After 15 years on traditional caliper brakes, Tom Boonen is breaking the mould in 2017 as he is set to race the final season of his career on disc brakes.
The Belgian has been testing out Specialized's new S-Works Venge ViAS Disc model over the winter, and was suitably impressed to take it to Argentina for his first race of the 2017 campaign, the Vuelta a San Juan.
"It's the biggest improvement I've seen in my career on bikes, so it would be stupid not to use it," the Belgian told Cyclingnews in Argentina after a final training ride ahead of Monday's first stage.
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The Quick-Step Floors team remain coy about Boonen's exact set-up for Paris-Roubaix in April, the highly anticipated final race of his illustrious career, with testing to be done in the coming months, both on the Venge and the cobble-specific Roubaix bike. He will however, certainly be on the Venge and on discs for the rest of the Spring Classics.
"I had a Tarmac with discs at home last year and trained on it a lot, still with quick release, then I had the new Roubaix with the thru-axles, then at training camp in December I was for the first time on the Venge – the real race bike – and I decided to go for it," said Boonen.
"They work better, they're easier to control, they lock out less fast than normal brakes. Of course I can control normal brakes but with disc brakes you have so much more feeling. It's the biggest improvement I've seen in my career – I don't know what all the hassle is about."
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