- This absolute weapon is the Giant Trinity TT bike,
as used in time trials by the CCC team.
Now before I go into all the geeky, nerdy,
beautiful, aero details on this machine,
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This particular bike belongs to Lukasz Wisniowski.
Now the standard colors for CCC
are this matte black and white.
Now, it's quite a simple paint job,
but it contrasts really nicely with the bright orange kit
that the team wears, so when it's combined with the riders,
it looks great.
And I like the way the tan sidewall contrasts as well.
Now the Giant Trinity TT frame has been around
a while, but it is regarded as being one of the fastest
time trial frames available.
Now it is a rim brake designed bike.
We're starting to see increasing numbers of disc brake
time trial bikes,
but the rim brakes are neatly tucked in behind
the front fork.
In the case here, it's like V Brake design,
similar to the old giant propel.
The rear brake is tucked under the vault and bracket
out of the wind.
Now this is a UCI legal bike, but there is also
a triathlon version in which there's loads of
triathlon gubbins that gets festooned to the front
of the bike to make it even more aerodynamic.
With that said, the cockpit is very clean.
I love this torpedo shape at the front here.
It just looks like it's perfect for slicing
through the air and it tapers nicely
towards the seat tube.
And a really nice little detail is the Di2 junction box.
So the bike is fitted with complete Dura-Ace Di2
throughout and the junction box so that Di2
can be tuned and charged is located here
in this nice little recess, and there's a little slot
that, so you can press the button to activate the
junction box and you can get access to it
by just turning the steering tube.
You don't have to undo anything to get access to it,
which is nice from a mechanics point of view,
but also from an aerodynamic point of view
An aesthetic point of view, it's neat and out of the way.
With Dura-Ace Di2 fitted throughout,
we've got satellite shifters on the brake levers
of the base bar and also little bar end shifters
on the end of the tri extensions as well.
Now this is a standard cockpit
with fairly standard setup.
It's not 3D cockpit and most riders in the Tour de France
will use standard setups.
It's only on teams like Ineos
where we see 3D cockpits given to premature the riders
on the team even the non time trial specialists.
I'm told that the team were actually doing some team
time trial practice today on these bikes.
So it's setup in full race mode.
So we've got a power meter on there.
It's the Dura-Ace power meter
and those chain rings are 54/42,
so Lukasz Wisniowski isn't a time trial specialist,
who isn't known for being a time trial specialist,
so it's interesting to see the chain rings
that he's running there.
A lot of the TT specialists actually run bigger
chain rings these days.
On the back we've got an 11/28 cassette.
The cranks are 175mm long,
and the saddle is a short-nosed Giant saddle.
Giant, the brand, I'm not referring to the size
of the saddle, it's clearly not giant.
But interestingly, short-nosed saddles were first
employed because of a UCI rule which stipulated that
the nose of the saddle, if you run a plumb line
down it had to be two centimeters behind
the bottom bracket.
But this saddle is clearly being run far further back.
It's right on the back of its rails.
Lots of lay back there.
Interestingly Lukasz is still opting for a
short-nosed saddle.
This water bottle is really cool.
So it's a Giant specific one that's been designed
for the Trinity to be as aerodynamic as possible
and it just blends really nicely into the lines
of the bike.
It's fully UCI legal and just saves a few watts
over a round bottle which would compromise the
aerodynamics of the down tube.
Now the wheels are particularly bling.
I really like those.
They are from the new component brand, Cadex,
which is a subsidiary of Giant.
And at the front, we've got their new four spoke wheel,
and at the back, their new disc.
They're made of this kind of TeXtreme carbon
which I remember first seeing on some Giro helmets
a few years ago.
These spokes on the four spoke front wheel
are actually bladed.
They're like a wing shape so they're rounder
on the leading edge and taper off to a sharper edge
at the back.
So this wheel is direction specific.
You have to put it in the right way or I'm sure it's
well not very aerodynamic at all.
These wheels were designed with CFD and wind tunnel testing.
They're new wheels I just found out from the mechanics.
The wheels are tubular and on to them a mount of
Vittoria Corsa Speed 25mm tires.
These are a time trial specific tire
and the mechanics often don't get much life out of them.
They're very thin, but very, very fast,
with very low rolling resistance and they've got
latex inner tubes inside them there.
I've measured the width of the verneers
and they're coming out at 25mm on these wheels.
(tire spinning)
Ooh, that's really loud.
That sounds great.
I like that.
Spins quite a while.
Sounds like a claxon.
You can signal air raids with this thing.
I've got the GCN scales of truth here.
So I'm going to weigh the bike as well.
I'm always intrigued to see what they weigh,
especially with tubular wheels on them.
Time trial bikes generally weigh more than road bikes,
but let's see what it hits the scales at.
Let me tare them.
8.59 in a full race build with pedals, computer mount,
power meter, not bad for a time trial bike.
Some of them are over nine.
Now I hope you've enjoyed this look at the CCC team
time trial bike.
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