[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“You don’t win the Tour de France by riding a bike that normal
people acquire at a bike shop. You have custom-made aerodynamic
machines, and in the case of Armstrong, his bikes are made by Trek
Bicycle Corp, which is based in Waterloo, Wisconsin.“Trek had been using some white box Opteron-based workstations,
running both Windows and Linux, to design their bikes. The
computer-aided design programs Trek uses are Alias Wavefront and
SolidWorks Studio, which run on Windows; and the company also uses
computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis programs
to test the aerodynamic properties of the bike and rider after the
design is done…”