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Brooklyn (cycling team)

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Registered
  
Italy

Discipline
  
Founded
  
1970

Disbanded
  
1977

1970–19721973–1977
  
DreherBrooklyn

Brooklyn (cycling team) Brooklyn Chewing Gum

Brooklyn wes an Italian that existed from 1970 to 1977. It was a mainly a one-day classics team and featured riders such as Roger De Vlaeminck, who won four Paris–Roubaix. For the first three seasons it was sponsored by the Italian beer Dreher, and then for the following seasons by Italy's Brooklyn Chewing Gum.

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The documentary film A Sunday in Hell features the team during the 1976 Paris–Roubaix. Spike Lee as Mars Blackmon in She's Gotta Have It and early Nike Air Jordan commercials wore the team's now-iconic casquette (English: cap).

Brooklyn (cycling team) Celestino Vercelli A Racing Career Spent Serving Others
Brooklyn (cycling team) Stall Brooklyn

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Brooklyn (cycling team) Wikipedia