Editing Graeme Obree (section)

===Professional career===
Obree rode his hour records as an amateur. He took a professional licence after winning his first world championship, telling Bryan: "I reckon I can make more money on the bike than I get from unemployment benefit."<ref name="PCi" />

He joined [[Le Groupement (cycling team)|Le Groupement]], a French team but did not attend a meeting in [[Les Carroz d'Arâches]] ([[:fr:Les Carroz d'Arâches|fr]])<ref name="CW19Aug95" /> and was fired for "lack of professionalism."<ref name="CWsacked">{{cite magazine| title=Obree sacked by French team| magazine=Cycling Weekly| location=UK|date=January 1995}}</ref> Obree had been racing in Florida when the team first met. But he was on holiday there when the team met again for publicity photographs. He got to the next get-together but flew to Paris instead of [[Lille]], where the meeting was held.<ref name="CWsacked" />

The team manager, Patrick Valcke, said:

:"If a rider has that attitude, it's best to stop working together as soon as possible. We paid for his tickets [to fly from [[Glasgow]] to [[Geneva]]] and he didn't even turn up, didn't even phone to explain why he was not coming. He said that he did not want to leave his family so soon after the death of his brother (''see below'') but he could have phoned to tell us that. I don't want any more to do with him."<ref name="CWsacked" />

Obree said: "I was too ill to attend the get-together and had no success when I attempted to contact team officials on 1 January. My wife, Anne, who is a nurse, insisted I was not well enough to travel to France."<ref name="CW19Aug95" /><ref name="CWsacked" />

The Le Groupement team fell apart after a short time, when the sponsoring company was involved in scandal, with accusations that it was nothing but a pyramid selling scheme. Some of the team members claimed that they were owed money, and their wages had not been paid.