- Brace yourselves because coming up
we have got some the hottest, new road bike tech out there.
- That's right, we're here at Eurobike.
13 halls and over 1400 exhibitors,
showing the latest and greatest products.
- We've got our work cut out Ollie,
we better get a move on.
You go that way, I'll go that way?
- Sounds good man. - Right.
(smooth music)
It's fair to say that this, has completely blown me away.
This is on the Ceramic Speed booth,
and it's their brand new invention.
It's so new in fact that the patent
is still pending on there, it's genuinely mind-blowing.
They have been targeting the idea of improving
the efficiency of your bike for many, many years,
and there's loads of different components.
Like oversized jockey wheels and ceramic bearings
that help them do that, but their goal was
to create a bike that's 99% efficient,
and they reckon that they've done it.
So let me talk you through it,
because you might be struggling to get your head around it.
Basically, instead of a chain you have a drive shaft,
and on it are 21 bearings in total.
The chain ring effectively,
which can't be called a chain ring
anymore because there is no chain,
is kinda rotated 90 degrees.
So that then turns these bearings,
it turns the drive shaft, and then at the other end,
on a standard hub would you believe,
on a standard free wheel, you've then got the equivalent.
And so in total, they say it is 99% efficient.
Now this one is a Simsbury version at the moment,
but this rear cog, I guess that's what it's called,
can be built into actually a cassette.
You can change gear by then moving
the second set of bearings up and down the drive shaft.
Now you'll be pleased to hear that
you don't need to use your imagination,
because apparently there is a complete bike.
And here it is, the working prototype,
with a 13 speed cassette.
(smooth music)
- Ah man, I love a bling pair of shoes,
and I just spotted these new Infinito R1's from Fi'zi:k,
and now available in a new color which is this gray-knit.
They look so cool, I really want a pair of those.
There's also some other cool new knit colors
as well available, which we've got here.
Fi'zi:k also have some new saddles,
which are particularly bling as well.
So last year they came out with the Versus models
which feature this relief channel down the middle.
They only went up to the carbon railed R1 designation,
and now they've got the 001's,
which are the lightest and stiffest,
and the most high end tech that Fi'zi:k offer in a saddle,
so that's really awesome.
They've got the Arione, the Antares, the Aliante,
all available now in the zero zero model, or 00.
Is it zero zero or 00?
I don't know, either way awesome.
(hysterical chuckles)
- Colnago C64.
I mean strictly speaking there's nothing new here.
It's just your run of the mill, handmade in Italy,
carbon lugged frame, a kind of a work of art.
But what is new, is actually how you buy this.
Probably not relevant to many people out there,
but it's interesting never the less,
because Colnago are going direct to consumer.
This is their first offering,
it's called the Private Collection,
and it's the first bike of 64 that will go direct,
which is kinda cool.
Personally I'm not sure I could pull off
quite so much gold bling, but yeah that's something 'in it.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
10, 11,
12, 13,
13 gears on Rota's new group set,
this is pretty cool right?
So a few years back Rota launched their Uno group set,
which was hydraulic brakes and also hydraulic shifting.
Then things went a little bit quiet,
but clearly they have been working super hard
behind the scenes because now
they've got a new 1X group set.
So mountain bike, road and this cyclo-cross gravel version,
but actually apart from the shifters
it's all the same, it's brilliant.
The derailleur works from a 10 to 52 tooth cassette.
It's got a clutch system in there as well,
so it is 1X specific, and then it's only
the cassettes that you change, so you could
run a 10-52 on your road bike if you so wish.
To get 13 sprockets on the cassette,
what they've done is really quite ingenious.
It fits on a standard free hub body,
but they've moved it 3MM over towards the non-drive side.
So there isn't a rim brake version,
you have to use 142MM width spacing on there
or of course boost if you're riding a mountain bike.
But then in order to be able to fit
a tiny 10-2 sprocket on a standard free hub body,
that actually mounts over the end of it.
Anyway, it's clearly an amazing bit of engineering.
Remarkably liked by the sound of things.
They're being a bit cagey about figures,
but remember that their Uno group set
was the lightest group set out there,
and now they've gone 1X.
I mean the mountain bike cassette
weighs just 330 grams and that's a 10-52.
- What's the difference between
a tire and 365 prophylactics?
Well one's a Goodyear, and one's a very good year.
This is Goodyear's Eagle tire,
and it's their first road bike tire in a very long time.
It's an all season model designed for all round use,
but we're told they do have a lot
of other models in the pipeline,
including specialty tires for racing and that sort of thing.
