RABOBANK’S KOOS MOERENHOUT RIDES GIANT TO SUPER SEVENTH IN WORLD TT CHAMPIONSHIPS

He was never a favorite, but Rabobank’s Koos Moerenhout nonetheless stormed to a superb seventh place in the World Time Trial Championships on Wednesday.

Racing for Holland, Moerenhout held the best time in the undulating 49.8 kilometer race against the clock for over two hours. In the end, the Dutch veteran finished a respectable three minutes and 11 seconds down on the winner, Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara.

The 35-year old pro had the advantage of riding the Giant Trinity Advanced SL time trial bicycle, the fastest UCI-legal bike on the planet. It’s a ground-breaking, wind-cheating design that’s been proven by world championship-winning results, wind tunnel testing and competition at the highest levels of the sport, with a host of proprietary technologies and features that make it the sleekest clock-beater ever.

“I’m very pleased,” Moerenhout said, “I started out aiming for a top ten place and I almost ended up in the top five. I’d felt good coming out of the Vuelta, and knew if I rode hard I had real possibilities of doing something in this race.”

Asked how he spent two hours sitting in the ‘hot seat’ as the top racer, Moerenhout said, “Sending texts and putting up stuff on Twitter!”

“It was definitely my best time trial of the year, “he concluded. “And it came in the World Championships, the biggest international scenario possible for that kind of success. Now we’ll see what happens on Sunday in the road-race.”