Seasucker’s suction-cup racks win UCI world championships
Brand secures three-year deal with UCI for vehicle bike racks
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Seasucker makes bike racks with a unique suction-cup security system. At the UCI world championships that concluded Sunday with Peter Sagan taking his third road title, Seasucker provided racks for all the countries and neutral support.
Seasucker has a new 9-bike team rack that the company used earlier this year at Paris-Roubaix and other races with the WorldTour pro team Quick Step. That rack design saw peloton-wide use at the world championships.
Most cyclists have the same skeptical reaction to the Seasucker suction cups initially: ‘I don’t think I would trust my bike on that. Won’t it come off?‘
Thus, Seasucker staff were keen to show off the full-car team rack over the notoriously rough cobbles of Paris-Roubaix.
Now, race fans will be seeing a lot more of Seasucker, as the company has a three-year contract with the UCI to provide racks for all the vehicles in world road championships events.
How the Seasucker mount works
Each of the Seasucker suction pods are rated for a 200lb / 90kg load.
The pods can be put on any nearly flat clean surface of a car’s exterior. To get it to stick, you depress a small integrated pump repeatedly until the orange portion of the pump is concealed inside the pod.
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Ben Delaney is a journalist with more than two decades of experience writing for and editing some of the biggest publications in cycling. Having studied journalism at the University of New Mexico, Ben has worked for Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, VeloNews and BikeRadar. He has also previously worked as Global Brand Communications Manager for Specialized. Ben covers all things road and gravel, and can be found logging big miles in the Rocky Mountains that nestle alongside his home in Boulder, Colorado. He has covered the most important bike races in the sport, from the Tour de France and Tour of Flanders, to the Unbound gravel race, and specialises in tech content, showcasing what the pros are riding and putting everyday equipment through its paces.
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