- This is the Merida Warp TT-E time trial bike
belonging to Vincenzo Nibali, the Shark of Messina himself.
The rider, of course, has won all the three grand tours,
and riding this year for Bahrain-Merida.
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The design of the Warp TT bike is unchanged from 2016,
but of course comes in brand new Bahrain-Merida livery,
with nice gold touches with a very
distinctive royal dark blue and red.
Now, as well as being remarkably aerodynamic,
as you can see by the very aggressive tube profiling,
there is a really interesting and variable degree
of adaptability for the rider's individual measurements
at the front of this rather interesting collar interior.
Now before we move on to the rather intriguing
front end cockpit area of the bike,
let's have a look at some of the other features.
As we see in many, many TT frames these days,
the rear stays come halfway down the seat tube,
leaving the brakes to be integrated
underneath the bottom bracket.
And again, all about cheating the wind.
Now, the Warp bike has proprietary integrated
arrow-adjustable seat post with an internal clamp,
adjusted just there, and a system called "flip-flop,"
which gives the rider a really wide range
of seating angles, either forwards or back.
And as you can see, Vincenzo, surprisingly for a TT bike,
has his saddle relatively back rather than forward
over the bracket, topped off with an unmarked Fizik saddle.
Now as well as coming in several different frame sizes,
as you'd expect, the Warp offers added
rider adjustability by virtue of this modular head system,
which gives the rider an extra 60mm
of adjustability, with little inserts that fit in here,
making sure the rider is as optimised as is possible.
Combined within the modular head system,
we have Vision Trimax Carbon TT bars,
with extra sandpaper gripper and satellite
Di2 shifters here, as well as the Vision Trimax skis,
again with added grip and even more satellite shifters,
so Vincenzo Nibali can stay as aero as he wants,
and also change gear nice and clean.
Now interestingly, Nibali has got about 25mm
of rise here, and all in all, when you take a look
at Nibali's position, I think it's all about
comfort rather than a really aggressive aero TT position.
But again, comfort means you can deliver
that power very, very efficiently.
Which he does, of course, quite regularly.
Now just staying with the front end here,
we've got the mount there for his SRM powermeter.
They've got the SRM speed sensor just here,
and just capped off on the forks,
we have the Dura-Ace 9100 dual mount brakes.
Now looking at the drive train, supplied by Shimano,
we've got Dura-Ace 9000 with an
integrated SRM powermeter there.
55-42 chain ring combination,
and 175-mm cranks, whilst the front make
and the rear make are brand new Dura-Ace 9150,
with that added microshift adjustability.
Continuing the pursuit of ultimate aerodynamics,
we've got Fulcrum Speed full-carbon rear disc wheel,
whilst up front, we've Fulcrum Speed 550 deep-section rim,
the classic TT permutation.
And both of these wheels are capped off
with Continental tyres.
But we have two different tyres on this particular setup.
Up front, we have the Competition Pro Limited
25mm classic road tyre, whilst on the rear,
we have a Continental Podium TT 25mm tyres,
with a slightly different, smoother tread.
Now capping off this rather regal looking TT rig,
we have Dura-Ace 9100 full carbon pedals,
and an Elite bottle cage.
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