Speaking on their Watts Occurring podcast this week, Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe questioned UAE Team Emirates-XRG’s decision to race the wet opening stages of the Giro d’Italia on Continental’s GP5000 TT TR – the time trial-oriented version of the GP5000 line – after a Stage 2 crash took down Adam Yates, Jay Vine, and Marc Soler.
“We all know they’re faster. They are faster. They always use them,” Rowe said. “But they do have less grip… The first guy down was a UAE guy. He lost both wheels. You also question the decision making there.” Thomas agreed, noting that Ineos had themselves drifted toward TT tyres in road races over time. “I don’t understand that decision making, mate,” Rowe added. “I really don’t.”
