October 11, 2022
All the details on the bike which helped the Ineos Grenadiers rider to a new UCI Hour Record
Filippo Ganna obliterated the UCI Hour Record on Saturday October 8, recording a stunning distance of 56.792 km to better Dan Bigham’s previous benchmark by over a kilometre. Few doubted Ganna’s ability to break the record, he is a world-renowned time trial talent – twice world champion in the discipline – but this doesn’t mean it was an easy feat for the 26-year-old.
A whole team of staff members, aerodynamicists, engineers and mechanics were behind him, with Ganna’s trade team, Ineos Grenadiers, throwing everything at the Italian’s attempt to crack the Hour. Aside from Ganna’s ability to produce the watts when it mattered, perhaps the most crucial piece of his Hour Record was the bike he chose to ride throughout his 60-minutes on the velodrome: a 3D-printed Pinarello Bolide F HR.
See Filippo Ganna’s Pinarello Bolide F HR at Rouleur Live 2022
It’s a bike that turned heads as soon as it was unveiled to the public as an impressive feat of innovation and an insight into the future of aerodynamics and where we could see bicycle geometry going in the future. With a 3D-printed frame and handlebars, bike-specific Princeton Carbon Works wheels, a huge 65-tooth front chainring, there’s plenty of tech to dive into when it comes to this machine. We got a closer look at Pinarello’s Bolide F HR on the ground in Grenchen, Switzerland, before Ganna made history on the bike, here are all the details.
If you want to see this bike up close in real life, it will be shown at Rouleur Live 2022.
Pinarello claims that the new Bolide is the “the first and the fastest 3D-printed bike ever built”, printed using Scalmalloy, an aerospace material specifically designed for 3D printing. The brand’s press release stated that it aimed to create strength, stiffness, and comfort with aero gains. The frame is ultra-narrow, with Pinarello aiming to reduce frontal area for better aerodynamic efficiency, but from the side the tubes are thick and deep. Uniquely, Ganna’s Bolide also features ridges on the seat tube and down tube which Pinarello says reduces the drag of bike and rider to help airflow which comes off the rider’s legs.
See Filippo Ganna’s Pinarello Bolide F HR at Rouleur Live 2022
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