Lawson Craddock donned an ice vest before his 4th-place ride. And yes, sign in at the Amgen Tour of California is on a surf board - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Craddock's mechanic gave his tires a careful cleaning just before he took off - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Education First was the only team to race on disc-brake time trial bikes - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
CycleOps dressed up its Hammer smart trainers for Trek-Segafredo - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Peter Sagan waits while his bike gets the UCI check - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Sagan raced on all manner of Specialized product, including the Power meter, but not the brand-new Roval 321 Disc - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Sagan pairs his Elemnt Bolt to his Power cranks - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
SeaSucker attachments were everywhere at the Amgen Tour of California - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
The suction-cup company has a variety of bike racks, including these full-scale team racks - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Each rider's name plate was attached with SeaSuckers - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
GoPro didn't use SeaSuckers, but the action-cam company had cameras seemingly everywhere - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Why is this Holowesko BMC partially disasembled? - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
To mount a GoPro, of course - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Miguel Bryon had an extended rail for a backwards-facing GoPro - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
While many riders have pro K-Edge mounts, others use Garmin's rubber-band mount. Here, a mechanic wraps an Edge leash around the arm pad, just in case - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Lachlan Morton's computer mount uses Garmin's rubber bands, zip ties and electrical tape - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Holowesko's Giro Aerohead time trial helmets don't get rider names - just sizes - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
You know you're on a pro team when the chamois cream is transported by the tub-load - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
New skinsuits with the tags still on get tucked next to the ever-popular Cokes - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Hagens Berman Axeon's William Barta has his SRAM eTap junction tucked between his pads - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
SRAM's bar-end eTap shifters, about as close as you can get them - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Barta opts for Specialized's triathlon perch - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
55-tooth rings were common for the 40-plus-minute time trial - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Tacx's aero bottles are popular for pro TTs - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
But storing normal bottles during warm-up requires a little creativity - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Axeon's Mikkel Bjerg was the team's sole rider on Zipp's humpback-inspired 858 NSW - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Axeon's Ian Garrison was by no means the only rider warming up with his phone - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Katush'a Canyon H26 cockpit can be stacked up like so many legos - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Ergon has a different take on handlebar 'tape' - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Big rings mean derailleur adjustments - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
A Katusha Canyon H26 in a lower position - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
And the H26 set-up of the 6'4" / 193cm Nils Politt - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
A different sort of Rally car - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
And another example of a SeaSucker mount - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Rally keeps track of which rider goes when, followed by which driver and which mechanic, if any - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Rally has a colorful stable of road bikes - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Robin Carpenter's Diamondback road bike - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Not the usual bike found around team pits on time-trial day - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
UnitedHealthcare has been racing 28mm prototypes for most of the road races this year - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Bora is racing on Specialized Power meters - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
BMC had a good day in the ATOC time trial: Tejay van Garderen and Patrick Bevin went 1-2 on the stage, and Joey Rosskopf got to fly the stars and stripes on his skinsuit - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
BMC's Brent Bookwalter raced the time trial without a power meter - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
BMC's van Garderen raced on feel, not power data, to take the win - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Bookwalter opted for 50mm wheels while van Garderen went 75 - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
BMC's Ian Sherburne has dialed in a bike or two in his many years with the squad - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Cannondale has emphatically pushed its SuperSlice disc bikes, but no other teams have followed suit for time trials - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Bora's Maciej Bodnar, a former ATOC TT winner, warms up with his Wahoo Elemnt Bolt - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Bodnar had a wide strip of smooth tape covering a stitched-on patch of grip tape, which a mechanic removed after his warm-up - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Many time trialists like to have extra traction on their saddles, since they often ride forward on the nose - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
After Bodnar's warm-up, the Roval 64 comes off - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
And the new Roval 321 Disc goes on. The Shiv TT's horizontal dropouts make wheel changes a little trickier - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
ENVE has a tubeless disc in prototype form - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
