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as you can see now let's dive into the tech but first off boom kindly let me have a look around
all right guys how many wheels today
today a lot it's got 22 sets for spare 22 and how many bikes oh
oh no 22 bites 60 or four people beat the four bites yeah what wheels is everybody riding
today then you know that actually there is three different sizes and three different types of tires
coming in this rubber is anybody riding tubers today there is two blasts that is tubulars there
is clinchers on the road today so it's gonna be mixed and everybody's on uh the rebate specialized
rebate today i mean i was speaking over a bellator we are we are everybody one and set
up we go towards 30 millimeters is there anything different you having to do today because it's well
a little bit damp yeah lower the air pressure and uh hopefully lucky are you allowed to let
us in on the pressure situation is it top secret uh i don't build this expression now
me
so what we've got going on behind me group i'm a francis du jour team truck this morning outside
the hotel is all their help is that gonna be on their sectors have come to collect wheels
these women and men aren't actually part of the team they're just mega fans who rock up
stand in the rain for 250 okay and hope that no one gets a puncher
the days of double wrap bartek definitely do seem to be behind us they used to do this or
some still do for that added extra comfort but i'm guessing with a carbon fiber up front bikes
specifically designed for going over the rougher stuff there's not so much need anymore don't get
me wrong there are a few people still using it but definitely not as many as they used to be
unpaired
i've been told at b and b hotels they've got 25 extra spare sets of wheels and each rider
has three bikes seems pretty standard across the board no matter if you're a world tour team or
a pro company team the trusty sharpie has been in use here but they're clearly continental gp 5000.
well india's grenadiers have finally made the jump to this break they're also on the princeton
tech wheels running tubeless continentals like many many teams here there's not that
many changes beyond that luke rowe does seem to like his bar table very close to the stem i'm
also guessing he's got a good 140 millimeter stem on there first thing you thought of when
you looked out the window this morning or looked at your phone and saw the weather forecast it's
the weather forecast was clear or already the last few days and of course uh like
deep inside you sometimes hope that it might change but uh i think
in uh in a career as a pro cyclist uh this is also something you have to go through and
it's also something i'm looking forward to i mean it's gonna be a horrible fight it's gonna be
like a fight to survive to stay upright and to make it to the wild room and uh then
it's something special to talk about later also uh with your with your grandchildren for sure
tech wise that hats looking interesting you're going for the taffy look at you
i'm going for getting maybe a little bit of protection from uh from the mud and from the rain
so it will be will be special race and uh you try to to modify things on every small screw of course
oh
dale coleman say one of the wild card teams that are using new jersey that pays homage to
levine claire which their bike sponsor look
used to sponsor as well it was famous for the many wins of greg lemond and berno hinno
over here at albson phoenix random paul is on the air road bike he's also winning a 53-34 champion
which is a little bit smaller than many of the big names there on a 54 chamber he's also one
in the latest jaw race wheels with tubular tires which are unbranded victoria courses
the team's a little bit of an out there because they do seem to be fully on tubular this year
that's my man for the day heinrich housler probably woke up this morning thinking it was
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