SIMPLON professional teams & Riders

Athletes

If you want to be successful in top-class sport, you need customised and uncompromisingly high-quality equipment: bikes that fully bring out the riding technique, personal riding style and individual class of different athletes. It's no wonder that SIMPLON, as a manufacturer of customised performance bikes, has been the perfect partner for top athletes in the road bike, mountain bike, e-mountain bike and triathlon sectors for many years.

Roadbikes

Pia KUmmer

Pia grew up in the Northern Black Forest and only took up cycling in 2020. Just a year later, she competed in her first licensed races. Since then, her progress has been rapid.

Today, she lives in the Rems Valley near Stuttgart and is studying Industrial Engineering and Management. Her achievements to date include two victories at the Red Bull Hill Chasers, a win at Red Bull Traffik Lights, and appearances at criterium races in the USA. At the 2024 German National Road Championships, she finished 21st. She has also competed three times at the UCI eSports World Championship, achieving a top 20 result in 2024.

In the mountains, Pia relies on the PAVO, while for racing and time trials she chooses the PRIDE. On Instagram, she shares insights into her training, races, and life on her SIMPLON bikes.

To Pia on Instagram
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Roadbikes

Michael Strasser

Extreme cyclist and conqueror of continents: After Michael Strasser had crossed the continent of Africa from Cairo to Cape Town as the world's fastest cyclist, the next world record followed shortly afterwards with his ‘Ice 2 Ice’ project: on the 22,642-kilometre route from Alaska to Patagonia, he set a new best time of 84 days, 11 hours and 50 minutes in 2018 - on the then current SIMPLON PRIDE (which is now available as a new version).

He set his third world record on the PAVO in 2024 with his ‘771’ project.

You can find out more about Michael Strasser in our magazine.

To Michael's webpage
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Triathlon

Skinfit Racing TRI Team

Founded in 2012 as Austria's first professional triathlon team, the international Skinfit Tri Team is now regularly at the forefront of national and international competitions over short, medium and long distances.

The team uses the PRIDE TRI for racing and the PRIDE as a training bike.

To the Team-Webpage
Mountainbike

AlPINeBiking

Constantly on the lookout for insider tips and new trails: the AlpineBiking crew focuses on the alpine biking experience. With professional image and video productions, the team inspires the mountain bike scene to new adventures.

The AlpineBiking team relies on our RAPCON and the RAPCON :eCX for its numerous multi-day summit trips.

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GRAVEL

Simon Hiltli

Adventurer, bike skier & alpinist and probably one of the few people who use their bike as a ski lift.

Bike skiing is where ski touring and cycling meet - a combination that sounds both ingenious and slightly crazy. The motto? ‘Earn your turns’, because the powder snow simply tastes even better after a good climb.

In Spring 2025, he traveled through Norway with two friends—on gravel bikes and skis—relying on our GRID. He shared his epic descents on social media—follow along! 

To Simon on Instagram