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{{Infobox cycling team
| name           = TI–Raleigh
| image          = Huldiging vn de TI- Raleigh ploeg van links (half zichtbaar) Leo van Vliet, Ro…, Bestanddeelnr 930-4022.jpg
| caption        = 1979 [[Tour of the Netherlands]], left to right: [[Leo van Vliet]], Rondemiss, Aad van de Hoek, [[Gerrie Knetemann]], [[Henk Lubberding]], [[Jan Raas]], [[Bert Oosterbosch]], [[Piet van Katwijk]] and [[Cees Priem]]
| code           = 
| registered     = Netherlands
| founded        = {{start date|1972}}
| disbanded      = 1983
| generalmanager = [[Peter Post]]
| discipline     = [[Road bicycle racing|Road]] and track
| status         = 
| season         = 1972–1975<br>1976<br>1977<br>1978–1979<br>1980–1981<br>1982–1983
| oldname        = TI–Raleigh<br>TI–Raleigh–Campagnolo<br>TI–Raleigh<br>TI–Raleigh–McGregor<br>TI–Raleigh–Creda<br>TI–Raleigh–Campagnolo
| kitimage       = Tiraleigh77.jpg
}}
[[File:TV-icon-2.svg|thumb|150px|''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Y-TPfRbnc De Posttrein]''<ref name="Posttrain">On YouTube: {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkvZn8AHDBc |title=De Posttrein, de ploeg die niet kon verliezen (The Posttrain, the team that couldn't loose) |date=2000 |access-date=2022-08-31 |language=Dutch}}</ref><br />[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mmHOcDxWYQ 1982 Romandy Tour]<ref name="TdR82">On YouTube, René Koppert: {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mmHOcDxWYQ |title=TI Raleigh at the Tour de Romandie in 1982 |publisher=Raleigh company  |access-date=2022-09-01}}</ref><br />[https://www.2doc.nl/speel~VPWON_1157421~ruzie-in-het-peloton-andere-tijden-sport~.html Ruzie in het peloton]<ref name="Ruzie">Animosity in the pack<br />Introduction, text: {{Cite web |url=https://nos.nl/artikel/253244-ruzie-in-het-peloton |title=Ruzie in het peloton |website=NOS.nl |language=Dutch |date=2011-07-10 |access-date=2022-09-01 }}<br />Documentary, video: {{Cite web |url=https://www.2doc.nl/speel~VPWON_1157421~ruzie-in-het-peloton-andere-tijden-sportd~.html |title=Ruzie in het peloton |series=Andere Tijden Sport |publisher=NOS, VPRO |date=2011-07-16 |website=2DOC.nl |language=Dutch |access-date=2022-09-01}}</ref><br />[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhuhLqlf9Ww 1982 Paris-Roubaix]<ref name="1982Roubaix">A great example of team tactics, on YouTube: {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhuhLqlf9Ww |title=1982 Paris-Roubaix |publisher=BRT (Flemish TV) |language=Dutch |access-date=2022-09-01 |quote=Roger De Vlaeminck commentates his last Paris–Roubaix: Hinault was the strongest and did the lion share of the work. Without him, Ludo Peeters (TI-Raleigh) would have won. }} Jan Raas wins. Peter Post nearly rides the tv-motor off the road.</ref>]]
'''TI–Raleigh''' was a Dutch professional [[track cycling]] and [[road bicycle racing]] [[cycling team|team]] between 1972 and 1983. In that decade the team won over 900 races.<ref name="Ruzie" /> The team was created and led by [[Peter Post]]. In his own cycling career, his nickname was the ''Six Days Emperor'', being a track champion. He also won the 1964 fast edition of [[Paris–Roubaix]]. Post was pretty harsh on himself. He had no time to celebrate and was always looking ahead at the next race. That attitude might have been the key to the team's success.<ref name="Posttrain"/>

The team was successful in classics and in stage races. Notable riders included [[Joop Zoetemelk]], [[Jan Raas]], [[Gerrie Knetemann]], [[Hennie Kuiper]], [[Urs Freuler]], [[Henk Lubberding]], [[René Pijnen]], [[Johan van der Velde]] and [[Dietrich Thurau]]. The team was known for discipline; [[team time trial]]s were a speciality. The frame-building was overseen by Jan le Grand at Raleigh's SBDU Ilkeston facility.

