Category: UCI World Tour

Richie Porte’s 2020 Trek Emonda Disc

Richie Porte’s 2020 Trek Emonda Disc

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Richie Porte races the 2020 World Tour season for the team Trek Segafredo on a Trek Emonda for most of races.

In this post you’ll find all details of Richie’s 2020 racing bike including size and specifications.

The Tasman rider is a General Classification and climbing type of riding candidate. For these reasons he is racing on Trek’s lightest frame designed to climb Cols faster.

  • Richie Porte is 172cm tall
  • He rides a 50cm size Trek Emonda SLR 9 Disc 2020 carbon bike
  • The crankset is 172.5mm length
  • The Sram etap gear set up is 54/41T x 10/28 12 speed
  • The Bontrager XXX stem is 100mm length
  • The Bontrager XXX handlebar width is 40cm

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Caleb Ewan’s Ridley Noah Fast Disc 2020 Bike Size

Caleb Ewan’s Ridley Noah Fast Disc 2020 Bike Size

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The trend among the World Tour peloton is most teams will race the full season on disc brake bikes, leaving the good old rim brakes.

Caleb Ewan is racing on disc brakes type Ridley Noah Fast size XS (51cm) for the 2020 season. It is the same size as last year except for the fork rake.

Ridley Noah Fast Size XS sketch

The disc brake version is approximately 500gr heavier than the rim brake version due to the extra weight of the disc rotors and brake calipers.

The frame features Ridley’s “F-Tubing” which are teardrop shaped main tubes to optimize aerodynamics.

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Roglic Bianchi Oltre XR4 2019

Roglic Bianchi Oltre XR4 2019

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Primoz Roglic is having a fantastic racing season 2019 among his Team Jumbo-Visma and on his Bianchi bike.

Each rider of the team has a total of four Bianchi bikes among which is the Oltre XR4 available in Disc brakes and rim brakes version.

The team seems to prefer the rim brakes for most races, the disc version being used on rainy days.

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Egan Bernal’s Pinarello F12 Sizing

Egan Bernal’s Pinarello F12 Sizing

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Egan Bernal name has hit general public awareness on Tour de France 2019. The Colombian climber is also an excellent downhiller.

Egan is 174cm tall and is racing the Tour de France 2019 on a Pinarello Dogma F12 size 530mm (C-C).

The Italian bike company has put a lot of work on making this frame the most Aerodynamic as possible claiming a 5% Aero gain over previous model. All cables are internally routed.

The Ineos team use the rim brake version instead of the disc brake as the wheel changing time during race is still of the advantage of the rim brake wheels. Read more →

Caleb Ewan’s Ridley Noah Fast 2019 Bike Size

Caleb Ewan’s Ridley Noah Fast 2019 Bike Size

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Caleb Ewan is a prominent Australian Sprinter racing for the Lotto-Soudal especially famous for his sprinting style and his bike position is particularly .

Caleb is a 165cm sprinter racing the 2019 season on a XS frame size Ridley Noah Fast for most sprint stages including the Tour de France.

One of the most unusual particularity of the bike is it is fitted with a 150mm stem length. Try to convince your local bike shop you want a XS size frame mated with a XXXL size stem… Read more →