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While bike check-in was shutting down on Saturday afternoon in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, I poked around, snapping pictures of the pros’ setups. Here’s a gallery of the seats used by the top pro men (I didn’t go any deeper than the first rack) at Ironman South Africa.

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