Ahead of Friday’s start of the Giro in Hungary, Colnago released their TT1 time trial bike.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdIaH8ngKss/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdIaeAlAoJv/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdIZkTCgWHO/
I have to say, I like it better than the recently revealed BMC…
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well, it’s colnago - you knew it was going to be pretty!
It sure is pretty! Hopefully unlike their road bikes that are way too heavy, this one also actually is somewhat fast in testing
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Really wide fork. Doing the opposite direction of the new BMC and shielding the rear wheel. Junction from the seat stays and seat tube is interesting
Wow I’m a fan of that. Love the way the angles of the seatstay and seat tube align but don’t connect. Nice to see a world tour focused company make use of the relaxed regulations on 3:1 as well. Feels like most of them haven’t. At least I assume that fork would be illegal under the old rules.
Indeed, I really like the deep fork legs and head tube. And the way the very low chainstays connect to the downtube via the seat tube and the “BB box”
For those that are bettered versed in aerodynamics. We’ve seen quite a few brands now adopt the wide forks but most of them already start wide at the top. If you look at the frontal view of this bike, they seem so progressively splay open further until they’re relatively wide as well at the thru axles. Any ideas why this might work better?
Smart looking bike!
The rear stays reminded me of the cube aerium, but This design takes more of the stay out of the wind.
Ahead of Friday’s start of the Giro in Hungary, Colnago released their TT1 time trial bike.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdIaH8ngKss/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdIaeAlAoJv/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdIZkTCgWHO/
I have to say, I like it better than the recently revealed BMC…
Thank you for this. I can’t wait until we start to get some data on the bikes, but it passes the eyeball check. As others have commented, I like it better visually to the new BMC though that is heavily skewed by the fact that my eyeballs can’t see past the blood smattering ugliness of the BMC’s paint job.
Anyone have an idea on the weight?
For those that are bettered versed in aerodynamics. We’ve seen quite a few brands now adopt the wide forks but most of them already start wide at the top. If you look at the frontal view of this bike, they seem so progressively splay open further until they’re relatively wide as well at the thru axles. Any ideas why this might work better?
This is not a wide fork design. All forks are the same width at the thru axles because hubs are the same width across brands.
Basically there are two ways to reduce drag. They both work. One is to make the gaps as small as possible to keep air from entering and the other is to create enough gap to allow free airflow between. If the gap is somewhere between, then there is a larger area of through which air flows but is slowed down by neighboring parts.
Cervelo and Colnago use the former approach. Factor, Ku, and some others use the opposite.
Seems to be the same case for rear wheel cutouts. BMC and Shiv TT have huge gaps. Cervelo and Colnago shroud closely