in today's episode first ride on the new foil and with William I'm
with Christian engineers and designers from Scott
and I've been warned they're very very fast take it easy on me boys yeah yeah as always
was this the lunchtime Luke where are we going so we're heading basically in the direction of
Ben and we will like turn around just a bit before to a town called our back so there's like a pretty
famous river which goes through there then we do a little climb and return really nicely
quite bad at swimming you know you're bad but show me no never I thought we were testing Aero
bikes why are we going up this big climb but Arrow doesn't mean heavy it can be light we will see hey
you got to go finally spinning the legs that was good today it's so easy mate this is their lunch
time right how many people join your lunchtime ride just you two no one else has ever come back
oh
foreign
video with the designer and the engineer for the foil but instead of doing any interview
stuff we've just ripped each other's legs off we need some more tunnel and
now we need some water lunchtime ride never again these are solid
not too bad enough energy for 20K oh I'm actually my jersey
hello
so first round in the new foil First Impressions rapid and remarkably comfortable how have you done
that started with the new UCI rules so we are now able to have deeper deeper profiles means faster
profiles but obviously we could have gone even further but then the compromise would have been
on the weight and maybe on the comfort of the bike and this we didn't want to to compromise too much
foil has always been a comfortable bike racy bike so that's why we try to implement some features to
bring the comfort that we would have lost maybe somehow so we have a good example with the seat
post here so we actually came back to a more more smaller profile just to have more flex and we took
this opportunity to integrate tail light into it obviously for safety reason it's quite uh
it's quite needy now traffic is more and more dense everywhere in the world so yeah safety is
another big thing we wanted to achieve especially the light and the cover so depending what you like
on the training right for instance you can just take the light and if you go for race
day you can just put a lighter cover in lighter the bike is delivered with the rubber cover only
and then you get separately the light if you want to have a light and for the ones who want
to beat the harsher filling it's still possible to have a completely stiff one piece seat bust
in case you want to get a bit lighter and that you feel like you don't need the Comfort if you
don't care how much faster is this compared to your old bikes I guess that's the ones you've
tested against to give easy numbers it's uh one minute and 18 seconds over 40K faster at 45 kph
so that's massive you don't need to push to push more you just get faster you mentioned the tube
profiles are now allowed to be under the UCI rules thicker has that made the bike heavier potentially
you could have made the bike heavier but now we've been learning a lot and we did a lot of simulation
so finite element simulations just to get the perfect layer so you have to to understand that
one frame is made out of 500 pieces of carbon so now the game is a bit to place them as accurately
as possible to get the weight down to increase the Comfort to increase the stiffness without
yeah without losing anything in terms of bike Behavior so that's quite a compromise we had to do
in between all the parameters but I think here we we get maybe the best performing bike available in
the market so it's not only about Aero it's an old package Arrow Comfort stiffness uh bike handling
because the geometry is a big thing as well so I think that's the perfect mixture I basically
give like really like the first proportion ideas actually and when we then go into the wind tunnel
we actually see you know which proportion actually makes sense you know so you would like try
separate areas like C2 barrier which was actually very interesting during the development and then
you know more obvious stuff like for instance like a really tall down tube so the compromise
that William was talking about actually like we identified with these areas where we had to really
max out you know the tube dimensions and then other areas where it actually was faster even to
go smaller and for us as in design it's basically we we like to think of the full system so it's
not just a frame and a fork but really like the like with all components on it so the seat post
The Handlebar also the lower aspect um aluminum stem and so on we try to really design everything
together so in the end it looks also nice definitely looks nice especially this paint job
what was that all about it's quite special actually um we wanted to to have a camouflage
prototype paint job just in case it would have leaked on social media before the official launch
actually it worked it was linked like this uh so the the purpose was to hide as many lines
as possible and yeah not to promote any brand so there is no Scott logo on it just raw with
the blue color from the team DSM because they were supposed to to help and lick it so yeah that's the
history behind this paint job so one good example of what we did in the Wind Tunnel was to check
with the profile of the seat post we could have made it way thicker here so a bigger profile but
we realized that when you have legs also pedaling legs or Rider on it it was faster to get a smaller
profile big profiles don't mean everything and sometimes it makes no sense to go bigger sometimes
you have really these win-win situations yeah less material exactly better and also visually
you know like I mean but it's really cool on the bike is that you really have like all the big
profiles in the front and then becomes a little bit like a more delicate towards the rear which
gives it like a nice direction as well so this is cool like a nice detail is the cheat of the
seat stays so they see they are profiled towards the wheel to bring their fruit towards the wheel
and this is faster actually so inside the Scott uh HQ there's a little Museum which we've come to
to check out some of the older bikes which I've obviously been part of the progression
towards the foil is this Cava dishes what one's that uh the main change is obviously the brakes
and the wheel Styles as soon as you change your brakes then it's a different story 18 millimeter
tires maybe and now we are up to 28 on the rear do you prefer engineering bikes with disc brakes it's
a different uh different Spirit we were limited by the brakes to get bigger tires because the the
volume was quite limited the limitation was more on the wheels actually uh so over using the rims
so that you could not make them out of carbon or it was more complex then carbon was better for
tubulars and now we can get tubes or even tubeless um so it means that we can we can reduce that tire
pressure because we can have bigger tires so Comfort is is a big thing from the tires foreign
2.5 because it's also with cable integration as soon as this brake oh that's the same as my
old one yes yes you have standard cable integration and before it was foil too
decent garage nice to meet you man thank you absolute pleasure so for those following these
videos for the last couple of weeks you will know that this trip has been quite intense basically
cycled across Europe got to Switzerland went to see someone in verbia roadlers and mountain
bikes ride some road bikes came over to here and now I've ridden road bikes with the fastest
engineer and designer in the world I reckon that was the hardest lunchtime Loop ever but an awesome
experience and hopefully you enjoyed a little bit of insight into how the design process goes when
it comes to designing iron road bike my uh bikes are on the way home now I'm gonna fly home without
them tomorrow and then hopefully they'll turn up I'm gonna have a bit of a break when I get home
sleep for two days and then back in the studio with some new videos thank you so much for all the
support over the last couple of weeks the response to those backpacking videos was amazing and I just
want to say a big thanks because it makes me want to do more so thank you and see you guys soon