While the ENVE prototype disc is tubeless, Dimension Data raced on clinchers - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
ENVE isn't yet ready to talk about the disc, but the wide weave looks ilke TeXtreme - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Elite's Power Mag trainers are popular for pro warm-ups. They aren't fancy or expensive, but they do the trick, and they are light and easy to transport - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Former Paris-Roubaix winner Mat Hayman gets his playlist going outside Mitchelton-Scott's rented camper van - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Who needs a wheel block when you've got cardboard? - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Sometimes, the simple solutions are the most effective, like paint marker for saddle height - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Lachlan Morton was one of many riders pushing a 55t big ring - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
ENVE's massive integrated stem nestles down on top of normal spacers - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Dimension Data mounts the riders' Di2 junction port in an unconventional spot - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
No bar tape, just the tiniest bit of electrical tap to keep the Di2 wire tucked out of the way - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Sunweb's Mike Teunissen was one of the few riders racing the TT on a road bike. The sprinter finished 106th of 116 riders - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Blank rings are fairly common for time-trial days, as riders and mechanics reach for non-standard options - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
For instance, who makes this outer ring? Your guess is as good as ours - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Mat Hayman ran an old-school SRM on his Scott - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Hayman signs on - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Oakley's new ARO7 lids were in use by Katusha and Dimension Data - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Team follow cars came in all shapes and sizes for the time trial, as many teams relied on friends and family as well as staff - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Trek-Segafredo's Kiel Reijnen looks on while his Toyota Prius follow car gets stickered up - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Reijnen's back-up bike in the hatchback wouldn't make for the fastest of bike changes - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
In Europe, Quick Step has massive busses and team trucks, and riders are swarmed by fans. In California, the team rents campers and trucks, and riders make do in a low-key environment - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Being an American team, Endurance First has wrapped team vehicles for US races - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
LottoNL-Jumbo also makes do with rental equipment - and just-purchased fans - for US events - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
A shade tent for Ian Stanndard to warm up under, or a drying rack for staff clothing? Yes - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
In Europe, three-time world champion Peter Sagan and his Bora squad have a massive bus. In California? A rented camper and a 10x10 pop-up tent - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Grand Tour sprinter Marcel Kittel does his same warm-up regardless of race location - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
But, like with the rest of the Euro teams, Kittel travels in a different class of vehicle when on the west side of the Atlantic - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
The back of Axeon's race van is a multi-purpose space - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
While the WorldTour riders have skinsuits with built-in number pockets, the Axeon boys pin on their race numbers like the rest of us - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Here you can see the integrated number pouch of ATOC stage 1 winner Fernando Gaviria - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
AG2R uses oversized CeramicSpeed pulleys on its Factor TT bikes - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
The Elite Drivo smart trainer is novel in that is doesn't have to be plugged in - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
What kind of gear bags have dedicated 'EYEWEAR' pouches? Oakley bags, of course - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Holowesko's T.J. Eisenhart warms up on his Feedback Sports Omnium rollers - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Belgian national champ Oliver Naesen is a very fast sprinter, but not the fastest time trialist. He finished last on the day, 8 minutes down on van Garderen - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
At the Amgen Tour of California, many of the world’s very best teams assembled for the start of the time trial in a hodge podge of rented vehicles, with follow vehicles ranging from wrapped team cars to pick-up trucks.
The actual cycling gear was mostly straight-ahead professional grade, but there was still a fair amount of quirky solutions to be found.
BikeRadar wandered the team pits and loitered behind the starting house for a close look at all the riders’ gear.
Bodnar had a wide strip of smooth tape covering a stitched-on patch of grip tape, which a mechanic removed after his warm-up - Ben Delaney / Immediate Media
Suction cups, protruding camera booms, ice vests and plenty of electrical-tape and cardboard solutions were to be found.
Ben Delaney is a journalist with more than two decades of experience writing for and editing some of the biggest publications in cycling. Having studied journalism at the University of New Mexico, Ben has worked for Bicycle Retailer & Industry News, VeloNews and BikeRadar. He has also previously worked as Global Brand Communications Manager for Specialized. Ben covers all things road and gravel, and can be found logging big miles in the Rocky Mountains that nestle alongside his home in Boulder, Colorado. He has covered the most important bike races in the sport, from the Tour de France and Tour of Flanders, to the Unbound gravel race, and specialises in tech content, showcasing what the pros are riding and putting everyday equipment through its paces.
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