Photo feature: Grand Tour Winning Bikes

Bill Temple from Primera Sports has taken the bikes from Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas that are on display in his Bournemouth store and taken some great pictures!

Photo feature: Grand Tour Winning Bikes

Bill Temple from Primera Sports has taken the bikes from Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas that are on display in his Bournemouth store and taken some great pictures!

Bill writes … At our Bournemouth store we deal with new riders buying their first road bike through to pro riders but we never thought we would have Grand Tour winning bikes in the shop. When I was a schoolboy racer myself in the 70’s, I always made sure I was home when Dickie Davis was showing a very short coverage of the Tour De France on World Of Sport.

This is what got me addicted to the sport. Now we have an actual Tour de France winning bike by a British rider in store and it’s quite emotional to be honest. We have been given the chance to bring world famous bikes to our customers and we all love it. These bikes are on display until Monday 24th September – Come and have your photo taken!

Geraint Thomas’s Yellow bike (above) as the Tour leader going into Paris
54t Chainring for the flat speed of Paris.
Shimano Dura-Ace carbon tubular wheels with glued on Continental Competition race tubs.
Elite Nylon bottle cages.
Most Talon Bar/Stem combo to give a very stiff front end.
Carbon number bracket which bolts onto the seat post clamp.
Power transponder and timing chip still in place.
Beefed up gear hangers for extra stiffness and extra strength.
Custom painted Most Talon Garmin mount to match bars.

Chris Froome’s Pink Giro machine

Most Talon custom painted Bar/Stem combo including Garmin mount.
Custom Di2 climbing shifters.
Power transponder and timing chips still in place.
54t Osymetric chainrings.
Shimano carbon tubular wheels with glued on Continental race tubs.
Elite nylon bottle cages.
3D custom chain guides to work with Osymetric chainrings.
Last generation Di2 front mech as it works better with the Osymetric chainrings.

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