Jasper Philipsen sprinted to a powerful win at Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne the day before today, making improvements to on his third-place end at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad the day prior to.
The light was once beginning to weaken on Sunday afternoon when the Belgian fast-man in spite of everything rolled into the post-race interview zone to talk to the media. All over this time, I spent a couple of mins looking at his motorbike prior to he was once whisked away once more.
Philipsen’s Aeroad was once racked with 2d and 1/3 position finishers Olaf Kooij and Hugo Hofstetter’s machines (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Worn bar tape on the shifter for Philipsen, possibly he likes the worn-in really feel or most popular to not have it modified pre-race (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
An in depth fuelling plan for the Belgian, 45 grams of carbs in keeping with hour for the bottles (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
The Canyon Aeroad handlebar is width adjustable (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Philipsen has the extra competitive Canyon ‘Professional’ CP0049 stem this is 120mm lengthy (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Philipsen raced with the Canyon Through Axle levers put in entrance and rear, possibly to avoid wasting time if a wheel had to be got rid of (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Dura-Ace C50 wheels have received an terrible lot of races (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Spot the monster backside bracket shell at the Canyon Aeroad CFR (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)
Does this ‘2’ imply that is the no.2 race motorbike? (Symbol credit score: Tom Wieckowski)