{"id":178752,"date":"2025-09-29T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178752\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:11:06","slug":"evenepoels-mechanic-insists-nothing-wrong-with-the-second-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178752\/","title":{"rendered":"Evenepoel\u2019s mechanic insists: &#8216;Nothing wrong with the second bike&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remco Evenepoel\u2019s day at the UCI road world championships was a roller-coaster, to say the least. The Belgian champion, fresh off his time trial victory a week earlier, was forced into two bike swaps during the road race in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>The first issue was clear enough. \u201cOn his first bike the saddle broke after he hit a hole just before Mount Kigali,\u201d his mechanic Dario Kloeck said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wielerflits.nl\/nieuws\/mecanicien-van-remco-evenepoel-is-duidelijk-er-was-niets-mis-met-zijn-tweede-fiets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wielerflits<\/a>. \u201cThe tip dropped about two cm. The clamp broke off and the saddle tilted forward. He rode like that for a while, but you can\u2019t fix it on the fly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evenepoel managed a smooth change and rejoined the chase behind Tadej Poga\u010dar and Isaac Del Toro. But trouble struck again on the C\u00f4te de Kimihurara\u2019s cobbles. You could see the Belgian pounding his handlebars before swapping bikes once more.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Kloeck said that there were zero issues with the bike. \u201cWe measured it three times, and the saddle height was identical to his other bike,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll hear later exactly what he felt. But I think it was mainly frustration. He lost unnecessary time there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the drama, Evenepoel fought on to salvage silver. But the sense lingered that without the hiccups, there might have been more in it.<\/p>\n<p>Poga\u010dar confirmed his dominance at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/pogacar-solos-67-kilometers-to-repeat-as-world-champion-in-rwanda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 UCI road world championships in Kigali<\/a>, storming to a second consecutive elite men\u2019s title. On the punishing 267.5-km course, which stacked cobbled climbs like the C\u00f4te de Kimihurura and the brutal Mur de Kigali onto 16 laps, the Slovenian went clear with 66 km to race. Juan Ayuso and Isaac del Toro briefly joined him, but Poga\u010dar soon struck out alone. Evenepoel mounted a desperate chase. But he never closed the gap. Ireland\u2019s Ben Healy edged Denmark\u2019s Mattias Skjelmose for bronze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remco Evenepoel\u2019s day at the UCI road world championships was a roller-coaster, to say the least. The Belgian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[52521,49,48,635,5901,82],"class_list":["post-178752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2025-uci-road-worlds","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-remco-evenepoel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}