Glam⛎our meets necessity for European pros in California
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ꦺBookwalter opted for 50mm wheels while van Garderen went 75(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Former Paris-Roubaix winner Mat Hayman ⛎gets his playlist going outside Mitchelton-Scott's rented camper van(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
W𝐆ho needs a wheel block when you've got cardboard?(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Sometimes, the simple solutions aಞre 🦄the most effective, like paint marker for saddle height(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Lachlan Morton was one of many riders pushing a 55t big ri𒐪ng(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
ENVE's massive 💛integrated stem nestles down on to𒆙p of normal spacers(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Dimension Data 🌃mou🔜nts the riders' Di2 junction port in an unconventional spot (Image credit: Ben Delaney)
No bar tape, just the tiniest bit of electrical tap to kee💃p the Di2 wire tucked out of the way(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Sunweb's Mike Teunissen was one of the few riders racing the TT on ♔a road bike. The sprinter finished 106th of 116 riders(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Elite's Power Mag🌸 trainers are popular for pro warm-ups. They aren't fancy or expensive, but they do the trick, and they are light and easy to transport(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
ENVE isn't yet ready to talk about the disc, but the wide 🎐weave lo💛oks like TeXtreme(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
While the ENVE prototype disc is 🤡tubeless, Dimension🉐 Data raced on clinchers(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
BMC's Ian Sherburne has dialed in a bike or two in his many years with ♋the squad(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Cannondale has emphatically pushed its♍ SuperSlice disc bikes, but no oth🔴er teams have followed suit for time trials(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
💜Bora's Maciej Bodnar, a former ATOC TT winner, warms up with his Wahoo Elemnt Bolt(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Bodnar had a wide 💞strip of smooth tape covering a stitched-on patch of grip tape, which a mechanic removed after his warm-up(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Many time tria🧸lists like to have extra traction on their saddles, since they often ride forward on the nose(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
After Bodnar's warm-up, the Roval 64 comes off(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
And the new Roval 321 Disc goes on. The Shiv TT's horizontal dropouts make wheel changes a l💖ittle trickier(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
ENVE has a tubeless disc in prototype form(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Blank rings are fairly co🐼mmon for time-trial days, as riders and mechanics reach for non-standard options(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
For instance, who makes t🌜his outer ring? Your guess is as good as ours(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Mat Hayman ran an old-school SRM on his Scott(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
▨But, like with the rest of the Euro teams, Kittel travels in a different class of vehicle when on the west side of the Atlantic(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
The back of♔ Axeon's race van is a mul꧒ti-purpose space(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
While the WorldTour riders have skinsuits with built-in number pockets, the Axeon boys pin on t♊heir race numbers like the rest of us(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Here you can see the integra꧙ted number pouch of ATOC stage 1 winner Fernando Gaviria (Image credit: Ben Delaney)
AG2R La Mondiale uses oversized CeramicSpeed pul🃏leys on its Factor TT bikes(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
The Elite Drඣivo smꦺart trainer is novel in that is doesn't have to be plugged in(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
🦄What kind of gear bags have dedicated 'EYEWEAR' pouches? Oakley bags, of course(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Holowesko's T.J. Eisenhart warms ꦿup on his Feedback Sports Omni🎃um rollers(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Grand Tour sprinter Marc🦄el Kittel does his same warm-up regardless of race locati𒈔on(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
In Europe, three-time world champ💝ꦬion Peter Sagan and his Bora squad have a massive bus. In California? A rented camper and a 10x10 pop-up tent(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
A shade tent for Ian Stanndard to warm up 𒅌under, or a drying rack for staff c♚lothing? Yes(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Mat Hayman signs on(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Oakley's new ARO7 🐻lids were in use by Katusha and Dimensi🃏on Data(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Team follow cars came in all shapes and sizes for the time trial, as many teams relied on friends and family as well as꧃ staff(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Trek-Segafredo's Kiel Reijnenཧ looks on while his Toyota Prius follow car gets stickered up(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Keil Reijnen's back-up bike in the hatch🐈back wouldn't make for the fastest of bike changes(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
In Europe, Quick Step has massive busses and team trucks, and ri⛎ders are swarmed by fans. In California, the team rents campers and trucks, and riders make do in a low-key environment(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Being an American team, Education First ha🐠s wr🔜apped team vehicles for US races(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
LottoNL-Jumbo also makes do with rental equipment - and just-purchased f꧋ans - for US events(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Belgian national champ Oliver Naesen is a very fast sprinter, but not the fastest time trialist. He finished last on the d💞ay, eight minutes down on van Garderen(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Lawson Crad𝐆dock donned an ice vest before his 4th-place ride. And yes, sign in at the Amgen Tour of California is on a surf board(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
