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...that the bike used by Mathieu van der Poel to win the Paris-Roubaix race this year LIKELY would have been DISQUALIFIED from his cyclocross races due to too "fat" of tires. Cyclocross tires are limited to 33mm width (and measured at the start of a race), and according to the Roubaix report: The generous tyre clearances available on contemporary aero road bikes make them a viable choice for Paris-Roubaix, with an extra few millimetres of rubber almost a prerequisite for the race. A wider tyre can be run at a lower pressure, to help absorb the brutal hits served up by 55km of harsh, irregular cobbles. Van der Poel’s bike is typically set up with 28c Vittoria Corsa Pros tubeless tyres, as we saw at the 2023 Tour de France. For this year’s Paris-Roubaix, van der Poel opted for the same tyre but in a wider 32c width, wrapped around 50mm-deep Shimano Dura-Ace wheels. Those 28c tyres at the Tour measured up at 29.3mm on the C50's 21mm internal rim width, so you can expect van der Poel's Roubaix rubber to inflate wider than the nominal 32c size.
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Great day to start with arise. You can tell I do this when I am barely awake because I was thinking, instead of just swapping the two yellows
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Struggled too much with this. And I almost guessed QUIET for guess 2, which would have been fortuitous!
