Rouleur Stay is the standard final cease for the season when it comes to bike exhibits. Yearly within the ever-so-fashionable Spitalfields space of London present and former professionals from street and gravel congregate to offer some talks, meet the general public, and have just a few drinks. On the similar time, there’s additionally three rooms stuffed with present bikes to ogle in between listening to Tom Pidcock answering questions on whether or not he’s staying at Ineos for the thousandth time.
Not like exhibits like Eurobike the place there’s loads of OEM components and loads of consumer-facing merchandise, Rouleur Stay is simply stuffed stuffed with hyper-premium present ponies. There may be not often something new when it comes to tech – although there’s sometimes a smattering – however for one-off bikes, customized builds, and particular editions utilizing probably the most bling elements in the marketplace (and off it), it’s just about unmatched.
I spent hours on Thursday roaming the halls to carry you the very cream of the crop, so get the kettle on, brew up a flowery single-origin espresso as is befitting, and have a scroll by means of all of the tech that, in all probability, you and I’ll by no means be capable of afford.
To kick off with some Olympic tech, right here is Wout van Aert’s Cervelo time trial bike from Paris, with a double disc wheel setup that was claimed to be 17 watts sooner.
Very customized wishbone TT extensions, a 3D printer pc mount and low profile grips preserve issues slippery on the entrance. If reminiscence serves me appropriately he used Imaginative and prescient extensions, not these, at the very least within the race recon.
Taped over bolts are a standard theme on TT bikes these days the place races could be received or misplaced by thousandths of a second. The arm cups look to be customized 3D printed to suit the Belgian’s forearms.
No Visma Lease-a-Bike colors for the Olympics, simply beautiful mottled sponsor logos in vaguely Belgian flavours.
The weird wanting saddle is from small model Sprint, that tends to give attention to TT and triathlon saddles.
A T-Rex, on a Canyon? It will probably solely be Alec Briggs’ Aeroad in Staff Tekkerz livery.
Customized chrome painted Light-weight wheels actually are a uncommon factor certainly, however the go well with the brash visible identification of the workforce all the way down to the bottom.
You get to see professional bikes from the large races, on this case the polka dot Cannondale SuperSix Evo Lab71 of Richard Carapaz.
Pinarello had a particular Zwift version of the brand new Dogma F. Solely a handful are made, and anybody who buys one will get a corresponding bike within the widespread indoor coaching app.
Within the unbiased builder corridor Mosaic was exhibiting off some notably lovely paint.
An identical stem is an enormous flex, as is the color matched Chris King headset.
Matching anodised Chris King hubs too? Oh go on then!
To not be outdone, simply throughout the room titanium stalwart Enigma had a equally good-looking headtube and customized painted carbon fork.
Australian lugged specialist Bastion confirmed off this carbon and titanium steed.
Simply while you thought Light-weight wheels could not get any extra unique, some restricted version ones pop up on the present.
I imagine the coating on the lugs and these 3D printed OSPWs is a few form of Cerakote. In any case it is a tremendous little bit of matchy matchy.
The carbon weave on the tubes is achieved by weaving carbon fibres on an enormous loom, which may then be minimize to size and bonded into the lugs.
Even the seatpost topper has a quantity on it so you recognize precisely which of the 88 restricted editions you’ve got.
Recent from smashing the around the world file, Lael Wilcox’s Specialised Roubaix was on the SRAM stand.
A customized 3D printed pc and dynamo mild mount caps Wilcox’s aero extensions.
It is uncommon at Rouleur Stay to see issues as retro as clip on lights, however this bike is utilitarian firstly.
Wilcox is masterful at packing mild, and the drybag slung underneath the bag is nearly all she packed in a fantastically minimal setup.
Up prime a GPS tracker and a telephone mount preserve communications shut at hand.
A Revelate Designs prime tube bag typically homes snacks. Wilcox has been seen stashing fries in it once in a while.
There have been loads of fantastically painted Trek bike son present. This prismatic Madone definitely drew a crowd.