The eagle is a fully tubeless tire.
It's available in widths 25 to 32MM,
and Goodyear tell us that they've put
a lot of though into the design of making this
a really reliable tubeless tire.
That can be pumped up just with a hand pump at home,
without the need for a special compressor.
Also with regards the bead and stuff like that,
it's designed to fit very well onto the rim width
without bulging out the sides.
They say that when this tire is quoted at being a 25MM tire,
it is indeed actually a 25MM tire.
- Wahoo have got a whole load of new stuff on their stand.
Starting with the legendary kicker,
which has just been redesigned, not externally,
which is a good thing in my book, but internally.
So we've now got a bigger fly wheel, it's now 16 pounds.
That's very roughly about eight kilos,
and they reckon it'll generate up to
two and a half thousand watts resistance.
Also they've redesigned the internals,
so they say now it's virtually silent.
To the extent where technically
you could use it in a library.
Up front we've got the kicker climb.
Now we saw that last year, Lloyd-y had a good look at it,
but just in case you didn't know,
it basically changes the gradient of your bike.
So anything from minus 10 to plus 20%,
so for that reels whiffed experience.
But then another new bit of tech
which I love is just up here.
This is called the Kicker Headwind.
This is a smart fan and you can set it in one of two ways.
You can either sync it up with your trainer via Amp Plus,
and you can set it so it will increase the wind speed,
depending on the speed that you're riding at.
So basically the faster you go, the more cooling you get,
just like the real world.
Or, you can actually sync it up
with your heart rate strap via Amp Plus,
so the harder you try, the more wind it's gonna kick out.
- This is the new Merida Warp TT bike,
and I am really excited to see this here.
It's brand new, it's just come out yesterday
and it's gonna be ridden by the Bahrain Merida team
in the Tour De France team time trial tomorrow,
including Vincenzo Nibali.
It's got loads of awesome, really TT nerdy aero details
on it that I'm gonna tell you about.
The first thing that Merida unsurprisingly,
is claiming that it's eight watts faster
than the previous Warp TT.
But what are the reasons for that?
Firstly it's got a completely redesigned cockpit.
The previous version had a direct mount brake
that was fitted onto the front of the bike.
This one, it's been completely integrated
with a tetro center pull system that's completely hidden
and integrated at the front there.
Also Merida is using a lever-less,
quick release lever at the front
which comes from Control Tech.
By not having the lever at the front of the bike,
that actually saves about a watt.
Overall the new cockpit design,
which also comes from Vision, and by removing the brake
Merida have saved five watts at the front of the bike.
Throughout the rest of the bike there's another
couple of watts savings, so that's eight watts in total.
Now other cool details we have,
are the junction box which is just here.
Merida has used the new Dura Ace system
to have the junction box hidden,
right down here in the bottom bracket,
for easy charging and checking the battery level.
So that's really cool.
My favorite really geeky TT bike detail
on the new Warp is to do with the front mech.
The front mech is removable.
And the reason for that is that it means
on a flatter TT course you can choose to run a 1X set up,
which has a number of advantages.
Firstly it's lighter but more importantly,
by removing the front mech and having a single ring
you're actually making the bike more aero dynamic.
We've seen Tony Martin run 1X set ups
in time trials for this reason.
When you remove the front mech,
there's actually a plate that comes with the bike
that covers up the hole where the front mech went,
to make it nice and flush, and clean and aero.
So that's really cool.
- We've quickly stopped by to see Continental,
because they have their brand new GP4000 RS tires.
These are the limited Tour De France edition tires,
and they were actually kind enough you'll remember
to give away five pairs in the GCN Show a few weeks back.
Basically they take the venerable
GP4000-2 and made it faster.
They've got a lighter tread on there
which apparently cuts down on the rolling resistance.
So there you go, even faster Cont-y tires.
- Fortunately it's not raining right now,
but if it was I'd be protected.
Because I've got the Para-Top fitted to my bike,
which is an all encompassing rain protection cover
and it's also got some pretty cool tech
designed into it as well.
There are some holes in the front,
which actually fill it up like a para-sail.
So the air is able to get in these holes
and then fill up the cavity in here,
so that you don't actually get the whole thing
collapsing against the oncoming wind pressure.
A pretty cool piece of design.
I could do with one of these back in England,
where it rains all the time.
Cor, day one of Eurobike done.
I don't know about you Si,
it's hard work this Eurobike lark.
- Oh it's so tough.
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