Sponsored Teams

Our Sponsored Teams

As a new brand, we are proud to work with two Men's UCI Continental teams, as well as one Women's UCI Continental team and two Women's UCI Club teams and are thrilled they chose to race on our carbon wheels and upcoming carbon cranks. The following are the teams we are currently partnered with:

1. Victoire Hiroshima (Japanese Men's UCI Continental team)
2. Citymesh - Customm Pro Cycling Team (Belgian Women's UCI Continental team)
3. Team Storck - MRW Bau  (German Men's UCI Continental team)
4. Foca - Dynaplus Pro Cycling Team (Belgian Women's UCI Club team)
5. Foca - Dynaplus Pro Cycling Team (Belgian U19 Women's UCI Club team)

Why sponsor pro cycling teams?

At Particle, we have chosen to sponsor pro athletes in order to get support teams that we believe in, to get valuable feedback about our products that we can learn from, and to demonstrate that they can handle races at the top level of cycling.

Supporting Teams We Believe In

Professional cycling is different than sports like football(soccer), American football, basketball, etc. in that cycling teams have to actively seek out sponsors. They depend on cycling brands and other companies for financial and equipment sponsorship. We choose to support teams and athletes in order to promote cycling and to give them the edge when racing. We choose to support both Men's and Women's cycling as well as junior riders, since we feel that cycling should be an inclusive sport and that all athletes should be able to have access to top-end wheels and carbon cranks.

We chose our sponsored teams since we believe they have great potential.

Getting Valuable Feedback

We put a strong emphasis on having our products tested, not only in a laboratory, but also by some of the strongest cyclists in the world. In our opinion, while objective laboratory testing is very valuable, it only tells part of the story, as lab testing takes place in controlled conditions. The real world is a lot more complicated than that.

Working with three different UCI Continental pro cycling teams as well as two UCI Club teams can offer valuable information, especially since each team will collectively ride a few hundred thousand kilometers per year, and sometimes at wattages much higher than amateurs. They are able to put our carbon wheels and upcoming carbon cranks to the limit.

About Victoire Hiroshima

Victoire Hiroshima is one of Japan's most successful pro cycling teams. They primarily race in UCI and National races Japan, but have also raced in UCI races in Australia, Turkey, and Indonesia, among other places. While the team was established in 2017, they did not race again until 2020. They have have been racing ever since and have gotten two dozen podium finishes as well as multiple wins. 

They will be racing almost exclusively on our RCX33 and RCX50 Ultralight wheelsets with 3rd generation carbon spokes. They are also racing on our carbon crank prototypes, which once fully tested, will be released later this year.

About Citymesh - Customm Pro Cycling Team

The Belgian women's team got its start in 2018 as a UCI Club team. Since 2025, however, they have been a UCI Continental pro cycling team. While the team had a decent amount of success, getting good results in 2.1 and 1.1 level races, once they became a UCI Continental team in 2025, their performance improved dramatically.

Not only were they invited to 11 World Tour races and 5 Pro Tour races among dozens of 2.1 and 1.1 level races, they also won a 1.1 race, the GP Immo Zone/Vloer-en chapewerken Smetryns, but they also placed high up in some of the most competitive races in Women's cycling. A few notable races were when they placed 11th in the Vuelta Feminas 1.Pro and 22nd in the Parix-Roubaix Femmes. 

We are very excited to be supplying them with RCX45 Ultralight wheels as well as RCX45/50/60 Team wheels for racing on rough Belgian roads. They will also be racing on our prototype carbon cranks, chainrings, and rear TT disc wheels. This year, they are participating in 12 UCI WorldTour races, the highest level of women's cycling.

Team Storck - MRW Bau

Established in 2020, Team Storck initially started out with smaller races. Later, once it became a UCI Continental pro cycling team, they started racing in not just German national races, but also 1.1, 2.1, 1.2, and 2.2 races all over Europe and Africa. They won six 2.2 stages and got 3rd and 4th in the general classification at the Tour du Cameroun. 

This year, they will be participating in their first Pro Tour races, namely the Lidl Deutschland Tour 2.Pro, the Skoda Tour de Luxembourg 2.Pro, and the Sparkassen Münsterland Giro 1.Pro.

They will be racing on our prototype carbon cranks and carbon chainrings.

About Foca - Dynaplus Pro Cycling Team and Foca - Dynaplus Pro Cycling Team U19 Teams

These two Belgian teams are associated with Citymesh - Customm. The main team, Foca - Dynaplus, was founded in 2025 and mostly participated in Junior races. This year, it will start participating in higher level races in the 1.1 and 2.1 categories, racing against Women's World Teams. The U19 team will be racing exclusively in Junior races. These teams are preparing the riders for the world of pro cycling.

Just like Citymesh - Customm, they are using our RCX45/50/60 Team wheels, as well as the prototype carbon cranks, carbon chainrings, and rear TT disc wheels.