Four-time Tour de France champ Chris Froome has insinuated that his recent Tour of Rwanda woes were down to slow disc brakes wheel changes... cycling
, and now the pro cycling season has gone into yet another gear with Chris Froome's first dig at disc brakes... and it's only February! The Israel–Premier Tech rider and seven-time Grand Tour champion took to Instagram today to post a montage of mechanics struggling to change his wheels while a charging peloton breezed past him, accompanied by the simple caption: Rim brakes > Disc brakes.
On Stage 5 of the Tour of Rwanda last week, Froome showed glimpses of his era-defining dominance of the 2010s and his famous solo Giro d'Italia win in 2018 when he launched an audacious attack 75km out from the finish; however, Froome needed two wheel changes and then crashed into a race vehicle in a day that was ultimately marred by misfortune, and he ended up finishing over four minutes down on the stage winner.
After the stage, Froome explained the wheel change issues: “I got a front wheel puncture and I didn’t have a team car behind me as they had already pulled the team car out. I managed to get another wheel from neutral service but it wasn’t really compatible with the bike so I had to stop again and change it with my team car. Then the peloton caught me and surged over the top of the climb and that’s where the lights went out for me.
As we've already alluded to, this is very much not the first time Froome has taken aim at disc brakes, and his problems extend far beyond allegedly slower wheel changes.
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