Millar is coming off back to back ITT victories at Criterium International and De Panne. Does anyone know what bike he’s been riding? It doesn’t look like it has a Bayonet fork on it. I saw it on VS, but this is the only decent side picture I’ve been able to locate:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/photos/millar-muses-over-de-panne-possibilities/109591
Craig.
I think it is a DA based on Felt’s site…
I agree that it does not look like it has the Bayonet fork in that picture, but from that angle its really hard to tell what he’s riding. I mean technically from that picture it looks like it could be a DA or for some bizzare reason an AR with a tri cockpit, but I sincerely doubt that. To me it just looks like a DA without the bayonet fork, nothing stops you from riding a standard fork on a DA frame.
If we want to stir up the Felt rumors though, SD posted sometime last year on these forums that Felt had a new TT bike design that they were discussing with the UCI before making the molds, or something to that effect (search for it). That could mean that a whole new frame design is on the horizon, or it could mean that they were just trying to get official approval for say the Bayonet 2 fork.
No bayonet, probably still a DA frame just not the corresponding fork
http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=68289&p=624509&hilit=millar+felt#p624509
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That’s just a stock DA frame with a stock B12 fork.
He’s moved from a 56cm to a 54cm and played around with aerobar/base bar position. He’s gone from wide, to super narrow, and now to his current position. Stem length on a 54cm was intially a problem for a Bayonet2 fork set up (140mm) with his position.
Pretty cool that the EXACT same frame shape you can buy on a B16 at $1999 can win at the ProTour level, even when you give up 50-80g of drag using a conventional fork and stem.
-SD
What is it about the 54 that makes it preferable to the 56? You guys have already built the new front end for the protour guys who wanted to get lower, so that can’t be it?
Some insight into the reason for the decision might be interesting.
Chris
What is it about the 54 that makes it preferable to the 56? You guys have already built the new front end for the protour guys who wanted to get lower, so that can’t be it?
Some insight into the reason for the decision might be interesting.
Chris
You’d have to ask David.
The 54cm is a degree slacker in the seat angle than the 56cm, perhaps he prefers the standard post vs. the rear offset one.
The 31.8mm stem extensions that they are forced to use because of the 3T handlebars are not available with a 140mm length. We built new front ends because the stack on the 3T bars is so much higher. The guys could get much lower when Oval bars were used because the extensions and base bars were much flatter with respect to the bar clamp. With the stock Bayonet2 fork set up, the DEVOX Bayonet bars can be set up with the arm rests level with the top tube. I don’t know anyone who’s ever requested a position lower than that.
There is no question he’s giving up some speed/adding drag with the standard fork/stem set up, but there are Trek SPEEDCONCEPT bikes out there with a similar band-aid/standard stem solution.
He’s won two consecutive time trials, one where he beat Contador, the next where he overtook 1st place on GC at teh 3 days of DePain. I don’t think he’ll be eager to change ANYTHING at this point, no matter what the data suggests or we build/create for him.
Winning tends to cement your product/position choices, ya know?
Do you think he’d go back to a 808 or 1080 wheel after winning those races on the Cosmic80s?
-SD
I can’t really see the seatpost/seat angle difference of 1cm being a reason to go to the 54 at the cost of a Bayonet front end…
Then again, I wouldn’t think that he would ever ride a Mavic disc again either, so whatever.
Thanks for the info.
Chris
Do you think he’d go back to a 808 or 1080 wheel after winning those races on the Cosmic80s?
No, because the team is now sponsored by Mavic and not Zipp (but I think you knew that).
Do you think he’d go back to a 808 or 1080 wheel after winning those races on the Cosmic80s?
No, because the team is now sponsored by Mavic and not Zipp (but I think you knew that).
Yes of course, regardless of the sponsorship. Say at the world championships for example, where as a BCF rider he can ride anything.
Looks straight up old school. Single bend extensions, shimano shifters (no Di2 or R2C), no front end enhanced aerodynamics…love it!
“Then again, I wouldn’t think that he would ever ride a Mavic disc again either, so whatever”
LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daTQb6tsz6M&feature=related
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