Ullrich's wheels???

[C a s r a n]

Another more remarkable thing... Tobias Steinhausers bike, with SRM (and cabbelry to send live data to the internet/television).

SRM (and Giant) cooperated to put the wheel magnet on the rear wheel and put the sensor inside the frame on the left chainstay!!! (see white spot on the picture)




SRM has brought the cabble to their place inside these tubes with a stronger magnet. The cabble goes from the chainstays inside the frame to the bottom bracket, then up and to the front of the bike!! There it appears (just before the "T" symbol):



All other cabbelry is for live transmission.

[C a s r a n]

And Vino's framesize (remark the position of his "19" number):





I also want to show you this... a car blocked the teams mechanic van overnight.

[C a s r a n]

No, he punctured

Nope. He crashed at 40+ mph, somersaulted 3 or 4 times and had to change the complete bike. He moaned about the spare bike later because it was creaking badly. So what you see on this pic is the bike from the team-cars rooftop.

I believe not... I think he only changed his front wheel, because the team only has one "11" number plate and only one registration chip (the kind of thing that had to be removed on Vino's bike today) for each rider!! (you can see these things on the "bloody picture" above)

[divve]

Great report, thanks

Could you tell something specific about the DA wheel problems?

[frode]

Note that the bottle cages on Vinis bike are the new 66mm Elite carbon ones that do not protude much below the lower screw hole and that the bottles are also the really small Baijiji bottles. (no need for large bottles when having the attention of the management car and the watercarriers)

[oclv150]

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Is it custom qr lever on vino's d-a brake?

[zakeen]

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Is it custom qr lever on vino's d-a brake?

No thats just something on the table, look a little lower and you will see the normal Black QR

[FORT TT]

Is it the mechanics choice what wheels he rides?

I would think that he chooses himself.

[onyourleft]

...I told him all the bad things I heard about Dura-Ace wheels, things told me by T-Mobile riders I was training with last year (Savoldelli). He admitted they had serious troubles with these wheels and gave permanent feedback to Shimano. The new carbon ones (they had stickers "prototype") are only a little better.

Of the years when T-Mob rode Campy wheels, I don't recall hearing them complain about problems then.

Seems like a lesson in that somewhere...