Wiggins New Giro TT Bike

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  • patchy
    patchy Posts: 779
    FUGLY.
    point your handlebars towards the heavens and sweat like you're in hell
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    A Wiggins interview about the stage 1 TT to go with the bike pic:
    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/454033/wiggins-on-giro-d-italia-tt-i-ve-done-everything-possible.html
  • incog24
    incog24 Posts: 549
    Loving the PROtotype wheels! Although is the front just a HED3?
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    It's like Dali and Picasso decided to collaborate on a wheeled giraffe.

    No electronic Dura Ace, BTW
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Percy Vera
    Percy Vera Posts: 1,103
    LangerDan wrote:
    It's like Dali and Picasso decided to collaborate on a wheeled giraffe.

    No electronic Dura Ace, BTW

    There is on his other TT bike according to the Comic
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I think he's going to ride it really fast and stuff.
  • incog24
    incog24 Posts: 549
    So he's going to ride the technical prologue without DI2, and the TTT with it? Surely DI2 is a major advantage in the prologue?
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  • Percy Vera
    Percy Vera Posts: 1,103
    NapoleonD wrote:
    I think he's going to ride it really fast and stuff.

    Faster than everyone else?
    As long as his chain stays on!
  • pedro118118
    pedro118118 Posts: 1,102
    It's uglier than Obree's 'old faithful'.
    Still, it's not what it looks like that counts I suppose...
  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    I'd expect a better paint job from Pinarello.

    And the picture is spoilt by someones hand in top right corner, thought NapD would have spotted that :o
  • paulcuthbert
    paulcuthbert Posts: 1,016
    patchy wrote:
    FUGLY.

    +1
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    incog24 wrote:
    Loving the PROtotype wheels! Although is the front just a HED3?

    Most of the Sky wheels seem to be HEDs
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  • fastercyclist
    fastercyclist Posts: 396
    Didn't someone stop the concept artist at some point and say "you know what, that paint design really sucks mate!!" :roll:

    Looks like some cheap 90s plastic toy.
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Shocking. And not in a good way.

    It's a bit of an arse-up, nose-down position, isn't it? :shock:
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    It's better looking than the large amount of proper FUGLY TT bikes you get out there, bike a mile.
  • dougzz
    dougzz Posts: 1,833
    DaveyL wrote:
    Shocking. And not in a good way.

    It's a bit of an ars*-up, nose-down position, isn't it? :shock:

    It's almost as if they designed it to create an aerodynamic position huh, what were they thinking? :lol:
  • El Imbatido
    El Imbatido Posts: 144
    I think they created a really fugly bike so that whoever was riding it would do so so fast so they could get off it as quickly as possible
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    It could have been hidden in a decent paint job. It's a bit of an 80's/GAN/Banesto fusion. A rubbish paint job like that will cost him 5 seconds mentally!
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  • camerone
    camerone Posts: 1,232
    that doesnt look like the bike Wiggins' wife sneaked a photo of on twitter

    edit just read article!theres two maybe it was other one...
  • Team Banana Spokesman
    Team Banana Spokesman Posts: 538
    paint job matches his national champions kit nicely actually.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    dougzz wrote:
    DaveyL wrote:
    Shocking. And not in a good way.

    It's a bit of an ars*-up, nose-down position, isn't it? :shock:

    It's almost as if they designed it to create an aerodynamic position huh, what were they thinking? :lol:

    It's an old trick but it might just work :D

    I meant, even for a TT position, it's a bit extreme.
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    He could be in the Pink today. :)
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    incog24 wrote:
    So he's going to ride the technical prologue without DI2, and the TTT with it? Surely DI2 is a major advantage in the prologue?

    Someone I know rode the prologue route yesterday after it was fenced off. It is a prologue that will suit the time triallers apparently.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Having stated that, he's now bound to have a mechanical or slip over on the slick new asphalt. :roll:
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    That chainset is horrible - it looks like a soup spoon lying on top of a pitta bread.
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I'm not bothered what it looks like if the rider of it is in a pink jersey tomorrow!
  • sagalout
    sagalout Posts: 338
    Looked much better on TV today :)
  • Rhods
    Rhods Posts: 400
    Seems to work fine! :D
  • hockinsk
    hockinsk Posts: 100
    The sharks teeth along the downtube are actually raised in profile I thought to reduce drag. It's not simply dodgy design but science?

    Awesome bike. I would have gone for an even simpler red,white & blue strip stretching back from head tube along top tube though and not highlighted the sharks teeth maybe. Still a beautiful bike though!
  • liversedge
    liversedge Posts: 1,003
    Are those elliptical chain rings or is it just my dodgy eyesight?
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