==Team Time Trials==
TI–Raleigh was unbeatable in the [[team time trial]]s of the [[1978 Tour de France#Route and stages|1978]] to [[1982 Tour de France#Route and stages|1982 Tour de France]]. In those five years, they won eight Tour TTTs. Driving forces in those TTTs were Jan Raas and Gerrie Knetemann, who decided team tactics during the race. They gave directions and changed the order at will. In the last few kilometers before the finish, Raas began to shout and curse in order to wring out every last bit of energy. After the finish, the riders were exhausted, but it was also time to celebrate.

TI–Raleigh had changed its formation tactics, from the traditional [[Team time trial#Tactics and formation|double paceline]] to a single paceline. 1964 Olympic TTT champion [[Gerben Karstens]] came up with the idea, when they were faced with a 153&nbsp;km (95 miles) long TTT in the 1978 Tour. In a single line formation, the riders get more time to recover. The duration of the pull is varied. Strong riders like time trial specialist [[Bert Oosterbosch]] should not increase the pace, but rather take longer turns. Stronger and weaker riders are mixed, which keeps a steadier pace. Knetemann could gently pick up the pace, without anyone noticing.

The team had a profound disgust for team members that did not do their utmost to help the team. It was not a problem when you were the weakest link, because in every team there are specialists for the mountain stages that won't be tough time trial riders. However, the team expected every rider to take their turns, until they could no longer keep up the pace. In that situation you'd take a last pull, and drop off the team. The only exception were the General Classement-riders that had to finish in the same time as the team.

When in 1978 [[Klaus-Peter Thaler]] could win the yellow jersey if he'd finish with the team, he refused to take his turns and kept last position, which slows the team down. After 30&nbsp;km in the wheels, Knetemann and Lubberding were fed up with their selfish "team mate". They started to entice him to take over, and even deliberately gapped themselves, in order to shake him off. This didn't help and also slowed down the team. They were told to knock it off, and Thaler did get his career highlight: the yellow jersey.

The [[1980 Tour de France]] had an early TTT. The prologue was the day before, and in the morning the riders had had a stage of 133&nbsp;km (83&nbsp;mi). [[Bert Pronk]] had jumped ahead, riding in the breakaway. That helped Jan Raas to win the stage. Pronk didn't recuperate fast, and like every TI–Raleigh rider who was not a TT specialist, or had a bad day, he did fear the TTT that afternoon. Pronk followed the team custom of pulling as long as he could, but he dropped off early in the 46&nbsp;km (29&nbsp;mi) long race. When your team is one of the last to start, there are not a lot of cars or teams behind you to pull yourself up to. TI–Raleigh won, but went so fast, that Pronk finished outside the time limit. The next TTT, Raas en Kneet decided to start slowly in order to not repeat the disaster, but they did not tell Zoetemelk or Post about it...<ref name="Posttrain" />

==Sponsorship==
The team was sponsored by British cycling manufacturer [[Raleigh Bicycle Company|Raleigh]] and Raleigh's holding company [[TI Group|Tube Investments (TI)]]. Raleigh's sponsoring goes back at least as far as 1893, when they had given [[Arthur Augustus Zimmerman]] two of their bicycles and advertised Zimmy riding them. Over the years, they've sponsored a whole range of cyclists and teams, based in Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States of America, Switzerland, Canada and Argentina.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/zoekploegalfaa.php |title=Search results Teams Raleigh |website=cyclingarchives.com |access-date=2022-09-01 |quote=Found 74 records. }}</ref>

Subsponsors were
* [[Campagnolo]], an Italian manufacturer of high-end [[bicycle]] components
* [[Creda]], made cooking appliances and showers, was at the time a part of TI
* [[David D. Doniger & Company|McGregor]] could be a sportswear brand
* [[Admiral Sportswear|Admiral Sports]] British sportswear manufacturer

