Tour De France Disc Brakes
Months later boonen s teammate marcel kittel became the first rider to win a stage of the tour de france on disc brakes when he took stage 2 on a specialized venge vias disc.
Tour de france disc brakes. He followed up. Like disc brakes the proliferation of tubeless tyres is likely just a matter of time before we see the shift of the technology being a majority as opposed to a minority in the tour de france peloton. Here s who s gonna win the 2019 tour de france.
Tour de france bikes. This year s tour de france has had its share of drama and the winner won t be the one most observers predicted. Winning machines from the last nine years.
Reading the previews of tour bikes it sounded like all racers would make the switch. Finally the uci approved disc brakes and the tour is the first big stage race where they ve been used. The riders are the best in the world and they ride the most advanced bikes money can buy in fact the tour de france.
Among the sporting achievements the technological innovation was easy to overlook. Froome was speaking after his team sky. Disc brakes have been in and out of the pro peloton for the past few years though with the uci proving indecisive and running a trial for a number of years.
Tour de france winner chris froome has called on the cpa riders association and the uci to resolve the safety concerns over disc brakes in the peloton. This mix of rim and disc brakes is probably a nightmare for team mechanics and raise a glass to the poor neutral support crews having to sort out. For 2019 it finally made up its mind and rubber stamped disc brakes and as a result we ve.
Watching the 2019 tour de france punctuated by endless shots of bicycle wheels adorned with disc brakes despite less than 50 of tour bikes actually using them. Disc brakes popular at tour de france by the brake report july 15 2019 no comments paris france disc brakes have been in and out of the pro peloton for the past few years though with the uci proving indecisive and running a trial for a number of years. The 2019 tour de france features 22 teams battling it out over 21 stages.
