Tour de France 2012

Here is Jens Voigt riding a far too small, clip and strap neutral service bike in the TDF a few years back. It's simply not possible to have the right size bike with right pedals available to all the riders on mountain stages when they are spread over many miles of road.

That pic looks like an Astronaut riding a donkey.

They are/were aluminium Cannondales. Clips and straps, Mavic wheels. Don't know about group sets but I think they're Shimano, probably Ultegra.

Interesting, Thanks.

In the Giro it's Pinarellos.

Looks like the giro sold the advertising space to the highest bidder, so they put better bikes up there. Pretty cool though, cheers.

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