Tony Martin’s (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) following car carries the spare TT World Champion’s Specialized Shiv(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
It may look old fashioned but the Tacx aluminum bottle cage works(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Maes’ Shiv ready to go(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
It was a perfect TT day and Zipp 808s were the Omega Pharma’s weapon of choice on the front(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Maes’ Garmin mount had extra tape to help defy gravity between the extensions(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Chris Froome (Sky) is a dedicated O-symetric user and had the ovalised rings fitted to the spare Graal(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Swan-necked drops on Froome’s TT bike look like the UK Sports Institute special(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Andrew Talansky of Garmin-Sharp is well out of contention for the overall, but his Cervelo P5 still cut a dash, and was very neatly finished(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Aero Rotor NoQ rings provide extra rigidity when hammering the pedals – and that one’s got 55 teeth(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Neatly placed naming stickers as standard at Garmin-Sharp(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Neat tubing leads from the Magura RT 8TT leading down to the hydraulic front brake(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
It doesn’t get tidier than that: gear cabling pinned to the Rotor chain catcher on the Cervelo P5(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Arundel is a small company making high end knick-knacks - bottle cages, bar tape saddle packs and the like. Garmin-Sharp use their Chrono cages and matching bottle weighing 120g(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
There’s a panoply of gear on the non drive-side chain stay of Marc Goos’s (Blanco) Giant Trinity Advanced SL, including battery, race chip and Pioneer module…(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
And around the other side are the SRM Di2 cranks. Two power meters, one bike!(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
On such a flat course, a 54T chain ring was order of the day for many riders, including Nikolas Maes on Omega Pharma-QuickStep(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Plenty of drop to an aero position for Rodriguez(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Clean lines at the front of Rodriguez’s Evo – even the Pro computer looks organic(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Mechanics had made a half-hearted attempt to black out the Full Speed Ahead graphics on Martin’s 54T chain ring(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Tyres appear to be getting wider: Marco Pinotti (BMC) was running 24mm Continental Force(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Sergey Lagutin (Vacansoleil-DCM) is using a CycleOps Joule computer(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
A tight touch on Thomas Voeckler’s (Europcar’s) TT cabling on the chainstay mounted brake(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
These Campagnolo Bora 2 wheels belonged to Voeckler – it says so in Tipp-Ex(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
The whole Movistar team ran TRP front brake units…(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
And standard Campagnolo Super Record rear brakes on the fleet of Pinarello Graals(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
On some of the Movistar Squad’s road bikes, riders took full carbon Selle Italia SLR Tekno saddles(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Jérôme Coppel’s (Cofidis) Look 596 basks in the sun before the off(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
TriRig continues to sponsor Cofidis with their aero brakes(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Coppel’s SRM was collecting power data but was stowed away under the saddle(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
There is plenty to drop into an aero position on Coppel’s TT bike(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Katusha’s Joaquim Rodriguez’s Canyon carried a shaped Elite Kit Chrono CX bottle and cage(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Is it a fairing over the front brakes or not on the Canyon Speedmax Evo? UCI says no - fairings are allowed in the brake area under certain restrictions(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
Sky’s Pinarello Bolide finally got a run out under Chris Froome (pictured) and Richie Porte – the team has four riders in the top 10 on GC(Image credit: Sam Dansie)
A pan flat 32.5km time trial in the Critérium du Dauphiné brought out a resurgent world chrono champion, Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) who blasted around the course 36:54 – 47 seconds faster than surprise runner-up Rohan Dennis of Garmin-Sharp.
It was one of the final tech tune-ups available to some of the Tour de France favourites such as Chris Froome (Sky) who came third on bike sponsor Pinarello’s new flagship TT bike, the Bolide.
BikeRadar visited the teams to check out what kit was on show and how some riders were tackling the course.
Click on the gallery on the right to see Tony Martin’s World Champion bedecked Specialized Shiv, the proliferation of technology on the Blanco Giant Trinity SLs and Andrew Talansky’s super neat Cervelo P5.
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Sam started as a trainee reporter on daily newspapers in the UK before moving to South Africa where he contributed to national cycling magazine Ride for three years. After moving back to the UK he joined Procycling as a staff writer in November 2010.
