Lasty, Si, Matt and Dan went searching 🔎 for some lightweight bike tech at the 🇫🇷 Tour de France 🇫🇷 . They found some very impressive bits.
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The eagle eyed presenters have discovered some fantastic bits of lightweight technology on some bikes at the Tour de France, including:
– Trek Emonda Team Issue frameset, 635g!
– Look have a new lightweight climbing frame, weighing just 730g and some sections of the frame are just 0.6mm thick!
– Lasty discovered a carbon fibre chainring on Serge Pauwels Cervelo R5 bike.
– A new Argon 18 Gallium Pro as used by Fabio Aru in a custom colourway
– Chris Froome’s Pinarello F10 has a Shimano Di2 climbing shifter without the casing, making it even lighter, a custom yellow mount for his GPS and finally a carbon fibre number holder
– Adam Hansen is back with his crazy light shoes. 160g a pair, which is about half the weight of a pair of stock shoes.
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What is the coolest bit of kit we discover in this video? Let us know in the comments below 👇
the argon18 paint is so beautiful. 🤤
The Look Is one of my fav!
@DanielLloyd please never wear that color shirt again. You look like a flattened pop-tart banana peel. Cheers and thanks for the beer back at the 2016 Giro in Vicenza 🍺 @globalcyclingnetwork
All those pretty toys that I'll never be able to afford 🙁
Again…the fact that they have to add weight to a bicycle to make it UCI legal is proof the UCI is an ancient, out of touch organization of useless bureaucrats.
Last year was the year of the aero, this year is the year of the lightweight?
Love the Look climbing bike, I hope it's available to the public. And those Corima wheels!
160g shoes! Outstanding
I think there has to be some power loss with that cleat shoe system. I'd rather have my cleats secured with bolts.
awesome
Poor Adam Hansen, leaving his lightweight radio at home could mean he gets 135th and not 134th #wasteoftime
I love how accustomed Dan looks in the start of this video while it's raining. Even with the lightest drizzle I'm considering riding indoors. I need some proper #5 htfu.
Those shoes though…. They look like carbon slippers.
Oooh that Argon-18 is sexy.
Lots of weighty stuff to mull over
I love how Adam Hansen looks to save weight from places other than the bike. He thinks very differently and is very clever in his designs.
Box Fresh sneaks Lloydy!! 😎
black components are so ugly , black spokes are the spawn of the devil ..why no shiny stuff anymore ?
saving weight ..throw away the computer and the race radio …so much bollox here 🙂
3:01 "…tourrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
why not add weight to the bike in the form of a more comfy saddle, or at least one with steel rails, or a dropper post or disc brakes? If it were my bike and I had to make it heavier I would load it with as much useful stuff as possible instead of lead weights.
lol sometimes all those weight savings to add leed tubes latter is funny
What are the boas on adam hansen's shoes for?
Why going lightweight if you have to add lead weights to meet the UCI minimum weight…?
It's so light it needs to be weighed down…
It makes no sense to put dead weight such as lead in it, how about a motor in the crankset and batteries in the frame?
more Adam Hansen geeky content pls!!
Seems like Dan is willfully forfeiting his status as the 'King of Style' with those white sneakers and black socks…yikes!
to be consequent Hansen should make his own cleats… the normal ones add ~50% to the weight of his shoes – he easily can save some g's
Liking the inclusion of the LOOK Huez, in this lineup and back in the TDF. Classic brand, would really like to see a GCN bikes of the Tour show on this bike.
Who else got a Team Sunweb Ad? 😁
Does Adam Hansen use a protective kevlar layer (or dyneema for added extravagance) on the skin side of the shoes? I shudder at the thought of crashing, damaging the shoes to the point of extremely painful carbon splinters.
@Dan – Really? Black socks and white sneakers? Are you pro or what?
SOONG NAAAME PLEEEASE
Why is he wearing yeezys
That one piece cassette is slick.
Dunno I could pay attention to Dan's explanation of the Look bike with those white trainers and black socks…hot or not? I say not
those shoe's are crazy
And no mention of the Boa's under the shoe? what's that all about?
UCI ditch the weight limit. I'm 77kg riding a 5.8kg bike with no safety issues.
Adam, this is Fedex. Fedex this is Adam, now that introductions are out of the way…
Custom race radios! Don't leave home without em' kids!
#askgcnanything Have you ever broken a bike?
0.6mm is still thicker than some steel tubes BITD, also, a bog standard Scott Cr1 Sl in a 61cm weighs only 918g with a 328g fork, hardly much difference. If they are struggling to meet UCi limit why not use a nice comfy brooks saddle.
what about the new electric engine in frames ?
Qarbon sounds like a speech impediment
1:13 their what?
forgot to mention chris froome’s electromotor
Oh yeah, you got to love a lightweight bike 🚲
What's the point of having a carbon fibre bike if you have to add lead weights?
Where has the bike industry gone!!!!!! What was wrong with these beautiful lightweight bikes? Disc brakes ruined these bikes and made them tanks!