- Here at Eurobike, there are so many bikes to gawp at
and well, I'm going to run you through today some
of my absolute favorites that I've seen so far on display.
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I'm here now with the fastest bike in the world officially,
a release for one hour, the bike of Victor Campenaerts,
55.089 kilometers, which he set earlier on this year.
This is his Ridley bike and well, I'm going to run you through
a few of the really tricked out details on it.
First of all, the tires.
I've got a pair of Vittoria Evo Corsas here.
Now...
Oh, sorry, Pista Corsas!
Crumbs, nearly got that one wrong to start with.
Well, these tires are actually only designed to be used
for up to 100 kilometers.
That's how fragile this tread pattern is on top of it here.
So, it's kind of like a latex feel to it,
so it's going to be super low-rolling resistance and,
while these are just 18 millimeters in width,
imagine those pumped up to 200 Psi.
That's why that sort of thing you can only use on
the boards of a track.
Now, the Campagnolo Ghibli disc wheels.
They're held in place, well certainly on the front anyway,
with a super aerodynamic skewer.
It's actually the sort of thing which you'd use
on a commuting bike to stop your front wheel
from being stolen around town.
So, that's what he's got in there.
Not the sort of thing you can change in a hurry,
but well he's not going to need to let's face it.
The rear wheel, that's just held in place
with the standard nuts.
Now these wheels, the bearings inside of them,
ceramic bearings but all of the grease, all of the lube
has been removed from them and then just prior
to actually undertaking the hour record,
the mechanic's just put a couple of drops in each side
of the wheel just to try and free up those wheels
and get 'em spinning super quick, super fast.
This bike, I actually love the hour record.
I'm sure you can tell that from the previous videos
I've done, not to mention the fact he's got a custom
3D-printed cockpit here that's absolutely stunning.
The actual elbow pads there are so minimalistic
and the base bar super narrow too.
The paintwork, there's just a little bit of glitter
in there.
The hour record, I wish more people would go for it!
Check this out!
Probably one of my favorite bikes here at this show.
The Eddy Merckx Corsa Road belonging to Oliver Naesen
of the AG2R La Mondiale squad.
Now he used this on the final stage of this year's
Tour de France on the Champs-Elysees and, for me,
it probably got voted as, well, the bike
of the Tour de France because steel was back
in the peloton, you know, back in the top tier.
This bike, well, it's made out of Columbus HSS
and also Columbus XCR.
As you can see, the tubing is a little bit more oversized
than a traditional steel bike.
We've got a carbon fork on there so it's not all steel.
I don't think anyone would be brave enough to use
a steel fork these days because they were quite shattering
as you rode along, although not as bad as alloy forks
I must say.
The rear dropouts on this bike are so beefed-up
and oversized, I love the design and style of them,
not to mention also the tricolor band here
of the Belgian national colors.
We got a rotor chainset, a Shimano Dura-Ace groupset.
Now, interestingly as well, the groupset is not Di2,
so Oliver obviously prefers the have or used,
the actual cable variety there.
Moving back, well, the Deda Seatpost is held in place
with a standard clamp here on the actual frame.
Then, up here, we have got a secondary one.
Now, I've mentioned these before in a few videos
and it's not always that easy to explain what it is.
Essentially, it's just a really small little screw
or bolt which goes in there and it's almost like a backup,
so if this one here was to fail, then you've got
this one here which could well hold it in place
for a bit longer.
Or, alternatively, if you travel a lot with your bike,
you can actually use that as a marker as it's way
more accurate than any tape because it's not going to move,
you can slide it right down in place
and then your saddle height is set.
You don't need to worry about that.
Take it in and out of that saddle as much as you want.
You've just got to worry about getting it lined up
straight again and, if you're as full with your OCD as I am,
that's going to be a bit of a nightmare but, right,
the finishing touch, has to be down here on the seat tube.
There is a sticker how it's been tailor-made
for Oliver Naesen and also it's got all of the
specific measurements on that too.
I want one of those on my bikes!
Now, if you like your fancy artwork
and you like your Falcons, I like Falcons, Atlanta Falcons,
one of my favorite American football teams,
then you are going to like what they've done here
on the wheels of Fast Forward.
They've decorated this bike in a Falcon-style design
because this front wheel, which is called the Falcon,
it's kind of a one spoke, or is it a two spoke?
I dunno!
I'll let you make up your mind about it really.
I mean, officially, I guess it is a two spokes,
the way it's going to be made, but, hey!
We're not going to go into the details of that,
but it's super interesting.
It's not your imagination.
Yep, you can put your hands in all of this.
