- We're at the 2019 Tour de France
and myself and Lloydy are on the hunt
for the hottest pro bikes.
And my tech sense is tingling
because I've heard there's some new models lurking about
as well as some tasty paint jobs.
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We couldn't do a hottest bike list
at this year's Tour without including this,
the brand new Cannondale SuperSix EVO,
the new improved aero version of the previous EVO.
And this belongs to Rigoberto Uran
of the EF Education First team.
And it's the first time I've seen this bike
in these particular colors.
So it's got the EF colors on there
with a kind of purple fade paintwork
with a little bit of pink in there as well,
which is kind of nice.
And it goes really well with the tan sidewalls.
Now interestingly, this bike is available
to the EF team in both rim and disc.
And perhaps even more interesting than that,
there's been a bit of a split between the riders.
They were offered both, some of the riders,
half the team, I think four of them
have open for the disc brake version
and the other half of the team said,
"No, I want the rim brake version."
So pretty interesting either way
as the mechanics reckon they can get both the bikes
to the 6.8 kilogram UCI weight limit.
This one, I weighed it, it's coming in
just over, 6.9 kilograms,
which I suspect is deliberate
just in case the UCI scales are off.
But a very hot bike indeed.
Aero and lightweight.
Nice.
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- You were expecting this one, weren't you?
You can't do the coolest bikes of the Tour de France
and note feature one of Peter Sagan's.
This is the Specialized S-Works Venge
that he'll be using on the flatter stages
of the Tour de France
although he does of course have access
to the lighter weight tarmac too.
Now for the first time ever,
Sagan'll be starting the first road stages
of the Tour de France in normal Boro-Hansgrohe kit,
albeit with the rainbow bands around the cuffs here.
And that is because he's no longer World Champion
and he's no longer National Champion either.
But that doesn't mean he doesn't get
a custom bike of course.
Gone is the green glitter from last year,
which Jon Cannings showed you on a pro bike video,
in is a slightly more subtle glitter
over the top of gray
which transitions into the matte gray
that you'll see at the top
and here coming through to the back.
You've got his name written here on the top tube,
his initials at the front of the top tube there.
And on the inside of the chainstay at the back here,
he's got his list of World Championship victories.
Three of course at the moment
that he won in consecutive years.
The first one was back in 2015 in Richmond,
then Doha in 2016 and finally Bergen in 2017.
Wonder when the next one'll be.
Probably not too far away.
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- One of the hottest bikes for me at this year's Tour
is definitely Alejandro Valverde's custom
Canyon Ultimate CF SLX.
And it's custom because, well it's painted
to celebrate his victory
in the UCI World Road Race Championships back in Innsbruck.
He's the current World Champion
and so we've got rainbow bands on his frame
and this beautiful gold on the top tube here.
There's a load of other cool rainbow features
so on the wheels you've got rainbow details,
even on his Fizik Antares saddle,
we've got little rainbow bands.
But my personal favorite is the rainbow finishing tape
on the Lizard Skins bar tape.
That is seriously cool, it looks awesome.
Also Valverde's using the same Canyon cockpit
with a 120 stem and 41 centimeter bars as me.
I mean, I'm basically Valverde, aren't I?
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- I'm almost certain that this is going to be
the lightest of all the bikes
that we feature in this particular video
because currently, it's weighing in at 6.66 kilograms,
which is well under the UCI's minimum weight limit.
It is the brand new Pinarello Dogma F12 X-Light
that belongs to Colombian climbing sensation
Egan Bernal of Team INEOS.
Pinarello have managed to reduce the weight
of this frameset by 60 grams over the standard F12
and that comes down to the fact
that they've used T1100G 1K aerospace carbon weave,
which you can find out all about
when I come out with this as a pro bike in a future video.
Now interestingly, Gary Blem
the chief mechanic at Team INEOS
has said that they will not be putting artificial weight
on this bike in order to get it up
to that minimum 6.8 kilograms,
but rather just swapping out a few of the components
until they get to that point,
maybe the bottle cages are something slightly heavier
or even the bolts at the seat clamp here.
Also what he said that was interesting
was that they will get it up to 6.85 kilograms.
There's a good reason for that,
they're worried about a discrepancy
between their own scales
and the ones that the UCI will be using
to measure the bike before the start of a race.
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- This is the Colnago V2-r of Dan Martin
from UAE Team Emirates.
Now this is a deceptively hot bike.
I say deceptively hot
because this V2-r is like no other.
Well it is like one other.
It's 200 grams lighter than the standard V2-r
and only Fabio Aru and Dan Martin
have this super lightweight version.
And as a result, the team mechanics
have got it to 6.8 kilograms.
Although, it's not currently in 6.8 kilogram mode
as it's got clinchers on it with tubeless tires
and Dan's going to be running these on the flatter stages
because they're more aerodynamic
and the tires have lower rolling resistance.
But when he hits the mountains,
in go the tubulars and it goes right on to 6.8 UCI limit.
Very nice.
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Super hot bike, this is the brand new Scott Addict RC
of team leader for Mitchelton-Scott, Adam Yates.
And I say brand new because well, it's literally brand new,
he's just got hold of it
and he's not actually ridden it or raced on it yet.
And it's also the brand new Scott Addict.
So the new Scott Addict has had a makeover.
Like many of the climbing bikes we're seeing,
it's gone aero.
So we've got the dropped seat stays,
the D-shaped seat post, the aero tube profiles.
And this really swanky looking aero cockpit.
And all the cables are fully integrated in here,
you just can't spot the cables at all.
So you imagine it's very slippery through the wind.
And it's gone disc brake only now.
The previous one was rim and disc but now just disc brakes.
Anyhow, I think it looks absolutely stunning.
It's currently in a sort of flat stage mode
so we've got the deeper 60 wheels in
and a close ratioed 11-25 cassette.
But you can expect Adam to be swapping that out
for some shallower wheels and a bigger cassette
once he hits the mountains.
Right, I hope you enjoyed this look
at some of the hottest pro bikes here at the Tour.
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in this video in more detail,
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