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Aerodynamic bikes may be all the rage in the road bike market these days but you'd hardly know it by looking at the bikes used by riders starting stage 2 of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia. Of the 22 teams on hand, only about half a dozen were primarily on aero rigs while another two or three fiel♕ded a ꦅmixed group. Nearly everyone else was on a nominally round-tubed machine. 

Several factors seemed to play𒈔 a role in this decision. Many teams here are sponsored by companies that don't yet make an aero model, plus the second half of the route along the coastal edge of Northern Ireland was expected to include some potentially wicked cro🔯sswinds (that never really materialized) where deep-profile tubes could have proved tough to handle.

Even squads with easy access to aero bikes didn't use them, however, such as Astana, BMC, Omega Pharma-Quick Step, and Tinkoff-Saxo. Mind you, three of those are sponsored by Specialized, who recently launched a new Tarmac model and may have wanted a littl✨e more attention paid that way.

Most teams certainly still opted for aero wheels, though, but section depths mostly hovered at a modest 30-50mm or so. We noticed plenty of 25mm-wide tubular tires, too, even from teams that don't have a wide-profile rim to match. Even stage winner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marcel Kittel (Giant-Shimano) used 25mm-wide Vittoria tubulars on his Giaꦍnt Propel A𒈔dvanced machine.

Aerodynamic drawbacks or not to the mismatch, it seems that more ܫthan a few racers may have been prompted by the perpetually threatening weather to go the conservative route in terms of grip.