This Monday the 59th edition of Tirreno-Adriatico with a short time trial of only 10 kilometers where two news were generated. On the one hand, the brutal display of resistance at the time set by Juan Ayuso, which earned him success on the stage and helps him appear this Tuesday as the leader of ‘Race of the Two Seas’ with a margin, attention, of not more and not less than 22 seconds.
The other news, which no one has noticed since Team Visma-Bike Lease He was in charge of spreading it on his social networks, it was the helmet used by his runners on IRC.
A ‘revolutionary’ helmet, to many’s dismay, from the brand Turn aroundwhich in some ways reminds us of the bad guy’s helmet Darth Vader of Star Wars named after the American brand itself Aerohead II.
Aerodynamic helmets used in time trials always arouse all kinds of comments because of their shapes, as shown by Special brand or the use of American EF Pro Cycling team in 2020 from the Swedish brand POC.
But what the Visma runners used this Monday can be surpassed in the comments and reactions described by the two, even compared to the helmet-dryer in the hairdressers and where the Belgian runner Thomas De Gendt He went so far as to say: “I’m not saying that tt helmets are ugly. I’m just saying that it’s a good time to stop riding a bike.”
The team ensures that, logically, it complies with all the regulations of International Cycling Union (UCI) and they will continue to use it this season after verifying its effectiveness in the wind tunnel.
“This helmet is specially designed to sit in an aerodynamic position. Therefore, it is no coincidence that we have made great progress in this area. An additional advantage is that cyclists can have better visibility than before. The reason is that the visor of this helmet is larger than the previous one,” it said on the team’s website Mathieu Heijboer, Team Visma Performance Manager | Rent a Bike.
An effect that, on the other hand, even this Monday has not been translated into numbers, since then Fix it was 22 seconds ahead Vingegaard, the first classified rider of the Visma team in the Tirreno time trial.
Source: La Verdad
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