==The end of the TI-Raleigh team==
At the end of the 1983 season, the TI–Raleigh team split up because of tension between former world champion [[Jan Raas]] and team leader [[Peter Post]],<ref>{{cite book |title= Het geheim van Raleigh|last= Holthausen|first= Joop |year= 2005|publisher= Arbeiderspers|location=Amsterdam |language=Dutch |isbn= 90-809676-3-7}}</ref> with seven cyclists following Post to the new [[Panasonic cycling team|Panasonic]] team and six cyclists joining Raas on the [[Rabobank (cycling)|Kwantum team]]. Gerrie Knetemann (to [[Europ Decor]]) and Johan van der Velde (to [[Vini Ricordi–Pinarello–Sidermec|Metauro]]) did not join the division.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://members.quicknet.nl/harold.schav/ploegen/ned/raleigh.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323003429/http://members.quicknet.nl/harold.schav/ploegen/ned/raleigh.htm |archive-date=2020-03-23  |title= New teams of the TI-Raleigh cyclists |access-date= 2022-08-30 |language=Dutch }}</ref> In the next nine years, the gap and the animosity grew, and it culminated into a breakaway standstill in the Tour de France of 1992. The backlash made perfectly clear that this could not go on. In the middle of the night, in the middle of a French forest, by shimmering torch lights, the men vowed to end the quarrels. The divorce was finally accepted and dealt with.<ref name="Ruzie" /><ref name="ADruzie">How an emberrassing cycling quarrel came to the lowest point: {{Cite web |url=https://www.ad.nl/sport/hoe-een-genante-wielerruzie-tot-een-dieptepunt-kwam~a68a9efb/ |title=Hoe een gênante wielerruzie tot een dieptepunt kwam |author=David Hessing |publisher=Algemeen Dagblad (AD Sport) |date=2020-07-22 |access-date=2022-09-01 |language=Dutch }}</ref>

==Notable riders==
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{{Div col|colwidth=20em}}
*[[Joop Zoetemelk]]
*[[Jan Raas]]
*[[Peter Post]]
*[[Hennie Kuiper]]
*[[Cees Priem]]
*[[Johan van der Velde]]
*[[Roy Schuiten]]
*[[Gerben Karstens]]
*[[René Pijnen]]
*[[Dietrich Thurau]]
*[[Frank Hoste]]
*[[Peter Winnen]]
*[[Ludo Peeters]]
*[[Gerrie Knetemann]]
*[[Bert Oosterbosch]]
*[[Gordon Singleton]] 1982  track
*[[Dave Lloyd (cyclist)|David Lloyd]] 1973 to 1975
*[[Sid Barras]] 1974
*[[Brian Jolly]] 1974
{{Div col end}}

