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Italian brand Pinarello has launched the Dogma F8, a successor to the top-of-the-line Dogma 65.1 that will be ridden at this year’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France by defending champion, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome, and the rest of Team Sky.

Pricing is♉ still to be confirmed. The frame is expected to be available in the UK in the next two weeks.

Pinarello also claims to ꦜhave increased the rigജidity of the bike and reduced the weight in comparison with the 65.1, though figures for how much lighter the bike is have not been released. This has been partially achieved through the use of a new generation Torayca carbon, dubbed T1100 1k.

Pinarello has stayed true to several design policies including a traditional Italian threaded bottom bracket, a 1in to 1 1/1in integrated headset and the Think2 cable rout🐠ing system for electronic and mechanical groupsets. Pinarello has also stuck to its asymmetric carbon lay-up philosophy, which it claims evens out the differences in forces of the drive and a non-drive side pedal strokes.

John Pitman, Jaguar Land Rover’s Principal CFD Aerodynami👍c engineer, said Pinarello had wanted to develop an all-round bike, rather than one that was specifically labelled aerodynamic.

He said: “Pinarello wanted to maintain t♓he handling characteristics of the 65.1… but we were given a fairly free rein to do an aerodynamic inve⭕stigation of the frame.”

Pitma🐼n explained that the striking shaped☂ fork was initially based on the Bolide fork.

He said: “Essentially there is a sweet spot between having a too smaller gap between the wheel and the brake and likewise if you make it too big then obviously you’re 𓂃increasing the frontal areaꦡ.

“There is also a feature line on the ♚fork – the out profile is not perfectly smooth, which also seems to keep the air attached slightly too.”

The aerodynamic investigation also revealed a series of interesting aerodynamic ‘discoveries’. Lowering the height of the seat tube water bottle make✨s le🍌ss drag, so the F8 has two mounting positions for bidons, depending on how flexible the rider is.

Also, integrated brakes appear to make a negligible difference to drag coefficient, so Pinarello has stuck with standard braꦺke mounts, which is a clear differentiator with other brands such as Trek, Lapierre, Merida and others, who have opted for Direct Mount and hidden brakes.

The F8 project was born at last year’s Tour when Pinarello and Jaguar – both high profile sponsors of Team Sky – signed an agreement to work togeth⛦er on the bike. It was unveiled today at Pinarello’s 2015 product launch near Treviso.