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2002 Tour de France bikes pt. 5
Tour bikes: Part
one, part two,
part three, part
four, part five
By Paul Mirtschin
Cyclingnews' European editor Tim Maloney and correspondent Christopher Henry
continue to follow the peloton snapping shots off as they go. And in part five
of Tour Bikes we have a look at both bikes and some of the components found
on them.
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And to start off we have a few shots of Lance Armstrong's time trial
bike. As mentioned in Tour
Bikes 4, the OCLV HC carbon frame and Air Foil fork is the same one
that Trek sells to the public. Here we get
a good look at the Mavic disc wheel along with the rest of the bike.
We also mentioned that Hed have been supplying the USPS team with some
time trial bar/stem combo's, but as you can see
here, Lance is sticking to the Deda time trial bar/stem combo.
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We grabbed a shot of FSA's Bonjour special edition crankset a few
weeks back, and it still causes drools here in the office after all
that time.
Only 150 cranks will be made available to the public, and will come in
both Shimano Octalink 9 speed and ISIS Drive 10 speed versions. But the
Bonjour team riders didn't have to line up to get theirs. Is this the
future of cranks?
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When you hit the big time, they put your name on your bike. Brad McGee's
got his name on his Lapierre team issue frame, but Shimano are yet to
put it on the Dura-Ace components he's using.
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Peter Luttenberger's Tacconi Sport-Tonello Carrera team time trial bike.
An aluminum frame with full carbon fiber downtube and rear triangle makes
for a very light frame and the FSA Carbon cranks won't hurt the weight
either.
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Early in the year
we broke the news of Lance Armstrong testing Shimano's new "LOOK
style" pedals, and how Lance was raving about them. Well here they
are in all their glory. Quite a few of the teams are now using these,
and you can bet a lot of the punters will be chasing them when they are
released.
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Don't take too much notice of the carbon rear, or of how it softens out
the road... Just take some time to view the fantastic paintwork on the
seat-tube. Then wonder how much it would cost to get one done yourself.
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Gian Matteo Fagnini's
Team Deutsche Telekom Pinarello Prince LS. Quite a mouthful of a name
and a very nice bike. Frame is a Dedaaccai U2 with carbon fiber seatstays
and the forks are Pinarello Volas. The bar
and stem combo is by 3T this time, and I must admit I quite like the
machined clamp area of the stem. Campagnolo Record is stamped all over
the group and the wheels also have the Campagnolo name. And it's a very
pretty pink.
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Here's the cockpit of Karsten Kroon's Rabobank Colnago C-40 that we looked
at back in Tour
Bikes 3. From this angle you get a better look at the ITM
Millennium bars and stem as well as Kroon's Shimano Flightdeck computer.
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