如今，公路骑自行车的人有一些严肃的风格。布拉德利·威金斯爵士（Sir Bradley Wiggins）确保了这一点，以其复古的“ mod”外观而闻名，这使他与其他两轮世界的世界区分开来。
And now it looks like Chris Froome is trying to follow in Wiggo’s footsteps and bag himself a cult fashion following – either that or he’s having a mid-life crisis, because if you’ve been paying attention to the Tour de France closely in the past week, you’ll have noticed the Englishman has been riding with a nose ring.
有点儿。
The accessory is actually called ‘The Turbine’, and it isn’t so much Chris going punk or trying to get back at his overly-strict parents, it’s actually a device intended to dilate the nostrils, increase the airflow through the nose and allow the rider to breathe a little cleaner.
据说，虽然在休息时通过鼻子进行了70％的呼吸，但在锻炼时呼吸仅为30％。
Rhinomed, the company behind The Turbine claim that the nasal airflow of the wearer can be increased by as much to 38 percent during use, and if that turns out to be true, it’d be a surprise not to see ever rider on the Tour sporting one of these teched-up nose rings.
Froome himself has actually been using the device for a while now, first plugging it in his nostrils for the Vuelta a Espana last year, and seeing as he is the man with the yellow jersey right now, there’s nothing to suggest the science behind it doesn’t hold up.
另外，让我们面对现实吧，公路骑自行车可以做更多的朋克。
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