Tadej Pogačar is a drive to be reckoned with at any race he takes to the beginning of. His Grand Tour monitor file is nothing in need of staggering – within the six Grand Tours he has accomplished he has by no means completed off the rostrum.
That being mentioned, Pogačar will likely be hoping to return to the highest step of the rostrum at this yr’s Tour de France after being bettered into second place two years in a row by Visma Lease a Bike’s Jonas Vingegaard.
The bike of selection for Pogačar and his UAE Team Emirates teammates is Colnago’s do-it-all race bike the V4RS. Released again in 2022 the V4Rs was the evolution of the V3Rs, upon which Pogačar had raced to 2 earlier Tour de France victories.
When the V4Rs was launched Colnago claimed that by means of a redesign of the top tube because of some modern know-how from Ceramic Speed it was capable of take away the necessity for the built-in entrance finish to be disassembled.
The know-how in query is CeramicSpeed’s SLT (Solid Lubrication Technology) headset which makes use of a stable polymer to lubricate the bearings. When this know-how is paired with a ceramic bearing the tip result’s theoretically a headset that by no means must be changed.
The V4Rs comes as inventory with a CC01 one-piece bar and stem that Colnago claims is 16% extra environment friendly than the cockpit of the V3Rs, however Pogačar goes with out this and as an alternative opts for what seems to be to be a custom-made ENVE SES AR built-in cockpit.
The actual mannequin discovered on Pogačar’s bike will not be commercially out there with Pogačar tweaking the geometry of the bar to match his exacting choice.
With two second-place finishes on the Tour, a win on the Giro d’Italia, and wins at each the Ronde Van Vlaanderen and Liege-Bastogne-Liege already on the V4Rs, Pogačar will likely be hoping so as to add the Tour de France general to the bikes already bulging win record.