As a part of the time trial stage, I used to be testing all of the sports activities tech goodness the ladies had on faucet. When you keep in mind from my earlier submit, I dove into the cycling energy meters and different items.
Nevertheless, for time trial levels issues are fairly totally different. You’re completely totally different bikes, and sometimes totally different gear on them. Be it totally different bike computer systems, totally different mounts, typically totally different energy meters, and naturally, good trainers.
Now, I’ll get into the good trainers in a second, however within the video above, I obtained an opportunity to affix a staff automotive from Crew Human Powered Well being. In the meantime, my spouse joined a staff automotive from FDJ. Each of those rides had been comparatively brief, given the stage was simply 6KM lengthy. However with the route and crowds packed for the ladies, it was nonetheless a blast.
Contained in the automotive, as is the case for just about each professional biking staff, you’ll discover VeloViewer on the dashboard. This is identical firm that makes the famed Strava integration for evaluation and such. However relating to professional groups, the corporate does a ton of labor to painstakingly guarantee each single stage is exactly appropriate for not simply big-name occasions just like the Tour de France (males’s and ladies’s), but in addition a slate of races that most individuals don’t ever watch.
The map permits groups to mark upcoming objects of word, in addition to bits like sharp turns, areas of concern, and lots extra. Plus displaying varied distances and velocity in real-time. And lastly, it has elevation profiles built-in, in addition to the flexibility to modify to StreetView mode too. Right here’s a shot from throughout the stage:
There’s a little bit of an older submit on VeloViewer’s web site describing all of the items to it, for these . Within the case of my automotive trip, it was a comparatively fundamental utilization of it, for the reason that stage size was brief, the route repeated half a dozen occasions for every staff, and admittedly, not an excessive amount of of concern on the route.
In the meantime, I believed it was notable to see the dwell protection from the native TV broadcaster proven as properly throughout the TV within the staff automotive.
On the subject of how a lot every rider will get help from the staff automotive, it’ll range by rider (and director). On this case, I’m particularly referring to directions by way of their race radios they’ve (earpiece on the rider). For the trip my spouse was following, that rider (Cecilie Ludwig of FDJ) particularly requested and prefers numerous motivational encouragement, and as such, Lieselot Decroix (FDJ Co-Director of Efficiency and former professional bike owner and Olympian herself) greater than gave it to her, as you possibly can hear within the video (approx 12-min marker).
Whereas for the staff automotive I used to be in with Human Powered Well being, the rider (Daria Pikulik) didn’t usually want a lot directions. Crew Sports activities Director Clark Sheehan (who I used to be with) solely gave her one little heads-up a few pothole on a flip, that’s it. Daria had simply come off of a silver-medal efficiency lower than 48-hours prior (and this was her Third-stage in that point interval). So the purpose right here was a bit extra round getting via the 6KM stage with out drama, moderately than making an attempt to win one thing.
In any occasion, altering matters fully, a fast run-down of the good trainers I discovered floating round. I dive into this a bit extra within the video, however right here’s the totals:
The Totals:
Garmin/Tacx Trainers: 7 Groups
Elite Trainers: 9 Groups
Magene Trainers: 1 Crew
Wahoo Trainers: 5 Groups
The shock right here was actually the Magene coach. I consider that’s the primary time we’ve seen them on both facet of the Tour de France.
And right here’s the staff breakouts:
UCI Ladies’s WorldTeams
* AG Insurance coverage–Soudal: Tacx NEO 3M
* Canyon–SRAM: Elite Suito
* Ceratizit–WNT Professional Biking: Wahoo KICKR V6
* FDJ–Suez: Elite Justo 2
* Fenix–Deceuninck: Wahoo KICKR V6
* Human Powered Well being: Wahoo KICKR V6
* Lidl–Trek: Wahoo KICKR V6
* Liv AlUla Jayco: Elite Justo 2 and Elite Suito
* Movistar Crew: Tacx NEO 2T
* Roland Biking: Elite Suito
* Crew dsm–firmenich PostNL: Elite Suito
* Crew SD Worx–Protime: Tacx NEO 3M
* UAE Crew ADQ: Elite Avanti
* Visma–Lease a Bike – Tacx NEO 2T
* Uno-X Mobility – Tacx NEO 2T and 3MUCI Ladies’s Continental Groups
* Arkéa–B&B Motels Ladies: Elite Suito
* Cofidis: Elite Direto XR
* EF–Oatly–Cannondale: Wahoo KICKR V6
* Laboral Kutxa–Fundación Euskadi: Magene T100
* Lotto–Dstny Women: Tacx NEO 2
* St. Michel–Mavic–Auber93: Elite Suito and Elitę Direto XR
* Tashkent Metropolis Ladies Skilled Biking Crew: Tacx Rollers
Phew, obtained all that? Good. In that case, positively go watch the video – and naturally, watch the ultimate stage on Sunday going up Alpe d’Huez. Wanting ahead to it!
Thanks for studying (or watching!)
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