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- This is the bike of
Amael Moinard of the Fortuneo-Samsic team.
Now this is brand new
for this year's Tour de France.
I don't even think he's got to ride it yet.
So let's have a look BH Ultralight
and see what's so special about it.
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So the frame size
that Moinard opts for is a size medium.
He's 1.8 meters tall
which is five foot 11
in old money
So if you're looking at a BH Ultralight
and that's your height
well, maybe you're a medium.
Now it fitted onto this frame
is FSA K4 seat post
as you can see it's totally inline
there's no set back there at all.
And then fitted on top of that is a Prologo Naro Evo saddle
and that's got the CPC Connect;
kind of tiny little grippers
on top of the saddle there.
So imagine a load of little octopus suckers
basically that's how it works.
So the idea behind it is that keeps you
firmly in place so you don't slide around
and on top of the actual saddle itself.
Now from my understanding
that technology actually comes
from racing drivers and astronauts
to keep them in their respective chairs or seats.
So, I imagine it can do the job for a cyclist too,
but of course releasing you
when you do have to in fact
have to get out of the saddle.
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Then moving forward then to the steering part of the bike,
well we've got FSA OS 99 stem
and that comes in at 120 millimeters in length.
That stem is carbon fiber and it's paired up
to a pair of FSA K-FORCE handles bars
with a slightly kind of aero top to it
but not anything to overlised or outrageous.
And they're at 40 centimeter width
fitted to them
is the SRAM RED
eTap levers.
So, totally wireless gear changing there.
The only cables coming out of them
are to control the brakes.
The handlebars themselves wrapped off in some Prologo
handlebar tape with what I think
are really fetching florescent green
little finishing details on the end.
I like that.
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Brake calipers that are connected up to those SRAM levers
are the SRAM RED ones.
And they're stopping a pair of CORIMA 47 S+ wheels.
47, that's the depth of the rim itself.
Tires fitted are tubular and they're Vittoria Corsas.
Now the hub shells on these wheels
have kind of a mottled carbon effect to them,
and if you tapping them
certainly do appear to be carbon there too.
And I think ceramic bearings because they run
ever so smoothly when I was having
a little play around with this bike earlier on.
Let's have a listen then to this CORIMA Freehub.
(clicking spinning wheel)
Absolutely love them,
carbon and they've got the CORIMA brand logo in there,
sort of embossed in there nicely.
Nicely done CORIMA.
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Derailleurs both front and rear
they're courtesy of SRAM
and they're the RED eTaps
so there are no wires or cables coming out of them
just giving it a super clean look.
Rear cassette is 11 to 30.
So there we are,
we have a change there from the normal
where we see most riders using an 11 28.
Chain rings though,
they are very traditional for a pro rider
53 39.
And they're fitted onto
FSA KFORCE carbon crank set
that's 172.5 millimeters in length.
And then screwed into pedal axles
is a pair of LOOK KEO carbon blades
and the release tension on those is 16 newton meters.
Now this is probably what's most interesting
is that there's no power meter on this bike
which is probably a rarity in the peloton these days.
Who knows maybe he is going to have one fitted
ready for the big depart
but right now he doesn't.
Now surprisingly for a professional's bike
this one is really rather clean
finishing touches to be perfectly honest.
On the handlebars yet we do have a mount there
ready for the Wahoo Elemnt Bolt GPS
and of course we got a leak custom race plus bottle cages.
Other than that though there is no mount for a number,
there's no cables being shrink wrapped together
because of course there's no cables to do that with,
only the brakes.
It's surprising.
I must just point out though,
that this rear wheel
does have the initials W.B. on it
maybe they're from Warren Barguil's bike.
So I don't know but other than that
yeah, there's nothing at all.
After all these bikes have been put together
really at the last minute
for this year's Tour de France.
Let's look at the measurements then shall we.
Well from the top of the saddle
to the center of the bottom bracket that's 75 centimeters,
and from the tip of the saddle
to the center of the bars 54.5,
and the drop from the saddle to the handle bars
that's 12.5 centimeters.
Now the weight of it
comes in at just over the USI's minimum weight limit
6.83 kilograms.
So it's ultra light just like the name suggests.
So there we are,
Amael Moinard's BH Ultralight bike.
Let me know what you think of it done there
in the comments section down below,
and also a big thanks to those guys for putting it together
for me and allowing me to film right now.
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