Christian Vande Velde's Felt DA
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The horizontal slimline top tube joins
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The DA's huge bottom bracket area
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The Felt DA uses a conventional head tube
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The huge aero-section down tube
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Like many other time trial frames
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In contrast to the DA frame's other main tubes
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The DA's 10mm-wide seat stays
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The chain stays are almost as narrow
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Even with 20mm-wide tyres
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Rear facing droputs
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The Bayonet fork system
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Cables enter the frame behind the stem
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The rear derailleur and rear brake cables
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To keep it out of the wind
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Just in case
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Garmin-Chipotle uses Shimano
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Vande Velde's Dura-Ace chainset
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The Dura-Ace 7800 rear derailleur
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There are no serious hills
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From this angle, Vande Velde's TT bar setup
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…although the side view of his Oval TT bars
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Oval's JetStream technology
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Vande Velde likes his elbow pads
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Vande Velde's extensions
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The DA uses a conventional aero post
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fi'zi:k doesn’t make the Chrono saddle any more
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The Chrono saddle is relatively wide especially in the nose
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As is usual in time trials
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Zipp now produces its top disc wheels
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Zipp's 1080 front wheel
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Garmin-Chipotle had Zipp
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To complete the Dura-Ace group
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There is a second set of bottle cage bosses
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Hang on,
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How far up the classification
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Garmin's new Edge 705
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