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Jussi Veikkanen has spent much of his career in the white and blue colours of Finland, having won a total of seven national road titles since 2003. This season is his 11th with the French FDJ.fr team – not consecutively, he spent 2011 with Omega Pharma-Lotto – and the 13th year that Lapierre has been the official bike partner for FDJ.
Veikkanen has ridden the French bike brand for all but one year of his professional career, and is now piloting the Aircode Ultimate, a bike that was only released in the middle of last year.
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Given Veikkanen's national champion status, we would have expected to see some custom Finnish touches in the paintwork, but beyond the name tag it's difficult to differentiate this ride from the rest of the 2015 FDJ.fr team bikes.
The Lapierre Aircode Ultimate is the brand's flagship aero road bike, and features Kamm Tail aerodynamic tube profiles, assymetrical tubing and wind-cheating tricks at every curve and corner.
One striking aero aspect is the head tube that drops below the top tube, not too different to that of the Specialiazed Venge. A narrow and swept top tube follows on from behind the stem.
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