Team GB track bike

[avanti]

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/ixa_lC1ppz-/Team+GB+Track+Cycling+Media+Session/H5pAwPdNe35

The GB Olympic track team has new bikes with very wide tire spacing to reduce wheel/fork aerodynamic drag (also might lead to stiffer fork).

 

[JimmyFingers]

The BBC did a segment on the GB's tech yesterday, thought the bike looks stunning, although the frame is now quite an old design. Other innovations is a new cranks, where a metal mould is wrapped in carbon, then melted leaving the crank hollow and incredibly strong, strong enough to hang an lift full of people off it. Bonkers. The fork is an interesting development and they seem to be the only team running anything like it.

 

[CobbleStoner]

I noticed from the head on shots down the finishing straight that the UK bikes whip less than everyone else, you can actually see the stiffer frame and power transfer, why isn't every country doing this?

 

[EddyW.]

I noticed from the head on shots down the finishing straight that the UK bikes whip less than everyone else, you can actually see the stiffer frame and power transfer, why isn't every country doing this?

Because money and not so interested in track cycling.