A crazy-looking Colnago bike has leaked on-line, full with a massively staggered seat tube, Y-shaped cockpit, and what seems to be a super-short wheelbase.
On Thursday, Colnago posted a trio of pictures onto the ColnagoWorld Instagram account, teasing what seems to be a brand new bike.
As proven within the embedded submit beneath, the one clue in regards to the bike’s intentions was a darkened silhouette of the entrance finish of a motorcycle, laid over the phrases ‘constructed to defy wind’.
An obvious launch date of December 9 was additionally talked about.
It did not give a lot away, however that front-on silhouette urged the usage of a significantly aero cockpit with a Y-shaped rising stem, kind of harking back to a hybrid between the Cervelo S5 cockpit, the Syncros Creston IC, and the previous Aerofly ‘hover’ bar discovered on the Specialised Venge Vias.
However right this moment, pictures have appeared on the ever-popular WeightWeenies discussion board displaying a side-on and front-quarter picture of what seems to be the identical bike.
The supply of the photographs are as but unverified, however the Colnago brand is obvious on the bike’s down tube, together with Enve wheels and a Shimano Dura-Ace groupset.
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The Colnago brand additionally seems as a watermark within the nook, and within the reverse nook, a stylised ‘Y1Rs’. The model’s final devoted aero bike was merely titled the Idea, however given the similarities between Y1Rs and the model’s present race bike, the V3Rs, we predict this can be the brand new bike’s mannequin identify.
Beneath that, the bike’s obvious color scheme is listed as ‘Black/Holographic’.
Cyclingnews has reached out to Colnago for extra data, however on the time of publishing, the model hasn’t replied.
The leaked pictures present what seems to be the identical Y-shaped cockpit, whereas the most important standout characteristic is the severely staggered seat tube / seatpost junction.
Because it travels upward from the underside bracket, the seat tube tightly wraps across the rear wheel till it hits the seat stays. These stays journey in a straight line from the rear axle, previous the seat tube by round six to 9 inches, making a Canyon Inflite-esque kink within the high tube earlier than persevering with ahead at a close to horizontal trajectory to the pinnacle tube.
The seat tube continues upward from this kink, and seems to make use of a regular seatpost setup, moderately than the seat mast discovered on the Trek Madone which makes use of an identical staggered seat tube design. In contrast to the Madone, nonetheless, the seat tube is a stable tube. There isn’t any IsoFlow-style gap.
On the entrance, the side-on picture seems to indicate a bayonet-style head tube just like the one discovered on the Cervelo S5, however given the front-quarter picture suggests in any other case, this might merely be a trick of the reflection from the holographic paint.
The top tube itself is deep and extremely profiled, likewise the entrance fork, and the down tube wraps tightly across the entrance wheel.
Given how tightly each wheels are shrouded by the body, it suggests the bike might have a shorter wheelbase than the norm for Colnago, which usually are available somewhat longer than rivals, however till we see geometry charts we will not know for sure.
The down tube then steps downward in a Pinarello Dogma-esque style, in what seems to be a ploy to defend the down tube water bottle from onrushing airflow.
The bike pictured is fitted with a Shimano Dura-Ace groupset and what look to be Enve SES 6.7 wheels. Each of that are the selection of UAE Staff Emirates, a choice it landed on after numerous hours of wind tunnel testing with the Colnago V3Rs.
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