This article originally appeared on BikeRadar
In its seventh year competing in the WorldTour, winning has become synonymous with Team Sky. For 2016 that seems to be continuing, at Liege-Bastogne-Liege with Wout Poels' victory (and Team Sky's first monument) – not to mention Chris Froome closing in on his third Tour de France victory later this year.
During the one-day classics season, BikeRadar was invited for an exclusive look into the Team Sky service course in Belgium where the concept of marginal gains and the foundations of Team Sky's success begins.
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We were shown around the service course by the team's head of technical operations and commercial, Carsten Jeppesen. The Dane works closely with each of the team's brands to develop products specifically to enhance performance. He's behind many of the incremental tweaks that have contributed to the success of the team in recent years.
With little more than a few team cars outside to identify the nondescript warehouse in Deinze, Belgium, the service course is a case of 'more than meets the eye'. Put it this way, Team Sky certainly isn't short of equipment.
The team has approximately 290 bikes at any one time. With riders keeping a training road and TT bike at home (usually the previous year's), the service course stores the current season's fleet of race bikes, along with around 250 sets of wheels and a huge selection of tyres. However, this is just the beginning…
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