The idea of founding a professional cycling team came from Bostjan Mervar in a talk to Miran Tepes at the 2015 Slovenian sports awards. Mervar was there to representate Adria Mobil, Tepes was invited by the Slovenian ski-jumping federation. Having a talk about the similarities of both sports the pair of them made their talks a little more concrete over the next months. Having talks in behind with sponsors, riders and possible management members.

While Bostjan and Mitja will have an impact on the riders and races Miran (coming from ski-jumping, kind of popular to go this way in slovenia) and Robert Kranjec as a "trainee" will go for all the things aroung cycling from sponsoring talks to efficient food & training plans.
Beneath the leading presence in negotiations Przemyslaw will also be around in the team cars and join Robert on the cycling side of training stuff.

Our main sponsor Isostar is a rising company in the sports nutrition branche. Their focus lies on exercise drinks, and outfitting the sponsored sportsmen is another overlap to our team in addition to the obvious link of a sport nutritions company and a cycling team.

They´re coming from minor sponsoring all disciplines of triathlon, but we are the pilot project of a bigger sports sponsorship for their international developement. We always went for a main sponsor which sees us as their main sports project, so we are very happy about our partnership with Isostar.

The Croatian travel agency Adriatic is our secondary sponsor. At Adriatic it´s all about creating some nice days for the visitors, what´s exactly the opposite of what we aim to do: kicking some ass.

As we are understanding ourselves as an international team with deep regional feelings we looked all over Slovenia and the balkan states. With the tour of Croatia and some riders really coming up it was a great idea to work with an all-balkan big company in the strongest south-eastern european countries in terms of cycling activity. The partnership helps both sides in terms of marketing for their project, we get some nice financial help and they get a bigger international reputance.

The contact was created at a big tourism meeting conference in Zagreb, where we seemed to have a good day presenting our project, as we also started successful talks with the


Croatian and the Slovenian tourism boards. They both feed us with a small budget to make the respective countries grow a little in terms of reputance, especially with the perfect weather & street conditions for potential open cycling races like the big one on the Croatian isle Corkula.

Last up of the supporting travel agencies is Kompas Holidays. They are contrarily to Adriatic less on the sunny coast but more in the beautiful Slovenian countryside. Rumours say they like Simon Spilak and hope to increase the amount of hobby-cyclists giving their freetime to a trip into the Slovenian highlands through him. It was tough to tell them that they need to spend way more money if they want to see him in the lime green of ours. Serious people say Miran knew them well as they already sponsored the Slovenian olympic sports team some time ago and still had some contacts.

These were also helping us together with the actual popularity of Robert. He retired after his second title on the ski-flying world championships at the Kulm in Austria, and while pointing at the logos of


Gorenje & Triglav he has already known that he would wear their logos on his shirt already after his career as a professional ski-jumper but on the sweet Isostar-Adriatic staff polo shirt.
Both white goods and insurance companies play a main part in the sponsorship of various international sportsmen from Slovenia, mostly known at the moment through the ski-jumping team around the Prevc-brothers. It wasn´t too hard to make them spend some mone on our team, especially cause the contact was there already.