With the 2015 Tour de France getting underway with a time trial in the Dutch city of Utrecht, stage one offered a first glimpse of the coolest cutting-edge TT gear on offer to the professionals.
There’s plenty of aero tech to wade through this year — there are more than 80 images in the gallery above — so here are a few trends to look out for as you flick through the images.
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Either we're getting used to crazy TT bikes or teams seem to be leaning towards more uniform set-ups for the riders. Perhaps modern TT bikes have reached a level of front-end customisation that renders the bodged and forced fits of old redundant. Never fear though, there are still plenty of unique cockpits to see, including the one above from veteran Ivan Basso.
With a perfectly flat 13.8km to cover, there were plenty of almost comically large chainrings to see before stage one. 54 to 56t were surprisingly common, but Michał Kwiatkowski takes the prize for the biggest on show with the knee-grinding 58t ring seen above.
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