http://cadelevans.com.au/?p=478
Finally, a TT bike I can get low enough on. Not exactly conventional, my slightly modified Canyon ‘Speedmax CF Pro’.
huh…guess the fastest bike in the world wasn’t quite fast enough. And…slightly modified? Hacking a chunk out of the head tube is ‘slightly’ modifying a bike?? You just know the UCI isn’t gonna like that.
Isn’t the head tube about the highest stress area on the bike? That seems insanely dangerous to me.
Not an entirely new concept, although the first time I’ve seen it with a carbon steerer and aero-bars (instead of bullhorns).
http://sprinterdellacasa.blogspot.com/2008/07/equipment-time-trial-bike-history.html
Isn’t the head tube about the highest stress area on the bike? That seems insanely dangerous to me.
Not to mention what it does to the resale value of the frame and fork lol
That’s crazy, I’m curious to see his position in it.
Cadel’s going to need all the help he can get for a tdf win, but unless he’s got engines on his climbing bike, its not going to happen.
Lotto switched bikes from Ridley to Canyon, hence the bike change. Its like saying that the P3C wasnt fast enough for Cancellara…
I would have thought that a custom fork with the extensions mounted onto the top of the fork crown would make more sense.
Kevin
Wasn’t posted on April 1st, was it?
Rob
cadel evans isn’t scared!
cadel evans doesn’t know what fear IS
Isn’t the head tube about the highest stress area on the bike? That seems insanely dangerous to me.
That’s amazing that he has to go to such lengths to get his bar drop correct…I think Cadel’s extra upper arm length (compared to his body size) was stolen from Levi 
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That’s amazing that he has to go to such lengths to get his bar drop correct…I think Cadel’s extra upper arm length (compared to his body size) was stolen from Levi
there ARE ways to cut down on ‘effective’ upper arm length. Snow-plowing, however, isn’t one of them 
Yeah…my other thought was if I had upper arms that long, I’d probably think twice about having so much drop that they ended up basically vertical in the wind…an “inclined cylinder” would be better in that case…but yeah, “snowplows” don’t help!
Not an entirely new concept, although the first time I’ve seen it with a carbon steerer and aero-bars (instead of bullhorns).
Not a new concept on carbon frames either. The carbon Walser TT bikes are available with this headtube cutout “factory” made. So there’s several pro carbon TT bikes with the same cutout.
2008 Olympic Women’s Road Race Gold medallist Nicole Cooke riders a Walser with this cutout in TT’s.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/...pics08/?id=results/3
Nicole Cooke (Great Britain) at the 2008 Olympic Women’s TT:
The 2008 Olympic Women’s TT silver medallist Emma Pooley (Great Britain) with a Walser with the aerobars mounted directly to the fork below the headtube:
Funny seeing the last two pics with the bars so far down yet the arm rests almost exactly where they would be on a normal bar drop. You’d think it would be defeating the intent.
**** That looks horribly uncomfortable…
The 2008 Olympic Women’s TT silver medallist Emma Pooley (Great Britain) with a Walser with the aerobars mounted directly to the fork below the headtube:
…and what on earth is the point of putting the bars so low and then have to jack up the extensions at the ends and stack the elbow pads so high to get it back up to roughly even w/ the top of the head tube again?
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wow.
you gotta give somebody credit for thinking outside the box …
Ugh. This same position can be attained with a flipped stem, without having to build a bike a way that it wasn’t intended… Looks kind of cool, though.
Also, supposedly having the elbow pad and the base bar have a larger distance between them makes for a cleaner airflow. This is the premise behind the new Giant (/scott?) TT setup.
Cadel could’ve at least used a carbon stem… why does he have to blank out the Easton decals? You’d think that if they were spec’d on the bikes, he could run it.
I think there are plenty of old pursuit bikes with the bars mounted on the forks including one of boardman’s lotus’
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cadels method have less frontal area than a down angled stem, and carbon stems are heavier than the best aluminum ones.
Ugh. This same position can be attained with a flipped stem, without having to build a bike a way that it wasn’t intended… Looks kind of cool, though.
Also, supposedly having the elbow pad and the base bar have a larger distance between them makes for a cleaner airflow. This is the premise behind the new Giant (/scott?) TT setup.
Cadel could’ve at least used a carbon stem… why does he have to blank out the Easton decals? You’d think that if they were spec’d on the bikes, he could run it.
yes, i know that.
but this one is not mounted on the fork, it is mounted on a section of the steerer tube that is normally hidden inside the head tube.
and you don’t see that often, if ever.
Emma Pooley’s bike is an UKSI bike, not a Walser
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