Starting in 2025 DeFeet is proud to announce it has been chosen as the Performance Partner for socks by Team Visma - Lease a Bike. This decision was made after the team did their own extensive, independent testing in late 2024. Based in the Netherlands, Visma - Lease a Bike is one of the top cycling teams in the World. With their womens elite, mens elite and U23 programs the team is a threat to not only win the Tour de France and other Grand Tours but any race on the calendar including Monuments like Paris - Roubaix, Ronde van Vlaanderen, Milan - San Remo, Amstel Gold race and Liege - Bastogne - Liege.
Team Visma - Lease a Bike has a roster that includes two time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard, Wout van Aert and Americans including Matteo Jorgenson and Tour of Spain winner Sepp Kuss. The womens team includes Giro d'Italia winner and World Champion Marianne Vos, multiple time World and Olympic Champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot and World Cyclocross Champion Fem van Empel.
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In the video below, DeFeet founder Shane Cooper takes a quick look at the Visma - Lease a Bike team bus layout at their January training camp in Benidorm, Spain. Since 1992 DeFeet sfaff have been hands-on with every pro team collaboration DeFeet has been a part of. DeFeet has been directly involved with Pro Tour and Tour de France teams for 33 consecutive years, an amazing record only a handful of brands and no other American made brand can match.
DeFeet believes that superior products result from having great direct relationships with athletes, collaborating on new ideas and prototypes and applying superior attention to detail throughout the manufacturing process. This has made DeFeet the established global leader in these categories and is evidenced in this partnership with Team Visma - Lease a Bike.
