
Following a solid two seasons at Doug Ryder’s Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, Irish National Road Champion Rory Townsend signed another two-year deal, this time with the new kids on the block, the French-licensed, Dutch-owned Unibet Rose Rockets. Having recently earned a wild card to the 2026 Giro d’Italia, the disruptive ProTeam and its bikes proved popular with fans at Opening Weekend in Belgium, with none other than Rory Townsend’s Rose Shave FFX causing a rubber-necking frenzy in the team paddocks ahead of Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne.
