Whereas precise bikes are nonetheless laborious to come back by, and media samples even tougher, the brand new uber-bike Pinarello dogma F they does exist in the true world, and I discovered one proper right here in Vancouver at Veloholic Cycles – a store specializing in excessive finish European and customized highway builds. Right here’s a primary take a look at this high-end dream machine.
See a brief take a look at the Pinarello grasp painters ending framesets in Treviso, Italy
I rode the earlier model of the Dogma on the ‘23 Maratona dles Dolomiti, and might attest to the superior experience qualities of Pinarello’s flagship line of race bikes. It stands to motive that this one is even higher, and based mostly on the enhancements Pinarello has made, there’s no motive to assume something much less.
Contemplate the F mannequin an evolution quite than a revolution… the Dogma line itself is similar age at PEZCycling – turning 22 this yr. However with annually the bike has improved – very like their lengthy standing sponsorship of the INEOS Grenadiers (nee Crew Sky) and it’s a lot touted “marginal positive aspects” – the refinements to the Dogma F could appear small, however add as much as a high tier bike lots of people pays very dearly for the “privilege” to personal. Priced at round $20,000Cdn {dollars} (US$15,000) for a full bike, it for positive appeals to a small group of patrons.
So whereas I haven’t but had an opportunity to experience the precise, bike – I did get to see it up shut and take a better take a look at the refinements…
This Dogma F is completed within the Luxter Golf Pink paint scheme – one in every of two Luxter variations supplied – the opposite is blue.
The FRAME & Toray’s New MX40 Carbon Fibre
Pinarello pays off it’s declare that the Dogma is the “unique all-rounder” by not providing an aero- or climbing- particular model of the bike – as a substitute selecting to supply one body form and design to do all of it.
The body, one of the vital eye-catching shapes within the peloton, is made with Toray Carbon’s newest M40X carbon fiber – which has the best tensile energy of their high-modulus carbon fibres. This permits then to make frames which might be lighter and stiffer than these made with Toray’s different well-known T700, T900, and T1100 iterations of carbon. Pinarello designed their layups to make the body measurably stiffer laterally – which means extra environment friendly energy switch from pedals and cranks to rear wheel drive.
The tube & body shapes have been refined too. Pinarello’s analysis discovered that a rise in aerodynamic effectivity could possibly be price greater than saving weight and the whereas they’ve shaved round 100+ grams from the body weight (to come back in at below a kilo for the body itself), this new mannequin additionally exhibits a discount within the bike’s CdA by 0.2%. Their spec sheet claims the totally constructed bike weighs below 15lbs.
The fully redesigned down tube is now thinner, however retains its distinctive form that cradles the bottle to least disrupt airflow and scale back drag.
Re-shaping of the downtube – backside bracket part have resulted in a 1.2% aerodynamic enchancment on this space.
Further enhancements to the body shapes embody decreasing frontal drag with a narrower headtube – made thinner by 8mm by changing the inner cable routing from the edges to the entrance.
Streamlining the seat keep shapes to cut back airflow disruption. Additionally of observe is sufficient house for as much as 30mm vast tires, but it surely seems to be like not less than sufficient room to run 32’s if you need, which the INEOS crew have been reported to be operating at Paris-Roubaix.
Pinarello has seemed in all places to cut back drag – together with integrating the proper facet fork dropout into the fork and drive-side through-axle mount within the again – seamless and easy. The complete ONDA fork is slimmer as properly, with rake now set at 47mm to enhance dealing with.
The seatpost clamp is smaller and totally built-in within the seat tube, shaving a number of extra grams of weight, higher sealing the world from contaminants, and simply trying good and clear.
The built-in cockpit is their newest model of the Talon Quick handlebar / stem design. To tops are vast and flat – curved to suit properly to suit into my fingers (I’ll guess yours too), and formed to supply a safe and steady platform for steering and management. Shaping for lever mounts is refineed as properly, permitting for some turn-in of the levers as we’re seeing across the pro-peloton today.
PAINT IT !
If this record of refinements isn’t sufficient to impress your billionaire buddies on Saturday’s spin – possibly the paint end will. I do know it’s laborious to inform in these images, however this new Luxter paint end actually is one thing to see.
It seems translucent, and multi layered – in order that relying on which means the sunshine lands on the body, the colours mirrored again can be throughout wider spectrum than regular – giving the looks of the colour truly altering earlier than your eyes. I needed to know extra about how they create a paint like this, however was advised by Pinarello’s advertising and marketing head that it’s high secret. He did affirm that they combine all the colours themselves although.
The kind of paint used for that is reported to be very costly – I used to be advised 1700 euro per kilo by a good supply. In fact this provides a substantial quantity to the price of the bike, however then patrons on this realm possible aren’t too involved with that. However I think about getting that first scratch on the body should be extraordinarily painful…
The Pinarello Dogma F is obtainable as a a full construct with SRAM, Shimano or Campagnolo groupsets, and as I discussed – very costly. Availability appears fairly uncommon proper now – with a number of fashions sprinkled across the nation if you could find one. Timing to order one can also be unknown, however hey – it’s good to dream isn’t it?
Bike weight (dimension 53, no pedals, no bottles)
6.63kg – SRAM RED Etap AXS Princeton Peak 4550 wheels
6.77kg – Shimano Dura Ace Princeton Peak 4550 wheels
6.88kg – Campagnolo Wi-fi, Bora WTO 45 wheels
Pricing
• Full bikes (with high finish specs) begin at 14,500 EUR, 14,500 USD and 12,600 GBP
• Framesets (together with fork and seat put up) begin at 6,700 EUR, 6,950 USD and 5,500 GBP
See the total presentation and request an order on the Pinarello web site right here.
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