- I'm out in Kailua Kona, Hawaii ahead of the Iron Man
World Championships,
and this event is not only pinnacle of the Iron Man
Kona with the althetes, but also for a number of brands,
we see a lot of new products being released here,
and a lot of exciting tech.
So if tech is your kind of thing,
stay tuned for this video.
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Well this is the Dimond Marquise TT Bike,
which you may remember me featuring out here in Kona
last year, and it's quite an exciting bike because
the whole bike splits in half.
So you see this seam here.
Bolts here.
All you need to do is release that bolt there,
and another bolt through the section in there,
and the whole bike comes apart, which is
really important if you are traveling in the U.S.,
particularly because it's quite expensive traveling
with your bike.
So it all fits into separate bags,
plow it through with your standard luggage, which is
amazing, really.
Now there are some updates from last year's model
of the Marquise; We've now got disc brakes on this model,
and that now has allowed the forks to run a little bit
narrow rather than having the brakes integrated
into the forks, obviously for the rim brakes.
And we've also got this updated seat post,
which is the Ritchey one bolt,
so you can see that on the bike here,
and that just allows very easy kind of change of position
on the bike.
And also this sort of opening at the back so you can
attach any bottle cages or CO2 mounts, so they're
really nice, and obviously we can't forget
the paint work; that looks amazing, we've got
a whole lot of fades going on there, and that comes standard
with any 2019 model.
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Well this is the bike that got a lot of people
have been discussing lately.
The Ceeco Shadow R.
Obviously we are missing a front wheel
but you get the picture.
We've got a very unusual design on the front,
Not even talking about the beam frame here,
we're talking about the front end,
that is really glaringly obvious.
And it's got this, it comes down off the stem
and from the headset area, and we've got this arch
around the wheel; the idea being that you're then blocking
the wind coming into that front of the bike,
so that pole at the front of the bike is essentially hidden,
which they tend to be more aerodynamic.
And then we've got this beam going across,
so then go can obviously attach the wheel into it,
and this also has a natural suspension in it,
whereas normally with a fork you've got quite a rigid line
coming down from the headset.
It's now got this beam going across;
a little bit of suspension there,
which I say is actually quite nice.
Another thing they weren't expecting
was that given that they've got the weight fervor forward
on the wheel, all this weight going around the front,
actually makes it quite hard to move that front wheel,
so when you got the crosswinds, particularly here in Hawaii,
it actually makes it a very stable bike.
And if you look at the aerodynamic side of it,
you've obviously got this nice, clean line coming through
towards the bottom bracket through the bike.
But interestingly, if you were to
maybe not like this design, you could just ride it
in the standard form, which we have seen a couple of pros
riding around on this last week in Kona.
And for that, obviously you would end up
with a big gap here.
So they haven't adapted it; you can place it in,
fill that gap so it's nice and close to the wheel.
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Okay, my first experience with a smart bed.
- Yeah, come on down.
- So yeah, basically the bed is changing its pressure
throughout so depending on, well I guess in the smart mode
it could read as to where you're
putting the pressure on the bed,
and it'll change it but then manually you come in and say
oh I had a really hard run, I need to change the pressure
where my legs are placed and it'll adjust that to help you
recover better.
So, really smart, we've got a lot of pro athletes using it;
Andy Parks, Marinda Coffrey, any others?
- (Salesman) Matt Hanson
Matt Hanson, yeah loads of people so it clearly works
for these guys.
Alright, over the last few years we've seen an emergence
of smart glasses, and right here I've got the
Solos Smart Glasses.
Pop these on a second.
Okay, so I've got a headset display coming out from
my right hand lens, you can see this arm coming out here.
And on that I've got everything I need to know really,
my elevation, my heart rate, my speed, my power,
it's flicking through screens and I believe I can
do that also with the controls on the side here.
Obviously right now it's picking up someone else's ANT
Plus sensors so I've got 145 BPM;
someone in there obviously has a heart sensor on.
And it can all link up to your phone so you can
play music, through the little speakers
coming out of the arms, which only I can hear
so I am rocking out to some Shania Twain right now.
