- Well, we've got a pretty exciting pro bike
for you here today, 'cause this is the Scott Plasma
of Kimberley Morrison who is absolutely renowned
for her impressive biking, regularly out-biking
and posting the fastest bike splits
in the female pro races.
And even actually out-biking Daniela Ryf in the past.
But I'm really interested to see
just how she's doing that and what bike she's riding
to all that success so let's take a closer look.
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Well, first of all,
this comes in a very vibrant fluoro color
which I absolutely love and also with matching decals
on the wheels, so, straight up big thumbs up
from us there, but this is actually the Scott Plasma 5 frame
which has evolved a little bit over the years,
most notably in how it's become a little bit more specific
and adaptable for triathletes.
And we can see this quite obviously on the front end
where the base bar or the stem region
is actually raised ever so slightly
and then really integrated
and built into this hydration system
which is built around that cockpit.
And that's not the only interesting thing here,
we've got a lot of additional changes
that Kim has made through use of her own sponsors
and their equipment, so let's start on the the cockpit
because that is quite cool.
Now, Kim is a regular on the TT road scene in the UK,
she's posted some ridiculous 10 mile, 25 mile, 50 mile
and even hundred mile times out there.
Now, obviously, this is all credit
to her incredible bike strength
but also through her real detail with aerodynamics.
Now, that has all come through her collaboration
and sponsorship with Drag2Zero actually.
So Drag2Zero is a British based company
set up by Simon Smart, now Simon Smart is, well,
a pretty clever guy, to say the least.
He's really helped the development
of a number of bikes out there and including wheels
such as the Enve wheels.
Now, we'll see a number of the Drag2Zero parts
and influence throughout this bike
but one of which is, if you can see here on the base bar,
so, this is the proprietary base bar by Profile Design,
comes standard with the Scott Plasma bike.
It's a really simple flat profile base bar
but she's removed the bar tape from there
which I'd imagine is something
that Drag2Zero's probably suggested,
showing through their wind tunnel testing.
So we've just got sandpaper here,
so just adding that grab to that base bar
particularly when you're coming
out of the swim with wet hands.
And then on top of those we've actually got these adapters,
also by Drag2Zero which allow this slight angle
in the elbow cups and then the elbow cups themselves,
also Drag2Zero which have got this really nice curvature
we can see, comes up really quite high.
Not only to allow the athletes to feel secure
in the aero bars and in the elbow cups
but it also allows the athletes
to push out ever so slightly with their elbows.
And from what I understand through the testing, everything,
that also allows them then to drop their scapula,
their neck, their head
and just get that little bit more aero with that.
So really nice clean set up there,
we've also got the Profile Design bottle
which comes standard with the bike,
fit's really nicely in around this base bar
and aero bar set up.
And also you can remove that,
but also fill it on the go
so you've got a little opening on the top here,
just use a standard bottle, shove that in, fill that up.
And then between these bars we've got, hidden away here,
a Wahoo Elemnt Bolt but also in matching colors
with the frame.
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We're now going to move on to the bit
that you're probably all dying for me to chat about,
at least I am, anyway, the chainset.
This is a whopping 58 tooth chainring.
And one bite for that matter,
which I'm going to put out there, I think that's pretty bold
for this course 'cause we are here
at the Iron Man European Championships in Frankfurt,
I've been and recced the course,
it's got 1500 meters of elevation change.
And some of those hills, they're not massive
but they're not small at the same time,
so I'll be really interested
to see how this plays out for her, how she finds it.
Now, in addition to that, she's actually got a chain guide.
Now, this is from Drag2Zero, it's 3D printed,
it's got a really nice aero shape and design to it.
It's all connected to a Quarq crank and powermeter,
got a crank length of 170 here and then pedals,
she's got the Look Keo Blade Carbon pedals.
Now, you see, we've got a rather nice looking
gold chain here and that is a new partner of Kim's actually,
she's got the KMC chain, and then on the back
to complement her 58 tooth chainring
she's got an 11 28 cassette, so, 28 tooth cassette
should be okay for some of these climbs
but I will be really interested to see
how that 58 28 works out for her.
And then below that,
we've just got the Sram Red Etap rear mech
and just some standard jockey wheels with that.
We're now moving onto the wheels
and Kim is an Enve ambassador, this is another thing
that's come through her partnership
with Simon Smart from Drag2Zero,
he's worked on a number of brands
as I mentioned before and one of which
he's really heavily invested
a lot of research and development into is Enve.
So, can safely say, they are very fast wheels.
Now, she's got the 7.8 front wheel on
and she's opted for a disc for this course
but don't take too close a look at this one
because she's actually had to quickly change it
before this race, I guess that's just one of the issues
with traveling as a pro triathlete
and maybe falling into mechanicals and having issues,
she's had to quickly change that before race day
and unfortunately not on brand.
But let's take a closer look at the tires here
because she's got the brand new
Continental Grand Prix 5000 tires,
they're in 25 mil width, she's running them in clincher
with latex tubes inside and she's going to be running
something in the region of 100 to 110 psi for race day.
We're now moving on to all the extra gubbins on this bike
so we've got this Elite Chrono aero bottle
on the down tube which seems to be a very popular option
with the pros, but behind that,
we've got this Drag2Zero box
which almost fills that space coming off the aero bottle.
But really nice design, really well fitted
to this frame, I assume it's been designed specifically
for the Scott Plasma.
But this little lid here would actually detach
and remove so you can actually store your spares
in there for race day, so really nice feature.
Something I didn't mention before
is actually the Bento box here,
now this actually fits perfectly with the hydration system
so really nice clean lines there.
And that's just a nice rubberized material
so you can easily just store some gels in there
and get to on race day.
In terms of the saddle she's using,
she's got the ISM PS 1.0 so it's that split nose,
two prong saddle design allowing you
to really perch on the edge of those
but interestingly in quite a nicely set back position
which we often see triathletes opting
for a really forward position to get really aggressive
and open up the hips and whatnot,
but with, I guess, Kim racing a lot of TTs
and maybe trying to stay UCI legal,
she's gone for that set back option
but also obviously working for herself
and her own position.
And then on the back of that we've got the XLab Super Wing
so this is allowing a two bottle set up.
So that just attaches nicely off the back rails
of the ISM saddle.
Well, I've got to say, this bike is absolutely, stunning.
Sorry, I've got to do that after Fraser's previous pro bike
but, no it really is, it is absolutely amazing,
I've really enjoyed going through the intricacies
of her bike and her set up
and all the work that she's done with Drag2Zero here
with the Scott Plasma.
But actually it's been really cool
to almost revisit a pro bike with Kim
because my first ever pro bike with Global Triathlon Network
was with Kim's Giant Trinity.
So, hopefully I've come on a little bit since then.
But if you would like to see that,
obviously with a previous bike sponsor,
that was a Giant Trinity back then,
you can see that by clicking on her front wheel down there,
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