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- The 2016 Ironman 70.3 World Champion
was non other than Tim Reed.
And this Trek Factory Racing Speed Concept
is his Kona edition bike.
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So, starting off with none other than the frame set
and above all I am always a fan of the Speed Concept
mostly because of the Project One paint jobs
that athletes are able to have.
And coming to Kona is an excuse for athletes
to have an even more special paint job
than you would usually see.
So the Trek Factory Racing athletes here in Kona
are all going to be running this very, very swish black,
with, I guess I'm going to call it metallic,
shiny, silver decals, which I just think
look really poppy and stand out.
So, this one is going to be something
that turns some heads when racing.
So moving on to the front end
and the cockpit of this Speed Concept.
Going to start with the stem head here
because this highlight the, in my opinion,
very user friendly adjustability
that the Speed Concept is really well known for.
Now, what I mean by that is how you can adjust
both the length of the stem and the height of the stem
depending on your own personal fit.
Now, Tim here is running what they call
The Low Long Stem.
So you can see that that setting is low as it is available
on these Speed Concepts.
And as long a stem as they have.
As well as that stem you have got this
very functional and what is standard on the Speed Concept
Bontrager base bar handle bar.
Above that base bar you have got a riser block.
Now, there are various heights of riser blocks
that come when you buy a Speed Concept.
Tim has, at the moment, the highest block
that you can have, that's 45 mils
that is in there, Tim tells me.
He's got a slight shim in there
so that you can see that his extensions are pointing
ever so slightly up on top of that riser block,
just so he gets the perfect position for his fit.
Those extensions are zip extensions, he tells me.
He's changed them from the custom
or regular should I say,
Trek extensions that come when you buy a Speed Concept.
A lot of athletes doing that these days,
changing the extensions on their front ends.
He has standard Bontrager arm cups and pads in there.
And between those you have got the Trek (mumbles).
That allows any type of water bottle to be added
in there if you wish.
And Tim, you can see, is just running
a standard water bottle cage there,
so he can put in his own water bottle in there
and refill crucially on the go from aid stations.
So, the next crucial part of Tim's bike is his groupset.
And this is a groupset that we're seeng more and more of
on the pro bikes this year.
This SRAM Access 1 by Groupset
so crucially no front reeler there on Tim's bike
but looking at the front of that groupset is his chainring.
Now that chainring is a 52 tooth chainring.
Which, Tim tells me, it's not actually commercially
available, you can't buy that chainring quite yet.
It's 50 tooth that most of these bikes
are coming fitted with.
Moving on to the gear ratio on the cassette.
It is a 10 33 that Tim is using there.
And that ratio basically allows him to cover
pretty much any hill that he needs to get up
without having a front reeler
to change into small chainrings.
Moving back to those cranks on the front of this groupset.
He is running 165 mil cranks.
Which is actually a change for Tim.
He was telling me that he had been running even shorter
160 cranks last year but decided to move back up
to 165.
Which is quite unusual, most pros are always moving down
in distance in their crank lengths.
At the end of those cranks he has got
the Look Keo Blade Carbon pedals.
And integrated into that crank set
he has got the standard Quarq Power Meter.
So moving on to the wheel set now on Tim's bike.
Now these are standard Bontrager 80 mil carbon rims
that an awful lot of pros that ride Treks use.
But these aren't actually the wheels
that Tim's going to be riding when he races Kona.
Because as many of you are aware,
the winds in Kona are very famed for being strong and gusty.
So Tim is actually going to decide to run a shallower set
of wheels come race day.
And also that means that he can opt to ride
tubeless ready tires on those shallow wheels
that he has here on the island with him.
Whereas these here that you can see on the bike
actually are tubular tires.
So, that is quite interesting that he has opted
to go tubeless and slightly shallower than you can see here
on what is his actually standard race bike.
Now when talking about a Trek Speed Concept,
integration is never far from the topic of discussion.
And that is because Trek have just made this bike
so so very well integrated.
You can see it in all aspects of the bike.
In that front end there's absolutely no cables,
everything is tucked away.
What else is also tucked away are the brakes.
You can't see the brakes on this bike.
They are tucked in down there.
You can just see it sticking out there,
behind the crank set.
And then into that front fork
you have got the brake integrated there.
So completely hidden from the wind.
But another really good aspect,
the integration of the Trek
have always had on this frame set,
is this speed box here which allows athletes
to carry all sorts of things with them on the go.
And most use that for a set of spares.
And Tim was telling me that he's got some spares in there.
We can have a look in there later
to see what he actually has.
I asked him if he will be racing with that speed box
but he has opted not to go for any extra on the bike
because he will be running tubeless
and hopefully if he has a nick out there
that sealant will reseal and he won't be relying
on any extra spares like a tube.
So, next topic for discussion on Tim's bike is hydration.
And I find this quite interesting on Tims bike,
because as you might notice,
he has actually got four set (mumbles)
locations for carrying nutrition and hydration
with him on this bike.
He has got that front area bottle that I talked about
between the arms up there,
which he can have refilled whenever he wants
with a standard water bottle.
But then moving on to the frame itself,
he has got Trek's Sport Custom Era bottle there
that sits on the down tube.
And that, for Tim, is where he keeps
his concentrated gel mix.
So he can sip away at those gels throughout the duration
of whatever race he's in.
He has also replaced the standard bento box
that you see in a lot of Treks,
which people use for gels and nutrition,
and other bars and things,
he has actually taken that away
and fashioned his own custom aeromite up there.
And that bottle is what he carries
for concentrated electrolytes,
so that when he is on the go and picking up
water from aid stations he can then top up
from that concentrated electrolyte mix
into the water bottle that he has picked up
from the aid stations, which is quite interesting.
He then has an extra rear bottle.
Simply zip tied onto the back of his carbon rails
on his Bontrager Heal Pro Saddle.
Right, so as promised, we will have a look inside
this speedbox Tim has here.
So, pop that open.
So, what've we got.
We have got some sealant,
we have got a multi tool, always useful.
We have got a spare CO2 canister
with the required head unit for making sure
you can actually pump up on the go.
And then also, he has got a spare tube
and tar leavers and crucially for these deep rimmed
carbon wheels, extra length belt.
So that's been a very interesting look
around Tim Reed's custom
Kona edition Trek Factory Racing Speed Concept.
You guys know I'm always a fan of these bikes
and in particular one that has got different
Project One twists on their paint job,
which this one definitely does.
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as much as I have,
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