And I've gotta say I was a little bit skeptical
about these headset displays; I felt like it might
block my field of view, but actually I can see
perfectly fine past that.
I do feel like maybe it's something you just get used to
over time anyway, and probably wouldn't even notice this
arm coming out.
Currently these come in at $499.
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I will ignore the monsoon going on behind me
because I have a very nice and new product here.
We've got the Vision Metron TFA.
The fastest aero bar.
As well as their new snake bite stem.
And this is all integrated; a very new design,
very different.
A little bit like the Cervelo P5X, in the sense that the bar
actually splits in half, you can flip the bars over
so you've got even this drop down version you've got
going on here.
Obviously you have the base bar angled slightly upwards.
We're also got lots of micro adjustment in terms
of your position, so you got a number of different
stack heights so you can add in different spaces
underneath the aero bars, you can change the width of those
parts individually, and very incrementally.
We also got the length of the aero bars,
and on that subject we've got brand new aero bars here,
so really nicely, ergonomically designed.
So for different positions on the aero bars.
Obviously one here on the end, every nice,
got this JS bend, they're called.
And then also if you're getting into a more powerful
position of pulling up perhaps on a hill,
you've got a nice ergonomic design going on here.
But we're also talking about these extensions.
You may notice this rather unusual looking groupset,
and this new Vision WE Groupset.
This is, well, not even brand new, this is pre-release,
this isn't even available yet.
This is in beta testing at the moment.
We've seen a lot on the roads groupset,
and this, wow, it's gonna be ridden here in Hawaii
by a couple of the pros but it's very different looking.
It's semi-wireless, so basically the gearing, or the buttons
will come; have wires coming down from both ends
of the bull horns and the aero bars, down into
a junction box so then it sends signals to the front mech,
and then that will then also control the rear mech as well.
So, every exciting.
Interested to see what they will look like
as a finished article.
By now this probably isn't brand new news to you
but this is the new specialized shift disc bike.
It's pretty special, yeah.
The last time they released their shift was in 2011,
and we've got some BIG updates to it now,
so let's start off.
We've got these crazily low rear stays so these have been
dropped quite considerably.
Obviously the disc brakes, we've got these wacky forks
on the front, much bigger than previously,
and also they come right up to the base bar.
They've also got this really wide stance;
that's for aerodynamics where we've got the flow of air
from the wheels spinning 'round, and also the flow of air
coming 'round the forks, so it's not quite so much
disturbance in a small space; they're allowing
a little bit more room for that.
But then we've got this sail off the back.
And this has really been well thought through to improve
the aerodynamics and also that kind of sail effect
to push the rider along.
So this, I think to take a closer look at this we need
to look at the bike behind.
And this is where we store our hydration.
So we got a bladder system here,
which you can fill up pre-ride.
And then that would usually collect to a straw that runs
all the way through the frame, and then pops out here.
And that runs past their fuel cell as well.
So this is a little pouch you can fill up with gels.
At the moment I think it's got Skittles in it.
And then that can also be removed.
So should you need to, you can actually access your
spares that you'd have in there.
But yeah, really nicely designed, very, very different
from their previous Shift.
It'd be interesting to see how it goes down
on this weeks Iron Man World Champs.
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We're now alongside the Canyon Speedmax of the defending
Iron Man World Champion Patrick Lange.
But with some quite exciting modifications,
because they have just launched their Project 101,
so Canyon Swiss Side, his wheel sponsor, and Salba
Engineering, an F1 firm have all collaborated to design this
new cockpit.
Customized specifically for Patrick Lange.
Now something like this has been done before with
(unintelligible) but this the first I've seen
in Iron Man racing.
Essentially these aero bars have been molded and custom
designed to his forearm.
So he can sit there nice and comfy, locked in, you can see
this padding on the top og the aero bars there.
(unintelligible) but it could be quite considerable over
an Iron Man.
How sweaty and slippery these pads get, I don't know
but it will be really interesting to see on race day.
Well we've just come past the Garneau stand
and quite good timing because as we film this, they are
releasing their new triathlon shoe,
the Tri course triathlon shoe.
And it does feature, as with their previous shoe,
a one strap across the top for triathlon,
we got the boa lacing .
