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Most athletes get to on the professional degree journey no matter their sponsor has them journey. Extra regularly nonetheless, the paint scheme is dictated by the staff colorway. Each 4 years although (or 5 within the case of 2021), we get to see a particular colorway made particularly for the 2024 Olympic Video games.
Typically, the colours are made to signify the rider’s house nation. Different occasions, it’s a possibility for a producer to strut their stuff with a restricted version bike. And within the case of 1 bike, it was even named after the Olympics (the Nishiki Olympic that’s most likely hanging up in your uncle’s storage).
Beneath are a few of our favorites that we’ve noticed, some we anticipate to see on the males’s and ladies’s Olympic highway races, and the way a lot a motorbike within the Olympics may cost. Need one for your self?
Canyon’s Mach874 bikes for the Metropolis of Lights
Canyon has been busy releasing its new Aeroad race bike, and the model is commemorating its use within the Olympics with a particular MACH874 paint theme. The identify comes from the Olympics being in Paris, generally known as “The Metropolis of Mild.” Canyon hopes its riders journey on the pace of sunshine (1,078,553,020 km/hr or Mach 874,030) as they race for gold, and thus the Mach874 identify was born.
There’s not only one colorway right here, however a number of. On the highway aspect of issues, there are particular schemes for Hayden Wilde (New Zealand), Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands), and Chloe Dygert (USA). All have a country-specific colorway, however the themes are all the identical.
Whereas Canyon received’t provide this particular Aeroad on the market, a similarly-equipped Canyon Aeroad CFR prices $9,999. That makes it the least costly race bike right here. That’s until you depend the Brompton!
Cervélo
Wout van Aert spent his time using to his Olympic bronze medal within the males’s time trial aboard the lately up to date Cervélo P5 time trial bike. And whereas the bike made waves for being arrange with twin disc wheels entrance and rear, it additionally has a light-weight blue flash on the fork. Moreover the camo look particulars of the Cervélo brand on the downtube, the bike is in a matte black, more likely to save weight.
Whereas we haven’t seen what the highway bikes seem like fairly but, anticipate the likes of Jan Trantnik (Slovenia) and Van Aert (Belgium) to be on Cervélo highway bikes made particularly for them within the highway race.
Cervélo doesn’t promote the particular P5 time trial bike that Wout van Aert was using. That stated, you’ll be able to choose up the SRAM Purple AXS construct the model has on sale for $13,500 USD. Swap the wheels for the twin discs right here, nevertheless, and you’ll anticipate so as to add a number of thousand {dollars} extra. That’s earlier than you take into account the customized bar extension and the disc entrance wheel that Van Aert used.
Issue
Issue has launched a particular version model of its Ostro VAM highway bike. Known as the Ostro VAM 1900 Version, it takes inspiration from the 1900 World’s Honest held in Paris, Issue says. The concentric circles and arches are stated to signify the shared focus and customary objective of Issue’s athletes, whereas the blurry outer edges are stated to invoke pace.
Curiously, Derek Gee’s bike within the males’s particular person time trial wasn’t a customized paint scheme like this one. Relatively, he was aboard a Hanzo TT bike with a inventory paint scheme.
It’s value mentioning too that if you need this Olympic particular bike, it’s up for pre-order in restricted portions.
The special-edition Issue Ostro VAM highway bike is obtainable on the market in restricted portions for $11,199 USD. And whereas Issue doesn’t promote the particular Hanzo TT bike that Derek Gee was using, it has a SRAM Purple AXS construct out there for $12,299. Add within the customized base bars that Gee has right here, and you’ll add 1000’s — or tens of 1000’s — of {dollars} to that finish worth.
Orbea is impressed by mild
Basque bike model Orbea is sort of aware of Olympic success, and the corporate is again for the 2024 Paris Olympics with three completely different bikes for its highway and TT lineup, in addition to one other bike for the Olympic mountain bike race.
Like Canyon, Orbea took inspiration from Paris’ “Metropolis of Lights” nickname. Right here, nevertheless, Orbea is basing that mild across the rider, because the bike owner is the gasoline for the sunshine. That vitality is generated all through the journey, as seen by the metallic gold, cotton pink, and carbon clearcoat over the bike.
Orbea is without doubt one of the few manufacturers with two highway bikes entered. There’s the Orca highway bike that will likely be ridden by the likes of Eri Yonamine (Japan) and Ereyu Tesfoam (Ethiopia) within the Girls’s Street Race. Eduardo Sepúlveda (Argentina) will race the Orca Aero within the males’s highway race. The Urdu time trial bike will likely be ridden by Marta Lach (Poland) within the ladies’s particular person time trial.
Whereas Orbea doesn’t have the Olympics version Orbea Orca Aero on the market, a top-spec Orbea Orca Aero with Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 prices $11,399 USD.
Pinarello
Pinarello isn’t any stranger to the Olympics, with wins on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics underneath Filippo Ganna and Richard Carapaz. For the 2024 Paris Olympics, Pinarello athletes are aboard a brand new model of the Bolide F TT time trial bike.
The brand new bikes function a fade paint scheme of Luxter Purple Gold up entrance and Luxter Blue out again, with every rider’s nationality on the seat tube. Moreover that, Pinarello claims a 2.28 % discount in drag by profiting from the UCI’s tube form requirement adjustments.
Filippo Ganna was aboard the Bolide F TT on the males’s particular person time trial, whereas the likes of Tobias Foss and Magnus Sheffield will likely be aboard the Dogma F within the males’s highway race.
Pricing is determined by the construct. A Pinarello Bolide F TT body, fork, headset, and base bar begins at roughly €14,000. Add within the Princeton Carbon Works wheels and customized base bars, and we wager this bike prices in extra of €30,000, somewhat bit greater than Tadej Pogačar’s time trial bike.
Specialised
As we lately lined, Specialised launched its Ahead 50 assortment simply in time for the Olympics. Remco Evenepoel received utilizing a Ahead 50 painted Shiv TT bike, however anticipate to see the Ahead 50 bikes within the peloton on the Olympic males’s highway race as effectively.
The Specialised Tarmac SL8 Ahead 50 Version Bike was supplied late final month at $16,500 USD/€16,500/£14,500/$24,900 AUD.
Brompton
As a lot as we’d like to see it occur, you’re not going to see a Brompton in an Olympic occasion. That hasn’t stopped Brompton from releasing a commemorative bike plated in gold, in addition to a Paris version–particular bike to match.
The gold-plated Brompton C-Line bikes come courtesy of a collaboration with Mappin & Webb in help of Workforce Nice Britain on the Olympics. The bikes obtain hand-done engravings, and gold-plated decals, collectively an equal of practically 24-carats of yellow gold. Two bikes have been made, they usually’ll be auctioned off after the Olympics to help the British Olympic Basis.
Is gold too wealthy to your blood? Brompton additionally has a Paris Version bike that will get a paint scheme to commemorate the Olympics. Simply 1,000 of those bikes will likely be out there, as you’d anticipate.
Whereas the value of the gold-plated Brompton will likely be depending on the ultimate bid worth, you should purchase your personal Paris Version Brompton for $3,400. Looks like a cut price in comparison with the opposite bikes on this listing.
