Cycling Weekly — January 11, 2018

A first look at how the British outfit

will roll this season

e first reported that
the Team Sky riders,
including Ian Stannard
and Wout Poels, had been riding
on newly painted Pinarellos,
including the Pinarello Dogma
K10S Disc and Pinarello Dogma
F10, after seeing tweets from the
Team Sky Twitter account.
We can now confirm that was
indeed the case after Pinarello and
Team Sky officially revealed the
new-look bikes to the media.
The new paint job isn’t a
massive change from the 2017
version, with the frame still mostly
black in colour. But the inside the
front triangle, which is now bright
white except for the ‘F10’ lettering,
is a big shake-up from the previous
year’s model. The inner triangle
now perfectly matches the
seatpost as well as the team’s new
Castelli kit for 2018. The new white
graphics on the frame also really
stand out against the pure black of
the painted carbon.
A few spots of blue, including
on the stem, front end, top tube
and the F10 on the inner triangle
identify the Pinarello as a Sky
team bike.
The blue and white lines that
we first saw on last year’s kit that
represented their race wins are still
present, but have evolved into more
of a design feature, disappearing
towards the rear of the bike.
From the photos we can see that
Team Sky are going to be running
a full Shimano set-up, including
the brand’s old Dura-Ace C50
wheels, although we’ll have to wait
till the first races of the season to
find out the exact set-up that the
riders choose.

Tech

Team Sky launch

2018 livery

Paintjob and details are

unmistakably Sky

New rig gets full

Shimano set-up

Slick graphics,

slender profile

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