Defending Tour de France champion wore Castelli's new 🌱Body Paint 4.0 Speed Suit (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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The Poles were flying their colors, too (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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This guy's man finished 58th (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Outside of 🦩the circu🍨s that is the Tour de France, these men would turn heads. Inside the Tour, it's fairly normal (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Aero boot🎶ies served more than one purpose on the wet 💎day (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Lens tint was debated by a few ride🍷rs for the flat-light conditio🔯ns (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Some riders༺ needed a little hands-on help getting their visors attached (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Some guys went for clear sunglasses that could be adjusted if need be for fogging꧂ or greeting friends (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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And some riders ♏stayed the course with dark viso📖rs (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Integrated viso💟rs are probably better aerodymically, but they don't yet come with integrat𝔍ed wipers (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Going wit🐬hout is one way to eliminate rain or fog or the lenses or visor (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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The Giro Aerohead visor can be removed and attached upside-down to the top of the helmet. It's an easy process, but still not something rꦅiders would want to do in the middle of a technical, rainy time trial (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Long, pointy⛄ helmets reached their elongated peak a few✨ years ago, and TT lids are now trending more towards snub rear ends (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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POC🐲's Cerebal Raceday is a good example ꧟of the new-school time trail helmet (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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The RH+ ZTT is another snub-tailed TT lid (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Fans' clothing is🐟n't always team-specific; it's often nation-specific. Here, Colombian fans go crazy for Orcia-Scott's♊ leader Esteban Chaves (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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G൲endarmes on motos had more than 🐈paint protecting them (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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The shoulders and upper arms feature dimple💝d material, p🌃resumably as vortex generators to smooth air flow (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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A few Sky riders used♔ tꩵhe current Body Paint 3.3 Speed Suit (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Sky's Vasil Kiryienka took thꦺird on the treacherous course in the new 4.0 Speed Suit (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Rain clothing was used heavily by riders before and after 🌟the time🔯 trial (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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While staying aero was critical for the 16- to 19-minute race effort, staying comfortable before and after mea🐠nt lots of layers (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Tour GC hopeful Nairo Quin🌄tana stayed casual and relaxed until about an hour before his start (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Compression socks are still faꦐvored by many ﷺriders after their efforts (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Riders rolled to the check-in just behind the start hous♛e with all manner of last-minute nutrition (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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TT bar extensions: also handy as a thirಞd hand in a pinch (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Hoping for some liquid wings ahead of the liqꦛuid-covered corners (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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An ♌increasing number of riders use skinsuits with integrated number pouches stitched in (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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The Tour number🌸s stick on, but rider movement on the preferred lower placement for time trials means safety pins are a good idea (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Besides keeping number much smoother than pins, tဣhe integrated number p🌱ouches keep them flat and dry in the rain. This is Alberto Bettiol, the first riders to race a Tour time trial with disc brakes (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Castelli may have Body Paint 🌱Skin Suits, but this gu🦩y just uses paint (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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BMC and Katusha riders have ꦰthis new Giro Vanqu🐟ish helmet, but Giro isn't talking about it yet (Image credit: Ben Delaney/Immediate Media)
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Power divided by aerodynamic drag is a primary game in time trials, and clothing companies like Castelli pulled out all the stops for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:opening TT of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France with brand new and tried-and-true aero gear.
"We have spent the last nine months working on this," Castelli’s Steve Smith told BikeRadar. "We have gone beyond rider-specific design⭕s to speed-𝔉specific concepts."
By rider-speci🥂fic, Smith was referring to the tailoring Castelli has done for top riders, adjusting fabric type and seam placement based on an individual’s shape in a wind tunnel.
Now, the Bodyꦚ Paint 4.0 suit is targeted for speeds ♛around 50kph.
Most notable on the 4.0 are the textured patches on the port♒ions of the upper arms and shoulders tha🍌t face the wind. Presumably, these dots are there as vortex generators, smoothing the airflow around the body.
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Smith said the 4.0 suit is actually marginally slower than the current 3.3 suit at slower speeds, but for a short effort it was the top speed that mattered. On July 1, stage winner Geraint Thomas average 52.3kph for 16 minutes and four seconds. And that𓆏 was on a rain-drenched technical course with plenty of treacherous turns.
Click through the gallery above for a look at the various clo𓂃thing strategꦉies riders and even fans employed on stage 1 of the 2017 Tour de France.