==Major wins==
[[File:Joop Zoetemelk Tour 2010 team presentation.jpg |thumb|Joop Zoetemelk in full historical gear at the 2010 Tour de France team presentation in Rotterdam]]
[[File:Hennie Kuiper, Dieter Kemper, Andre Gevers, Roy Schuiten 1975.jpg|thumb|World Champions of 1975. Left to right: [[Hennie Kuiper]] (road race, TI–Raleigh 1976–1978), [[Dieter Kemper]] (track, [[UCI Motor-paced World Championships|motor paced]]), [[André Gevers]] (road race amateurs, TI–Raleigh 1978–79) and [[Roy Schuiten]] (track, [[individual pursuit]], TI–Raleigh 1974–1975)]]
[[File:Amstel Gold Race wielrennen winnaar Jan Raas met bloemen, Bestanddeelnr 929-6433.jpg |thumb|Jan has won the [[Amstel Gold Race|Amstel Gold Raas]] five times<ref name="AGRaas">{{Cite web |url=https://www.nu.nl/sport/2225377/amstel-gold-raas.html |title=Amstel Gold Raas |author=NUsport/Rob de Haan |website=NU.nl |date=2010-04-14 |access-date=2022-09-01 |language=Dutch }}</ref>]]
[[File:Wielrennen, ronde van Kortenhoef voor profs finish winnaar Gerrie Knetemann, Bestanddeelnr 931-6119.jpg|thumb|Gerrie Knetemann wins]]
[[File:Zuiderzee Derny Tour , 307 km verreden Ludo Peeters (Belgie, r.) met zijn gangm, Bestanddeelnr 932-1882.jpg|thumb|Gaston de Wachter and [[Ludo Peeters]] celebrate their win at the 307 km (191 mile) Zuiderzee Derny Tour.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011205355:mpeg21:p018 |title=Ludo Peeters won tankslag |publisher=De Telegraaf |language=Dutch |date=1982-06-01 |access-date=2022-09-03 }} On the same newspaper page several other TI-Raleigh wins are mentioned, including René Koppert's prologue win at the [[Dauphiné Liberé]], short after the 1982 Romandy Tour (see tv insert on this page).</ref>]]
[[File:Vertrek Nederlandse profwielerploeg voor Wereldkampioenschappen in Engeland, gro, Bestanddeelnr 932-3078.jpg |thumb|The Dutch team for the [[1982 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|UCI World Championships of 1982]]. TI-Raleigh 1982 riders wear a suit. From left to right: (half of) [[Peter Winnen]], [[Johan van der Velde]], [[Theo de Rooij]], [[Joop Zoetemelk]], [[Adri van Houwelingen]], [[Leo van Vliet]], [[Jan Raas]], [[Ad Wijnands]], [[Henk Lubberding]], [[Gerrie Knetemann]] and [[Gerard Veldscholten]]. [[Hennie Kuiper]] is not in the frame.]]
{{palmares start}}
;1974
: [[Grand Prix des Nations]], Roy Schuiten
:  World Champion, [[Individual Pursuit]], [[Roy Schuiten]]
: [[European championship Madison]], [[René Pijnen]]
: [[Six Days of Dortmund]], René Pijnen 
: [[Six Days of Rotterdam]], René Pijnen  
: [[Six Days of Berlin]], René Pijnen with Roy Schuiten
;1975
: [[Rund um den Henninger-Turm]], Roy Schuiten
: World Champion, [[Individual Pursuit]], Roy Schuiten
: [[Grand Prix des Nations]], Roy Schuiten
: [[Six Days of Bremen]], René Pijnen 
: [[Six Days of Frankfurt am Main]], René Pijnen with [[Günther Haritz]]
: [[Six Days of London]], René Pijnen with Günther Haritz
: [[Six Days of Munich]], René Pijnen with Günther Haritz
: [[Six Days of Münster]], René Pijnen with Günther Haritz
: [[Six Days of Zurich]],  Günther Haritz
;1976
: [[Tour de Suisse]], [[Hennie Kuiper]]
: [[1976 Tour de France|Tour de France]]: 4 stages (Hennie Kuiper, [[Gerben Karstens]] (2), Team time trial)
: [[European championship Madison]], Réne Pijnen with Günther Haritz
: [[Six Days of Bremen]], René Pijnen with Günther Haritz
: [[Six Days of Münster]], René Pijnen with Günther Haritz
: [[Six Days of Grenoble]], Günther Haritz
;1977
: [[Four Days of Dunkirk]], [[Gerrie Knetemann]]
: [[Rund um den Henninger-Turm]], Gerrie Knetemann
: [[1977 Tour de France|Tour de France]]: 8 stages ([[Dietrich Thurau]] (5), [[Gerrie Knetemann]] (2), Hennie Kuiper); 1st young rider classification (Dietrich Thurau), 1st team classification
