- We're in Hawaii with Michelle Vesterby's Huffy
Panama Jack town bike, complete with its own
bottle opener and basket for all your nutritional needs.
But, actually, we're here to see Michelle's race bike.
(snaps fingers)
And this is her Cannondale SuperSlice time trial bike.
(edgy guitar music)
Well lets start with the frame
and this absolutely awesome paint work.
So, Michelle's had this designed and painted
for her by a friend back in Denmark.
I have to say, I've never seen anything like this
and I'm incredibly jealous.
Well, let's move to the groupset,
which is pretty pimped out.
She's got the sram red ETAP front
and rear derailleurs.
She's got the ceramic speed oversize jockey wheels
and the UFO chain.
She's using the 55/42 chain rings
and on that she's got the Vision metron carbon
monocoque aero cranks at 165mm.
On the end of those, she's got
the Garmin Vector three power metre pedals.
She's got an 11/25 cassette
and she also has Ceramicspeed bottom bracket bearings.
Onto the wheels, and Michelle's using the Vision Metron 55
on the front and the Vision Metron 81 on the rear.
And on those, she's using Vittoria Corsa clincher tyres.
She's got Vision carbon base bars
and on top of that she's got a customised Vision component
here which allows her to change the angle
at which she has her poles.
She's using the Carbon drag-to-zero arm cups
and on the end of the poles and on her base bars
she's got the sram red etap blips for changing gear.
She's got the Vision brake levers which then goes down
to the TRP cable disc breaks.
Michelle is using the Fizik Mistica time trial saddle
with its blunt nose and then she's using XLAB bottle cage
including the gorilla cage on the back for extra grip,
just to keep that bottle intact.
Then on the downtube she's got the XLAB aero TT bottle
and finally, she's using the XLAB stealth pocket for
nutrition on her toptube.
It weighs in at 9 kilos and now finally,
let's hear the freehub sound.
(bicycle tyre whirring)
And now moving on to Michelle's race kit.
And she's using TYR Yamamoto SCS swim skin and on under that
she's going to be wearing the Sugoi Trisuit.
She's also using a brand new customised Kask Kona aero
Time trial helmet and it's got her own motto,
'keep smiling' and it even has little diamontes as dots
on top the the i's, which is pretty cool.
She's using the Fizik triathlon shoe and then finally,
for the run, she'll be wearing the On Cloudflow Trainers.
I'm delighted to say that Michelle has agreed to join us.
Thanks for coming, Michelle and thanks for letting us
have a look at your bike, really interesting.
Couple of questions, is there anything
you're going to change for race day or is this
exactly as you're gonna ride it?
- This is pretty much how it's going to be like, if it's
less windy then I will put a higher profile wheel in front.
Or else I don't change much, I'll put a bottle here
in the front as well, so I have a nearer bottle.
- And what do you carry, do you have water or nutrition
in your bottles, what's in the three?
- I will have nutrition in this one and water
in the rest, so I will calculate this precisely per hour
so I know what energy I'm going to take
so I'm not taking anything out, only water.
- Okay, so you don't carry any nutrition in here?
- No, maybe a little snack, I don't know yet.
I might put in some gummy bears or something nice, yeah.
- Okay, and what about repairs, do you take
any puncture repair kit anywhere?
- I take Pit Stop, put it here but that's it.
And then I cross my fingers for no puncture or at least
I'll be out in front so I have a bike mechanic close to me
that can help me.
- That's good incentive for the race.
- Exactly, yeah, yeah it is.
- And is it, I mean, you've been here several years now.
Has anything changed in your preparation or
your set up, compared to when you first came to Kona?
Have you changed anything dramatic?
- No, not really actually, the biking is my strong side
so that's where I want to make an improvement
so I'm always trying to be pretty aggressive on the bike,
and my bike position, being pretty aero coming home
for Harvey because you know it's a hard crosswind
that will come in so it's really important that you can
stick to your position and that you can keep pushing
on the last 40K as well.
- Michelle, thanks so much for your time.
- You're welcome.
- For showing us your bike, really interesting stuff.
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