I must say I don’t recognize Zaballa’s team kit, and to be honest it looks like a local village club kit from some tiny Spanish farmer town. I know I’ve come across Zaballa somewhere before, in some race, and I’m pretty sure he used to race for one of the world’s bigger teams, but I can’t remember who. Regardless, Zaballa took the bull by the horns in Asturias on Sunday by winning the final stage in true hardman fashion, solo!
The keen eye out there will have noticed that Zaballa won the race on a bike sporting the old, 10speed Campagnolo equipment. So while the average overweight wanabee cyclist is out there getting all the latest and lightest equipment to get dropped on the local Sunday spin, Zaballa and his buddies are out there winning races on the world stage with old equipment. And this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this. CSC had the old 9speed Dura Ace for a whole season after all the other teams in the peloton (as well as all the overweight weight-weenies out there) had moved over to the newer 10speed Dura Ace. Lance said it himself, “it’s not about the bike, and as Zaballa’s legs clearly stated on Sunday, stop being a dork and ride your bike!
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