(surround sound drums and metallic slicing sound)
- I'm here with the bike of Ryan Mullen
of Team Trek-Segafredo.
And Mullen, he's the current Irish National Road Race
and Time Trial Champion,
as well as being a Silver Medalist
in the Under-23 World Championships, a few years ago.
This is his Trek Madome, let's take a closer look at it.
(rock music)
So Mullen, he opts for size 56 centimeter frame.
Now he's 1 meter 88 tall, which is 6 foot, 2 inches,
in old money, so there you are,
there's a little bit for you at home
to actually a have gauge on what size frame he uses.
Now, we've got a Bontrager Montrose Pro
Saddle, carbon railed.
And then moving forward, we've got the integrated
handlebars too from Bontrager,
130 millimeter length stem and 40 centimeter wide bars.
Fitted to these bars we've got the Shimano Dura-Ace
9150 Di2 levers, as well as a Bontrager mount here,
for the Garmin head unit too.
And also some freshly wrapped, white bar tape,
that the mechanics have just done for us.
Now, I'm moving down then from the handlebars.
If you check here, just on the lower part of
the actual head tube, we've got what Trek called,
the vector wings.
How do they work?
Well, when you turn the handle bars,
as you can see, they actually open up on each side.
And that's because the front brake,
actually has a cable housing,
which does push slightly further forward,
as well as making it, well more aerodynamic too.
And then moving down, we've got a pair of
Bontrager Aeolus 5 wheels,
and they're shod with Vittoria's Corsa
tubular tires in a 25 millimeter width.
Measured them up, and their almost bang on,
at just a smidgen under 24.89 millimeters.
The rear brake, that's also from Bontrager,
so matching up with the front one.
This one again, is also sensor pull, and I do like it.
It's quite an engineered piece of kit,
big fan of that myself.
Derailleurs they are the Shimano Dura-Ace Di2, 9150 model.
And then we've also got the cassette there,
Shimano Dura-Ace, 11-28 ratio, which is pretty much
standard now, across all Shimano sponsored squads.
Moving forward, the chain set,
that's the new Shimano Dura-Ace R9100P
dual sided power model.
And the chainrings on there, a whopping 54-42.
So Mullen, he likes to push the big gears around,
doesn't he?
Crank length, 175 millimeters, and then pedals, they are
Shimano Dura-Ace 9100 SPD-SL's.
Now for the eagle eyed of you out there,
you may well have noticed the fact that I missed out
the junction box for the Di2 groupset.
Where is it?
It's just here on the down tube, really well integrated
and I do like integration of parts on bikes.
Now, let's look then at some of the finishing touches.
Well here, we've got the transponder down there on the
left-hand side chainstay.
So that's for the organizers of the Giro D'Italia,
so that basically, they don't have to look at the riders
numbers across the finish line.
It's simply transmitted to a mat on the floor.
And that way results can be done in seconds,
rather than minutes or even hours,
in the worst case scenario.
Then, we've got some Bontrager triple X bottle cages too.
And they are a really nice looking model actually.
Might have to try and get my hands on
a pair of them later on.
We've got the race number, number 195,
and that's also fitted here, onto the back of the seat tube.
Using another really nice mount there too.
Then we've also got the Quarq data sender,
which basically, that's used by a company called,
Velon, and then that links up with the riders
power meter, heart rate, cadence, everything like that.
Which is then transmitted to another service so that
viewers at home can actually check out exactly what
Ryan Mullen's up to in the race.
Or, most of the other riders too.
Saddle height, so from the tip of the saddle,
to the center of the crank, or the bottom bracket here,
is 79 centimeters.
And then from the tip of the saddle to the center
of the bars, 58.5 centimeters.
Now, I wasn't going to leave you without doing the
free hub sound check of course.
Let's have a listen.
(low whine and clicking noise)
Now the weight of the bike, with everything on it,
so we've got the Garmin head unit,
we've got the race number, we've got the transponder,
we've got the Quarq data sender for Velon,
7.56 kilos, pretty good isn't it, that?
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