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Race Tech: Tour de France - Tom Boonen's Specialized Transition, July 6, 2007

Boonen's new TT bike certainly looks the part
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A narrow down tube
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Quickstep-Innergetic team mechanics
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This is a far cry from the long stem
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…but this is what is required
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Campagnolo's bar-end shifters
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Vision's knife-edged brake levers
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The proprietary Specialized brake
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Boonen will use his tried-and-true
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A pair of 54/44T chainrings
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Look continues to provide Boonen
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The Transition stays take a nearly parallel path
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The rear wheel is closely profiled
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Cables are run internally.
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Boonen's Vision integrated TT bar and stem
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Boonen's desired position required the rearmost setting
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Rear brake is tucked behind and below
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Campagnolo Record components
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Unless the wind is howling out of control
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The Fulcrum rear disc
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Boonen's custom-finished Selle San Marco saddle.
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The prologue course is only 7.9km long
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UCI officials carefully scrutinize Boonen's new machine…
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…while team officials nervously look on.
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If all else failed
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