Lightweights at the Olympics

[Guerdi]

Team Unibet was officialy sponsored by LW back in the days, they rode with those wheels years in years out.

[GonaSovereign]

Team Unibet was officialy sponsored by LW back in the days, they rode with those wheels years in years out.

Milram rode Lightweights one year as well, and the Fakta team rode Lightweights on their Principias. Apparently those Fakta Lightweights were passed along for years afterwards

[Guerdi]

Yeah, I forgot about milram team with its white-spoked LW That did not help them then because the team was a wreck.

[F45]

Interesting that Nibs would ride LW but I never see him on the Corima equivalent.

[sawyer]

Anyone know which riders were on them who weren't subject to a sponsorship arrangement (e.g. all Italian team riders)?

[condorman]

Did anyone spot any in the TT?

[kgt]

After a quick search:

Tony Martin


Kristin Armstrong (gold)


Olga Zabelinskaya, both front and rear (silver)


Tara Whitten


I guess there are more...

[jamesbass]

Wow, Tony's looking RIPPED AS. Looks like he's on the Weight Weenies diet.

[condorman]

Nice research!

[sawyer]

The LW disc wheel is very handy obviously given the opportunity to get a TT bike's weight down. that is well established pre-Rio of course.

Were there any riders in the road race on LWs (other than the Italians) ... that is much more interesting on performance grounds

BTW, tyre choice was interesting in the TT. Quite a few Conti Comps kicking around by the looks of things.

[superdx]

Good mix of Zipp and Roval as well.

Surprisingly ENVE didn't appear anywhere.

[spdntrxi]

^ I didn't bother to note rider.. But I did see atleast 1 enve


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[RobyDogma]

Froome used ENVE!


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[spdntrxi]

Froome used ENVE!


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yes but the discussion turned to TT wheels... Froome was on Shimano Pro textreme stuff for the TT

according to Enve's site their were 2

Men’s Time Trial | Wednesday August 10 @ 7:00 AM

Edvald Boasson Hagen – Norway

Kanstantsin Siutsou – Belarus

[seaneT1]

Froome used ENVE!


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yes but the discussion turned to TT wheels... Froome was on Shimano Pro textreme stuff for the TT

according to Enve's site their were 2

Men’s Time Trial | Wednesday August 10 @ 7:00 AM

Edvald Boasson Hagen – Norway

Kanstantsin Siutsou – Belarus

Froome's back wheel in the TT didn't look like a pro disc wheel...it looked like something else with a pro sticker on...dew anyone know anything?