Once 1990 - cycling figurine

This figurine captures the Once team jersey exactly as it appeared in the professional peloton during the 1990 season. Cast in zamak — a zinc alloy prized for its durability and the sharpness of its detail — it is handpainted in small batches at Le Petit Cycliste's workshop in Roubaix.

1990 was only Once's second season at professional level, yet the team was already establishing itself as one of Spain's most ambitious outfits. Backed by ONCE, the Spanish national organisation for the blind, the squad was a regular presence at the major races on the European calendar — classics, stage races — steadily building a reputation in a peloton where Spain was beginning to assert itself. A formative season, laying the groundwork for what would become one of the defining teams of the decade.

• Material: zamak (zinc alloy) — robust, with crisp and faithful detail
• Handpainted at the workshop in Roubaix
• French manufacture, small-batch production
• Sized to match all other figurines in the collection

A piece for collectors rebuilding the peloton season by season — and for anyone who carries a living memory of the teams that shaped professional cycling in the 1990s.