Cavendish's bike
rick_chasey
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/ma ... laren-bike
Because a 4 wheeled 300kph car is the same as a 60kph (for about 10 seconds) push bike which isn't allowed to have any fairing....
Because a 4 wheeled 300kph car is the same as a 60kph (for about 10 seconds) push bike which isn't allowed to have any fairing....
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Perhaps a bit of psychology here. If Cav thinks he's on the fastest bike he'll re-discover his mojo for the M-SR.
With regard to car design, I hear what you say but those guys are probably a 100 x more anal about design than most cycle designers and maybe they can add a little bit of "outside the box" thinking.0 -
Anyone see a UCI approval sticker?0
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Should the Manxman need to change the battery for the electric gear-change mechanism, he will find a spare neatly hidden away inside the seat tube
M-SR is a long race, maybe he'll have to stop and change it on the Poggio?
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All the advertising blurb here http://venge.specialized.com/#0
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Yellow Peril wrote:Perhaps a bit of psychology here. If Cav thinks he's on the fastest bike he'll re-discover his mojo for the M-SR.
With regard to car design, I hear what you say but those guys are probably a 100 x more anal about design than most cycle designers and maybe they can add a little bit of "outside the box" thinking.
All Specialized sponsored teams will be using the new bike.
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... -bike.html0 -
I'm a formula one fan as well and HATE McLaren. I've never been keen on Cavendish, and this isn't helping...0
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McLaren's PR on it: http://mclaren.com/news/2011/03/17/mcla ... pecialized
Nice to see my former employer is wasting time and money on more useless projects. Although it's more a case that the way things are going on and off the track they need side projects
May be interested if they do an MTB though. But not Spesh.0 -
Apart from the fact that the bike in all the photos is equipped with SRAM and therefore not a HTC team bike, what the hell is going on with the front brake and gear cables? They look like they were fitted by someone wearing welders gloves and a blindfold.
While on horseback.'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'0 -
What's interesting is that the cables are going into the frame in fairly standard places - most of the other aero bikes on the market (cervelo, canyon) insert them behind the head tube where it's claimed that the airflow is already turbulent.
Perhaps the rest of the bike is sooooo aerodynamic that they don't need to bother... or the others are telling aero-porkies... or Specialized are...
PS anyone remember last years Tour when Cav set off on the latest Scott F01 aero bike? He had to go back on the Addict before he won any stages!0 -
I thought that it was some Swiss guy who had the battery powered bike? :?The older I get the faster I was0
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Rick Chasey wrote:I'm a formula one fan as well and HATE McLaren. I've never been keen on Cavendish, and this isn't helping...
I'm sure both parties will be devastated to read this :shock:Crafted in Italy apparantly0 -
acidstrato wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:I'm a formula one fan as well and HATE McLaren. I've never been keen on Cavendish, and this isn't helping...
I'm sure both parties will be devastated to read this :shock:
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Nice to see my former employer is wasting time and money on more useless projects. Although it's more a case that the way things are going on and off the track they need side projects
I thought there were two McLaren companies; one is the F1 team and one is a company that does the the McLaren road car and also sells consultancy services, so I assume it is road car / consultancy business that has been involved in this. I guess we can expect to see Button at his next triathlon on one.
Have to say I think it looks pukka, but you'd have thought they could pump the tyres up for the photo shoot and as for the price of £5000 for F+F :shock: :!:0 -
Was interesting to hear some guy from Spesh talking about his long-standing "dream" of applying TT-style aero-benefits to a road bike for years. Errrrrr................haven't the likes of Cervelo, Felt, Canyon etc for ages??!!! The S1 (or Soloist) is almost 10 years old isn't it?
It does 'look' fast though!
As for who's using it - I understand only 3 specially "chosen" riders from HTC, Saxo and Astana will have access to this latest tech.0 -
Perhaps it's Maclaren and not Mclaren. I understand the former have more experience with toys being thrown out the pram.0
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It gets better:
Aero savings are interesting too. Specialized have conducted track testing with the Venge against their current top line race bike, the Tarmac SL3. Claimed watts saved by the Venge range from 3W at 20km/h to a whopping 23W at 45km/h, and presumably a lot more than this at Mark Cavendish's sprint speed of around 70km/h
By my reckoning, if you take this bike and install Chinnys new super-dooper bearings, you'd be pretty damn close to some form of perpetual motion device., once you got it to about 60 km/h
It does beg the question - what sort of parachute must the Tarmac frame be if the savings are 23W, in just the frame alone? Even if you were to assume a 25% saving in drag (which would seem enormous), it would imply that the Tarmac frame takes over 90 Watts to push through the air @ 45km/h. That can't be right?'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'0 -
eh wrote:I guess we can expect to see Button at his next triathlon on one.
In Jenson's Head and Shoulders ad he appears to be using a Specialized.0 -
Thiose will be the wonder bearings he may/may not have used (sponsors are funny like that). Amazing what F1 and BS can do for a bike.M.Rushton0
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Yeah, they split it up, though it's all under the McLaren group and based at the tech centre. Ron I think runs the road car stuff etc. MAT from what I understand is one of the side-line companies looking into projects outside of F1 (or even the Road project). Gives them some back-up plans for when things go wrong or Bernie/FIA change the rules (which is on a daily basis it seems). Also allows them to produce things that are of benefit for their F1 stuff but that they can flog independently outside of F1 or even to other teams (bearing in mind they also have contracts to supply the grid with kit at the moment).eh wrote:I thought there were two McLaren companies; one is the F1 team and one is a company that does the the McLaren road car and also sells consultancy services, so I assume it is road car / consultancy business that has been involved in this. I guess we can expect to see Button at his next triathlon on one.0 -
Looks like a marginally sleaker Tarmac to me - smoke and mirrors!0
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He was going a lot quicker on a Scott paticularly the Addict.
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Ron Stuart wrote:He was going a lot quicker on a Scott paticularly the Addict.
Hmm, GreenEdge announce Scott as multi-year bike supplier : http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/greened ... ott-sports
Adding 2 and 2 and making 3million I henceforth predict that GreenEDGE recruits the cream of young Australian cycling for 2012 (Goss, Renshaw, Matthews) AND with financial backing from Scott they bring Cav on board - Cav gets to keep Renshaw for lead-outs, Scott get Cav back on their bikes (must be worth a bob or two) and GreenEDGE are based in Italy (so no country change for Cav).
It'll never happen.0 -
Ron Stuart wrote:Guess what I ride?
Not as quick as him though; but judging his recent performances perhaps you could take him at the line :P0 -
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2011/03/m ... le-racing/
Check out the comments at the bottom:
"sorry got the clarification – the whole bike weighs in at just over 2kgs"
"I hear it has some kind of electrics in the gearchange too."0
