Some features may vary between optional and standard for different model year vehicles. Jaguar Land Rover Limited is constantly seeking ways to improve the specification, design and production of its vehicles, parts, options and/or accessories and alterations take place continually, and we reserve the right to make changes without notice. This is a very dynamic situation, and as a result imagery used within the website at present may not fully reflect current specifications for features, options, trim and color schemes. Please contact your local authorized Land Rover Retailer for detailed specifications. The global shortages of semiconductors and other materials are currently affecting vehicle build specifications, option availability, and build timings. Important note on imagery & specifications. Rapha has taken surplus fabric that would otherwise have gone to waste and turned it into race clothing.© 2023 Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC The super-colourful aerosuit is part of the changeout kit that EF Education-EasyPost is wearing for the Giro. I knew I had good legs and managed to hold it to the finish. I didn’t want to take any chances today, so I went solo. “I know in big groups like this, group dynamics can play a pretty big role, so I backed myself for a long move. “If you can go solo, it is always better,” he said later. With the GC favourites marking each other behind, the break always stood a chance of staying away, but no one expected Healy to attack 50km out from the finish. A few kilometres in, he and a dozen other riders got away. The aerosuit and overshoes suggest he meant business. Healy says that he was planning to go for victory on Stage 8 of the Giro. You can see how far Healy angles his shifters inwards to reduce his frontal area and drag. The rest of the groupset components come from Shimano’s Dura-Ace range. > Vittoria claims new Corsa Pro is “the most advanced cotton road tyre ever made” Healy was using the Corsa Pro tyres that Vittoria called “the most advanced cotton road tyre ever made” at their launch a couple of weeks ago. Cannondale has made the legs asymmetric to handle the forces of the disc brake.ĮF Education-EasyPost use Vision Metron wheels, handlebars and stems (or one-piece cockpits), and FSA – which owns Vision – provides the chainsets. The proprietary fork is airfoil-profiled with a crown that’s integrated into the junction of the head tube and the down tube. It has also introduced what it calls a chine at the base of the head tube – a moulded area designed “to redirect air flow coming up the back of the fork leg, channelling it downstream”. SystemSix delivers more speed, to more riders, more of the time.”Ĭannondale tailored the airfoil profiles of the various parts of the frame “with differing degrees of truncation designed to maintain flow attachment across important yaw angles to minimise drag”. “Aerodynamic drag is the single greatest resistive force that riders have to overcome so it is important to everyone, not just racers. “SystemSix is the result of a ground-up design where each element is optimised in pursuit of speed,” said Nathan Barry. Using the usual tools of CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and wind tunnel testing, the SystemSix was a three-and-a-half-year project. Precisely truncated airfoil profiles in the frame, fork and seatpost maintain air flow attachment across important yaw angles and minimise drag, while delivering world-class stiffness and ride feel.”Īt the time, Cannondale didn’t have the aero expertise to develop a bike like the SystemSix so it recruited aerodynamicist Nathan Barry as a design engineer. “The disc brake-only design freed SystemSix from the constraints imposed by rim brakes, allowing engineers to achieve new levels of drag-reducing integration between the frame, fork and wheels. Pics above, including main pic: © Zac WiLLIAMS (t-a Photography Hub Ltd)
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |