Nibali with a new TT rig during the final Giro TT.
Pretty radical looking, integrated font end, hidden brakes, seatstays very close to rear wheel, very radical top tube tail and low aero ratio seatpost
Pics when the stage is finished
Here is a screen shot
Pretty interesting looking for sure
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Grabbed a slightly better side shot. Slick looking, integrated for head tube, that rear tail section looks huge.
Grabbed a slightly better side shot. Slick looking, integrated for head tube, that rear tail section looks huge.
looks like a banging bike
Yeah, but I hate the way the seatpost looks. I’ve never been a fan of a small round seatpost sticking up out of a large base like that, just don’t look right for some reason.
John
I wondered if that was the new Super Slice. It sure wasn’t a standard Slice!
Is this a prototype, or a production model?
i dont think its round, but i agree i would like to see a longer seat post.
I wonder if that’s a UCI compliant seatpost but a non-UCI (tri bike version) would be a production seatpost that’s more aero/long…
Other screenshots here…
http://www.trimes.org/2011/05/29/bikeloversspyshotnew-cannondale-tt/
You can see the hidden brakes…
UCI compliant would be a much different form factor. That’s probably 1:1 whereas the UCI rule is 3:1. I suspect that seatpost is in fact round, and it’s round because the bike is still a prototype. Manufacturing a round hole and clamp is substantially easier than an aero shaped one, so bodging that together would be easier if you just need to get the bike out the door so the Giro guys can ride it.
That’s my guess anyway.
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It doesn’t look bodged in this (which I saw after writing this). So perhaps I’m wrong.
Looks very… slicey!
Yeah that screen shot sure looks like something they worked on—and unless they plan on shortening the “tail” that either it would have to be a HUGE seatpost or there’s going to be the aerotail/rudder;)
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Looks like an Ordu, Trek Speedconcept, and Felt DA had a baby with a tumor on its back end
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Looks sort like the front end of a DA, mated with the rear end of a Plasma 2 or 3, with the stays of a Transition/Shiv…with a dinky seatpost plopped on top…
I’m somewhat surprised that seat-tube/seatpost treatment passed UCI “muster”…
In the Obree days, they would have banned it for looking so ugly XD
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Reminds me a bit of the Koga Myata
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fugly… I was hoping for something that would wow me. This, not so much.
Integrated front end with the new TRP behind the fork brakes and most likely used behind the bottom bracket as well. The seat post is not round and looks like the old Corima post a bit. I would venture a guess that it is pretty thin.
Looks like a good combination of a Trek Speed Concept (brakes integrated), Specialized Shiv (rear section - seatpost/seatstays), Scott Plasma 3 (head tube and seatpost), with a pinch of Cannodale Slice.
I like it. It’ll be interesting to see where this bike ends up. Nice start I think.
Brent