- Richie Porte has been one of the riders
of the year so far, and he's one of the
favourites in the Tour de France,
which is why we're looking at this bike.
It's his new BMC TeamMachine SLR01.
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The TeamMachine family of frames
has been one of the near constants in the Pro Peloton
over the last few years to a decade or so.
And around midway through this year, it received an update.
So it is now available in rim brake and disc brake versions.
This version is, of course, the rim brake version.
The rim brake versions have direct
mount brakes front and rear.
There have been a few redesigns
at the shapes and the carbon layup.
For a few seasons, BMC's bike colour
has always been matte carbon black,
but recently they've switched to cherry red,
which I think is a very, very cool bike colour.
I've heard that red cars go faster, maybe red bikes do too.
Let's look at the build of this one.
And starting right at the top,
he's got a Fi'zi:k Arione VSX saddle,
so it's got a very deep channel to relieve pressure.
And the rails on that one are fully braided carbon fibre.
So braided carbon fibre rails, one of Fi'zi:k's
signature touches to many of their top-of-the-range saddles.
The seat post is BMC, and that's part of the frameset unit.
Moving forward from there, and also part
of the frameset unit, and also manufactured by BMC,
is the very new, very neat integrated
stem and integrated spacers.
So you can see the top spacer integrates almost
all the way to the very front of the stem.
Porte's handlebars are 3T, and they're carbon fibre,
and they've got an aero section on the top,
and bar tape is also supplied by 3T.
Shifting and braking is taken care of by Shimano's
latest version of their Dura-Ace groupset.
Linked up to the shifters is the Shimano Dura-Ace Di2
front mech and a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 rear mech.
And linked up to the brakes is a pair of
Shimano Dura-Ace direct mount brakes.
The only brake from the new Shimano Dura-Ace setup
is the chainset, and that is the slightly older version
of Dura-Ace, which is to accommodate the SRM PowerMeters
that every BMC rider rides with.
To match with that chainset, the chain rings are also
the oldest style Shimano Dura-Ace, and they are 53/39.
The chain is Dura-Ace, as is the cassette,
and that's an 11 through to 30 tooth.
Pedals are also Shimano, they're also Dura-Ace,
and they're also the latest version.
Bottle cages and bottles like all the
BMC Team bikes are provided by Elite.
Wheels, like the groupset, are Shimano Dura-Ace.
They are the latest version of the Dura-Ace C40 wheels,
and glued onto those wheels are Vittoria Corsa
25 millimetre tubular tyres with the skinwall.
I think skinwall tubulars always look very cool.
With the main details of the bike covered,
it's time to look at the little details
that really elevate every pro bike.
Porte has got a number holder on his seatpost,
and to me, that looks like it might be glued or epoxyed
onto the seatpost just to keep things
as tidy as possible and to minimise zip tie use.
Minimal zip tie use is, I think,
a signature touch of pro cycle mechanics.
On the chainstay, he's got a chainstay protector,
which is unusual for pro bikes.
Usually that's something that they'll forego because they
have a relatively high turnover of bikes and equipment.
Porte's bike, of course, has a name sticker,
and that is supplied by the team.
You can tell because it is in the BMC Team font.
And a final detail about the new BMC TeamMachine SLR01
that I very much like is the very neatly integrated
Di2 junction box, which is right up near the head tube.
With all of that covered, it's time for vital statistics.
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The vital statistics on Porte's bike are as follows.
We've already covered the gearing,
but let's touch on it again.
He's got 53/39 chainrings and 11 through to 30 cassette.
And his cranks are 170 millimetres long.
His saddle height comes in at just under 70 centimetres,
and his reach from the nose of the saddle
to the centre of the stem is just around 51 centimetres.
The stem is 12 centimetres long,
and his bars are 42 centimetres wide.
The tyre widths are marked up as 25s,
but according to our callipers,
they're coming in at around 24 to 24.2 millimetres wide.
The weight of the bike, it's a super light bike.
They can definitely get this down way below the UCI's
lower weight limit of 6.8 kilos if they wanted to,
which they don't because they're not gonna do that.
So it comes in at around seven kilos.
With all that covered, it's time
for the free hub soundcheck.
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