- Just noticed we're actually matching.
It's like a sea of Celeste here today.
Cannings is going to love it.
This is Bianchi Aquila CV of time-trial specialist
and dutch man Jos Van Emden of Jumbo Visma.
(gentle relaxing music)
Now as many of you all know Jos is incredibly quick when it
comes to racing against the clock.
We're at the start now of Giro d'Italia
with the time-trial in a couple of days time.
He actually used a very similar bike when he won the final
time-trial of the Giro d'Italia back in 2017, which was
actually a day of double Dutch, because it was the same day
that Tom Dula overtook Narich and tarnot in that
final day to win the race overall.
And he's been very fast in it again this year,
they won the team time-trial at the UAE Emirates tour
a race which Primož Roglič went onto to win overall.
And Primož has won most of the time-trial's
he's done this year, on a very similar bike.
Now I know the frame set now is a few years old
I still think it looks incredibly neat and slick.
the brakes are all covered there rim brake's as you can see
their shell to the aero there at the front and then located
underneath the chain stays here at the rear.
It also see there's a black piece of tape covering up
a small eyelet here, that is where the mechanics gain access
to the front cantilever brakes to center them, etcetera.
Now Jos is a pretty tall chap I reckon he is at least
six foot or over one meter 80 centimeters, and as such you
got quite a few space's underneath his bar extensions there.
two and half centimeters of spaces between the base bar
and the bar extension's and on top of those the grips look
to be custom both of them in fact, the mechanics have cut
down some foam for the arm rest and at the end there on
the bar extension's I think that is an old latex inner tube
that's been cut up which just happens to perfectly match
the Celeste on the rest of the bike.
Now Jumbo Visma are entirely sponsored by Shimano and
as such there's a lot of Shimano on this bike
including tire group set and the wheels etcetera.
In terms of his shifters well they're all di2 of course
at the end there the satellite shifters on the bar extension
they control the rear derailleur here and he's got access to
the front ones on the base bars at the side.
Now the wheels themselves as I said come from Shimano
they are tubular which is what most of the pros are still
riding there are some that are trying to use tube as
particularly in time-trials these days but Jos currently
still on tubulars, the tubular se tri spoke front
and the disc tubular rear,
on them we have got some Vittoria tires
doesn't say exactly which ones they are but as you can see
they are gum wall and they're particularly narrow by modern
standards just been measuring them I reckon they're actually
23 millimeters on calipers they are coming out as 24 but I
think that's for the sole reason that the disc
and the tri spoke at the front are so wide.
Beyond the di2 shifters at the front the Shimano group set
obviously extends right through here to the drive train,
at the rear we've got 11 through to 30 cassette on here
at the moment as I've already mentioned we filmed this a
couple of days before the 2019 Giro d'Italia starts and as
a real sting in the tail to that first time trial
with pitches up to 16 percent so that might be
why it's gone up to 30, it also looks
like a reasonably small front
chain ring but that's actually quite deceptive its a 42
inner ring there what makes it look small is the fact he's
got a 58 tooth outer ring, marks dura ace but as many of you
will know you can't actually buy a 58 tooth dura ace
chain ring so that is a custom ring that shimano offered
to a number of the teams, now you might be wondering whether
somebody even as strong as Jos Van Emden ever managed to
spin out a 58 tooth by 11 tooth combination and maybe does
when there's a decent downhill but the reason why a lot of
pros these days are using a huge front chain ring and have
been for some time is because it actually reduces the
overall drive train friction that's because the chain is not
pushed over to one side or the other but in general when on
the flat roads doing 55k an hour they're reasonably central
the chains fairly straight and that saves them a few watts.
Jos has also got the Shimano integrated power meter here
on the dura ace crank set, I mean that's something that has
changed since my time this is actually his spare bike,
it is of course set up exactly the same way as his race bike
but back in my day power meters were only reserved for the
race bikes sometimes not even then but now they've got them
on the spare bikes too, linked up of course to his
Pioneer head unit there at the top.
At the top here we've got a time-trials specific physique
ares saddle which has the integrated griper just here no
need to be sticking on some emery tape on this particular
saddle, and the mechanics got a really neat and very faint
mark just here to make sure that his saddle height is
entirely correct, in terms of his measurements on this bike
as I mentioned he is one of the taller riders peloton
as such his saddle height from the center of the cranks here
to roughly here which I expect where he sits most of
the time in a time-trial is just over 81 centimeters,
the distance from the tip of the saddle here to the end
of the bar extensions just under the UCI limit
of 85 centimeters at 84.8 is what I measured it at.
From the center of the axle here up to where the base bars
are where he rests his elbows is 58 and a half centimeters
and the base bar measures 41 centimeters
center to center or 43 from edge to edge.
And his cranks are 175 millimeters.
Moment of truth then is the weight.
Here we got so just a little under nine kilos
which is well in excess of the UCI weight limit of
6.8 but fairly standard for time-trial bikes
which do use a hefty amount of carbon fiber the aim being
of course to be as aero as possible lightweight comes second
when it comes to time-trials, now one thing I often get
absolutely blasted for in the comment section is not doing
the free hub sound test.
I'm going to do it so I don't get blasted this time, you ready?
(wheel clicking)
I will leave you to decide if that is hot or not.
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