Mark Cavendish has had just one purpose since claiming Tour de France stage win quantity 34 all the way in which again in 2021: Including yet another win to take the accolade of most stage wins of any rider in Tour de France historical past.
With 34 wins to his identify, Cavendish was tied with legend Eddy Merckx, nonetheless on stage 5 of this 12 months’s Tour into Saint Vulbas he sprinted into the historical past books by taking win quantity 35.
The victory was one thing that the entire world of biking was overjoyed to see, with loads of riders taking to social media to rejoice the record-breaking stage win.
Forward of the race’s Grand Depart from Florence Cavendish revealed the custom-painted Wilier Filante SLR that he can be rolling round France on. The black body offers method to vibrant bursts of color in direction of the entrance of the body, fork and bars.
The color palette used signifies the colors which have outlined Cavendish’s profession with the yellow and inexperienced each symbolising the jerseys that he has worn on the Tour de France. In 2016 Cavendish loved a stage one victory that put him within the yellow jersey for a single day, while he has loved a number of days in inexperienced, in the end claiming the factors classification total in 2011 and 2021.
The black, blue, and purple make up the remaining colors of the UCI World Championship rainbow bands that Cavendish gained in Copenhagen again in 2011.
The Wilier Filante SLR is considered one of two bikes accessible to Cavendish’s Astana Qazaqstan group taking on obligations because the group’s devoted aero bike. Though the Filante is undeniably an aero race machine it straddles the road between out and out aero bike and a extra versatile all-rounder.
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Wilier even states that the Filante SLR could be constructed as much as hit the UCI minimal weight restrict of 6.8kg. With the {custom} paint scheme and the construct Cavendish used for the stage, his bike got here in nearer to 7.6kg
The purple, blue, yellow, inexperienced, and black colors symbolize a mixture of the Tour de France jerseys Cavendish has worn and the colors of the UCI World Championship rainbow bands. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
Wilier makes an built-in bar for the Filante SLR, nonetheless going by the form of the bars and the highest cap it appears to be like like Cavendish is utilizing Imaginative and prescient’s newest Metron 5D Evo. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
Cavendish was working 28mm Vitoria Corsa Professional TLR tyres mounted to Imaginative and prescient’s Metron 60 SL wheels. These wheels function a 33mm exterior rim width which goals to extend the aerodynamics of the system when used with wider tyres. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
On the fork leg under the fading explosion of color is Mark Cavendish’s private brand highlighting precisely who this bike belongs to. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
Cavendish had a 55-42 Dura-Ace chainset with an built-in dual-sided energy meter fitted to the bike. Paired with the monstrous chainrings is an 11-34 tooth cassette. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
To the unassuming eye, this saddle appears to be like to be a Prologo as the emblem would recommend nonetheless in direction of the nostril of the saddle you possibly can see the faint indicators of a unique brand being lined over. The saddle is definitely a Fizik Antares – With saddles being such a private merchandise prime riders are sometimes permitted to go in opposition to sponsor manufacturers to seek out the appropriate one for them. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
Mounting to the underside of the Imaginative and prescient Metron 5D EVO bars is a tidy bike laptop mount. The group makes use of Garmin head models with the place of the mount suggesting that Cavendish makes use of the bigger 1040 mannequin. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
The shiny end of the custom-painted body is immaculate with the fork, body and bars all seamlessly mixing into each other. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
Garmin subsidiary Tacx provides Cavendish along with his bottle cages. The Deva Carbon are the go-to selection in a shiny black end that’s consistent with the rear half of his bike. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
It isn’t simply the body, fork, and bars that get the {custom} remedy. The Imaginative and prescient Metron 60 SL wheels additionally function blue and yellow {custom} decals. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
It appears to be like like there have been no valve extenders used right here with the valve solely simply poking by the rim. It would make it a bit of extra fiddly to inflate the tyre but it surely does hold the rotational mass as little as doable. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
Cavendish definitely has probably the most distinctive {custom} paint schemes now we have seen and it’s only becoming for the outright stage win file holder. (Picture credit score: Josh Croxton)
