- Here I am at the women's Tour of Britain,
and I have tracked down the Canyon SRAM Team
to their team hotel after Stage two,
partly to check out the amazing new color scheme
of their teams bike's,
but also to ask them,
what is the most important thing about bike setup for them?
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What to you, is the most important thing
about the bike setup,
that you're really fussy about with your position?
- [Elena] For me, really important are the wheels actually,
and I'm really happy with the wheels
and also with my bike,
so I experienced the first time in the Spring Classics.
I could handle the bike really well,
especially also the wheels.
We had special equipment and tires
so I was really happy with it.
- [Interviewer] Do you race on 8o8's ever?
- [Elena] In the time trial, in the time trial
you have further front wheel at the disks, so.
- I could never use it.
- Well, we had the Say Trace here in Healthy Agent Tour,
with strong crosswinds
and it was crazy,
it was the craziest team times I ever had.
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- Hanna, thank you for lending us your time
for when you should be recovering from the stage.
Can you tell me what you find really important
about your bike setup, that you're really fussy about,
whether it's, I don't know,
brake lever throw, or saddle height or saddle angle.
Is there anything that you are really really fussy about?
- [Hanna] Um, for me, it's saddle height,
we have bikes that we train on at home
and then bikes that we come to and we race on.
And then you've got a spare bike as well.
So for me, it's all about the saddle height being the same
throughout all my bikes.
- Yep, what do you do, and this is very hypothetical,
say if you change shorts?
And I know you always wear Raffa but I know
some brands make different shammies
and did you have to change your saddle height according
to which shorts you're wearing?
- [Hanna] So for me, I actually always wear team shorts,
just for that reason, 'cause I know that that's
the shammy I'll race in and train in
and that's the shammy I always use.
- Your favorite's pretty nice.
- [Hanna] Yeah, I mean,
I'm not gonna jump to a different shammy really.
So yeah, for me it's all about the saddle height.
- [Kasia] I'm super sensitive when it comes
to a saddle height especially that my hamstring
are super sensitive,
so whenever it's up tiny with higher or lower,
I feel it immediately and then I struggle with some pain
or sore muscles or pain in my hamstring or knees,
so always I have to have the saddle in the right position,
as well as my cleats, yeah.
But mostly it's about my shoe then.
- [Interviewer] And obviously,
if you change the cleat position
on a shoe then it changes how you feel on the saddle.
- [Hanna] Exactly.
- [Interviewer] So it's really important to you.
- [Kasia] I don't like to change my shoes in the middle
of the season.
They're many I like, or I don't know,
set two pair of shoes, just before the season starts,
and then I use both of them,
and then I'm sure, like whatever happens
with my first pair of shoes, I always have second one
which are the same and they are no differences.
- So.
- [Kasia] I just want comfortable then.
- [Interviewer] If you break one pair?
Then you have spare pair, yeah.
Very smart.
- [Kasia] So far it never happen to me, so.
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- [Alice] As long as my saddle height is right,
I'm pretty happy.
I mean, you could change something
on my bike and I probably wouldn't notice.
- That's really cool.
- [Alice] Yeah, a lot of people say
I should take more care, but I think.
- [Interviewer] If you can ride it, ride it,
'cause it means you're super versatile
and if you had to barge in someone else's bike in a race,
you know, when push came to shove,
you could get away with it, that's pretty impressive.
- Yeah, I'm pretty easy.
- We're talking to Alena here
and we're gonna ask you, Alena,
what is it about your bike setup that is most important,
like the thing, that you will notice if it's wrong?
- [Alena] It's first, I'm using Canyon Otzi Made,
it's my favorite frame, because I feel really comfortable
with design and yeah, it's lighter than iRUN
and I think it's better suits for the climbs.
So we're using also these brakes, which are amazing.
- Are you the only ones in the Peloton on disc brakes?
- [Aleni] No I think also other teams start to use it,
I think Boz, they're using all-team
and then some teams, they just start to use it.
But I believe it soon, everyone will use,
because it's so cool.
- Do you choose, depending on the wind,
what height you'll use at the front,
or do you leave it to the mechanic?
- [Aleni] Usually we'll speak with the mechanic
and he listen what we want and what we prefer
because I really like two tours 3o3 wheels,
but some girls say I like 4o4, or even 8o8.
- If you got on the spare bike,
and it was wrong, what would you notice straightaway?
Would it be the reach, you think there or?
- [Alena] I think it's most important
to have higher wheel setup
and then links of handle bar
because it's most important.
- Well I hope you found that as interesting as I did,
why not let us know in the comments,
what's most important about your bike setup, to you,
and if you'd like to see
a very very different kind of bike,
click down here to see Kathryn Moors present a bike
for the Dirty Cancer.