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We’ve obtained some new wheels for the deep-of-pocket this week. If you’re sticking to the street, could we propose the newest wheels from Lightweight, which handle to shed 130g from their predecessors? Yours for simply £8,799/$10,895.
If you favor gravel, DT Swiss has two new rim profiles to fit your driving model, every of which is lighter and extra aero than its predecessor. Rather less costly than Lightweight’s offering, however nonetheless fairly eye-watering for a wheelset that’s going to take a hammering.
Just in case you’ve not seen, the Giro d’Italia has ended, though that hasn’t stemmed the flood of pink items. You can have Tadej’s pink sunnies or, fairly extra intimately, his pink seatpad.
Which may sit effectively on the retro Concor saddle launched this week by Selle San Marco in collaboration with l’Eroica.
Lightweight by title, not by value
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Lightweight has a new wheelset out: the Fernweg Evo Pro. If your Lightweight wheels aren’t light-weight sufficient, the new wheels handle to drop 130g from the non-Pro model, plus they add CeramicSpeed bearings. There are the identical carbon spokes and you’ll be able to select between three emblem coloration choices.
You may have both a 65mm or an 85mm deep profile, which Lightweight says have each been designed to enhance crosswind stability. The 65mm deep wheels weigh a claimed 1,565g, whereas the 85mm deep rims improve that to 1,665g.
Lightweight reckons that, regardless of the burden loss, the new wheels are simply as stiff and sturdy as their predecessors and says that they’re aimed toward street riders who need one of the best fairly than triathletes and time trialists.
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Prices are from a doubtlessly ruinous £8,799/$10,895. That type of cash buys you a whole Van Rysel RCR Pro…
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 new set of wheels for every – or truly six units, as there are two hub grades plus a 650b possibility 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 new rim profile can be mentioned to be extra steady 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 much less 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 obtainable in 650b in addition to 700c diameter. As a bonus, there’s a 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 inner width hooked rims for the new wheels, so its total street and gravel wheel vary is now hooked. It says that hooks present higher help and security for gravel tires and that also they are extra aero.
You can learn our first experience assessment of the new GRC 1100 Dicut 50 wheelset right here.
Seatpads and sunnies go pink
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If you’re affected by Corsa Rosa withdrawal now that the Giro is over, worry not as there’s a regular 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 Team Emirates workforce.
The Teosport TruFlo Air Light pad is claimed to be breathable, light-weight, ergonomic and progressive, with a mild supportive foam core.
Teosport hasn’t assumed that you simply’ll need to rip your individual pad out of your shorts and sew in a new pink one, so it provides the pad ready-sewn into a pair of Pissei bib shorts, once more as worn by Pog, however in black fairly than pink. It’s connected to the shorts at three factors, which Teosport says provides consolation, improves air flow and ensures quick drying.
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If you need extra overt Pog branding in your experience, which is less complicated to indicate off to your experience buddies, we’d suggest Scicon’s restricted version pink fluo sunnies. Perhaps 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 on your bike for the Eroica
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Take a look at any bike from the 70s and likelihood is its metal body with non-indexed downtube shifters will likely be kitted out with a distinctive wavy saddle, the Selle San Marco Concor. It’s truly 50 years for the reason that 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 experience sequence. If your Seventies bike wants a new San Marco Concor saddle, it’s obtainable 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 vast. It sits on suitably retro carbon metal rails – no fancy titanium or carbon fiber right here. The beneficial retail value is €124.90.
Selle San Marco has a line in retro components, with its extra typically obtainable Concor Supercorsa Le Rino additionally adopting the Concor form. You can end your retro construct off with a roll of its Bottega Leather bar tape to match.