Pinarello has released two commercially available versions of its Bolide track bike in the run-up to the Paris Olympic Games later this year in order to comply with regulations.
The Italian National Track Squad races on Pinarello machines. The first of the two bikes developed for them is the Bolide F HR 3D which is a 3D-printed Scalmalloy version and will be raced by the men’s endurance squad who are the reigning Olympic Team pursuit champions. It is in effect the same bike that Filippo Ganna used for his successful Hour Record in 2022. Female athletes will race on the Bolide HR C which is constructed from carbon fibre, though shares the same design.
Pinarello says Scalmalloy was chosen because it can deal well with the increased forces and speed the male athletes produce. The lighter Bolide F HR C carbon fibre bike the female athletes will use will allow them to get up to speed as fast as possible according to the brand’s press release.
‘Commercially available’ is an often used phrase, but in the world of Olympic tech this tends to mean that the brand will sell you one, but it’ll cost so much that nobody will actually buy one. In this case, the price for the 3D printed bike is €28,750, while the carbon fibre model is actually a far more reasonable €12,500.
The Bolide is a recognisable bike already, having been developed and used for Filippo Ganna’s successful Hour Record attempt in 2022. The Italian, who rides for Team Ineos on the road also set a new 4km pursuit world record at sea level aboard the bike that same year. There don’t appear to be huge changes as part of this news, save for a few refinements and new paint schemes in the run-up to the Olympic games.
Pinarello claims the bike was the first high-performance bike ever produced and it seems these models have received further refinement in several areas as well as to take further advantage of revised UCI rules around frame design.
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New features and refinements
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