Tony Martin’s (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) following car carries the spare TT World Champion’s Specialized Shiv - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Mechanics had made a half-hearted attempt to black out the Full Speed Ahead graphics on Martin’s 54T chain ring - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Tyres appear to be getting wider: Marco Pinotti (BMC) was running 24mm Continental Force - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Sergey Lagutin (Vacansoleil-DCM) is using a CycleOps Joule computer - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
A tight touch on Thomas Voeckler’s (Europcar’s) TT cabling on the chainstay mounted brake - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
These Campagnolo Bora 2 wheels belonged to Voeckler – it says so in Tipp-Ex - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
The whole Movistar team ran TRP front brake units… - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
And standard Campagnolo Super Record rear brakes on the fleet of Pinarello Graals - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
On some of the Movistar Squad’s road bikes, riders took full carbon Selle Italia SLR Tekno saddles - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Jérôme Coppel’s (Cofidis) Look 596 basks in the sun before the off - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
TriRig continues to sponsor Cofidis with their aero brakes - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Coppel’s SRM was collecting power data but was stowed away under the saddle - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
There is plenty to drop into an aero position on Coppel’s TT bike - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Katusha’s Joaquim Rodriguez’s Canyon carried a shaped Elite Kit Chrono CX bottle and cage - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
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 - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Clean lines at the front of Rodriguez’s Evo – even the Pro computer looks organic - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Plenty of drop to an aero position for Rodriguez - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
On such a flat course, a 54T chain ring was order of the day for many riders, including Nikolas Maes on Omega Pharma QuickStep - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
It may look old fashioned but the Tacx aluminium bottle cage works - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Maes’ Shiv ready to go - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
It was a perfect TT day and Zipp 808s were the Omega Pharma’s weapon of choice on the front - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Maes’ Garmin mount had extra tape to help defy gravity between the extensions - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Chris Froome (Sky) is a dedicated O-symetric user and had the ovalised rings fitted to the spare Graal - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Swan-necked drops on Froome’s TT bike look like the UK Sports Institute special - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
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 - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Aero Rotor NoQ rings provide extra rigidity when hammering the pedals – and that one’s got 55 teeth - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Neatly placed naming stickers as standard at Garmin-Sharp - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
Neat tubing leads from the Magura RT 8TT leading down to the hydraulic front brake - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
It doesn’t get tidier than that: gear cabling pinned to the Rotor chain catcher on the Cervelo P5 - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
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 - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
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… - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
And around the other side are the SRM Di2 cranks. Two power meters, one bike! - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
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 - Sam Dansie/Future Publishing
A pan flat 32.5km time trial in the Critérium du Dauphiné brought out a resurgent world champion, Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) who blasted around the course 36'55 – 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.
Sam Dansie is a former contributor to BikeRadar. With 15 years experience working in cycling media, Sam also worked for Procycling and was a script writer for GCN.
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