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Articles: Race tech: A day in the life of a Tour de France race bike

Published: Jul 29, 2010 - 01:37 AM


The team truck is obviously locked overnight but an additional car is also parked in front of the rear door so it can't be opened

By now, we all have a pretty good idea what riders go through day in and day out at the Tour de France: wake up, breakfast, prepare for the stage, head to the start, sign in, race, head to the next hotel, massage, dinner, sleep, repeat.

But what about the bikes? Just like the riders, there's more to their daily lives than what happens in between the start and finish lines. To find out the rest, we tagged along with the Garmin-Transitions team and followed the primary race bike of sprinter Tyler Farrar from sun-up to sundown on stage 7, five days before he was forced to abandon the race due to earlier injuries.

... BikeRadar