Daniel Moreno’s (Katusha) custom painted Canyon Aeroad CF - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
The Lotto-Belisol riders have a neat dossard clamp on the saddle mounting of the Ridley Noah Fast - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Team Europcar rock the Sigma Rox 10.0 GPS - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Cannondale mechanics have a lightweight fix for dossards – a cable tie and strategically placed insulation tape. Classy - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
The W13 celebrates Moreno’s win at La Flèche-Wallonne last year - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Minimal space between the head tube and stem for the dimunitive Moreno - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Moreno has plenty of setback on his Selle Italia Monolink seatpost and saddle combination - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Sylvain Chavanel (IAM Cycling) has a Chevrolet Camaro; he had his Scott Addict painted the same colour - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
IAM mechanics fill in redundant routing cables with filler - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Darwin Atapuma (BMC) rides on a Fi'zi:k Antares R1 braided saddle - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
A neat integrated dossard holder on the Canyon Aeroad CF - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Zdenek Stybar’s (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) on the Specialized Venge - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Neat removable dossard holder on the Giant Propel used by Giant-Shimano - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Trek Factory racing’s bikes – even on this still-to-be-named bike – have a dossard holder that’s braised on before it is shipped to the team - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Ivan Santoromita (Orica-GreenEdge) has tricolore colours on his frame to celebrate last year’s Italian national championship win - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
The new Campagnolo Super Record RS groupset on Thomas Voeckler’s Colnago C59 - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
This FDJ.fr rider does away with the headset cap entirely to get as low as possible on the bike - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Back at Europcar, Romain Sicard was trialling Campagnolo’s new prototype groupset that was first spotted at the Giro d’Italia start in Belfast - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
The new Campagnolo rear derailleur on Sicard’s bike - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
The standard approach to dossard holding: a twisted length of stainless steel clamped between brake and frame - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
One race number, one small bit of stainless steel, and one cable tie – job done. No nonsense at NetApp Endura - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
Elegant and neat: Team Belkin go the stainless steel route - Sam Dansie/BikeRadar
There are many ways to stick a race number to a bike. From the sophisticated integrated approach that Trek uses, to the cable-ties-and-electrical-tape method that Team Cannondale employs. The latter might not be pretty, but it is effective.
Stalking the team areas of the Critérium du Dauphiné stage starts, BikeRadar kept our eyes out for novel dossard holders. Check them out in this gallery of race tech from the past couple of stages.
Elsewhere, we spied Campagnolo’s new prototype groupset, which first saw the light of day at the Giro when it was ridden by Romain Sicard (Europcar), and the Super Record RS gruppo, on Thomas Voeckler’s Colnago C59.
There were also a significant number of custom paintjobs – we were particularly taken with Sylvain Chavanel’s (IAM Cycling) lurid Scott Addict and Daniel Moreno’s (Katusha) custom Canyon Aeroad CF.
