Cycling is a sport of tradition. The majority of riders tend to stick within unspoken boundaries, leaving the occasional maverick to push those norms. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Victor Campenaerts is definitely someone💦 who makes a habit of pushing those boundariesꦚ.

For Opening Weekend, Cyclingnews understands the Belgian will be using a wild setup, which comprises a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Classified rear hub paired with an enormous 1x front chainring, extremely narrow bars, turned-in hoods, and wide tyres. Anything that he sees as ben💛eficial to performance is on the table, regardless of whether it'll get some funny looks in the bunch.

An image captured at the tea൲m's recon ride in Belgium on Wednesday confirms our beliefs, too.

Cast your mind back; it wasn't so long ago that skinsuits in a road stage were borderline unthinkable, and tyres above 23mm would be saved only for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix. Campenaerts has been a pioneer of skinsuits in the past, as well as leading the pack in terms of adopting narrow bars and having the hoods turned in, something we have seen more recently being adopted on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogacar's bike and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel's bike to name just a few. 

Last year we saw him opt for a 16💜8澳洲5最新开奖结果:58T cha🌌inring for Dwars door Vlaanderen, allowing for some downhill attacks while his rivals span out, but this year it seems he's gone bigger again. While we can't count the teeth in the images here, Cyclingnews has seen the Belgian trialling a 62T chainring, only two teeth smaller than that used on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ganna's Hour Record bike.

The chainr💞ing looks to come from , and is the largest that the brand mꦕanufactures. 

Yes, it's an enormous gear, but that's not the end of the story. It appears that this season the Belgian is opting to run a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Classified rear hub, the first time we've seen it in competition since 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Uno-X trialled꧟ it at the Tour de Hongrie last year. The Classified Powershift offers two-speed hub gearing in a 1:1 and 1:0.686 ratio, meaning Campenaerts is effectively running a 62/42.5 double setup, but with the advantages of a more aero 1x system, the efficiency gains of larger chainrings in terms of drivetrain resistance, and a lower risk of chain drop than🐻k🌳s to the K-Edge chain catcher. Campanaert's recent Instagram story confirms that his chain is waxed too, using Molten Speedwax.  

Narrow bars with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:hoods turned in aren't groundbreaking anymore, though are still very much 🅠in evidence oℱn the former hour record holder's bike. 

What is unusual is his choice of tyres; these are the new Vittoria Corsa Pros, set up tubeless. So far, so normal, right? We've seen these 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:new tyres in the peloton already. We haven't seen anyone using them in these widths though. While it may change on race day, it's understood Campenaerts will run a 32mm rear and 30mm front setup. If you want a safe bet you'd put your m🀅oney on that being the widest in the peloto🍌n when the flag drops. 

Elsewhere on the bike, spec choice remains largely standard. The Ridley Noah Fast frame is the same disc-brake aero frame that the Belgian team has been riding since 2020. DT Swiss wheels came on board at the same time as Shimano at the start of 2022, and as such, it's expected he'll use the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:DT Swiss Arc 1100 Di-Cut 🍃wheels in their 60mm depth, as shown here. It's unlikely the team has too ❀many wheels laced up with Classified hubs, so we don't expect him to swap to the deeper 80mm wheels come the weekend. Shimano's top-tier groupset - Dura-Ace Di2 R9200 - will provide the shifting and braking, and the left-hand shifter, which would otherwise control the front derailleur, is compatible with the add-on Classified Bluetooth transmitter, which replaces the left bar-end plug.  

Naturally, his bars are one-piece aero bars with cables hidden entirely from the wind, and if teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Caleb Ewan's bike is anything to go by, this will come courtesy of Ridley, wh𒈔ose Kanzo bar is compatible with various models in the range.