig MacLean
  Craig MacLean
  Craig MacLean is a Scottish track cyclist who has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning a Silver Medal in the Team Sprint at the 2000 Olympics....
  
  
• James Millard
• Evan Oliphant
  Evan Oliphant
  Evan Oliphant is a Scottish bike rider from Wick in Caithness. He rides for Endura Racing, having spent the previous season with DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed and, before that, two seasons with Recycling.co.uk....
  
  
• Simon Richardson

Equipment

For the 2007 the Plowman Craven Evans Cycles race team were supplied bicycles by Pinnacle Bikes, a bicycle brand established by cycle retailer Evans Cycles.

For 2008 the team rode Pinnacle Bikes, namely Pinnacle Aeos Carbon Team Issue carbon fibre bikes, designed in the UK, and painted in matching team Pink & Blue colours. The team also tested new track and time trial models ready for consumer sale in the future. However these models didn't make it to market due to poor quality issues.

In 2009 the team decided to end the co-ownership with bicycle

Bicycle

A bicycle, also known as a bike, pushbike or cycle, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist, or bicyclist....

 retailer

Retailing

Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...

 Evans Cycles. A new deal was struck with distribution company madison.co.uk. In May 2009, Plowman Craven withdrew their sponsorship of the team. The team lost a number of riders including Evan Oliphant

Evan Oliphant

Evan Oliphant is a Scottish bike rider from Wick in Caithness. He rides for Endura Racing, having spent the previous season with DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed and, before that, two seasons with Recycling.co.uk....

 and Ross Creber. The team became known as simply madison.co.uk.

External links

• Evans Cycles official website
• Pinnacle Bikes official website