Ugly - Bradley Wiggins' Pinarello Bolide TT bike

[montage]

You won't find many that are much above the 6.8kg minimum, just like the normal road bikes. There is no point in pushing extra kgs around up hills when saving energy is a crucial stage race strategy. A few pure road sprinters may go slightly heavier with reinforced frames, but that's maybe 200 gms tops, they still have to get over little hills!

Interestingly G Thomas' bike in the TDU weighed in at something like 7.4kg, bit odd that

 

[raindog]

You won't find many that are much above the 6.8kg minimum, just like the normal road bikes.

The top TT contenders bikes are quite a bit heavier because they're over dimensioned for aerodynamics. Brad's Graal for instance, weighs almost 8.5 kilos, and that's considered pretty good.
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/article/pro-bike-bradley-wiggins-team-sky-pinarello-graal-26064/

 

[VamP]

You won't find many that are much above the 6.8kg minimum, just like the normal road bikes. There is no point in pushing extra kgs around up hills when saving energy is a crucial stage race strategy. A few pure road sprinters may go slightly heavier with reinforced frames, but that's maybe 200 gms tops, they still have to get over little hills!

This is the Katyusha bike in it's lightest off-the-shelf configuration. 7.8 kg. There's not much scope to reduce that further.

Bottom line is that the TT frames are heavier and less stiff than road frames. 1300 grams versus 800 grams.

 

[Rob3rt]

This is the Katyusha bike in it's lightest off-the-shelf configuration. 7.8 kg. There's not much scope to reduce that further.

Bottom line is that the TT frames are heavier and less stiff than road frames. 1300 grams versus 800 grams.

SRAM

Sidenote, lightweight disc wheels look so damn pro!

 

[VamP]

SRAM

Sidenote, lightweight disc wheels look so damn pro!

The frame is designed to work with electronic gruppo only...

Tubular front wheel is the one obvious weight saving that I can see.

 

[Rob3rt]

The frame is designed to work with electronic gruppo only...

Tubular front wheel is the one obvious weight saving that I can see.

LAME!

 

[SeeFarr]

How come Wiggo gets one of these new toys and the rest of the Sky team have to keep their Graal's?
That's what I'd heard anyway.

 

[Rob3rt]

How come Wiggo gets one of these new toys and the rest of the Sky team have to keep their Graal's?
That's what I'd heard anyway.

That is usually how it works! The rest of them will get theirs when it has been tested and feedback has been taken into account etc.

 

[SeeFarr]

Ah right, that makes sense. Cheers.

 

[VamP]

LAME!

I am not a big fan of electronic groupsets, but it looks to me like a TT bike is the ideal application.

 

[Rob3rt]

Shifters on the bullhorns and tri bars is good. But mechanical shifters apparently exploit the reg's in such a way as to be advantageous in giving you a longer extension.

 

[VamP]

Aggregate of marginal gains and all that

 

[VamP]

In some tours they do ride normal road bikes in TT's. Sometimes with clip-on tri bars.

Interestingly enough... it seems at least some teams are planning to use this option on stage 18 of the Giro this year. A hill climb TT. Well more of a mountain really.

 

[woohoo]

It would be interesting to see how the teams assess the trade off between aero advantage and weight/handling advantages.

 

[jarlrmai]

That looks brutal.