Bjarne Riis Bike Handling Skills

www.cervelo.com - From our video archives, Bjarne Riis on a test ride discussing with the new SRAM groupset when he is forced to show his bike handling skills.

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Sports

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• cervelo
• bikes
• bicycles
• Team CSC
• Bjarne
• Riis
• SRAM

[grafik1979]

ahahaha!!!!

[brt570]

I think they're testing out the SRAm Red gruppo. Having switched from Shimano to SRAM, there is definitely a learning curve to get used to the DoubleTap system. I think all you have to do is just see what year Cervelo switched from Campy (I think) to SRAM, probably 2009 or so.

[sprintbass]

i didnt like sram ive been using sti since god..1993..campy i didnt like because you had to release the drip of your palm toshift the thumb...sram just goes compleatly agiasnt my nature shifting wise so ive stayed with that..its all what your used to i guess.

[sheppezz]

Riis's team are know for having no transmission partnership. At 2003 Tour, Team CSC-Tiscali rode with Dura-Ace 7700 9s, while every other non-Campy teams, supported by Shimano, was using the brand-new Dura-Ace 7800 10s. If I'm not wrong, they were using SRAM last year, but switched again to Shimano for 2012. No partneship: all paid from Riis Cycling wallets :)

[lofi73]

Hah...Bjarne went into the ditch!.

...And no helmet Bjarne?.Bad karma!

[DocBlueSea]

Guess the Sora didn't work for him ;)

[hephephep75]

1:00 in its easy to see the shifter - looks like Force

[abtcup]

Lol...the video description says testing for SRAM...

[abtcup]

You can hear the clicking of the shifter. Can't be electric. As someone mentioned already CSC no longer exists. Shimano and Campy don't click that loud.

[chewingthehandlebars]

Seeing how it is from the archives, perhaps they are testing out the development of either SRAM Red, or maybe Force before that. IIRC SRAM brought out Force, and gave it to the peloton before then debuting Red later on.

Also, I doubt it would be electronic as CSC hasn't existed for quite a while now.