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Giro Tech: High Road’s wheels
Those are Zipp 808 rims built onto Dura-Ace hubs on High Road’s TT bikes.
Giro Tech: Kool Stop dual-compound pads
Barloworld uses Kool Stop dual-compound brake pads on its FSA brakes to run on the carbon braking surfaces of its Mavic disc and 5-spoke wheels.
Giro Tech: Bianchi’s integrated seat clamp
Bianchi’s new integrated seat tube cap/saddle clamp offers ample fore-aft and height adjustment. Its clamp can hold the oval-cross-section braided carbon rails of this Fizik Aliante saddle without interchanging clamp parts.
Giro Tech: Bianchi’s fork crown
Bianchi’s duck-beak aero trailing edges to the fork crown offer a unique way to access the brake bolt on a deep aero fork.
Giro Tech: Calcagni’s bike
Bianchi’s Reparto Corse (Racing Department) was once legendary both for quality and style of bikes for its racers, like, in this case, Swiss rider Patrick Calcagni. I’m not sure what the reason would be for this big chainstay cutout, but it sure looks cool.
Giro Tech: Barloworld’s Bianchis
Bianchi has really stepped up its time trial bikes, giving Barloworld a powerful tool for races against the clock. The precise seat tube cutout, deep aero seat tube, down tube and fork, and smoothed head tube trailing edge are big improvements complementing components like the FSA NeoPro crank with solid carbon chainring, and the Vision aero bar and brake levers.
Giro Tech: Mcgee’s bars
After an extended absence, the revered handlebar brand 3T is back in the ProTour peloton. McGee uses a 3T ARX Team forged aluminum stem, its mid-range product, and for the handlebar, it interesting that he would have a 3T Rotundo Pro, 3T’s least expensive bar. On all new 3T products, LTD is the top, full-carbon model, Team is the next model, full aluminum, and Pro is the ground level, also aluminum. In the case of McGee’s Pro handlebar, it weighs 250 grams, compared to 162g and 192g for the LTD and Team models. For the stem, McGee is only paying a 2-gram penalty (advertised weights of 118g and 120g) for not getting the carbon LTD stem.
Giro Tech: McGee’s saddle
McGee’s Prologo Max TR saddle has a replaceable cover. Don’t like the feel or the color? Just interchange the cover; it attaches to the base with Velcro.
Giro Tech: Mcgee’s’s Cervelo
Bradley McGee’s Cervélo SLC-SL didn’t see much use in the Giro, as the CSC veteran left the race on stage 3 with a broken collarbone, along with his Aussie compatriot, Stuart O’Grady. It comes equipped with Dura-Ace, FSA K-Force carbon crank, an Alpha Q GS10 fork, Zipp 404 ZedTech ceramic-bearing wheels with dimpled rims and hubs, Speedplay Zero Ti pedals, Vittoria Corsa EVO CX tubulars, and Tacx bottle cages.
My teammate Carla Swart after she won the Collegiate Road Race, Go Bobcats!!!
My teammate Carla Swart after she won the Collegiate Road Race, Go Bobcats!!!