You've got to hand it to a team that arrives at Le Tour on a wild card entry and then goes on to put the smack down. Here's to the little team that could.Photo Courtesy: Barloworld
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- I spent 20 years of my life working in the bicycle industry, turning wrenches and selling bikes for some of the industry's best shops. I have extensive experience designing and constructing frames in both steel and titanium and have performed thousands of bike fits. I am passionate about bicycles in all forms. The bicycle provides me with physical and mental health and taps me into a social pipeline that allows me to share my passion with others. I ride as often as possible and love the flow of a hard group ride. Check back for musings about all things road cycling and, especially, the Spring Classics. The devil is in the details and I am an expert in the useless minutia that makes up our discipline.
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are they all really running sl's?
soler on his stage win is on the new r-sys front (carbon spoked kysrium thingy) and a cosmic carbone ultimate rear http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2007/tour07/tour079/SOLER-9a-TOUR2866.jpg
if you look through barloworlds photo gallery on their site, riders appear to using cc ultimates, r-sys, and cosmic carbone pro. http://www.teambarloworld.com/public/teambarloworld/download/Tdf_5_Degano.jpg
not that it takes anything away from their achievements (which are huge, love to see the small team doing so well) but i dont think they are rolling on k sl's.
josh
Josh - I think you are correct, I scoured all the images I could find of the 2007 Tour and I did not see any of them riding SLs. Although the team image does show the bike with SLs. Hopefully they are receiving Mavic's top level support. I yanked that final thought from the piece. - RF
I agree hopefully they do get mavic's top level support. I saw a pic of the team car with K ES's on some of the bikes. Seeing as the R-sys and the CC ultimate are both new from middle of this year (no?), I wouldn't be surprised if they had some SL's lying around.
funny how a few years ago the K's were the shiznit and it seems like everyone and their little brother in the tour rocked them, and now they are hardly found beyond a few riders using the ES as a front who aren't high enough priority to get the new r-sys....
How about the North American bike manufacturers at the Tour? Cannondale with 2 wins, Cervelo with 2 and Specialized with 3. I wonder if Trek will get one with Contador?
c-dale actaully has 3 wins.
2 for barloworld (soler, hunter)
1 for liquigas (pizzato)
GAY
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