Hey there we just saw the launch of the new Pinarello Bolid TR+
Any thoughts on that?
Comes with plenty of videos and pictures:
http://pinarello.com/en/bikes-2019/triathlon/bolide-tr
It comes as Bolide TR and Bolide TR+
you’re putting BryanD out of a job…
Design process sounds good but in standard Pina style they give no useful fit data for the bars and no actual aero data.
And they really need to move on from Italian thread BBs.
Looks are a matter of personal opinion, but I think that’s the best looking of the disc brake tri bikes I’ve seen to date. Would look nicer still if they’d used shorter valve extenders on the shallow wheels! Also seems to have plenty of onboard storage between the top tube and bottom of the triangle. Interesting decision to have it hovering off the ground, maybe they thought that would make it look faster…
I’ll let others chime in on how aero and well engineered or otherwise it looks, but assuming it’s not a complete dog then if it fit me and I was in the market I think I’d be very happy atop this bike.
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Really sick looking bike! Here’s the white paper http://pinarello.com/it/risorse/file/whitepaper-bolide-tr-2019/download
Has anyone seen pricing for both models?
Any idea on pricing? Love the tiered pricing structure similar to felt, a hopefully affordable TR would be awesome.
It just doesn’t excite me. I think the Felt IA looks better. And the Shiv.
Love Pinarello Bolides. Really clean lines. I hope since the intent is to actually sell some of these (unlike the TT bike), maybe the price will be more reasonable!
Reminds me of a Ceepo. That’s not a good thing.
To me everything is in place with this bike. Only the handlebar could be better integrated. But in some sense I can also agree with people who say that this bike might be boring since it is very conservative in the design and it doesn´t come with any big suprises.
Boring and doubtful a star in the tunnel. It looks like a rebadged Fuji to me
Great looking bike, but where’s the place for hydration?
And they really need to move on from Italian thread BBs.
Woah, easy on the crazy talk. The threaded BB they used was my favorite thing about my F8. It was silent and bullet proof.
Also, I bet this thing is north of $15k for the top spec.
Great looking bike, but where’s the place for hydration?
That’s a good question.
I had initially wondered if the in frame triangle storage was linked to a water bladder/internal but the white paper says it’s for tool storage.
Maybe they are assuming time trialers will use BTA and BTS bottles only.
Aside from that, I think it’s a good looking bike
I thought the same thing although I was thinking venom (http://www.ceepo.com/portfolio/2019-venom/) rather than Viper.
What is more surprising is the Hadron wheels and SRAM component. I expected all Campy parts with the ridiculous price tags to match. I wonder if Pinarello is trying to produce a Tri bike people will actually but or if its still a $20+k bike.
you guys see where the blip box is mounted?
facepalm
as beautiful as i think this bike is, i cant believe they didnt come up with a good solution for control boxes.
you guys see where the blip box is mounted?
facepalm
as beautiful as i think this bike is, i cant believe they didnt come up with a good solution for control boxes.
I agree. But to me this is more coming from SRAM´s side. I mean they claim that you don´t have anymore cables running around since it is wireless but then they want you to mount an entire server rack on your 10k frame?!?!
TMO a bike manufacturer shouldn´t be forced to come up with new frame design simply because it SRAM came up with a stupid version of the DI2 6 years earlier.
Triathlon Canada Magazine published a review of it. They say the TR+ -frameset- (not complete bike) will sell for $15800 Canadian (plus tax of course). So about 12k US…
Ridiculous.
https://triathlonmagazine.ca/feature/pinarello-releases-the-bolide-tr/
“The suggested MSRP for a frame set, which includes the integrated bar and stem, is a cool $15,800.”…
Strange place for the blip boxes. Cam is running Shimano though so no issues.
Triathlon Canada Magazine published a review of it. They say the TR+ -frameset- (not complete bike) will sell for $15800 Canadian (plus tax of course). So about 12k US…
Ridiculous.
https://triathlonmagazine.ca/...eases-the-bolide-tr/
“The suggested MSRP for a frame set, which includes the integrated bar and stem, is a cool $15,800.”…
Damn. It never felt like they meant to sell the TT with that price. I was hoping this would be much lower to actually sell some.