Rocado
| Rocado | |
| Team data | |
| nationality |
 Germany
|
| First season | 1972 |
| Last season | 1975 |
| discipline | Street |
| Wheel manufacturer | Rokado (1972) Jean de Gribaldy (1973–1975) |
| staff | |
| Team manager | Florent Van Vaerenbergh (1972) Guillaume Driessens (1973) Rolf Wolfshohl (1974–1975) Wim Poot (1975) |
| Name story | |
| Years | Surname |
| 1972 1973 1974-1975 |
Rokado-Colders Rokado-De Gribaldy Rokado |
Team Rokado was a German cycling team that existed from 1972 to 1975.
history
The team's main sponsor was a slatted frame manufacturer based in Holzwickede , North Rhine-Westphalia . The company Rokado name is on the business owner Ro bert Ka hl ( Thu due rtmund). In 1973, Kahl briefly sponsored another German professional team called Ha-Ro . At the end of April 1973, all drivers (including Karl-Heinz Muddemann , Alfred Gaida , Hennie Kuiper , Roger Gilson and others) were integrated into the Rokado team. The background to this was that the Union Cycliste International (UCI) had repealed the rule according to which professional drivers from Germany and Switzerland had an unlimited right to start in two different teams.
Due to the lack of success, the company withdrew as main sponsor at the end of 1975 and in 1976 was still a co-sponsor of the Belgian team Maes-Rokado . The company was bought by the Belgian group Recticel .
Successes (selection)
1972
- Eschborn – Frankfurt
- Tour des Quatre-Cantons
- one stage tour of Luxembourg
- Overall ranking and a Tour de Suisse stage
-
German champion - road race -
Luxembourg champions - road races
1973
- Overall ranking and five stages of the Tour of Andalusia
- three stages Paris-Nice
- GP de Wallonie
- a stage tour of Belgium
- eight stages of the Vuelta a España
- Eschborn – Frankfurt
- four stages of the Giro d'Italia
- three stages of the Tour de Suisse
-
Scoring Tour de France
- one stage tour of Catalonia
- Paris tours
- Putte chapels
1974
- Overall ranking Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
- a Paris-Nice stage
- GP Beeckman-De Caluwé
1975
- a stage Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
- Grand Prix de Wallonie
- Grand Prize of the Canton of Aargau
- La Flèche Wallonne
- GP Beeckman-De Caluwé
- Circuit des Frontières
Grand Tours placements
| Grand Tour | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Vuelta a España
|
- | 48 | - | 43 |
 Giro d'Italia
|
- | - | - | - |
|
Tour de France
|
- | - | - | - |
Known former drivers
- Gilbert Bellone (1972)
- André Dierickx (1975)
- Louis Pfenninger (1972)
- Rolf Wolfshohl (1972)
- Herman Van Springel (1973)
- Albert Van Damme (1972–1973)
- Hennie Kuiper (1973–1974)
Web links
- Rokado 1972 , 1973 , 1974 and 1975 in the radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Kahl in a documentation "The spectacle of the 23 days - the Tour de France as a media event" from 10:10 onwards on www.youtube.de
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 17/1973 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1973, p. 16 .
- ↑ Maes-Rokado 1976 in the database of ProCyclingStats.com