Images have appeared online this week showing Tadej Pogačar riding what appears to be an unbranded, prototype Colnago time trial bike in Spain.
The images were shared on the lucascyclingblog Instagram page and were taken by Petr Bodlák and Pierre Tranchant.
Snaps were taken of Pogačar, or at the very least a rider wearing rainbow shoes and helmet, riding the bike, as well as it sitting on a UAE team car alongside a TT1 and stealth black Y1RS road bike.
There are some very specific time trial stages in the Tour de France this year, and Colnago will surely be aiming to give Pogačar and his team every advantage they can.
Some key areas share a resemblance with the existing TT1, like the down and top tubes; some of the existing design language is clearly still there, but the largest changes look to come at the front and rear ends of the bike.
At the front, the forks of the bike have a shallower cross-section; the forks on the current TT1 bike are pretty deep. This prototype bike has shallower forks, which wouldn’t look out of place on an aero road bike.
The fork crown area and headtube both look smaller and narrower, and it appears Colnago has switched from a bayonet-style fork steerer arrangement to a standard setup, whilst still integrating the time trial base bar into the bike’s top and head tubes.
The bars themselves have lower extension riser blocks, and the base bar has less of an upward curve, though they could just be for different riders; there’s clearly a difference to be observed.
The headtube shape looks different, and the top tube looks a little bigger in its middle section in the photos than that of the current TT1.
The downtube shape looks similar; it’s difficult to tell given the light and shadows, but the Conago ‘N’ still flares outwards at the bottle cage in a similar way to the new machine, presumably to aid airflow around the bottle and…
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