Eisa Longo Borghini’s pink Giro profitable Madone additionally caught many a watch.
I imagine Alex Yee was the one athlete on the Paris Olympics to win gold aboard a Trek, and so the Wisconsin model went all out on his gold Madone.
The painters managed to attain a glance of just about tarnished metallic coated in fingerprints. A tremendous achievement.
Right here it’s in all its gold glory. Thankfully the model averted going completely overboard with an identical cockpit.
This pastel Madone is an official collaboration with Pantone.
Ribble, not usually thought-about an excellent premium model, was exhibiting off its model new titanium all street bike, with a color scheme fairly much like the Bastion it have to be stated
The titanum was nicely polished, and after I obtained to it at the very least it was largely away from grubby fingerprints from curious attendees.
On an all-white Ribble Extremely SLR this mad AbsoluteBlack OSPW improve was noticed.
Warwickshire primarily based Meteor Works had the one THM crankset that I noticed on the present on its street bike.
Nonetheless, its gravel bike had maybe probably the most bling set of wheels I’ve seen lately. Gold Onyx hubs laced to Princeton Carbonworks rims with Berd nylon spokes.
Metal bikes can have light-weight components too, on this case a really slender carbon bottle cage.
This is a take a look at the marginally mad lacing system of the wheels. The spokes simply hook onto the hub and are completely floppy like string when not tensioned.
Onyx is not a model you see loads of within the street world, coming primarily from BMX racing. Its rear hub contains a freehub ratchet that completely disengages when freewheeling for a completely silent journey.
Have you ever just lately purchased a vibrant inexperienced Festka? Why not get an identical set of Lake CX 333 leather-based footwear to match?
Whereas he did not make an look himself there was no escaping the presence of Tadej Pogačar by means of his many bikes on the present, on this case his Tour-winning Colnago V4Rs.
The Enve decals have loads of element in them, together with Didi the satan.
It wasn’t the one yellow Colnago on the present, however it was the one trendy one.
There was additionally a motorcycle to commemorate the Slovenian’s spectacular season, additionally full with customized Enve decals.
That is an virtually precise reproduction of what Pogačar rode to his world championships win, apart from the tyres and some small particulars.
As I stated, it was onerous to flee his presence.
Whereas Light-weight wheels are sometimes seen on the present, however a Light-weight cockpit is a a lot rarer beast. This one was fitted to a black Colnago C68 for an especially bling bike.
This was maybe my favorite factor on the present as an enormous sun shades nerd. On the left are Fausto Coppi’s unique Persol sun shades, picked up by a bunch of fans off ebay when. aBelgian museum closed down. The group then spent over £9,000 recreating them in a restricted run, as seen on the best. A real ardour undertaking if ever there was one.
Some classic bikes have been nonetheless on present, as they at all times are. This one that includes a very historic transmission system.
It could seem like it’s 3D printed titanium, however this Storck is an all carbon, all aero machine.
Its Scope wheels function a fish scale sample stated to help aerodynamics.
The Scope hubs are nonetheless 3D printed titanium, and left uncooked in a really restricted run of instances.
The pinnacle tube is especially deep, even amongst trendy aero bikes.
The particular black version of Campagnolo Tremendous File, with a particular crest… as a result of the usual black Tremendous File is not fairly unique sufficient.
A Look bike was being painted dwell on the present too, fortuitously with a light-weight airbrush to avoid wasting masking the punters.
Danni Shrosbree’s Felt Breed was the very first thing the general public noticed upon getting into the present, recent from a season of gravel racing within the States.
Whereas the body can accommodate 50c mountain bike tyres, it was operating narrower Kendas on this case.
A Lauf fork offers further compliance, and the carb stickers add a little bit of enjoyable.
Curiously Shrosbree opts to make use of Wahoo energy pedals often solely seen on the street. For those who by no means put your foot down do you even want gravel footwear and pedals?
