Check out the weird and wonderful (and just plain wrong) bikes & kit of the Tour de France. We've seen some crazy stuff at LeTour over the years... cycling
Aussie rider Adam Hansen famously made his own minimalist carbon-fibre shoes during his career. These ones from 2016 apparently took over 42 hours to make and weighed under 95g. A pair of lightweight off-the-shelf shoes would be a few hundred grams.German sprinter Andre Greipel was known as the Gorilla and had frames and saddles decorated accordingly.Adam Hansen’s humongous cranks
Movistar's Andrey Amador took things to a whole different level last in 2018, apparently getting Edward Scissorhands to do the styling.Who remembers hydraulic rim brakes in the peloton? Garmin-Sharp used these ones from Magura way back in 2012. That box underneath the stem was the converter, the brake cables feeding in one side and operating a piston which pushed the hydraulic fluid to the brake unit.
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