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Having become the first WorldTour team to use a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:disc brake equipped bike at this year’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a Espana, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trek Factory Racing has decided against continuing its trial at the first rac꧋e of the 2016 WorldTour calendar, the Tour Down Under in January.

Cyclingnews understands the team has plans to use discs, most likely the disꦫc model of the Madone as ridden by Markel Irizar at the Vuelta, at specific races with specific riders and will finalise its plans in coming weeks.

Unlike several teams in the WorldTour, there is no 🧔wait for Trek to use disc brakes with Trek bicycles and Shimano, the brake and groupset sponsor of the team, already in production of disc ready bikes, and road discs respectively. Of the three groupset providers to the WorldTour, Shimano, SRAM and Campagnolo, only the latter currently doesꦦ not have a disc brake publicly available. However the Italian company has filed a patent for a fluid system hidden in the handlebars and could be ready for the spring Classics. Astana, Lotto-Soudal and Movistar rode Campagnolo-equipped bikes this season.

Following the UCI’s announcement that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:disc brakes🧜 can be used from Januaꦿry 1, there has been speculation regarding which teams and riders will take up the new technology. Astana’s Vincenzo Nibali told Cyclingnews that he is in favour of disc brakes but conceded riders will takeཧ time to adjust to new braking methods.

There is concern that disc brakes will cause g🔯reater crashes in the pro peloton with some suggestജions that mass crash on stage 2 of the Vuelta was due to the greater stopping power of the disc over traditional calliper brakes.

The introduction of disc brakes int🅠o the peloton has been suggested as a way for the bike industry to boost bike sales rather than for sporting reasons with riders unsure regarding the benefits of the braking system. With no current standard rotor size and a mix of quick release and through-axle wheels being used, wheel changes following punctures and mechanicals could become slower. 

With vital WorldTour points available at the Tour Down Under, WorldTour teams could follow in Trek’s footsteps i✃n skipping the Australian race as a testing ground and instead trial the braking system at a lower ranked race.

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