But some updates, we've got what they call
X Comfort technology in this.
So they've already one an award for this,
a Global Cycling award.
And that is this part on the ball of the foot 'round here,
and on the outside here.
And that essentially is flexible so depending
on the sides of your foot and the width of your foot
it allows a little bit more flexibility and give,
so, well more comfortable.
It's also got an updated upper, so this one is
actually UV reflective, so it prevents the foot
from warming up.
Very important when you're running out here in Hawaii,
not on a day like today, 'cause it's raining but, yeah.
Nice updates, very smart.
Well leading up to the Iron Man Championships this week,
Ventum has just released their new road bike, the NS1.
Now this comes in a few different options, we've got
just the frameset at $5000,
then with the all techer groupset it's $7000.
And then with all the bells and whistles, the DIT Gear
Ace groupset, the Pioneer Power Meter, the Enve wheels
and fully spec'd out with ceramic speed, $12,000.
And we have a couple more options on the front end;
we have the fully integrated stemmed handlebar, aero cockpit
we also have a slightly more ajustible cockpit where
the stem and the handle bar can be changed and moved.
And that still has the cables routing fully through.
It can ride with up to 32 ml tires,
currently it's got 25 mls in there, bit it's
obviously quite a big clearance in there in both the forks
and the rear stays.
But a really exciting product, and very, very nice looking.
Okay and we have another new release from Rudy Project
for Kona week.
Now Rudy Project have topped the helmet Kona count
for a number of years now, and I feel like
they might be trying to that again because this is their new
Volantis road helmet.
Now sits alongside their Boost Aero helmet but this being
their road helmet has slightly more ventilation,
which is ideal for Hawaii, given how hot it is,
you want a little bit more ventilation going through
the helmet to keep your head cool.
It does also allow you to feature their flip uo visor design
so; the idea being that you can have the visor flipped out,
pop it on, easy through
transition, and when you're on the go,
flip that visor down and get on with the work.
Finally this is a size large, and it weighs in at 300gms.
We're now with the brand new Cervelo S5 and this has really
shot things up a little bit with its front in because it's
fully integrated, but we've got this kind of almost
V cockpit going on.
The idea is the we've got the handlebar interstem fully
integrated but you can actually adjust it so you've got
some shems that can go in here so you can go from sort of
a race set up to a more relaxed training setup.
So it's 5ml shem that can go in there;
you can also change the stack height here,
so you've got a 30ml adjustment.
But Cervelo guys, they do actually ship out with enough
cabling in there so that any retailer can grab the bike,
add those space in and move up so,
not having to change cabling as they go.
All of this is being aero tested with a rider on it;
interestingly they found that by having this opening
at the front on the stem, the air flowing through,
it's more aero in terms of interaction
with the athletes legs as they're moving.
We've also got over here, we've got disc brakes on this
it's allowing some slightly different configurations
of the frame shape particularly around the rear seat tube.
But yeah, beautiful bike.
I really love it.
Well I've come by the Enve stand and I have
something quite exciting here for you because this is
Enve's first disc wheel.
Very exciting, now Enve have for a long time stood
by the fact that they believe that open spoke wheels are
faster than disc wheels.
And they have a point because, just chatting to their
mechanics or trained technicians and they were saying that
a lot of wheels are tested at 50 km now, 30 miles per hour
which is far beyond the speeds that most of us are
riding at, so they felt that open spoke wheels were
better suited to, I guess the mass market.
But there is obviously a calling for those wheels
for those speeds, 30 miles per hour, 50 kilometers per hour.
Where something like a disc wheel does come in for some
athletes this could be a faster wheel.
Particularly for those flatter courses, maybe doing your
10 mile timed trials.
So it's been really interesting, talking to them,
their actually saying that their even taking into account
peoples' calf shape and how their legs are changing
the air flow as it hits the wheel.
Really, really interesting, and now these are actually
gonna be available with both a clincher
and a disc brake option.
Now both will come in at 1225 grams, and they are
available actually this week, and they'll be clincher,
tubeless, ready; I am very excited to try one of these out.
Well that has not disappointed; as always,
Kona has brought some exciting new products, and some
very exciting tech.
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