We’ve acquired some new wheels for the deep-of-pocket this week. Should you’re sticking to the street, might we recommend the newest wheels from Light-weight, which handle to shed 130g from their predecessors? Yours for simply £8,799/$10,895.
Should you choose gravel, DT Swiss has two new rim profiles to fit your using model, every of which is lighter and extra aero than its predecessor. Rather less costly than Light-weight’s providing, however nonetheless fairly eye-watering for a wheelset that’s going to take a hammering.
Simply in case you’ve not observed, the Giro d’Italia has ended, though that hasn’t stemmed the flood of pink items. You’ll be able to have Tadej’s pink sunnies or, quite extra intimately, his pink seatpad.
Which could sit properly on the retro Concor saddle launched this week by Selle San Marco in collaboration with l’Eroica.
Light-weight by title, not by worth
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Light-weight has a brand new wheelset out: the Fernweg Evo Professional. In case your Light-weight wheels aren’t light-weight sufficient, the brand new wheels handle to drop 130g from the non-Professional model, plus they add CeramicSpeed bearings. There are the identical carbon spokes and you may select between three brand colour choices.
You may as well have both a 65mm or an 85mm deep profile, which Light-weight says have each been designed to enhance crosswind stability. The 65mm deep wheels weigh a claimed 1,565g, whereas the 85mm deep rims enhance that to 1,665g.
Light-weight reckons that, regardless of the load loss, the brand new wheels are simply as stiff and powerful as their predecessors and says that they’re aimed toward street riders who need the most effective quite than triathletes and time trialists.
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Costs are from a probably ruinous £8,799/$10,895. That kind of cash buys you a complete Van Rysel RCR Professional…
DT Swiss provides new aero gravel wheels for adventurers and racers
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DT Swiss has divided the gravel world into adventurers and racers and has a brand new set of wheels for every – or truly six units, as there are two hub grades plus a 650b choice on every hub, all sharing one of many two new carbon rim profiles.
The GRC Dicut 50 is designed for gravel racers, with DT claiming aero advantages for the 50mm deep rim over the earlier era GRC 1400 Spline 42 wheelset. The brand new rim profile can be mentioned to be extra secure in crosswinds. On the flashier 180 Dicut hubs, the GRC 1100 Dicut 50 wheelset has a claimed weight of 1,567g and a $2,990.80 / £2,299.98 / €2,499.80 price ticket.
For bikepacking and fewer aggressive use, the GRC Dicut 30 wheelset has a decrease profile rim, nonetheless with claimed aero advantages and a weight that drops to 1,350g, however with the identical price ticket. It’s out there in 650b in addition to 700c diameter. As a bonus, there’s a brand new HGC 1400 Spline 30mm deep wheelset, beefed up with further rear wheel spokes and stronger hubs for electrical gravel bike riders.
DT has switched to 24mm inside width hooked rims for the brand new wheels, so its complete street and gravel wheel vary is now hooked. It says that hooks present higher assist and security for gravel tires and that also they are extra aero.
You’ll be able to learn our first trip overview of the brand new GRC 1100 Dicut 50 wheelset right here.
Seatpads and sunnies go pink
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Should you’re affected by Corsa Rosa withdrawal now that the Giro is over, concern not as there’s a gentle stream of pink merch trickling out. Witness the pink version of the Teosport seatpad, as sat on for 3,400 kilometers by Tadej Pogačar and the remainder of the UAE Crew Emirates workforce.
The Teosport TruFlo Air Gentle pad is claimed to be breathable, light-weight, ergonomic and revolutionary, with a lightweight supportive foam core.
Teosport hasn’t assumed that you just’ll wish to rip your individual pad out of your shorts and stitch in a brand new pink one, so it provides the pad ready-sewn right into a pair of Pissei bib shorts, once more as worn by Pog, however in black quite than pink. It’s hooked up to the shorts at three factors, which Teosport says provides consolation, improves air flow and ensures quick drying.
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If you’d like extra overt Pog branding in your trip, which is simpler to indicate off to your trip buddies, we’d advocate Scicon’s restricted version pink fluo sunnies. Maybe just a little too pink to match the remainder of his outfit, the pink frames can be found within the Aeroscope, AeroShade XL and AeroShade Kunken fashions, with the glasses equipped with a spare lens – pink, after all.
A retro saddle in your bike for the Eroica
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Check out any bike from the 70s and chances are high its metal body with non-indexed downtube shifters will likely be kitted out with a particular wavy saddle, the Selle San Marco Concor. It’s truly 50 years because the Concor was first launched, with its novel form which held you in place higher than the flat, slippery, unpadded numbers that preceded it.
To have fun, the Italian saddle model, which was based in 1935, has launched the Concor 50 Eroica, a co-branding effort with the Eroica classic bike trip sequence. In case your Nineteen Seventies bike wants a brand new San Marco Concor saddle, it’s out there as a restricted version to purchase on the Selle San Marco web site, at Eroica gross sales factors and in some bike retailers.
Selle San Marco quotes a 300g weight for the leather-covered saddle, which is 265mm lengthy by 140mm extensive. It sits on suitably retro carbon metal rails – no fancy titanium or carbon fiber right here. The really useful retail worth is €124.90.
Selle San Marco has a line in retro elements, with its extra usually out there Concor Supercorsa Le Rino additionally adopting the Concor form. You’ll be able to end your retro construct off with a roll of its Bottega Leather-based bar tape to match.
