The sunshine was beginning to weaken on Sunday afternoon when the Belgian fast-man lastly rolled into the post-race interview zone to talk to the media. Throughout this time, I spent a couple of minutes looking at his bike earlier than he was whisked away once more.
Philipsen raced to the win on his group situation Canyon Aeroad CFR, broadly thought of to be one of many finest highway bikes. Canyon has sponsored Alpecin-Deceunick for a number of years now.
It is a pretty inventory setup, however there are a couple of fascinating particulars to be noticed. Philipsen, like his teammates, rides the Aeroad CFR with a Dura-Ace groupset, Dura-Ace C50 wheels and Canyon ending equipment. The group switched from Vittoria tyres through the winter to Pirelli P Zero TLR RS tubeless fashions, and Philipsen received on 30mm tyres at Kuurne.
The bike was lined in race splatter and was UCI safety tagged post-race, however had a ‘2’ sticker subsequent to the Philipsen high tube title sticker. Did the Belgian win on his number-two race bike?
Philipsen’s Aeroad was racked with second and third place finishers Olaf Kooij and Hugo Hofstetter’s machines (Picture credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Worn bar tape on the shifter for Philipsen, maybe he likes the worn-in really feel or most well-liked to not have it modified pre-race (Picture credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
An in depth fuelling plan for the Belgian, 45 grams of carbs for the bottles, with bars within the first half of the race, and gels added into the combo in the direction of the tip (Picture credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
The Canyon Aeroad handlebar is width adjustable (Picture credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Philipsen has the extra aggressive Canyon ‘Professional’ CP0049 stem that’s 120mm lengthy (Picture credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Philipsen raced with the Canyon Through Axle levers put in entrance and rear, maybe to avoid wasting time if a wheel wanted to be eliminated (Picture credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Dura-Ace C50 wheels have received an terrible lot of races (Picture credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Spot the monster backside bracket shell on the Canyon Aeroad CFR (Picture credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Does this ‘2’ imply that is the no.2 race bike? (Picture credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
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