The Highest Paid Cyclist In De 2015 Tour

[oldroadman]

As a pro, it's not a given that your pay will go up each year or even stay where it is. You live by results or contribution to the team. High quality domestiques are very well paid because of the value they add in opening up win opportunities for the starred riders. But as you get older, performance tends to decline, and with it the pay. Which is why pro careers can be short lived or end up in a DS car. Or something else entirely. The old tradition, when pay was much less, was a bike shop or bar (and trade on name and past glories), no anything goes and top earners should be set up to do whatever they want. Oddly enough, I think agents can be a help, even if they cost a bit, because they tend to get better deals than a rider would - it's their job after all - and it saves riders being involved in negotiations with all those trustworthy team bosses when concentration on performing is important.

 

[jonny jeez]

If Cav is on that kind of dosh he must be the best paid cyclist in the world

I've heard that bill gates rides to the shops .

 

[Saddle bum]

I understand Phillipe Gilbert is on €6million.

 

[MisterStan]

I understand Phillipe Gilbert is on €6million.

I understand Gilbert is not riding Le Tour

 

[Mobytek]

So, to quote Messrs Bolting and Boardman:

Minimum wage teams are obliged to pay new comers is £36k, but many teams start out at around the £50k mark.

Lowest members of a Tour team, your domestique, can expect to start around £270k

Strong classic riders, super doms and those on the verge of greatness, between £350 and 500k.

Top spinters or expected stage winners rise to a new level - around the £1.8m for a start name.

Top of the tree are the main contenders, who can exect to be around the £3m mark. But unlike other sports these overall winners traditionally don't add a penn fro the £2m on offer as winning pirze money, This is instead split between the other riders, the teasm, support staff.

But some dont conform to this theory - Tejay as a guy on the verge is on areound £1m a year, and Mr sagan, who forms a category all of his own is reportedly on £2.9 deal with Alex tinkhoff.

And top of the tree is apparently Alberto Contador (apparently the highest paid rider who is on the tour - so thats the OP done).

For the season he races for about 60 days a year, 5hrs a day, which is £181 per minute (£3,258,000.00).

But still, compared to rooney who is on £300k a week, (£15.8m a year) which if he layed every minutie of every 90 minute game in a season, equates to £4561.00 per MINUTE!!.

There are thouhg others that may earn more er appearance, per year or per event, but that are, as was said above, not on the tour. some MTB rider get more than this and they will neer be on the tour.

 

[Wester]

On the ITV programme showing the highlights of the tour last night I thought that I heard Chris Boardman say when talking about the best paid cyclists in the tour that Alberto Contadar was the best paid in the tour

 

[Wester]

On the ITV programme showing the highlights of the tour last night I thought that I heard Chris Boardman say when talking about the best paid cyclists in the tour that Alberto Contadar was the best paid in the tour

mobytek . You beat me to it

 

[Milkfloat]

mobytek . You beat me to it

By 14 hours.

 

[winjim]

And top of the tree is apparently Alberto Contador (apparently the highest paid rider who is on the tour - so thats the OP done).

For the season he races for about 60 days a year, 5hrs a day, which is £181 per minute (£3,258,000.00).

No wonder he gets paid so much if he manages to be that good without doing any training!

 

[Mobytek]

By 14 hours.

Only just then, phew!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I looked at AG2R budget (link on same page as Sky link)..
the UCI minimum is 36,000 Euro that they can pay..
but it looks like you are self employed in Sky's case....

Thanks, that's an interesting comparison!