Team Sky is famous for its marginal gains mantra and there’s no better example of the team’s pursuit of fractional advantages than in the kit used by Chris Froome over three weeks of racing.
Here’s a look at the bikes, kit and extra tech used by the Brit to get a leg-up to the podium’s top step.
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Chris Froome’s Pinarello Dogma F8 is the workhorse he used throughout the Tour, with the exception of the time trial and cobbles stages.
An aero road bike with Pinarello’s truncated FlatBack tube shapes, the curvaceous frame is certainly fast with such a big engine atop it, but has also proved peerless in the mountains. In fact, there’s probably a marginal gain to be had in the versatility of the Dogma F8, with no time spent stressing about mid-stage bike changes like some other teams.
Once in yellow, Froome’s Dogma F8 got a fresh paint-job complete with the ‘Froomey’ nickname and a charging rhino to highlight Froome’s ambassadorship of Unite for Wildlife – a charity that raises awareness of poaching.
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