Tobias Ludvigsson @ Giro d’Italia

What a stage today. It’s very fun to see someone you know ride Giro d’Italia, but to see someone you know, in his second season at Pro Tour and first Grand Tour step up and show everyone that he’s dangerous is something else. Today Tobias Ludvigsson was in a breakaway and it held, for some riders. Tobias fought well but hard in the end, ended 4th and did an awesome stage! Love it and like he talked about the last times I met him: ”Living the dream”.

 

Results by the man himself and last picture by Eskil Laago. If you in some way missed it like I almost did when the connection in church wasn’t the best you can see some good and bad (Kessiakoff crashed) highlights:

Training with Argos-Shimano

The best way to be able to race fast is to train fast, not slow. Here is a video from Argos-Shimanos trainingweekend a bit earlier this spring:

Graal for winning

Team Time Trial won by Team Sky, second Movistar. Both on the Pinarello Graal. Today individual time trial with Pinarello Graal as the fastest bike. Alex Dowsett rode fastest with a beautiful Movistar Pinarello Graal:

Campagnolo Super Record, Campagnolo Bora and Ghibli wheels and nice coloured bike. Awesome combo. Second place to Bradley Wiggins riding for Team Sky and also on Pinarello Graal. So italian time trialbikes for the top. Even when Pinarello got a new 15% more aero time trial bike out

New tube

First part for my Liteville came today. A Extralite Extrabolt 13 seatpost reducer. From 34,9 to 31,6

650b Endurobike from GT

Bikerumor spotted a new 650b enduro prototypebike from GT:

S-Light 650b

Starting the day with a look at last weekends racing in Norway, Ringerike GP Fun to see and know where they are racing and knowing at least one cyclist in the front

But it’s Giro time until the most important racing starts next weekend (XCO World Cup in Albstadt) so showing a Italian 650b bike:

 

S-Light MSV 27,5 Carbon Team

Pinarello Dogma MyWay 65.1

Not everyone wants a bike that looks like all the others. If so Pinarello have a MyWay where you can change the colour on some places. Got one to Sykkelsenteret yesterday in black and green:

 

A bit warmer, darker than a Cannondale Replica green. Built up with Shimano Dura-Ace Di2, Dura-Ace c24 wheels, 3T Ergonova LTD handlebar and 3T Integra LTD stem for Garmin, Shimano Dura-Ace pedals and Tune Wasserträger Uni bottle cages. Pretty solid build, high end and stiff so not the lightest at 7,3kg