{"id":295469,"date":"2025-11-20T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295469\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:02:34","slug":"factor-bikes-leaves-israel-premier-tech-following-season-of-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295469\/","title":{"rendered":"Factor Bikes leaves Israel\u2013Premier Tech following season of protests\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Factor Bikes has terminated its contract with Israel\u2013Premier Tech and Scott Bikes is stepping in to provide the troubled team with bikes, reports suggest.<\/p>\n

Scott has reportedly arrived at the team\u2019s service course in Girona, although it’s unclear whether the bike brand will be a lead sponsor, according to Daniel Benson\u2019s Cycling Substack<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The departure of Factor Bikes follows Premier Tech revealing it would leave the team earlier this month. Premier Tech announced this week that it will sponsor<\/a> St Michel \u2013 Preference Home \u2013 Auber93 for the next two seasons.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2013Premier Tech is currently undergoing a rebrand<\/a>, after Factor Bikes and Premier Tech said they would only stay on as sponsors if the team ended its affiliation with Israel.<\/p>\n

But it now appears Factor Bikes is joining Premier Tech in leaving the team despite its rebranding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This follows a season marred by protests against the team\u2019s participation in races in light of Israel\u2019s war on Gaza. Protestors at Vuelta a Espana labelled the team\u2019s participation as \u201csportswashing<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The timing is also notable for Scott Bikes, after Q36.5 Pro Cycling announced a partnership with Pinarello, which will now provide Tom Pidcock with bikes for riding on and off the road. This left Scott Bikes without a team in the WorldTour.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Factor Bikes and Scott Bikes are yet to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Factor Bikes has terminated its contract with Israel\u2013Premier Tech and Scott Bikes is stepping in to provide the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-295469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}