- This is a climber's bike in every sense of the term.
It is the brand new Pinarello Dogma F12 X-Light
of Team Ineos's Colombian climbing sensation, Egan Bernal.
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I know a lot of you will have already watched
Ollie's first look at the new Dogma F12 back in April,
so I'm not going to go through it in great detail
the changes over the F10 in the way that he did
but I am going to go over a few of the highlights now.
Firstly and most obviously, it's the concave downtube here.
Now without the bottles in,
it's hard to see what that achieves
but when they are in, it all becomes incredibly integrated
and it the means that the air flows around the frame
and bottles much more smoothly and it's more aerodynamic.
Now at the front there,
the forks have also changed fairly significantly
from the F10, all again with a view to extra aerodynamics.
Now that includes these little bits here
behind the quick releases at the bottom
and also the fact that there's a much longer trailing edge
at the top of the fork, much deeper from front to back.
The other very visible change over the F10
is this bowed toptube here.
But slightly less visible is the fact
that they've now got direct-mount brakes,
as opposed to the single-mount ones from the F10.
Egan, as you can well see, has opted for rim brakes
but there is also a disc brake option available.
At the front, the cockpit,
it is a Most Ultra Talon integrated bar and stem,
which Pinarello specifically designed
for the brand new F12.
As you can see, all of the cables are hidden from view,
except that one for the front brake there.
He's gone for a 13 centimeter-long stem,
which I've just measured,
and the bars are measuring 40 centimeters.
center-to-center on the drops.
Reasonably narrow but by modern standards of pro riders,
not the narrowest.
Also on those bars is a proprietary Garmin mount
with a two-bolt design,
which fixes it underneath the bars.
Now I'm sure you're wondering what the difference is
between the Dogma F12 and the Dogma F12 X-Light
that we have here and you've probably figured it out
because the clue is in the title.
This is bike is lighter.
One of the ways that they've saved weight
on the X-Light versus the standard F12
is by not having any paint on it.
As you can see, it's pretty much bare carbon fiber.
But the main way is the fact that they've used
T1100 G1K aerospace carbon fiber.
That has a unidirectional weave,
which means that they can make it still strong enough
but shed vital grams.
And since the big difference
between the standard F12 and the F12 X-Light
is the fact that it's lighter,
I think we should move the scales part of this pro bike
a bit earlier in the video.
6.66 kilos.
It's a devilishly light bike, isn't it?
Ollie just gave me that one,
so blame him if it you didn't like it.
Now as a lot of you will know,
that means that this bike
is under the UCI's minimum weight limit of 6.8 kilograms
so I've just been having a chat
with chief mechanic at Team Ineos Gary Blem
about whether he'd be putting artificial weight on this
to meet that requirement.
And his answer was no,
they try not to put artificial weight
in a certain part of the bike
because it can throw off the balance of it.
So rather that do that,
they will instead maybe put some heavier bottle cages on,
as opposed to these super light ones from Elite,
the Leggeros, that you can see there.
They've currently got titanium bolts back here
on the seat clamp, which they can change out
for something heavier, too.
So they will basically make sure
they get over that 6.8 kilogram mark
by changing out bits that won't affect the bike in any way.
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And it was also interesting in that he said
they won't stop at 6.8,
they'll try to make sure that it's 6.85 kilograms
on their scales, so 50 grams over,
just in case there's any discrepancy
of what the UCI are using
when they measure the bike before the start of the race.
Something else interesting that he said
was the fact that when you clean the bike,
there can, despite using an air compressor,
still be some water inside or around parts of the bike,
which can add little bits of extra weight
so they will make sure that they do the weigh-in again
in the morning after it's all evaporated.
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Now to give you a comparison,
when Ollie measured the normal F12 bike back in April,
it came out at 6.97 kilograms,
so there's about 300 grams difference between the two.
100 of that can be accounted for
by the difference in the frame sets
Probably a lot of the rest of it can be accounted for
by the fact that that bike had much deeper section wheels.
Here, Egan Bernal has currently got the
Shimano Dura-Ace C40 carbon wheels on here.
And it's Shimano, of course,
who provide the rest of the groupset too,
beyond just the wheelset.
Here at the front, he is running 170 millimeter-long cranks.
He's 1 meter, 75 too, so that is reasonably short
by that factor.
He's got 39 by 53 tooth chainrings.
It's Shimano Dura-Ace DI2 throughout.
At the rear here on the cassette,
he's got an 11 up through to 30
but that could of course change,
based on steeper climbs coming up here later in the race.
On the wheels are glued Continental's brand new
Competition Pro Limited tubular tires,
with lower rolling resistance, amongst other improvements.
They are in the 25 millimeter size
there on this particular bike.
Beyond that, we have got a K-Edge chain catcher
just down here to prevent the chain from being dislodged
and getting between the frame and the inner chainring
and also integrated into that is a magnet,
which is needed for the Shimano power meter
that was integrated into the cranks there.
And the final Shimano parts are the pedals, Dura-Ace.
These are the PD-R9100 model.
At the top here, he's running a Fizik Antares
carbon fiber-railed saddle.
And you'll notice behind it, they've got some kind of mount.
I think it's for a kind of data transponder of sorts
but I'm not entirely sure on that one.
One of the details that I most love about this bike though
is the finishing off of the bar tape.
I love the fact that there's no tape used
to stick it at the end but rather,
just a subtle piece of glue.
It's incredibly neat and tidy, I've got to say.
I'm sure you will all agree with me
in thinking that that is a stealth looking bike.
Very interested to see how Egan Bernal gets on
at the Tour de France this year.
Right, I'm almost finished.
I was about to finish until Peter basically saved me.
The man behind the camera reminded me
that I need to do a freehub test.
I'm going to do that right now.
Sound test, should I say.
You ready, I'm going to do it properly.
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Happy now?
Just before I finish,
one more thing that I missed out
are these two marks that you might have noticed
on the Fizik saddle here.
I've been speaking to Ollie
and he's been looking at a few other bikes
that have something similar
and apparently it's down to helping the mechanics
get the saddle in exactly the right place
when they're using their measuring jigs.
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