Especially when you realize there are different products in there, and each one has the correct image/icon for it. The first of which was “Did some poor person manually create these using the world’s most complicated Excel sheet?”. Once I saw the stickers, I had so many questions. Here are all the nutrition plans for the 209km Stage 2, which was a warm and mostly overcast day, but not crazy-hot. You can see not just chews vs gels, but caffeine ones vs not, and even the water bottles are labeled differently (yellow vs not).Īs I look at different bikes set up next to the team bus, each rider (named at the top), had a different nutrition plan.
Here is a look at Caleb Ewan’s on the 182km Stage 1: The team is sponsored by Precision Hydration for nutrition products, and the stickers all naturally listed Precision Hydration products (disappointingly, the stickers did not list Haribo, M&M’s, or ice cream). While looking at Team Lotto Dstny, I noticed from afar that the stickers didn’t look like the regular elevation profile ones, but rather, were listing times and nutrition intake. However, at this year’s Tour de France, I saw something I’d never seen before: A team with an additional nutrition sticker. You can even find companies that make your own stickers for your upcoming events/racers/etc. That could be done along the top/bottom, but of course at the expense of screen real estate.īut again, that’s mostly all old news. Even if bike computer brands emulate it exactly, it’d have to still be in an always-on config to mirror that same level of ‘functionality’. When you’re out there for 4-5 hours, it provides a quick at-a-glance look at the stage, and virtually all riders would have current distance on their bike computers (if not simply know it from recent markers or terrains/towns).
It’s always there, and never on a ‘different page’. Here’s a custom-colored Wahoo BOLT V2 on Team EF, and a custom-sticker Garmin Edge 840 on Movistar – both with the elevation profile stickers on the handlebars.Īnd the thing is, the elevation profile sticker is simply super practical. But for the most part, it’s all about the elevation profile, not the extra bits of useful data. Perhaps there’s a random Connect IQ app out there, or something else that can do it. None can emulate the look of that ‘entire view with waypoints’ look though, at least to my knowledge. Every once in a while we’ll see some creative variants, but they’re virtually all identical, as seen below.Ĭertainly, most popular GPS bike computers are capable of displaying the upcoming elevation profile, and some can also display waypoints.
These days, that’s commonplace, and almost every team uses them, so much so that I think the Tour de France actually provides the stickers now. Back many years ago we started seeing teams add stickers on rider handlebars with details of the upcoming stage, notably the elevation profile, sprints, etc…. I spend most of my time at the Tour de France looking at riders’ handlebars.
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