This article originally appeared on BikeRadar
Lars Boom is a former cyclocross and time trial world champion (under 23), and consistently proves himself to be a rider to watch. With the classics season approaching, Boom will no doubt be eager to take to the cobbles with the speed and skill that won him the fifth stage of the 2014 Tour de France.
For 2015, and the first time in his professional cycling career, Boom leaves the Dutch Radobank-come-Belkin squad to join the Astana Pro Team, alongside the likes of last year's Tour de France winner Vicenzo Nibali.
ADVERTISEMENT
Boom joins Astana for 2015
With a new team comes a new bike and with three WorldTour teams on Specialized for 2015, Boom's S-Works Tarmac is undoubtedly the most common bike in the peloton.
Where the Specialized bikes of Etixx-Quickstep and Tinkoff-Saxo are quite similar, the Astana team bikes differentiate themselves with colourful paint, Campagnolo groupsets and Corima wheels. Astana is the only WorldTour team to use Corrima wheels.
You can read more at Cyclingnews.com
via Cyclingnews Latest Interviews and Features http://ift.tt/1ABBasl
No comments:
Post a Comment