Since retiring from road racing, Thomas De Gendt hasn't stopped racing entirely, racing for Classified x Rose and more recently setting up Breakaway Gravel, his own off-road team. In his latest column for Cyclingnews, the Belgian veteran talks us through how you get an outfit like that off the ground, and what their ambitions are.
The beauty of gravel – and starting a gravel squad – is that at the bare minimum, there only has to be one rider in a line-up, and then you are already a one-person team. It's the complete opposite to road racing, where you can never participate solo, whereas in gravel, just racing with two or three people also works out very well.
