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Originally Posted by benb
Pretty sure they are skipping gloves due to a claim of no gloves being a marginal aero advantage.
Clearly this picture is an AI hallucination, the bike on the leftmost rider has a hole where the seat tube is supposed to be. 
More seriously when you look at a picture like this AND you know you don't have to work on those bikes, then the all internal cabling/hoses look damn clean and sexy.
Big tires are a huge puncture advantage, you have to first finish to finish first, so there is lots of talk about where the tradeoff is between aero loss due to the rims not being wide enough for the widest tires versus the puncture resistance advantage and the rolling resistance advantage on a cobble section like this.
Great photo.. having shot bike races my only nit is the shutter speed is very high freezing all motion. It's the safe way to do it but I think it's super cool when they nail the shutter speed to the point the chains and spokes have a little bit of motion blur to give more of a sense of motion. But this is pretty much a 9.5/10 for getting all three of them with great expressions and some good crowd expressions as well plus just the right amount of separation between subject and background. They are even traveling left to right in the frame which gets judged as a superior photo to objects moving right to left. |
Yes, great photo. Love how it captures the gap under VDP’s front wheel.