New bikes, custom paint, new bars, and fresh t🍸ech on show in the lead up to the Tour
(Image credit: Will Jones)
The Tour de France is, for cycling, something akin to a season finale that occurs in the middle of the season. Teams want to use the best tech possible, but they also try and avoid using anything brand new, preferring to trial potential new products in the warm up races leading up to La Grand Boucle. One such warm up is the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné, a one week stage race in central France.
Last year we saw the first pictures of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:new Trek Madone here, and this year the talk of the town is the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:new BMC prototype that's broken cover. We've got a separate story just for that if you want to nerd out on all the juicy details, but roaming the paddock at Chambon sur Lac, I spotted plenty more noteworthy tech. The BMC wasn't the only prototype, with something 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:brand new from Ridley too, and the same Look prototype I spotted at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Flanders earlier in the year.
Without further ado, then, here is all I've snapped, papped, and gleaned from the start of the Dauphiné.✨ Every custom paint job, aero mod, sponsor incorrect piece ⛄of gear and plenty more besides.
At 🧸Lotto-Dstny a never before seen, seemingly ꦜall round road bike was spotted (Image credit: Will Jones)
Not so deep as the Noah, nor as sp🦄indly a𒉰s the Helium (Image credit: Will Jones)
It certainly blended in better with the team bikes than the new BMC, as you'll꧟ see shortly (Image credit: Will Jones)
A relatively dꦕeep BB, but nothing like those seen on aero bikes (Image credit: Will Jones)
A fresh head ꦅtube, and fork too by th꧑e looks of things (Image credit: Will Jones)
Gold chains all round for Lotto-Dstny (Image credit: Will Jones)
Something🐈 about this bike is not l൩ike the others... (Image credit: Will Jones)
Is 🦹it 𒀰the bars? No, they just have hoods swept in as normal (Image credit: Will Jones)
🦂Can you spot it here, as the team car drives past? (Image credit: Will Jones)
Yep, it's the extremely subtle and hard to spot trademark enormous chainring. Only 58t here, with a 44t inner ring, smaller than the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:insane 62t monster setup he used at Opening Weeke🍃nd this year; no classified hub this time though (Image credit: Will Jones)
Is this tech? No, but it's dea🎉d cute, and why Victor is a firm fan favourite (Image credit: Will Jones)
The other big scoop of the day was the b﷽𝐆rand new BMC prototypes seen at AG2R (Image credit: Will Jones)
The good thing about prototypes is that you can test them out and se🌃e what doesn't work. In this case the dℱown tube bottle rests on the seat tube bottle, rather than the bottom of its cage (Image credit: Will Jones)
Clearly Red Bull have 💮had some input. Given the F1 connection it could be wind tunnel, carbon expertise, both, or more (Image credit: Will Jones)
The dropouts are very neat, with no axle exposed (Image credit: Will Jones)
A highꦆ BB box, as has become the norm for aero bikes (Image credit: Will Jones)
As ever, a one piece cockpit is fitted (Image credit: Will Jones)
The forks are pr൲etty wild to behold. Tyre clearance doesn't seem as wide as you'd think, but the wide legs are very reminiscent of the Hope x Lotus track bike of the last Olympics (Image credit: Will Jones)
The rear derailleur has had a total overhaul to account for the st🉐andalone battery design (Image credit: Will Jones)
As has the front derai♎lleur, though the batteries aren't interchangeable as they are with SRAM systems (Image credit: Will Jones)
O'Connor has an older power meter fitted, as despite the giant price tag of the new groupset, there's no power meter ꦜoption as yet (Image credit: Will Jones)
Over at EF Educatio𝄹n-Easypost rider's bottles are marked up. 60,🏅 I suspect, denotes the carb content, while X is likely just plain water (Image credit: Will Jones)
An FSA crankset deviaꩵtes from the Dura-Ace build up (Image credit: Will Jones)
Again, not strictly tech, but tea꧅m issue bucket hats are cool, 𒁃and I want one - My DM's are open, EF! (Image credit: Will Jones)
