2024 is an Olympic yr, and the Tour is about to start out. Naturally, we’re seeing many new highway merchandise pop up simply in time for a double-header in France. Pinarello isn’t any totally different, at present launching the totally up to date Dogma F.
As Pinarello’s do-it-all race bike, the corporate proudly factors out that this hasn’t modified. The Dogma has a now 22-year historical past of being the principle race bike for Pinarello groups on flat levels, climbing levels, even cobbled classics. We’re beginning to see extra of that from different manufacturers with related reasoning – you don’t wish to should stress about what bike to journey for any given stage. Simply get in your race bike, and go.
Placing it on the market instantly, the brand new Dogma F is lighter, however Pinarello states that the burden was not as essential because the aerodynamics of the bike and rolling resistance. In accordance with their analysis, enhancing the CdA (abbreviation for the coefficient of aerodynamic drag) by simply 0.2% is the equal of saving 175g on the bike. Pinarello states they validated this concept by analyzing Geraint Thomas’ efficiency knowledge from the 2022 Tour de France, measuring his power output in contrast with potential aero financial savings.
The result’s a brand new (nonetheless uneven) body the place almost each element has been redesigned for marginal positive factors. Pinarello claims to have achieved their 0.2% CdA enchancment goal using up to date Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations adopted by in depth time within the wind tunnel.
Highlights of the brand new aero enhancements embody a lowered thickness downtube that flows right into a reduced-width head tube nonetheless with a ‘nostril’ that was first launched on the Dogma F8 in 2014. That nostril has been redesigned with lowered quantity and width, courtesy of a very new proprietary headset.
The headset is the place issues get fascinating. To make the top tube narrower, the headset needed to be redesigned, which meant the steerer needed to be redesigned. Now, the brand new Onda fork makes use of an oval steerer that’s oriented with the broader components pointing to the edges of the bike. That offered more room in entrance of the steerer to permit the cables to be run in entrance, as an alternative of on the edges, which is the place the width discount is available in. The steerer can be mentioned to be an enchancment in compliance and dealing with, with extra compliance fore/aft, whereas sustaining stiffness for dealing with facet to facet.
Transferring right down to the underside bracket, the brand new “Aero-Keel” backside bracket has been rotated by 3.5º to “create a keel form that improves aerodynamic efficiency of the underside bracket space by 1.2%.” Extra importantly, this new backside bracket form has allowed Pinarello so as to add extra tire clearance, with the body now comfortably clearing 700c x 30mm tires. In accordance with Pinarello, that is the scale tire the staff wished to run for cobbled races, in order that’s what they acquired.
Extra aero enhancements lengthen to the via axles, now with shorter axles and nuts which might be built-in into the carbon which permits for easy surfaces on the surface of the fork. The rear will get the identical remedy with the derailleur hanger built-in in an analogous method – no UDH right here.
Different adjustments to the bike embody a brand new, slimmer Onda fork with the talked about oval steerer, but in addition a 47mm rake which claims to enhance dealing with and pace on descents. All body sizes will embody this 47mm rake. The seatpost clamp has additionally been up to date to make it lighter and cleaner. Now totally built-in into the seat tube, the clamp appears to be like higher, however extra importantly, will probably be higher shielded from mud and sweat.
Up entrance, there’s additionally a brand new Talon Quick built-in cockpit with a 7º flare to the drops and a 7 or 4º inward bend relying on the scale. The bar is claimed to be extra aerodynamic and permits for a extra pure using place.
Whereas Pinarello claims to have hit their 0.2% CdA enchancment goal, in addition they managed to cut back the body weight by 108g from the earlier version. For full builds, that works out to six.63-6.88kg (14.62 – 15.17 lbs) for a 53cm with out pedals or bottles relying on the construct. Not solely is the body lighter, however it’s additionally stiffer because of using a brand new M40X carbon fiber from Torayca.
Full builds will probably be supplied in Shimano Dura-Ace Di2, the brand new SRAM RED AXS, or Campagnolo Tremendous File Wi-fi. Frames will probably be supplied in 11 sizes from 43 to 62cm. In the case of paint, you’ll have six inventory decisions together with three with their new Luxter paint which adjustments coloration relying on the angle. Pricing for full bikes begins at $14,500 and framsets with fork and seat put up begin at $6,950.
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