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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
Robert Gesink came to the 2015 Amgen Tour of California as the only returning champion, though having suffered a knee injury earlier in the year, he wasn’t a favorite for overall victory. Still, the LottoNL-Jumbo rider piloted his Bianchi Oltre XR.2 to a fifth-place overall finish after riding to ninth in the time trial and eighth on Mount Baldy. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
Gesink’s Bianchi is outfitted with a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 drivetrain and an FSA cockpit. Gesink rides a 140mm SL-K stem and a 42cm-wide K-Force carbon handlebar. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
The LottoNL-Jumbo team is, obviously, sponsored by the Dutch lottery. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
The Oltre uses some dramatic tube shapes with an aero-shaped seatpost and a large top tube curving into spindly seat stays. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
Tacx cages — in celeste green, of course — hold the LottoNL bottles. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
A large Bianchi graphic is tucked behind the front wheel. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
More lotto balls on the fork. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
LottoNL mechanics use a bit of plastic wrap to hold the electronic wire to the rear brake’s cable housing. The clear plastic wrap isn’t the cleanest solution and certainly not as easy on the eyes as black heat shrink wrap. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
The LottoNL team uses Pioneer power meters. The power meters use strain gauges on the left and right crank arms and magnets attached like stickers on the chain stays. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
On the non-drive side, the mechanics cut up a bit of adhesive foam to move the magnet closer to the sensor on the crank arm. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
The Oltre’s seat tube changes from the aero shape at the seatpost to perfectly round at the bottom bracket. This allows Gesink to use a more traditional chain watcher that bolts on around the seat tube. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
Gesink rides a Selle San Marco Aspide Carbon FX saddle. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
Like on most bikes, mechanics use a little zip tie to hold the Di2 wire tight against the frame. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
Bianchi is celebrating its 130th anniversary this year. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
The LottoNL team rides Vittoria Corsa SC tubulars on Shimano C50 wheels, and like most teams, they’re going with 25mm-wide tires. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
Team mechanic Vincent Hendriks was hard at work gluing tubulars ahead of the start of the Tour of California. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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Pro Bike: Robert Gesink's Bianchi Oltre
Hendriks uses what looks like an old ketchup bottle to lay down a strip of tubular glue. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.com
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