One of the most talented Japanese professional road bike racing.
Beppu has been racing Trek bicycles since the beginning of his professional career except two years spent with the Skil-Shimano team in Netherlands.
Trek brand lost of its prestige with the down of Lance Armstrong, nevertheless the American brand is still strong in Japan.
DOB: 10th April 1983
Birth Place: Japan
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Nationality: Japanese
Height: 180cm
Weight: 69kg
Strengths: TT / 1 day race
Pro Since: 2005
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Marital status: Tour de France
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The team has been built around Fabio Aru as Team leader and he is well supported with very talented riders of the like of Alexander Kristoff, Ben Swift, Rui Costa and Diego Ulissi among others.
The team will focus on winning the Giro d'Italia.
UAE Team Emirates is racing the 2018 on Colnago carbon road bikes.
The models are V2-R, Concept, C60 and K.Zero (TT) equipped with Campagnolo Super Record EPS group set, Campagnolo Carbon wheels fitted with Vittoria clinchers and tubular tires, Power2Max power meter and Garmin GPS, Dedeacciai components (stem, handlebar and seat post) Selle Italia saddle, Elite bottle cage and bottles.
UAE Team Emirates 2018 riders:
The US based team Trek Segafredo is certainly not as high at the top of its heigh days of the Lance Armstrong era and the retirement of Alberto Contador is leaving the Trek team looking like missing it is missing a Team Leader despite the talented riders.
Trek-Segafredo is obviously racing the 2018 season on Trek Carbon Bikes.
Models includes the Madone, Emonda, Domane and Speed (TT) all equipped with Shimano Dura Ace 9150 11 speed groupset, Bontrager carbon Aelis 5 wheels mounted on Continental clinchers and tubulars tires, Shimano R-9100-P power meter and Bontrager full line of components, XXX bottle cage..
The 2018 Trek - Segafredo Team 28 Pro Riders:
The German registered team has the Giro D'italia to defend in 2018 with the Tour de France also in focus.
The team has let go strong riders in 2017 to focust on Tom Dumoulin as the team leader for the 2018.
Team Sunweb is racing the 2018 season on Giant Carbon bikes.
The bikes models are Defy, TCR, Propel and Trinity (TT))
The bikes are equipped with Shimano Dura Ace 9170 groupset, Giant carbon wheels fitted with Vittoria tires and tubulars, Shimano R-9100-P powermeter and Sigma Sport speed meter, Giant components, Giant Bottle cage and bottles.
Riders race with Giant cycling shoes.
The 2018 Team Sunweb 23 riders are:
The strongest team of the UCI World Tour on the Tour de France 2017 and Vuelta Espana 2017.
This is a fantastic team and all the riders are very talented, leading to win the prestigious stages.
Several strong riders left the team to try their luck in among other teams.
Team Sky is racing the 2018 season on Pinarello carbon road bikes, the models are Dogma series, Gan series and Bolide (TT).
The bikes are equipped with Shimano Dura Ace 9170 11 speed groupset, Shimano Carbon wheels fitted with Continental tires and tubulars, Shimano R-9100-P powermeter, MOST components (stem, handlebar, seat post), Fizik saddles, Elite bottle cage and bottles, K-Edge bar tape.
The 2018 Team Sky roster are:
The Australia based team has a great experience at sourcing Australian talented riders.
The newly named "Michelton-Scott" team is participating to the UCI World Tour 2018 racing season which is bringing the team on the top level professional road racing around the world including the prestigious Giro D'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta Espana.
The team has a great balance of talented riders able to win sprint stages with Caleb Ewan, Mountain stages with Esteban Chaves and General Classifications with Daryl Impey, Matteo Trentin and Miekl Nieve.
Mitchelton-Scott is racing the 2018 season on Scott Carbon bikes; models are Addict, Foil, Plasma (TT) ), equipped with Shimano Dura Ace 7910 11 speed groupset, Shimano carbon wheels fitted with Continental tires and tubulars, Shimano power meter, Syncros components (Stem / Handlebar, Seat post), Elite bottle cage and bottles, K-Edge bar tape.
The 2018 Michelton-Scott roster are:
The famous Spanish team has hired Mikel Landa which is adding confusion to whom is the team leader among the Movistar as he is capable of beating is team mates Nairo Qunitana and Alejandro Valverde on the 3 weeks Grand Tour like the Tour de France or Giro D'Italia.
Not forgetting Carlos Betancur, Amador, Anacona, Bennati and Rojas, the team is packed with talented riders and hopefully management has a clear strategy to ensure a lot of winning during this 2018 UCI World Tour.
Althought there are mainly spanish riders among the team, it is a multi nationalities team members but all are latin.
Movistar team is racing the 2018 season on Canyon carbon road bikes (Endurance, Ultimate, Aeroad, Speedmax (TT)) equipped with Campagnolo Super Record EPS 11 speed groupset, Campagnolo carbon wheels fitted with Continental tires and tubulars, Power2Max powermeter and speedmeter, Canyon components (Stem / handlebar and seat post), Elite bottles and bottle cages, Fizik saddle, LizardSkins bar tape.
The Team Movistar 2018 roster:
The Belgium based Team Lotto Soudal 2018 is mostly composed of Belgian riders.
Among the team racer is one of the fastest sprinter in the world, Marcel Kittel.
As he is getting older his top speed is dropping slightly when fitting for the top spot on the finish line but nonetheless he is not to be discounted.
The team is participating in the UCI World Tour 2018 and will be racing the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta Espana after the spring classics.
Lotto Soudal is racing the 2018 season with Ridley carbon bikes (models are Helium, Noah, Fenix, Dean (TT)) equipped with Campagnolo Super Record EPS 11 speed groupset, Campagnolo carbon wheels fitted with Vittoria tires and tubulars, SRM powermeter and speedmeter, Dedacciai components (stem / handlebar and seat post), LizardSkins bar tape, Selle Italia saddle, Elite bottle cage and bottles, K-Edge components.
The team Lotto - Soudal 2018 roster:
Dutch Team LottoNL-Jumbo is a strong formation on the spring classics and can be a potential candidate on Grand Tour stage podium space.
The Team LottoNL-Jumbo is racing 2018 season on Bianchi carbon road bikes (Aria, Oltre, Specialissima and Aquila (TT) ) equipped with Shimano Dura Ace 7910 groupset, Shimano Dura Ace carbon wheels fitted with Vittoria tires and tubulars, Pioneer is the powermeter and FSA for components (steam, bar and seat post), Tacx for bottle and bottle cage, Selle San Marco for the saddles.
Team Lotto NL - Jumbo 2018 roster:
