RUSVELO – STRADE BIANCHE TUSCANY
2015, February
2015, February
RusVelo rides the Strade Bianche course, Full gas on the unpaved roads in the heart of Tuscany. The 7th of March will be the day of RusVelo’s debut in one of the most spectacular one-day classics. Slightly less than a month before the very important event, on their way back from the training camp on the Tyrrhenian coast, the Strade Bianche first timers rode 150 km along all the key sterrato sections. The riders and management left nothing to chance, keeping it in mind that to race on these specific roads without a proper reconnaissance means throwing in a towel in advance. There are no riders on this year’s team roster even with a minimal cyclocross experience, so the sports directors Sergey Honchar and Fabrizio Tacchino decided that the team members should be put through an acid test of riding this terrain full gas to see what they are capable of in real racing mode. There were three of them to tackle the bumps and the gravel: Ildar Arslanov, Ivan Balykin, Petr Ignatenko, Roman Maikin, Artem Nych and Mamyr Stash. The weather was on RusVelo’s side - after a long spell of wintry weather, temperatures hitting the maximum of 16 C with clear skies above set in; at the same time melted water stayed in, solidifying the terrain and keeping the dust down. The only modification of a normal road racing bike was to fit it with Tufo Elite Ride 25 tubulars instead of regular 23, still the pressure remained at 10 bar for the bikes to be fast on tarmac.
RusVelo rides the Strade Bianche course, Full gas on the unpaved roads in the heart of Tuscany. The 7th of March will be the day of RusVelo’s debut in one of the most spectacular one-day classics. Slightly less than a month before the very important event, on their way back from the training camp on the Tyrrhenian coast, the Strade Bianche first timers rode 150 km along all the key sterrato sections. The riders and management left nothing to chance, keeping it in mind that to race on these specific roads without a proper reconnaissance means throwing in a towel in advance. There are no riders on this year’s team roster even with a minimal cyclocross experience, so the sports directors Sergey Honchar and Fabrizio Tacchino decided that the team members should be put through an acid test of riding this terrain full gas to see what they are capable of in real racing mode. There were three of them to tackle the bumps and the gravel: Ildar Arslanov, Ivan Balykin, Petr Ignatenko, Roman Maikin, Artem Nych and Mamyr Stash. The weather was on RusVelo’s side - after a long spell of wintry weather, temperatures hitting the maximum of 16 C with clear skies above set in; at the same time melted water stayed in, solidifying the terrain and keeping the dust down. The only modification of a normal road racing bike was to fit it with Tufo Elite Ride 25 tubulars instead of regular 23, still the pressure remained at 10 bar for the bikes to be fast on tarmac.
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