Ordinarily, the Mallorca Challenge, a series of one-day races on the popular island, wouldn’t garner as much attention as it has this year, or perhaps even this team roster. This year, however, the race organisers played a blinder by adding a team time trial into the mix to tempt the top-tier teams into an early dress rehearsal for stage one of the Tour de France.
While the first day of racing was a total washout, day two’s TTT was dry, though still very windy, and unsurprisingly victory was hoovered up by Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, giving superstar signing Remco Evenepoel his first race of the season and an impressive (albeit statistically insignificant) 100% win rate.
Let’s start on day one of the race series, in the rain, with Remco Evenepoel’s new gold bike… or at least partially gold.
He still gets his gold K-Edge computer mount.
And a gold ‘Remco’ signature on the top tube.
But the overall feel of his bike is much more in line with the rest of the team’s machines. Maybe I’m reading too much into some paint, but it’s certainly different to his Soudal-QuickStep machine and how that stood out from the pack.
I can’t lie, in the rain the paint looked fantastic.
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