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2008 Giro d’Italia, stage 1: Team Time Trial Tech

Photos By Lennard Zinn 2008 Giro d’Italia, Team Time Trial Tech: Vladimir Gusev’s top gear was a 54 X 11. Many teams seemed to be using 55 X 11. Photo: Lennard Zinn Photo Gallery…

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By Lennard Zinn

2008 Giro d’Italia, Team Time Trial Tech: Vladimir Gusev’s top gear was a 54 X 11. Many teams seemed to be using 55 X 11.

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  • 2008 Giro d'Italia, Team Time Trial Tech: Vladimir Gusev’s top gear was a 54 X 11. Many teams seemed to be using 55 X 11.
  • Gusev likes double-bend extensions. While a few years ago, most riders chose straight extensions, now fewer teams do.
  • CSC’s Bradley McGee’s Cervelo P3 Carbon bike is still the standard other TT bikes compare themselves to.
  • McGee’s bar, which is identical to that of all of his teammates, demonstrates that CSC is one of the exceptions to the return to curved extensions. In a change from past seasons, where its riders had adjustability and varying positions, every CSC rider has a non-adjustable 3T aero bar with fixed, straight extensions.
  • Like many riders, McGee races with an SRM power meter built into his crank. SRM builds its units into Shimano, Campagnolo, SRAM, and Cannondale Hollowgram cranks.
  • McGee uses the far-back adjustment on his Cervelo two-position seatpost.
  • Slipstream-Chipotle mechanic Iñaki Goiburu made the wheel decals as a surprise for David Millar and David Zabriskie. He ran out of time to do Canadian ones for Ryder Hesjedal.
  • Millar’s bike is the full British paint job to go with his Goiburu-decorated wheels. As another national TT champion, Hesjedal’s has a similar Canadian paint job to match those of Millar and Zabriskie.
  • Millar likes his extensions very far apart, and he likes a double bend to them.
  • This single-position seatpost, seen on most Slipstream-Chipotle time trial bikes, is the old model from Felt’s B2 bike model.
  • Zabriskie’s stubby Fizik saddle is UCI legal and allows the rear part to be further forward while the nose is still behind the UCI-dictated 5cm back of the bottom bracket center. The two-position seatpost is Felt’s current production.
  • Felt labels the exit holes for the front and rear derailleur and rear brake cables to avoid confusion (Hooking your rear brake cable up to the derailleur would be no fun).
  • 2008 Giro d'Italia, Team Time Trial Tech: Another view of the labels.
  • The LPR teams was racing on new DeRosa prototype time trial bikes with a very deep aero seat tube and aggressive rear wheel cutout.
  • LPR’s DeRosa’s all had straight Deda extensions.
  • 2008 Giro d'Italia, Team Time Trial Tech: The De Rosa’s deep aero fork.
  • 2008 Giro d'Italia, Team Time Trial Tech: The DeRosa’s rear-entry dropouts.
  • The DeRosa aero seatpost allows for lots of fore-aft adjustment.
  • Jesse Bartholomew of CycleOps/PowerTap examines power and heart rate graphs from Slipstream’s time trial.
  • This team already had one pink bike, even before the race.

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