While Tadej Pogačar's Paris-Roubaix bike was a pretty drastic departure from the norm, for eventual race winner Wout van Aert and the rest of his Visma-Lease a Bike men's team, things are pretty much business as usual; a marked change from last year when the men's squad rode the cobbles aboard the significantly less aero Cervélo Soloist.
However, this lack of cobble-taming tech wasn't entirely by choice. The team has spent years trialling a clever device called the Gravaa KAPS, which can deflate and reinflate tyres on the fly, but just two weeks ago, they received a letter from the UCI banning the tech outright. The team's head of performance spoke out to express his 'utter astonishment', but had no time to appeal.
