Chris Froome has confirmed that he will ride the new Pinarello Bolide TT in this year’s Tour de France. This will mark the Team Sky rider’s first competitive outing on the new bike.
Froome used the Bolide in last year’s Tour but Mikel Landa debuted the 2016 version at the Giro d’Italia in May and it seems that his British teammate will follow suit on stage 13 of the Tour, a 37-kilometre test from Bourg-Saint-Andéol to La Caverne du Pont-d'Arc. Froome and the Tour de France contenders will ride custom road set-ups for the individual mountain time trial on stage 18 from Sallanches to Megève.
“That will be the first race I’ve used it,” Froome told Cyclingnews exclusively at the Criterium du Dauphine.
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Froome got his hands on the final version of the bike in May and along with Geraint Thomas used the new set-up in a wind tunnel before bringing it to Tenerife for a two-week training stint.
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