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PRESS RELEASE KMC NUKEPROOF MTB RACING TEAM 2026

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Huisseling, The Netherlands December 23, 2025

KMC will remain the main and title sponsor for the coming years on our road to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games

Nukeproof joins as Bike Partner and new second title sponsor

– we continue our Mission Part 5!

We are happy and proud to announce that KMC will remain the main sponsor of our international mountainbike Team in 2026, 2027 and 2028.

Since 2017, we have been working with KMC, the world’s largest chain manufacturer, and have achieved great results and also worked structurally on the Team’s development.

After enjoying riding Ridley for the past few years and achieving great success, it is time for a change.

For the next three years, the Team will ride the new brand of the Belgian Cycling Factory, Nukeproof. An American brand of origin, founded in 1990, even before mountain biking became an Olympic sport (Atlanta, USA, 1996). The sport of mountain biking also began in the 1970s in Marin County, California.

Nukeproof, whose tagline is ‘it’s an attitude’ are renowned for innovative, high quality bikes and brings a rich race pedigree in gravity and enduro to the team. We find the perfect fit in that.

Christ Bakker, Managing Director KMC Chain Europe N.V.:

“KMC welcomes Nukeproof and is proud to support the brand’s debut in XCO. Following Jochim Aerts’ acquisition of the iconic Nukeproof name, KMC sees this as a powerful statement from Belgium.

Both KMC and Belgian Cycling Factory are firmly grounded with stable, reliable market strategies. Their long-standing partnership now enters a new phase—one that will strengthen all stakeholders of the KMC–Nukeproof MTB XCO Team.”

Jochim Aerts, Managing Director Belgium Cycling Factory:

“Belgian Cycling Factory is proud of its continued partnership with KMC and the launch of the KMC Nukeproof MTB Racing Team. With Nukeproof fully integrated within BCF, we significantly strengthen our MTB engineering capabilities. Together with our athletes and the technical team, we are excited to convert racing knowledge and shared expertise into the next level future Nukeproof products driving performance from the race course directly into the bikes of tomorrow”

Clive Gosling, Global Brand Director Nukeproof:

“Nukeproof is a brand usually associated with the burlier side of mountain biking; Enduro, dirtjump and downhill are the arenas you normally see our brand, but we are stoked to jump into XC at the highest level with this new venture with KMC and Bart Brentjens. We are excited to bring the innovative spirit and radical attitude of Nukeproof to the XC race scene”.

Bart Brentjens, Teammanager KMC Nukeproof Mountainbike Racing Team: “Next year is a crucial year on the road to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. We are therefore incredibly proud and happy to be partnering with our main sponsor KMC and, with our ‘new’ bike supplier Nukeproof, for the next three years. The fact that we’ll be riding with Nukeproof in 2026, gives us a fantastic head start. Together with KMC and Nukeproof, we can work in the coming years to achieve perfect unity, and collaboration between the team’s riders, mechanics, sponsors, and suppliers.

Everything has to be right if you want to achieve the very best performance, and with this long-term commitment from our core partners, we can further strengthen that foundation.

We’re already looking forward to the start of the new season and the road together towards 2028! We are proud to share our new official team logo”.

– The Olympic Games in Los Angeles will be held July 14 to Sunday July 30, 2028 –

With our Team, we started Mission Part 5 in January 2025. Mission Part 5 is a four-year cycle that works towards the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 2028.

The next Olympic Summer Games in 2028, will bring back mountain biking to its roots where it all started, in California USA. LA2028 will be the first Olympic Games back in the USA, after the Centennial Games of Atlanta 1996, where mountain biking became an Olympic discipline.

For more information about this press release or more information about the KMC Mountainbike

Racing Team please contact Team Director Bart Brentjens:

Email : bart@mountainbikeracingteam.com

Kind Regards,

Lieske Libregts, Communication Manager

communication@mountainbikeracingteam.com

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PRESS RELEASE KMC RIDLEY MTB TEAM

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Huisseling, The Netherlands January 3, 2025

Talented Carla Hahn will be
our new ‘Women U23’ rider!

Ready to start our Team’s Mission Part 5, the ride towards the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, USA

We are very pleased to welcome Carla Hahn (Germany, born June 20, 2005) as our new U23 rider, silver medalist at the European XCO U23 Championships in 2024.

Carla is a very talented mountainbiker with some great achievements already.

Her love for nature, and her love for mountain biking – ‘freedom’ to Carla -, are reasons why she will fit perfectly in our 2025 Team Line Up, next to her achievements so far.

Bart Brentjens, Team Director of ‘KMC Ridley Mountainbike Racing Team’:

“We are very happy to welcome Carla to the team. Carla is a very talented rider, with a lot of ambition and focus. Her biggest wish is to become ‘Olympic Champion’ and she is definitely not afraid to stand up for her dream. I like that attitude.

Carla has been riding since she was 4 years old! You can see this in her way of riding. She is very technical and she is a fast starter and sprinter. She is very motivated and also part of the German army, she is in an a special German program for athletes. This shows her ‘hardworking attitude’ and her discipline.

I think Carla has everything to become one of the best female mountain bikers in the world, and we are happy to start Mission Part 5 together with Carla, as one of our youngest team riders with a lot of potential.”

Carla Hahn, international U23 Women rider:

Super excited to be a part of the KMC Ridley MTB Racing Team. I believe they will give me the support to reach the next steps on my way to the top. I am really looking forward to work, travel and train together with the team!

#Runway2LA2028

– The Olympic Games in Los Angeles will be from July 14 till Sunday July 30 2028 –

With our Team, we will start Mission Part 5 in January 2025. Mission Part 5, is a four-year cycle that works towards the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 2028.

The next Olympic Summer Games in 2028, will bring back mountain biking to its roots where it all started, in California. LA2028 will be the first Olympic Games back in the USA, after the Centennial Games of Atlanta 1996, where mountain biking became an Olympic discipline.

For more information about this press release or more information about the KMC Mountainbike Racing Team please contact Team Director Bart Brentjens: