Cycling coach Matt Bottrill builds a GIANT Trinity for athlete Louis Hatchwell. From unboxing to final setup, see how this bike is built for aero performance and precision.
🚴♂️ Bike: GIANT Trinity
👤 Featuring: Matt Bottrill & Louis Hatchwell
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[Music] Hey Lum man, how are you buddy? Good to see you. Brought this me machine. Awesome. This is going to be the lightest time trial and triathon bike ever made. I reckon I can get one of these down in a size small to 7.2 kg. Yeah, we’ll see what happens. [Music] Tell me what you’re trying to get out of this bike then, buddy. I just want the fastest setup possible. I’m going to start off with 10 mile TTs all out speed. That’s I think going to suit me best and then see sort of if I can get into any of the ultra stuff for much longer distances. So, kind of looking for a couple of setups. So the great thing about the Trinity, the adjustability that we’ve got when it comes to settle, the four and after of the seat, we can adapt that for each athlete or each event that you’re specifically trying to train or work towards. The also the great thing about this bike is straight out the box is the the reach that we’ve got with it. And there’s no other bike on the market that’s got that. We can get really low stat, we can be very aggressive with the position or we can bring the stack up. So, you know, like for your longer endurance event, we can bring that into it. Really, one of the key parts of adapting into a time trial bike is understanding the limitations that you’ve got. So, what I need to understand from you is your shoulder rotation to start off with. So, if you can just show me the shoulder mobility you’ve got around and can you shrug into that? That’s really good. Then flexion in your hamstrings. Just do that one. Yeah. Really good. You just do single leg half squat. Just do like one of those in each leg for me. Yeah. So, we could do We got insoles in your shoes. That’s really good. You’re going to be good, mate. [Music] Okay then, Louis. So, how how are you feeling now on on this current setup? Uh, pretty tight in the hips. Yeah, they’re pretty impinged and like saddle feels quite low. Yeah. Um, and it’s just really aggressive. It’s really low at the front end. I don’t know really how to breathe in this position, but I also can’t really see. If we start with like the saddle positioning, then I definitely recommend that we’re going to bring that up and we’ll probably bring the saddle slightly forward, add a bit of tilt to it. So then we can rotate your pelvis and the helmet isn’t interacting with your shoulder positioning. What I recommend that we do is we’ll use these adjustable stackers that we’ve got. Bring this stack eye up and then we’ll be able to bring out the front end. The great thing that we’ve got is so much adjustability of the pole positioning, but with the pad, we can also bring these forwards. [Music] The great adjustments that we’ve got on this bike is is the angle of the pole. We can increase that. That will then angle the pad. So, what that allows us to do is integrate the athlete into the position. It’ll drop the shoulders into place. So it makes it a much more powerful aerodynamic setup. Like standalone bikes, generally they have like an angle between 0 and 7° where we can come up to 15. [Music] Oh, I’m buzzing, Matt. It just feels fast standing still. Um, I’m surprised how comfy it is. That’s the main thing actually, just having never been in a TT position. Yeah, I think that’s the art of it all, isn’t it? It’s integrating the athlete into the bike itself. And then what we know about the rideability and the compliance of this this bike. Like the biggest thing that I’ve noticed uh since the day that I got mine is just like you’ll be able to sustain like this position uh because it’s just well, it’s just so comfortable to ride. It’s the start of the journey, mate. You know, like you can uh get some great results. Some PBS are going to come your way and then you can start to refine and improve there. I can’t wait to get out on the road. Well, get out there. You’re going to fly. [Music]