British Cycling’s SPACE AGE Custom Track Bike – Detailed Analysis (close up footage)

British Cycling released this week their custom track bike they will be using at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 next year. Cycling Pulse ventured to Roleur in London and got some close up footage of this new track bike so in this video I analyse the design of the track bike and why British track cycling has developed it

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in the biggest news of British Cycling this week they’ve unveiled a new space-age track bike welcome back to the Lantern Rouge YouTube channel this is an inside look at the British cycling track bike they’ve unveiled they’ll be used by the British track team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics this is footage e one have seen before unless you follow cycling pulse on Instagram that’s where this originated from Olli of cycling pulse who as you know I’m partnered with for the Roush support he hooked me up with this footage so let’s break it down obviously the most unique thing about the front of this bike is the flared fork which instead of attaching to the bottom of the head tube where that flat bar is just just above the wheel just above the tire the fled fork actually goes up tapers in and attaches to the top of the head tube one thing I noticed as well here is that big cutout in the carbon pipe wheel at the front I’m not sure if that’s for the storing testosterone patches or not obviously this necessitates a proprietary handlebar setup so proprietary handlebars pretty normal head tube otherwise in terms of shaping and then the fork really flares out and this one thing I noticed as well where the full at the end of the fork where it tapers in there’s actually this excess material at the back of the fork where it attaches to I’m not sure it well that is if that’s a wheel axle or the axle or not though where it attaches to the wheel it is that excess material and if you look at your the fork back on my BM see if you look at your normal road bike for they taper right in and they’re actually quite thin at the bottom maybe that’s standard on track bikes I’m no specialist three track bikes but another side as well I was interesting in terms of the actual body of the frame to hope hope as well hope collaboration with Lotus didn’t see anything too exciting especially the bottom bracket really the crank set this looks like a two-piece crank set so obviously you have the actual chain rings and then the crank arms will probably have to be you know interchangeable for each rider so it’s not a complete one piece crank set I don’t think judging from the five or six bolts there to attach that to the chain rings if you’ve seen this bike already or after this video comment down below what you think about the design why you think certain design choices have been made it’s pretty interesting design that’s for sure so nothing too unusual at the bottom bracket area that looks pretty standard but then getting to the the second weirdest part or the joint weirdest part about this bike is the flared seat stays which is similar to how the fork is super strange and unusual and out there the seat stays are really different so again if you look at my bike in the background most seat stays in on time trial bike which other diagonal ones go in that direction they normally attached below the top tube and to the seats tube so they’ll attach the seat tube below the top tube on the bike where as you see here they attach above the top tube some of the have a force at the front they flare out and they’re attached at the top of the head tube these seat stays attached right at the top of the seat tube where the seat post actually is inserted into that whatever this weld is there’s actually kind of surprised with the seat post design they’ve got here the seat post finishes with a square hard edge at the back whereas all the rest of the bike particularly the seat stays and the the forks they’ve tapered down to a narrow service area to a point where as this is obviously a hard square edge so maybe that maybe they’re modeling says that seat post aerodynamics don’t matter so much and the reason I think they’ve got these flared seat stays is because if you look at the images where you see the riders on the bike the seat stays are actually behind the riders legs seem to be behind the riders legs pretty evenly so maybe that provides like a tail tail cam effect or whatever it’s called where it increases the surface area of which the wind gets to finish off around the riders legs instead of going around just the riders legs it goes towards the seat stays who knows maybe it doesn’t mean anything at all maybe I’m just making that up probably in you may be wondering why a British Cycling getting like a proprietary custom made track bike and British Cycling I’ve actually had proprietary bikes track bikes for their riders for a number of years this is Rebecca Romero in 2008 Beijing Olympics riding on some proprietary custom track bike you see the design differences to this new hope’ track bike only the 2012 Olympics Bradley Wiggins he wrote a custom bike not sure what brand did it or what design was there but in 2012 when he won gold at London Olympics in the men’s time trial road time trial he was on a proprietary bike and the reason these proprietary bikes are being developed because track cycling is the most important event for Great Britain in the Olympics 2008 eight gold medals 2012 eight gold medals 2016 six gold medals I think on the track so they’re gold medals formed about 20 between 20 to 25 percent of Great Britain’s overall gold medals eight for the last three Olympics have been on the track so because that a lot of money gets poured into track cycling by organizations government organ in Great Britain they’ve got a big budget they got a secret squirrel crew apparently in the Manchester Velodrome that always looking for new age ways to increase performance gains other than that hope you enjoyed this quick breakdown if you want to see my rantings and ravings check me out on instagram the lantern Rouge I post there pretty much stories daily probably multiple stories and that’s really the best place to interact with me if you want to reach out via DM to chat about cycling or hit me up with any of you video ideas and like the video subscribe if you haven’t already and I’ll see you later ciao