PDM Cycling Team: Featured below is a photo gallery of professional cyclists who raced for the PDM Cycling Team. Its also a great reference of Concorde bicycles over the years:  Notice here the Campagnolo Delta brakes on Steven Rooks' bike. Later PDM moved away from using these brakes to using Colbalto brakes, like the example below, which had better braking performance and were easier to adjust and maintain.   Notice here Erik Breukink's bike has Chorus brakes. In the early 90s PDM started to use Chorus for the same reasons they used Colbalto.  Another thing PDM did was use steel bidden cages as they didn't break when riding over cobbles. Notice the steel cages on Martin Earley's bike.  Notice here Pedro Delgardo's bike in 1985 Tour de France featuring external cables and toe clips, while Bernard Hinault uses the Look prototype clip-less pedals and Patrick shoes.   Chorus brakes again while Greg LeMond chooses the Delta brakes.  Notice Sean Kelly here also using Chorus brakes and toe clips in the early 90's. Sean Kelly was one of the last professional cyclists to change over to clip-less pedals. Notice on Kelly's support car his spare bike with Delta brakes. | Life of a Spanner Man
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  Above is an early photo of the Ultima PDM Concorde Pro Cycling Team possibly from 1987 because squatting down second from the left is Pedro Delgado.
 See above Adrie Van der Poel in 1988 riding for PDM with Campagnolo Delta brakes, and what looks like a blurry Steven Rooks in the background. PHOTO: Graham Watson
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