With the UCI World Championships well underway, there’s a hoard of new tech breaking cover in Glasgow, and nowhere more abundantly than on the track in the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome.
We’ve already covered the official unveiling of the Canyon Speedmax CFR Track, which was developed in conjunction with Chloe Dygert, as well as the same brand’s unexpected sourcing of tartan paint.
Today, though, Cyclingnews editor Peter Stuart has been track centre, and has spotted a trio of new bikes. Among them a pair of wild-looking, wide-stance bikes courtesy in the French and Japanese camps respectively. Plus there’s a new BMC, which we managed to glimpse despite being kept partially under wraps by nearby mechanics.
New Look P24
We’ll start with France, where there appears to be a brand new bike from the French brand Look. According to a sticker on the chainstay and notes found in the UCI’s List of Equipment Registered for Inspection in Glasgow, this will be known as the P24. It will replace the P20, and we can logically conclude the ’24’ relates to the next Olympic year of 2024.
Somewhat reminiscent of the Hope HB.T, which itself received an update last week, the Look P24 is fitted with ultra-wide-stance fork legs and seat stays. Also like the Hope bike, it sees a two-pronged seatpost, but the design here is significantly more integrated into the design of the overall frame.
The seatpost itself is actually a seatmast topper which slides over the two upward-facing masts that protrude out in a continuation of the rear seat stays. We’ve also spotted a wild-looking forward-facing horizontal seatpost design, which effectively puts the seatpost further backwards behind the rider’s legs, rather than directly above the seat tube.
It also appears that the seatmast section can be removed from the rear of the frame, perhaps suggesting that this can also accommodate a more standard single-prong seatpost or seatmast construction.
Unsurprisingly, every tube on the frame, including the brace of seatposts and the wide-stance fork legs are hyper-deep in their profile. We don’t know for sure without measuring, but would speculate that Look has taken advantage of the UCI’s relaxation of frame tube profile rules.
Up front, interestingly, the wide-stance fork legs end in the more conventional position at the crown, beneath the head tube of the frame, rather than continuing upward around the head…
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