In case you watched Filippo Ganna decimate the Hour document again in October 2022 and wished you can be that quick… nicely, be part of the queue. You possibly can, nonetheless, get just a bit bit nearer now that Pinarello has earmarked what is basically 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 group will use at this 12 months’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, it’s also 3D printed, which accounts for a lot of the extravagant value.
The Italian marque has additionally developed a ladies’s model of the body – the Bolide HR C – which options a normal carbon-fibre development. Subsequent to the 3D printed males’s model, the €12,000 that Pinarello is asking for it begins to appear like fairly good worth.
Launched in a black and blue colourway with an Italian tricolore adorning the forks, the frameset definitely seems the half, and if there was a gold medal within the offing for greatest dressed group bike the Bolide will surely be within the working.
The bikes have already been used on the 2023 Observe World Championships and continued to be examined after that.
Fausto Pinarello, the chairman of the corporate, mentioned: “As an iconic Italian model, we couldn’t be prouder to work with the Italian observe group, who like us, are persevering with to push the boundaries of athletic efficiency.
“We’ve got invested lots 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 observe this summer season and our super-strong ladies’s group additionally succeed of their quest for gold. We’ve finished all the things we are able to to provide them the best-possible probability.”
They are not the one bikes to be ‘commercially accessible’, given that each one Olympic machines must be, in idea, in the stores. Australia’s Issue Hanzo for instance will be had for $97,979 AUD – that is $64,041 US or £50,705 – for the total bike.
GB’s personal 3D printed observe bike takes issues up one other stage, ‘retailing’ at £55,000 frame-only – that is $106,288 AUD or $69,467 US.