Despite the 'LAB71' paint on all the team bikes, each rider is still using the Hi-MOD version of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:new Cannondale Supersix(Image credit: Will Jones)
Richard Cara🌳paz has more than one custom bike with him for the Dauphiné. Here, it's hi🌳s national champions bike... (Image credit: Will Jones)
...complete with 🧜Ecuadorian cresℱts on the forks... (Image credit: Will Jones)
...and here is his🔥 gold bike, for be🅠ing Olympic champion (Image credit: Will Jones)
Gold pen marks Cara💟paz' saddle height, but that's not an Olympic affectation; evꦆery bike uses gold pen (Image credit: Will Jones)
A last minute crankset swap for a Movistar rider (Image credit: Will Jones)
Enric Mas has a superlight version of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:new Canyon Ultimate, with next to no paint 🌌at all besides the shadows of the Canyon l꧋ettering (Image credit: Will Jones)
His hubs were seen with bl✤ue stickers, which didn't feature on any other team wheels. The reason for this remains a mystery for now (Image credit: Will Jones)
Sa🌟tellite blips tucked under the hoods for shifting while sprinting (Image credit: Will Jones)
Oddly, Mas choose✅s not to use the top-end Look Keo Blade pedals, instead opting for the Keo 2 Max Carbon model (Image credit: Will Jones)
A✤ quick check of the tyre pressure makes sure the bike is race readಌy before the start of the stage (Image credit: Will Jones)
Another rider also sported a lighter paint scheme, ♊🐽just mot quite so minimal (Image credit: Will Jones)
Here's essentially all the paint used on Mas' bike; a few dash🦋es of white (Image credit: Will Jones)
A Fiz💙ik Argo saddle is the perch of choice for Mas (Image credit: Will Jones)
Ope♐n bolt recesses aren't aero, but it's nothing a bit of electrical tape can't fix (Image credit: Will Jones)
Othܫer Movistar riders opted for the Aeroad, despite the lumpy profile f🐠or stage one and in general (Image credit: Will Jones)
I don't think I've ever seen SRAM blips here, 🐽where Giulio Ciccone runs his, presumably to enable shifting with his little or ring fi💜ngers during extended periods in the drops (Image credit: Will Jones)
Given how Covꦗid impacted the recent Giro d'It𒅌alia, we saw most teams masking up (Image credit: Will Jones)
Cycling doesn't get any more euro than this (Image credit: Will Jones)
Alaphilippe not running tubeless here, but curiously his team bikes had diffe♐rent valves. Perhaps one of his spare bikes was using latex tubes... (Image credit: Will Jones)
...and the other simple butyl? (Image credit: Will Jones)
One of his ꧑spare bikes also uses old 11sp chainrings, which🐲 is a common mod (Image credit: Will Jones)
Posh💟 pulley wheels were on show on some Intermarche-Wanty-Circus bikes (Image credit: Will Jones)
While some🎃 riders opt for a rundown of the stage profile, other simply like to be told when and what to eat and drink (Image credit: Will Jones)
Rotor🤪 chainsets stray away from the Shimano build (Image credit: Will Jones)
The paint is mu꧃ch better in real life, bu♎t this gives you an idea of the textured finish beneath the gloss varnish (Image credit: Will Jones)
Here a﷽ rider has the classic ಌstage info to refer to (Image credit: Will Jones)
Instructions as to how to tighten theꦐ seatpost for even the most forgetful of mechanics (Image credit: Will Jones)
Another paint job that looks great in the sun (Image credit: Will Jones)
𓄧Unlike the rest o✃f his team, Ryan Mullen of Bora Hansgrohe uses a Pro Vibe Evo cockpit (Image credit: Will Jones)
This appears to b♉e a brand new cockpit from Specialized, much deeper in profile than 𝔍the only one-piece in it's lineup, the Alpinist SL (Image credit: Will Jones)
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Will joined the Cyclingnews team as a reviews writer in 2022, having previously written for Cyclist, BikeRadar and Advntr. He’s tried his hand at most cycling disciplines, from the standard mix of road, gravel, and mountain bike, to the more unusual like bike polo and tracklocross. He’s made his own bike frames, covered tech news from the biggest races on the planet, and published countless premium galleries thanks to his excellent photographic eye. Also, given he doesn’t ever ride indoors he’s become a real expert on fou𓂃l-weather riding gear. His collection of bikes is a real smorgasbord, with everything from vintage-style steel tourers through to superlight flat bar hill climb machines.