: [[Six Days of Herning]], René Pijnen 
: [[Six Days of Cologne]], René Pijnen with Günther Haritz
: [[Six Days of London]], René Pijnen
: [[Six Days of Rotterdam]], René Pijnen
: [[Six Days of Grenoble]], René Pijnen
;1978
: [[Amstel Gold Race]], [[Jan Raas]]
: [[Paris–Nice]], [[Gerrie Knetemann]]
: [[Paris–Brussels]], Jan Raas
: [[Paris–Tours]], Jan Raas
: [[Tour de Romandie]], [[Johan van der Velde]]
: [[Tour de Suisse]], [[Paul Wellens (cyclist)|Paul Wellens]]
: World Champion, Elite road, Gerrie Knetemann
: [[1978 Tour de France|Tour de France]]: 10 stages (Jan Raas (3), Gerrie Knetemann (2), Paul Wellens, [[Klaus-Peter Thaler]], [[Hennie Kuiper]], [[Henk Lubberding]], team time trial); 7 yellow jerseys (Jan Raas (3), Gerrie Knetemann (2), Klaus-Peter Thaler (2)); 1st (Henk Lubberding) young rider classification
;1979
: [[Amstel Gold Race]], [[Jan Raas]]
: [[Tour of Flanders]], Jan Raas
: [[Tour de Suisse]], Wilfried Wesemael
: World Champion, Elite Road, Jan Raas
: World Champion, Elite [[individual pursuit]], [[Bert Oosterbosch]]
: [[1979 Tour de France|Tour de France]]: 6 stages ([[Gerrie Knetemann]] (2), team time trial (2), Jan Raas, [[Leo van Vliet]]); 1 yellow jersey (Gerrie Knetemann)
;1980
: [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] [[1980 Tour de France|Tour de France]], [[Joop Zoetemelk]]
: [[Amstel Gold Race]], [[Jan Raas]]
: [[Critérium du Dauphiné|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]], [[Johan van der Velde]]
: [[Tour de Luxembourg]], [[Bert Oosterbosch]]
: [[Gent–Wevelgem]], [[Henk Lubberding]]
: [[Tour of Belgium]], [[Gerrie Knetemann]]
: [[1980 Tour de France|Tour de France]]: 11 stages (Jan Raas (3), Joop Zoetemelk (2), 2 x team time trial, [[Gerrie Knetemann]], Bert Oosterbosch, Henk Lubberding, [[Cees Priem]]); 11 yellow jerseys (Joop Zoetemelk (10), Gerrie Knetemann); General classification: 1st (Joop Zoetemelk); 1st (Johan van der Velde) young rider classification
;1981
: [[Omloop Het Nieuwsblad|Omloop Het Volk]], [[Jan Raas]]
: [[Gent–Wevelgem]], Jan Raas
: [[Paris–Tours]], Jan Raas
: [[Tour of Belgium]], [[Ad Wijnands]]
: [[1981 Tour de France|Tour de France]]: 7 stages (team time trial (2), Ad Wijnands (2), [[Johan van der Velde]] (2), [[Urs Freuler]]); 4 yellow jerseys ([[Gerrie Knetemann]])
;1982
: [[Amstel Gold Race]], [[Jan Raas]]
: [[Paris–Roubaix]], Jan Raas
: [[Gent–Wevelgem]], [[Frank Hoste]]
: [[Four Days of Dunkirk]], Frank Hoste
: [[Paris–Brussels]], [[Jacques Hanegraaf]]
: [[Rund um den Henninger-Turm]], [[Ludo Peeters]]
: [[1982 Tour de France|Tour de France]]: 6 stages ([[Gerrie Knetemann]] (2), Jan Raas, Frank Hoste, Ludo Peeters, team time trial); 1 yellow jersey (Ludo Peeters)

: World Track Championships, Leicester England, [[Gordon Singleton]] Gold in Keirin, Silver in Sprint
;1983
: [[Tour of Flanders]], [[Jan Raas]]
: [[Gent–Wevelgem]], [[Leo van Vliet]]
: [[Four Days of Dunkirk]], Leo van Vliet
: [[Rund um den Henninger-Turm]], [[Ludo Peeters]]
: [[Paris–Tours]], Ludo Peeters
: [[Züri-Metzgete|Championship of Zurich]], [[Johan van der Velde]]
: [[1983 Tour de France|Tour de France]]: 4 stages ([[Bert Oosterbosch]] (2), [[Peter Winnen]], [[Henk Lubberding]]); 1st team classification
{{Div col end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite news|last=Charlesworth|first=Pedr|title=TI Raleigh Cycling Team: Jan Raas, Peter Post|url=https://www.prendas.co.uk/blogs/news/ti-raleigh-cycling-team|access-date=10 April 2020|website=Prendas Ciclismo|date=30 July 2019}}

==External links==
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