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I pity the bloke on tubs duty.

Sadly Pinarello’s still summon a little bit of sick into my mouth.

Well yeah, but that workshop!

chinarellos probably 😛

Just wow, the racks of wheels alone is just incredible, how ever much monies worth of kit and equipment have they got?

that fairing/cowl on the Bolide rear brake. I thought such things weren’t UCI legal?

It’s a health and safety nightmare!!!

Hope they had one of thes e to help set up/fine tune the 5/6 bikes that each rider has.

MW I wasn’t the only one then! not in the UK so they don’t care! 😈

No yellow bikes mean no le tour winner next year then?

Each bike took almost two hours to build

Pah, amateurs!

High tech stuff…

…using a laptop to test your fairy lights.

80 bikes? Assuming £15k/bike that’d be £1.2m. Including kit, spare parts etc I reckon it’d be closer to £1.5m.

80 bikes? Assuming £15k/bike that’d be £1.2m. Including kit, spare parts etc I reckon it’d be closer to £1.5m.

By eck you could buy a car for that!!

Hang on, I think I’ve overestimated there. It’s probably around £10k/bike, so that makes it “only” £800,000 (probably a round million with spares etc). You could still swap them all for a house though.

Two hours to build each bike, plus about 4 bottles of beer is the usual consumption is it not? Wouldn’t fancy riding the 3.00pm to 5.00pm ones!

Who do you reckon the princess is that demanded a different saddle?

Hang on, I think I’ve overestimated there. It’s probably around £10k/bike, so that makes it “only” £800,000 (probably a round million with spares etc). You could still swap them all for a house though.

Even £10k seems high?

£3900 for F8 frames
£1500 C50 tub wheelsets
£100 tyres
£2000 Di2 groupset
£100 saddle
£125 pedals
£60 Pro plt stem
£150 Pro vibe bars

=some change short of £8k.

And in that pic it looks like there’s a lot of training bikes with plain handbuilt wheels, and cheaper DA wheelsets which probably brings the average down somewhat?

Add in the powermeters, plus a compact and standard chainset per bike, ceramic bearing upgrades, brake pad upgrades, spare cassettes, bar tape and bottle cages.

That’ll top the price per bike up a bit even if you discount the probable 4 pairs of wheels each bike will have (training wheels, deep sections, very deep sections and climbing wheels).

I’d be very surprised if they pay retail prices – probably part of the sponsorship deal.

Lush but sad that still no disc brakes. Looks like something from nasa or F1 not cycling nice to see the top end of our sport is progressing (although don’t know what difference that makes to me personally).

I’d be very surprised if they pay at all – from chatting to a couple of professional spanner monkeys last year most of the teams sponsors will be delivering free product AND paying a hefty amount for Sky to be riding their kit too.

Pinarello and Rapha certainly haven’t done too badly out if it 😉

I once visited the Rabobank Giant service course in Holkand. amazing. All run and all bikes built by 2 guys for over 40 riders. The old timer knew every dimension, gear ratio, stem length etc. for every bike, in his head, nothing written down.

It was a bit less F1 than Sky’s setup but very impressive non the less.

They won’t be paying much, if anything for that lot.

Apparently every bike is built from scratch. And the award for pointing out the blindingly bloody obvious goes to………

Lush but sad that still no disc brakes

its not Sky/Pinarellos issue though is it, its the UCI who need to progress

Lush but sad that still no disc brakes

its not Sky/Pinarellos issue though is it, its the UCI who need to progress

The 2015 Paris Roubaix is being used a “test” event for disc brakes. The fact that most teams run specific bikes for P-R now means that the cost of setting them up with disc brakes is far less than it otherwise would be and the conditions are perfect for discs. Win all round.

Be approved by 2016 I reckon (unless there’s a major drama where a rider slices his fingers off in a rotor…)

They won’t be paying much, if anything for that lot.

The Finances of Team Sky

Interestingly, according to this they paid £2.1million for bikes and equipment in 2013. Probably in the right ballpark if we’re talking £8k-£10k per bike including spare wheels, plus all their other kit.

And received £5.8million in “performance sponsorship”.

I suppose maybe they’re paid £8million by the sponsors then ‘buy’ the parts with that? Either that or they’ve got a lot of other kit costs.

My understanding is sponsors give them a notional sponsorship value of X and they use some of that to buy the equipment from the sponsors. I think gifts of the value that is in that shipment could be quite interesting to the taxman 😉

The 2015 Paris Roubaix is being used a “test” event for disc brakes

Really? I read 2016 at the earliest, is this official?

then the team car pulls up with even more bikes on the roof

Really? I read 2016 at the earliest, is this official?

Yep, 2016

http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/08/bikes-and-tech/stopping-progress-debate-hydraulic-disc-brakes-pro-peloton_340905

The UCI will run Paris-Roubaix as a road disc test event in 2016, according to sources within the UCI and the cycling industry. The governing body was originally shooting for 2015, but Campagnolo’s slow movement toward discs and SRAM’s recent recall moved that optimistic timeline back. Even 2016 may be overly optimistic. “If the answers aren’t here today, I don’t think the UCI is a year or two away,” Meyer said.

Bloody Campag 😉

So will that be disks compulsory for everyone at P-R, or a just disks permitted?

Permitted I expect – not sure that every bike company sponsoring teams will have an appropriate disc model available – the smaller teams in particular.

I would guess permitted, I can’t imagine they’d run disks for the first time ever at PR, the premier one day event in the calendar.

I’d expect to see a couple teams, like Eurocar, (if they’re still here and riding Colnago), be allowed to use them.

I too would say permitted, but dependant on riders preference, clearly the Team will have something to say about it but some riders (most I’d say) will be happy with std rim brakes.

We’ll see.

thisisnotaspoon – Member
Who do you reckon the princess is that demanded a different saddle?

From my experience anyone who’s sat on one of the Fizik saddles! 😀

Its not a different saddle… Still a Fizik, just a new version of the Aliante!

It looks like if you are a DS you get to have the saddle you choose to me 🙂

It is Servais Knaven’s bike.

It is Servais Knaven’s bike.

The one on the right with no logo, just a (gorilla taped over?) shiny band across the back. Looks more like an arione than aliante.