If you happen to watched Filippo Ganna decimate the Hour file again in October 2022 and wished you would be that quick… nicely, be a part of the queue. You’ll be able to, nevertheless, get just a bit bit nearer now that Pinarello has earmarked what is actually the identical body for its Olympic marketing campaign and put it on sale for a cool €28,750.
The 3D printed scalmalloy Bolide F HR 3D has been developed since Ganna set his 56.792km on the Grenchen velodrome in Switzerland, however the body the Italian workforce will use at this yr’s Paris Olympic Video games retains the identical key options and the identical geometry, says Pinarello. Standout factors embrace a humpback whale-inspired (sure, you learn that proper) Aeronode sample on the seat tube and seatpost, plus slimline backside bracket and hubs.
Crucially, additionally it is 3D printed, which accounts for a lot of the extravagant worth.
The Italian marque has additionally developed a ladies’s model of the body – the Bolide HR C – which options a regular carbon-fibre building. Subsequent to the 3D printed males’s model, the €12,000 that Pinarello is asking for it begins to appear to be fairly good worth.
Launched in a black and blue colourway with an Italian tricolore adorning the forks, the frameset definitely appears to be like the half, and if there was a gold medal within the offing for greatest dressed workforce bike the Bolide will surely be within the working.
The bikes have already been used on the 2023 Monitor World Championships and continued to be examined after that.
Fausto Pinarello, the chairman of the corporate, stated: “As an iconic Italian model, we couldn’t be prouder to work with the Italian monitor workforce, who like us, are persevering with to push the boundaries of athletic efficiency.
“We have now invested rather a lot to provide six 3D-printed scalmalloy bikes for the male riders and 6 carbon-fibre variations for the ladies.
“Our hope is that the lads will defend their Olympic title on the monitor this summer season and our super-strong ladies’s workforce additionally succeed of their quest for gold. We’ve executed every thing we will to offer them the best-possible likelihood.”
They don’t seem to be the one bikes to be ‘commercially out there’, given that each one Olympic machines must be, in principle, that can be purchased. Australia’s Issue Hanzo for instance might be had for $97,979 AUD – that is $64,041 US or £50,705 – for the total bike.
GB’s personal 3D printed monitor bike takes issues up one other degree, ‘retailing’ at £55,000 frame-only – that is $106,288 AUD or $69,467 US.
