Looks like a new tri bike is being announced by quick pro (chinese brand) at https://www.instagram.com/p/DTVj3zBFLxf/?img_index=1 . They have been making a bit of noise recently, sponsoring their own UCI conti team last season, world juniors road race winner riding an AR:ONE, and now Euskaltel (proteam) riding on this year. I couldn’t find many details online but so far it looks like the bike supports integrated hydration, rear and bottom bracket storage, and has similar looking bars to the vision TFE team edition extensions. If they can keep price points low, this could be great value as their road bike which was tested by NERO show (cycling bro science youtubers) to be within margin of error as the Cervelo S5 retails for 5700 USD with full DA spec.
That looks A LOT like @TRIPRO 's bike brand…There it is, my new tri bike design, like discussed earlier this year
Also both designs seem kinda like Quintana Roo V-Pri Shop The V-PRi | Quintana Roo Tri
Which also seems kinda like the Speed Concept…
Seems like most bikes today pull different inspiration from each other, the culprit was something that interested me at first but lack of integrated hydration was a bit of a letdown for me given new limits on front and rear hydration. Saw a comment on chinertown mentioning that this was designed with BMC, not sure how much weight that rumor has to it
Canyon + Trek + Cube had a baby?
Are you referring to my bike design in 2015?
To be honest, I don’t think this bike looks nothing like my design :-). To much details are very different and at first glance what it misses is the whole cockpit adjustability and fit range that @culpritbicycles designed. And fit and adjustment is what makes a bike fast.
Jeroen
The problem with integrated hydration is these systems just don’t work good enough or not at all. After talking to many people that own speedmax, cadex, bmc, scott, qr, etc. All of them say the same, too much effort to suck it out, in some cases like speedmax a biatch to clean, refill is a mess, my own experience with the cadex is easier to clean but even with improving the system valves etc it is still hard to get enough fluid without almost getting out of breath, in most of the systems there always stays fluid in so the liter capacity is more ;like 750 mm, or 650 ml more like 500 ml at max.
So initially it was the plan to built the Vanquish with integrated hydration, but along the way talking to so many users we found it was just not worth it. That said, get a camelback hydration bag and put it in the bb storage. The exit port in the top tube storage is still there to be used:-).
I wonder with what you mean with the new limits, you can have 2 liters in bta and 2 liters bts, that is quite enough for most.
Jeroen
When I saw the QR, I immediately though of the Speed Concept, when I saw yours I immediately thought of the QR, and when I saw this I immediately thought of yours. So to the eyes of a consumer, they are all pretty similar. ![]()
Also, for me, my next bike will have integrate hydration. I don’t know when that will be though…
Well, in certain way all bikes at first glance look similar. It is just when you can see them all up close you notice the subtle or sometimes even big differences. You will see in the next bikes that come out integrated hydration will be no longer an option. When you will have your bike with it you will see how often you will use it, more not then you will. And I always thought i wanted it, built it into my Felt IA and one of the reasons to buy the Cadex but in the end the use of it is just not good enough and too much hassle. But you will find out yourself at some point :-).
Jeroen
If it’s not an option, then maybe I’ll buy used…but like I said I don’t know when that will be as my E-119 can take pretty wide tires.
interesting - some of the complaints I’ve read about integrated hydration say that soft flasks/pouches are much harder to clean, while QR and scott have hard plastic bottles that sit in the top tube and seem to be easier to clean. There isn’t too much available online and I don’t have any first-hand experience coming from a QR PRFive
Very easy to clean.
I can’t speak to the other brands but the V-PRi is simple to drink the entire bottle and easy to fill on the fly, so the notion that ALL internal hydration systems “don’t work” is not true by any objective measure.
I have a v-pri here as well, talk to more then a few owners of that bike, same for the plasma 6, they all said the same, bought it among others for that feature and not a single one was really happy or impressed by it and rather would have had that space for extra storage.And capacity is small. To be fair we looked at capacity of at least 1 ltr to make it worth the effort.
And read that ‘some’ are a biatch to clean, not all of them.
But everyone can chose what they like, i just gave our thoughts why we in the end terminated the integrated hydration in our bike. Although a non refill hydration pack could be still be used if some would chose to do so.
Jeroen
Well in a world where long course racers are trying to maximize carbohydrates consumed on the bike, internal fluid options for carbohydrate drinks is going to be even more crucial as it allows an extra 750ml on the bike without having bottles all over the place. This notion that using a drink tube is somehow a challenge for people is something, though. Personally I wouldn’t consider a bike for long course that doesn’t have this feature.
Joe from China Cycling / PandaPodium has a nice walkaround video on Instagram:
In the comments, someone asks about pricing. This is his response: “Only domestic price so far. Not cheap, because its frame, fork, seatpost, handlebar, and storage box. I imagine ~$3k”
Joe mentioned it would drop on his site after the Chinese new year which would be in march. I’m curious about quickpro’s direct-to-consumer US website as they offer the opportunity to purchase groupsets alongside their road frames for quite a good price ($2300 for DA , $1300 for ultegra road).
Don’t forget about the 100% tariff on everything coming from China. Unless they get creative with how they report it that ~$3k bike will cost you closer to $6k which is where, at least in my head, it begins to be preferred to look at the more western brands.
This looks like a lot of things on the Speedmax were also ripped off as well.
The bars will have some possible legal problems as the FSA copy has length adjustment which is a breach of the LOOK patent on their adjustable length aerobar. That patent is so well written it is why I had my V1 CSR+ with a cut and install front section for length adjustment and my new model will be 4 sizes in length. So, will be curious to see if Look goes after them for it or not.
Definitely going to order one to give it a try! I just bought a Speedmax CFR but that bike intrigues me. I’d need a sticker to put over that “Triathlon Quick Aero First” text though. Yuck.