Look, there is nothing there.
It's so cool!
I've been wanting to see one of these for absolutely ages
and actually one of the reasons why they called it
the Falcon is because the falcon is one
of the fastest animals on the planet.
Oh, I do love a wheel, especially a strange one like this!
Tommasini bikes, a bike actually I've wanted
from about 1993 when a friend of mine, Dan Moore,
had one and I was insanely jealous when he used to ride
around our local streets on one and I think this one here
is identical to what he had,
probably a little bit smaller though.
This one is pretty small, made out of Columbus tubing.
Thankfully I didn't knock it over otherwise I'd be
in quite a bit of trouble because what I'm going to talk
about now is the paintwork on this bike and the attention
to detail on it.
Just check out the chromework that we've got here
on the inserts of the dropouts,
the insert of the derailleur hanger,
the front derailleur hanger there and also the bosses here,
where your downtube shifters or STI shifter adapters
are going to go, those lugs.
This bike, for me, is absolutely beautiful.
I love the way that all of the engraving is filled in
with a little bit of color on there too.
We got the T of Tommasini as well just, you know,
really well done inside of the fork.
Aah, can I have this one as well?
Please?
Right, I've just been alerted by our friends at Enervit,
they've got a really cool bike here for me to come
and check out on their stand.
When I heard it was the bike that Francesco Moser set
the hour record in in 1984 using lenticular disc wheels,
you could say I was a little bit excited!
However, the folks also heard that I've got grubby
little hands so they've put it, well,
out of arm's reach!
Has anyone got a ladder?
Ladder?
No!
Do you want to give me a bunk?
No!
All right!
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Now, I just simply had to include this T Red Stayers bike
because, for me, this really encompasses pure speed
and grit and, well, almost madness when riding
on the track because on-board one of these bikes,
you're actually going to be following a motorbike
at extremely high paces.
It's not a Derny.
I mean, real motorbikes, and one of the ways
in which you can actually ride it much faster is
the fact that they've shortened the wheel base on it.
So, if you look at the forks here, essentially
they look like they're turned around so you can just
get closer behind the motorbike, so you basically just
take more advantage of the aerodynamics to be gained.
Now, if we stay at the front end as well,
you can see we got a front disc wheel on there
meaning that, well, you're going to be super fast
because you're going to be cutting through the air
just that little bit easier.
Well, you've got this brace bar too from the forks
all the way up to the top of the stem and that's fixed
in place there with a special bracket,
which has actually been brazed and enables just
a bit more sturdiness at the front end.
Remember, you're putting through so many Gs on the banking
of a track, hence this reinforcement bar
and it is a pretty beefy bit of kit.
Now, I want to actually just go back to the wheels quickly
because you can see the front wheel is really small.
I think that's like a 24 inch wheel on there
and the tubular itself has actually been gaffer taped
in place on the side of both the wheel as well as
on the sidewall of the tubular.
Now, that is to help it both kind of stay in place
and also in case of any abrasions if you were
to overlap a wheel of that motorbike.
Quite unlikely!
It's got less chance really of tearing the sidewall
and having a blowout.
So, you've done exactly the same thing
on the back wheel here.
Let's move up then!
The saddle, just check out this!
Another reinforcement plate if you like, well the plate is
on the bottom and then we've got this adjustable bar there,
the reason being riders creep so far forward
and they tend to ride very far forward just trying
to get out the power because you can see here as well,
the seat post.
That's been flipped forward too, combined with a
monstrous chainring on there as well.
I love stayer racing!
Right, this curved bike on the WTB stand.
This has just caught my eye.
The reason being, well, it's got to be the paintwork,
hasn't it?
Just look at how it goes from the purple almost up
into a lime green.
Now, this paint must be super thin because you can still see
kind of the actual brushed finish of that frame
popping through from beneath it.
I love the way actually the logo's been left unpainted
on the downtube here too.
There are some great finishing touches on the bike,
including color coordinated bosses here, or, sorry,
bolts, which are in the bosses, on that carbon fork
at the front, which just finish it off.
Well, really, nothing finishes it off quite as much
as a fancy drivechain, let's face it,
in particular the chains.
We've got a rainbow-type finish on the SRAM chain,
which matches in really well with the actual frame.
It's not my type of bike normally actually,
but I'm liking it.
I just wish it had normal handlebars.
That's just personal preference!
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Oh, correction, it's not even painted by the way.
It's anodized!
So, there we are!
Don't ever let me paint the bike again!
There we are.
Some of my favorite bikes here on show.
Let me know, though, which one is your favorite down there
in the comments section?
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