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- Now this is a pro bike that I have been dying
to take a closer look at for awhile now,
and just pick up on some tips,
because the guy that rides this bike is the current
Ironman World Championship Bike Course record holder.
Here is Cameron Wurf's brand new Pinarello Bolide.
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Well let's start with the frame,
because this is a rather exciting one.
It has been launched this week
for the Ironman World Championships with Cam riding in,
hopefully, to a course record again.
We've got disc brakes now on this new Bolide,
which now allows a little bit more of a cleaner area
around the forks and up into the headset area.
We also have a little bit more integration,
so rather than the storage and hydration set-up
as being almost an afterthought,
it's now being considered into the design of the frame,
so we have this Bento box
along the top here - slightly higher stem
to a allow a cleaner flow of air through to there.
Got a storage box here.
Also have a slight drop in the bottom bracket
by about a centimeter.
So let's take a closer look
at all that starting on the front end.
Now as I work my way through this bike,
it's probably worth me mentioning now
that Cam does a lot of his training with Team Sky,
the likes of Chris Froome,
and as a result,
he does the opportunity to try out some products
before the rest of us have even seen them
or even had the opportunity to buy them.
So there are some bits on this bike that
I may not have a name for because they simply don't
have any branding on,
and one of those is the arrow bar.
So, this may be standard with the Bolide,
but at the moment,
it doesn't have any branding on,
so I'm not entirely sure.
But talking about those, his riser stack.
He's got a little bit of an angled shim in there,
so it gives him this angle with the arms
to get him into his comfortable position
his preferred position.
Now moving down from that as I've mentioned already,
we have disc brakes on this new Bolide,
and they are the Shimano 9170 disc brakes.
But to accommodate those,
we've got this slightly wider stance with the forks both
for aerodynamics and to accommodate the disc brake,
and that's called the onder disc design,
and in terms of the aerodynamics,
we obviously have the wheels spinning round
and the airflow coming through the rear,
but also the airflow coming through the front
as we cycle along,
and by having this wider stance,
it allows that flow of air past each other,
and obviously by having the disc brake,
we now have eliminated the rim brake up here,
and they found that this is actually more aerodynamic
than the rim brake.
Now moving on to the wheels,
and he is using the Swiss Side Hadron wheels,
and given that Hawaii is such a windy course,
and with those infamous crosswinds,
he's using a slightly shallower 625 on the front,
and then he's using an 800 on the back,
and now they are Clincher wheels,
so he's using the Continental Grand Prix 4000 tires,
and interestingly,
he's gone for a 23 on the front for aerodynamics
and a 25 on the rear.
And now let's talk about the group set,
and its fully kitted-out with Shimano Dura-Ace
with the 9170 Di2 electronic group set,
which he's going to be controlling the rear mech
from the end of the arrow bars
and then purely the front mech from the base bar,
and talking about those controllers actually,
the base bar controls and levers are
the newest Shimano hydraulic disc brake levers,
which I've not actually seen before.
Moving back through the bike and
onto some of these other Shimano components,
he's actually running a 56 tooth chain ring.
Quite a meaty chain ring for this course out in Hawaii,
so getting up to some quite high speeds.
Interestingly, he's running a 39 tooth smaller inner ring
should he get into trouble need it
for any of the climbs up to Harvey perhaps,
and those chain rings are on Dur-Ace crank set.
Actually, he's using a 170 crank length,
and those are paired with the Pioneer power meter,
which is a dual-sided power meter,
and then on the end of those,
interestingly, he's got a Waldorf custom set of petals.
They are speed plate petals,
but someone has specifically made them
for him using titanium spindles,
and then to finish off the gearing,
he is using Shimano Dura-Ace cassette in an 11/28.
And then on to some of the finishing touches.
We've got this physique saddle,
which is actually an older Arione saddle,
or it used to be an older Arione saddle.
It's got a little bit more cushioning towards the front,
but he has also got this gripper on the top
which allows him to stay nicely perched
in the saddle on the front of it.
On the back of that,
he's got the XLab Delta 105 bottle cage clamp,
and then the bottle cage he's actually got on there,
I don't recognize,
but you can tell that it's got quite a tight fit
to make sure that he doesn't have any bottle rockets coming
off the back.
He's using the XLab Torpedo bottle cage on the front
with the Xlab carbon plate system to hold his bottle
onto those arrow bars,
and then he's got this computer mount coming up
from the front of that.
And then finally,
we've already talked about the Bento box.
We've also got another storage option,
and this is placed
between the down chute and the seat chute,
and this is just a little storage compartment
for his race day spares should he need them.
And both of these are actually just prototype models,
so they're literally 3D printed,
and I'm sure we all expect a fully-fledged finished article
for the production models of this new Pinarello Bolide.
And then finishing touches on this bike,
obviously they're leaving no stone unturned
for the Ironman World Championship,
so the bike is fully kitted-out with ceramic bearings,
and I can see that certainly on this bottom bracket here.
Now I'm really happy I've managed to take a closer look
at this bike and very fortunate
because the light is literally about to go on us.
But, I'm hoping we do see some more course records
on this bike from Cameron or maybe some other athletes.
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