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Pro Bike: LeMond Triomphe Carbon

The down tube flows cleanly into the chain stays

  • The Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast team is racing this year on carbon fibre LeMond Triomphe bikes
  • The Triomphe Carbon isn't LeMond's lightest but it's awfully close and marginally more rigid.
  • LeMond's Min/Max design philosophy includes such designs features as a very wide seat stay yoke..
  • …that is also very thin to keep lateral rigidity high while offering good comfort.
  • The down tube flows cleanly into the chain stays
  • Assymetrical chainstays are used to combat bending and twisting.
  • The well bolstered head tube is designed to work against torsional flex.
  • The aluminium dropouts are quite compact.
  • Multiple slots in the top of the seat tube provide more uniform clamping pressure.
  • LeMond's latest head tube badge.
  • KBS-Medifast bikes are outfitted with SRAM red groups for 2008.
  • The new Red crankset is lighter than Force, and includes a ceramic bearing bottom bracket
  • The new superlight and rigid PowerDome cassette is easily one of the stars of the Red group.
  • The Red rear derailleur keeps SRAM's road-specific Exact Actuation of Force and Rival feature
  • The Red front derailleur cage is made from titanium plate which isn't as stiff as steel but lighter
  • The new callipers are aggressively relieved without sacrificing stopping power.
  • KBS-Medifast is also supported by Bontrager for its wheels.
  • Michelin doesn't offer tubulars but equips the team with its new top-end Pro3 Race clinchers.
  • Bontrager's Variable Radius handlebar bend melds the benefits of traditional and anatomic geometries
  • Bowman prefers the extra padding in the nose of the Selle Italia SLR T1 saddle.

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The down tube flows cleanly into the chain stays

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