Sponsored Teams
Racing on Unior tools in 2026
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Movistar Team
Movistar named Unior its official hand-tool supplier in May 2015 — the race-truck workshop fit-out plus the tool case issued to every mechanic — and renewed for 2017. Unior is listed on the team's own partner page under Bike Tools today.
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Caja Rural–Seguros RGA
Spain's longest-running professional team carries Unior among its sponsors, with a dedicated entry on its own sponsor page. 2026 is the squad's biggest season yet — its first invitation to the Tour de France.
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LupineFactory Racing
Lupine Factory Racing
Unior USA joined the programme as a partner for the 2026 season, announced in February. The closest of the three to home — American riders, American racing.
Unior's own race team, 2010–2024
From 2010 to 2024 Unior was title sponsor of the UCI-registered mountain bike team run by Cycling Club Rajd of Ljubljana — racing as Unior Tools Team from its 2010 launch, as Unior Devinci Factory Racing from 2018 to 2020, and as Unior–Sinter Factory Racing from 2021 through 2024.
Across those fifteen seasons the team entered around 160 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup events by its own count, across cross-country, downhill, enduro, four-cross, short track and BMX. Its rider Tanja Žakelj won the 2013 UCI cross-country World Cup overall title, together with two World Cup rounds and the European title that year. In 2017 the Slovenian Cycling Federation named Unior Tools the country's best mountain-bike team of the season.
Fifteen years of race mechanics working out of a Unior toolbox, in the one environment where a tool either holds up or it doesn't.
In the WorldTour service course, 2013–2025
Tool contracts in professional cycling turn over season by season, and no pro workshop is single-brand. Over twelve seasons Unior hand tools went into some of the biggest service courses in road cycling — these are the windows, as documented by the teams themselves.
The Quick-Step lineage, 2013–2024
Unior was listed as a partner on the official website of the Belgian WorldTeam that raced under names including Omega Pharma–Quick-Step, Etixx–Quick-Step, Quick-Step Floors, Deceuninck–Quick-Step, Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl and Soudal Quick-Step, in archived captures from at least March 2013 through December 2024, with its own entry on the team's equipment page in that final year. Those were the seasons in which the squad won Milano–Sanremo and Paris–Roubaix in 2019 and took the yellow jersey at that year's Tour de France.
The British WorldTour squad, 2016–2024
Unior hand tools went into WorldTour service in 2016, when the mechanics of the British squad adopted them — the team's own site announced that June that "Team Sky's mechanics are using Unior tools in 2016". Unior Tools was still listed on the team's partner index in the archived capture of 7 December 2024, across its Team Sky, Team Ineos and INEOS Grenadiers identities. The 1693R Pro Road Stand was co-developed with those mechanics over two seasons — and it is the same stand we sell today.
Team Jumbo-Visma, 2021–2022
Across the 2021 and 2022 seasons the Dutch WorldTour team listed Unior among the tool suppliers on its own partners page, in Internet Archive captures dated 11 April 2021 to 30 November 2022. That window covers Wout van Aert's double-ascent Mont Ventoux stage win at the 2021 Tour de France, Primož Roglič's third consecutive Vuelta a España, and Jonas Vingegaard's 2022 Tour de France — by the team's own account the most successful Tour in its history.
Trek's race programmes, 2016–2025
Unior's logo appeared in every archived capture of the road team's partner listing on Trek's own race site from January 2018 through December 2025, and on the Trek Factory Racing downhill and cross-country listings from June 2019. Trek put the scope in its own words in March 2023: Unior supplied "tools and workbenches for Trek-owned stores and the Trek Factory Racing squads", describing Unior as "one of the Bicycle Company's biggest partners".
In the downhill pits, 2015–2022
The UR Team, then racing as Polygon UR, published a dedicated Unior Tools page under Sponsors on its own website in January 2015. The COMMENCAL downhill squad run by Riding Addiction named Unior Tools in its season-launch partner lists in 2016, 2018 and 2020, calling Unior one of its technical partners in the January 2018 release, and independent trade press reported Unior supplying that squad again in April 2022. Those seasons span Amaury Pierron's 2018 elite men's downhill World Cup overall and Tracey Hannah's 2019 elite women's overall.
In February 2020 Atherton Bikes announced Unior as a tool partner of its race team, saying Unior would "kit out our racetruck and our workshop at Team Headquarters" in Wales. Unior Tools was among the partners the team listed as continuing for 2022.
A race truck is the hardest place a hand tool works: bikes stripped and rebuilt between runs, in the mud, against a start list.
In the United States, and at home in Slovenia
In the United States, Aevolo Cycling — then a UCI Continental under-23 development team, since disbanded — carried a Unior USA sponsor logo on its own sponsors page from February 2020 to May 2021.
In Slovenia, Unior announced a four-year agreement in September 2010 to supply the national cycling teams with professional bike-maintenance tools.
The same tools
The stand co-developed with WorldTour mechanics, the torque wrenches, the chain tools — the professional line described on this page is the line we stock.