George Fox broke the British 10 mile TT file aboard this ‘street bike’, which was really a closely modified, however not unlawful, TT bike. These bars definitely would not minimize it in a UCI race although.
Continental’s Aero111 entrance tyre was clearly a should match part.
The entrance and rear brakes featured neat cooling ducts and fairings.
A particularly deep head tube right here, together with a customized stem to permit the usage of these tremendous slim drop bars.
No person name the commissaires please!
This seems to be to be a selfmade fairing, although it does bear a resemblance to the CeramicSpeed OSPW system.
Each uncovered bolt was taped over in a no stone left unturned construct. Even the derailleur hanger was taped off.
Monster watts wanted to show this 66 tooth entrance chainring, naturally arrange 1x with a waxed chain.
Two empty bottles, there as a fairing quite than for hydration, and throughout the guidelines.
In the back of the corridor British model Reap had this impressively cantilevered seatpost atop a triathlon put up.
It additionally had this prototype gravel bike on present. You’ll be able to learn extra about it within the story under.
The chainstays have been virtually razor skinny.
The built-in seat put up is by far probably the most chunky I’ve ever laid eyes on.
This lovely carbon and metal head tube belonged to a hyper unique Officina Battaglin.
Under which stood a really fancy Aurum, full with black and gold matching Princeton Carbonworks wheels.
All it wanted was the gold a hundred and fiftieth anniversary version Pirelli tyres and it could have been full… alas.
As promised, the second yellow Colnago of the weekend. This one was ridden by legend of french biking, Thomas Voeckler on his lengthy, however finally futile stint within the yellow jersey.
The tight spacing of this 11sp Campagnolo Tremendous File groupset seems to be positively quaint these days.
One factor I am at all times going to cease and snap is an identical Silca Impero body pump, right here slung underneath the highest tube of a Stelbel.
A 3rd yellow bike? Oh go on, twist my arm. This time it is Kasia Niewiadoma’s Canyon Aeroad.
Because it was on the Canyon stand the bottle cages and bar tape had been swapped to Canyon items.
An ergon saddle is a fairly common sight within the ladies’s peloton, with groups usually breaking sponsor commitments within the title of consolation.
You will have most likely seen the leaks by now, however of not I’ve linked them down under. There’s one thing new on the best way from Wahoo.
Princeton Carbonworks’ stand had a slew of extremely premium wheels, together with these tri-spoke numbers.
On the entrance Scicon was exhibiting off its rainbow sun shades, made for Tadej Pogaçar.
James Shaw’s crashed POC helmet was on present, following his crash on the Tour de France.
Lachlan Morton’s POC helmets have been additionally on present from his record-setting lap of Australia, noticeably sun-faded after hundreds of miles.
His footwear have been additionally on present too on the Fizik stand, although I used to be suggested to not sniff them.
These are apparently a brand new set of gravel footwear from Fizik, with no title as but although it’s going to be one thing just like the Powerstrap X.
New sun shades too from Koo, the ‘Hype’ mannequin, which might be on the faces of Bora Hansgrohe subsequent season.
This is not strictly bike tech, however my good friend David was portray a beautiful mural all weekend so I needed to indicate him off too.
A robust contender for probably the most bling chainset. Cane Creek cranks mated to CarbonTi chainrings.
Pinarello had by far the largest stand. Amongst the assorted Dogma, F, and Dogma X’s there was the brand new Bolide time trial bike.
Each the seatpost and seat tube are scalloped for aero positive factors.
Chinese language model EXS introduced a load of superlight goodies to the present, together with this all titanium cassette.
This lovely hub even had the freehub physique anodised, which is superb consideration to element for part of the bike that’s virtually at all times hidden.
This 3D printed titanium bottle cage would cap off any superlight construct.
Castelli had a full set of Gabba jackets, previous and current, together with this Soudal-Quickstep Gabba R. I used to be instructed that in making use of the logos the jacket really shrinks half a measurement.
On the time of writing, tickets are nonetheless obtainable for Rouleur Stay on Saturday and could be bought right here.
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