To mount a GoPro, of course(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Miguel Bryon had an extended 💝rail f🌞or a backwards-facing GoPro(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
While many riders have pro K-Edge mounts, 🐼others use Garmin's rubber-band mount. Here, a mechanic wraps an Edge leash around the arm pad, just in case(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Lachlan Morton's computer mount uses Garmin's rubber bands, zip ties 🎉and electrical tape(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Holowesko's 🐠Giro Hammerhead time trial helmets don't get rider names - just sizes(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
You know you're on a pro team when the chamois🧸 cream is🔥 transported by the tub-load(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
New skinsuits with the tags still on get tucked next to theಞ ever-popular Cokes(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Hagens Bermanꦇ Axeon's William Barta has his SRAM eTap junction tucked between his pads(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Why is this Holowesko BMC partially disasembled? (Image credit: Ben Delaney)
GoPro didn't use SeaSuckers, but the action-cam company had cameras seemingly everywheꦜre(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Each rider's name plate was attach♔ed with SeaSuckers(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Craddock's mechanic gave his tires a careful cleaning🍸 jus꧑t before he took off(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Education First was the only team to race on disc-brake time triꦐal bikes(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
CycleOps dressed up its Hammer smart tra💛iners for Trek-Segaf𒐪redo(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Peter Sagan w♔aits while hi♓s bike gets the UCI check(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Peter Sagan raced on 💎all manner of Specialized product, including the Power meter, but not the brand-new Roval 321 Disc(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
P🌊eter Sagan pairs his Elemꦆnt Bolt to his Power cranks(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
SeaSucke🤡r attachments were everywhere at the Amgen Tour ofജ California(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
The suction-cup company has a variet൲y of bike racks, including these full-scale team racks(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
SRAM's bar-end eTap shifters, ✃about as close as y♓ou can get them(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Barta opts for Specialized's triathlon perch(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
55-tooth rings were common for the 40-plus-minute time tri💞al(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Rally keeps traꦏck of which rider goes when, followed by which driver and which mechanic, if any(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Rally has a colorful stable of road bikes(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Robin Carpenter's Diamondback road bike(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Not the usual bike fouౠnd around team pits on time trial ♏day(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
UnitedHealthcare has been racing 28mm prototypes 𒊎for ꧃most of the road races this year(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Bora is racing on Specialized Power meters(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
BMC had a good day in the ATOC time trial: Tejay van Garderen and Patrick Bevin we💃nt 1-2 on the stage, and Joey Rosskopf got to fly the stars and stripes on his skinsuit(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
BMC's Brent Bookwalt🦩er raced the time trial without a power meter(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
And another example of a SeaSucker mount(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
A different sort of Rally car(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
And the H26 set-up of theඣ 6'4" / 193cm Nils Politt(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Tacx's aero bottles are popular for pro TTs(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
But storing normal bottles during warm-up requires a little creativ꧑ity(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Axeon's Mikkel Bjerg🐻 was the team's sole rider on Zipp's humpback🔯-inspired 858 NSW (Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Axeon's Ian Garrison was by no 𓂃means t💟he only rider warming up with his phone(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Katush'a C🐷an🌞yon H26 cockpit can be stacked up like lego(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Ergon has a different take on handlebar 'tape'(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
Big rings mean derailleur adjustments(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
A Katusha Canyon H26 in a lower position(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
BMC's van Garderen raced on feel,♋ not power data, to take the෴ win(Image credit: Ben Delaney)
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At the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Amgen Tour of California, many of the world's very best teams assembled for the start of Wednesday's time trial in a hodge podge of rented vehicles, with follow vehicles ranging from wrapped team cars to pick-🦂up trucks.
The actual c♕ycling gear was mostly straight-forward professional grade, but there was still a fair amount of quirky solutions to be found.
BikeRadar wandered the team🅷 pits and loitered behind the starting house fo👍r a close look at all the riders' gear.
Suction cups, protruding camera booms, ice vests and plenty ofဣ electrical-tape and cardboard solutions were to be found.
Click or swipe through the gallery above for a look💎 inside the gear of stage 4 of the Tour of California.
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