Geraint Thomas says he is 95 per cent prone to retire on the finish of the 2025 season. He’s going out preventing although; having already ridden to 3rd place within the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 38-year-old now driving his thirteenth Tour de France in assist of Ineos Grenadiers staff chief Carlos Rodriguez.
Thomas is driving the most recent model of the Pinarello Dogma F, a motorbike that was solely launched in June and which we acquired to journey within the Dolomites for our first journey assessment.
Pinarello has improved the bike’s aerodynamics. It’s additionally been progressively shaving away at its weight. We weren’t allowed to weigh Thomas’s bike, however his mechanics claimed it tipped the scales at 7.2kg.
At launch, Pinarello claimed a weight of 6.77kg for a measurement 53 bike with Dura-Ace and 1,350g Princeton Carbonworks wheels. Shimano says its Dura-Ace C50 tubeless wheels weigh 1,461g a set, which is what the Ineos Grenadiers race on – in numerous rim depth choices. Add in 238g for Thomas’s Dura-Ace SPD-SL pedals and that determine would possibly simply be doable, though Thomas rides a measurement 56 bike reasonably than a 53.
We have extra Tour de France professional bike checks on the way in which, however for now, why not get pleasure from Mathieu van der Poel’s Canyon Aeroad or Tadej Pogacar’s Colnago.
The 2024 replace of the Dogma F sees the thru-axle absolutely enclosed by the bike’s fork flaps to enhance airflow and the fork blades thinned down (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)The Most Talon Ultra Light bar/stem is supplied with a neat 3D printed composite out-front mount for Thomas’s Garmin Edge 840 biking laptop that we might guess is extra aero than a normal mount (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)Thomas was a long-time Fizik saddle person, however the staff has now switched to Prologo. Thomas sits on a Prologo Nago R4 PAS in 137mm width. Prologo claims a 139g weight for the carbon-railed saddle (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)51g Elite Fly bottles and 17g Leggero Carbon cages are shielded from the wind by the form of the Dogma F’s downtube (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)While professionals’ chainrings appear to be getting ever-larger, Thomas is utilizing the widespread amongst professional riders 54/40t rings on his Dura-Ace energy meter crankset (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)Thomas is driving fairly customary 172.5mm cranks on his energy meter-equipped Shimano Dura-Ace crankset (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)Thomas runs Shimano Dura-Ace pedals on the bike’s all-Dura-Ace construct. These look to be the usual size axle width choice (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)Another view of Thomas’s Shimano Dura-Ace energy meter crankset and the entrance half of his drivetrain (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)The Dura-Ace rear mech sits on a Direct Mount hanger, which Shimano claims improves shifting accuracy over a normal mech hanger by eradicating the B-Link between the 2 (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)Concrete proof of the Welshman’s wider tyres, with the 28mm Contis stretching out to 29.9mm on the Shimano Dura-Ace C50 rims (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)As the burden of the Dogma and the Dura-Ace wheels have steadily decreased over time, Ineos appears to have ceased its former dalliance with the Lightweight wheels model (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)Thomas is operating the broader ratio 11-34t Shimano Dura-Ace 12-speed cassette with a claimed 253g weight and 6 titanium and 6 metal sprockets (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)The staff has been driving Conti tyres since its launch as Team Sky. We assume these are the TDF restricted version tyres with stealthy brand’s (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)As with rim brakes, Ineos was a long-time holdout towards tubeless tyres, however the previous couple of seasons have seen the staff swap to tubeless tyres in its Dura-Ace wheels (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)A Welsh dragon flag for Thomas on his Pinarello Dogma F on the Tour (Image credit score: Josh Croxton)
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