The ADR cycling team is perhaps best known for being home to a resurgent Greg LeMond and his narrow Tour de France victory of 1989. ADR (AD Renting)-Bottechia was possibly the only organization that was willing to sign the American star after his suffering a near-fatal shooting accident some two years earlier. But many other notable riders came through its ranks over the years through its original guise as Fangio (late-1970s) and ultimately Tulip (1991-1992), Johan Museeuw, Eddy Planckaert, Adri van der Poel, Colin Sturgess and Allan Peiper being amongst the most notable.Unbeknownst to many, though, is the fact that the team was also home to a few South African riders during the years of sporting isolation. Starting with Robbie McIntosh in 1980, both Willie Engelbrecht and Mark Beneke joined the ADR-Fangio-IOC-MBK ranks seven years later, albeit via a somewhat circuitous route.
