- I'm very excited to take a look at this bike
'cause it belongs to the Ironman World Championship
bike course record holder Cameron Wurf.
This is his Pinarello Bolide.
♪ For the record, I'm done tryna make you all comfortable ♪
♪ For the record, you ain't tryna grow ♪
♪ then it's done for you ♪
We're taking a look at his bike ahead
of the Ironman World Championships.
And this is in fact the same Pinarello Bolide frame set
that we looked at last year,
ahead of the 2018 Ironman World Championships
and this year at Challenge Roth.
But we do know that Cam work very closely
with Pinarello and Team Ineos,
he does a lot of his training with the team.
so he has got access
to a lot of very exciting componentry,
new releases and whatnot.
So, one of which is on the front end,
so let's take a closer look at that to start off with.
So here we have the most aerobar tri-bar combo here,
and these are actually being seen on Team Ineos
during the tour.
The exciting thing about these bars
is that they're custom made and molded for each rider.
They are similar to the Speedbar
that we saw on some of the other athletes,
Sebastian Kienle, Lucy Charles, Tim Don.
These aerobars actually fit neatly to the athletes arm.
These are actually 3D scanned so the athlete
will somehow put their arm into some sort of 3D scanner
and they'll take the geometries and dimensions from that.
On the Speedbars they go into some sort of mold
and they make a cast from that.
They work in a very similar way and the whole idea
if that reducing the gap between the aerobar
and the athletes arm and therefore reducing
the amount of turbulence and drag
that's created by that gap.
And yeah, that's pretty high-tech stuff.
So it comes with a small fee of £12,000.
Yeah, you heard it right, £12,000.
And then to add to that Cam's
just made his own little Xlab Torpedo,
got a load of electrical tape and a gel holder.
Sort of seems criminal for £12,000 set of bars.
Then down from that we've got
the Princeton CarbonWorks wheels,
which I'm going to be totally honest,
it's not a brand I'm all that familiar with.
We've seen Team Ineos riding on for the past year,
in fact Cameron's been riding on from for the past season.
Fraser actually featured them upon Cameron's bike early
this year at Challenge Roth.
Now quite excitedly it was actually set up by two rowers,
which is a nice link there between Cam and the brand.
But you've probably noticed they've got quite
a unique shape to them and profile.
And the idea behind this is that they're continually
offloading pressure that can build up on wheels.
What we ordinarily see on a normal set of wheels
is that air passing over can build up in pressure
and then when that finally offloads
it can really jolt the rider.
So the idea is it's continually offloading
that which is absolutely perfect
for a race like this at the Ironman World Champions
where we can sometimes get really strong crosswinds.
I've actually had people asking me for why Cam
has these metallic strips on his wheels.
And the answer is wheel balancing.
Now having a valve on one side, will,
can add weight on one side,
so the idea is by adding these metallic strips
actually balances that out so we've got a nice wheel flow.
In terms of the tires he's using,
well Cameron's actually whipped out
one of these tyres for me.
Its a Continental Grand Prix TT type
and then it has a code on here, which we'll see there,
111, now that means limited edition.
These are handed out to a lot of pro riders,
and what it means actually these aren't Grand Prix TT ties.
He may put one of these on this is a 23 mil tire,
it just has a custom compound,
but yeah, really exciting.
But he it currently Grand Prix 4000 25ml on the front
and a Conti Grand Prix 5000 25 on the rear.
Now in terms of the group set on this bike
we've got Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 kitted out throughout,
but we have the fairly new Shimano Dura-Ace R9100 here
and that has a built in power meter, it's dual sided,
I say fairly new because it has been chatted
about for quite a while now
but they have been quite hard to come by.
Cam's actually got 165 crank lengths on here
which is five mil shorter
that we saw him riding on last year.
He's done a lot of testing,
apparently he's very happy with that shorter crank length.
In terms of the chain ring size,
he's actually got 56 39 on here.
I know, that breaks a few rules
they normally tell you to go for 56 42 but he said,
"If I want a small chain ring, I want a small chain ring",
and it works, and I would vouch for that,
I also run something fairly similar.
Back from that we've got an 11 28 cassette,
so, nice gear range there.
Whether he need that necessarily for Kona?
But I guess he could stay in the big chain ring
and then go into one of the easier rings
as he's going up to Hawi.
And then down from that we just got
the standard Di2 jockey wheels and chain.
And onto the last little bits here,
but they are still very exciting bits
because got the Speedplay Aero pedals,
they've got a slightly larger storage box
on the down tube compared to the bike
that we saw last year, so that'll just have some
of his spares in there.
We then got this bento box on top
which runs nice and smoothly into
the aerobars and the stem,
that's just a nice rubberized top
so you can chuck a number gels in there.
We've also got the Fizik Arione saddle,
which is the triathlon TT version
which they don't actually make anymore,
it's got slightly more cushioning on the front there.
And this also has a grip on the top
which was not released for purchase
but a number of the pro teams are using it
and Cam's actually said he's down to his last saddle,
so he's trying to look after this one.
He's also got the XLab Torpedo bottle cage
on the front we discussed earlier,
and then he's got the XLab Gorill TT
on the back which just hold the bottle nice and firmly.
That is Cam Wurth's Pinarello Bolide,
we're very excited to see how he gets on
at the Ironman World Championships this year.
Can he set a new bike course record?
Or could he run a 2:45 marathon?
He's made some fantastic improvements this year,
so really excited to see how he performs.
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