- Next to me I have the bike of the 2016 Stroke 17
National Dutch Roadrace champion, Dylan Groenewegen,
who took that title in late June of 2016.
This is his Bianchi Oltre XR4, which they released
in July of last year at the Tour de France,
which he's been using since then.
As you can see, the team LottoNL-Jumbo
have given him some specific graphics
after his national championships victory.
They include the red, white, and blue line
of the Dutch national flag, and here,
representing the royal family,
is a flash of orange coming towards the back.
Now this is quite a big development from their Oltre XR2
in terms of both aerodynamics, and also,
they claim comfort with their Countervail technology
throughout the carbon fibre frame.
And it seems as though Groenewegen
is enjoying riding this bike.
He's taken a few victories on it already.
The custom parts also go down here to the powermeter,
where Pioneer have also done their powermeter
in the colours of the Dutch national flag.
And the groupset is an entire Dura-Ace from Shimano,
the Di2, but it is the 9000 groupset.
Not yet got the 9100 on their bikes.
That goes through the shifters, there,
including the Satellite Sprint shifters,
which he's got on the drop part of the bars.
The cranks, which are 172.5 millimetres,
with the 39- and 53-tooth chain rings.
Pedals, front derailleur, rear derailleur.
The cassette, which is 11 up through to 28.
The wheels that he's using here at the Dubai Tour,
which is, of course, primarily flat,
are the C75 here at the rear, the deepest one they did
before Shimano, they are changing to the C60 and C40 only,
and the C50 there at the front,
presumably because it's been quite windy,
and he doesn't want to get pushed off his bike.
Vision provide the handlebar and stem combination there
at the front, that is their Metron 5D.
I tried to measure the stem, quite hard to do
because the bars do kind of curve forward slightly
from the front of the stem, but it's a 12 centimetres,
I'm thinking, and it measures 44 centimetres
from the edge to the edge of the bars.
Perched up on top is a Selle San Marco Regal saddle,
with the carbon rails there.
As you can see, pretty flat, and not much
in the way of give there at the top.
The bottom cages are provided by Tacx,
and the tyres come from team sponsor Vittoria,
those are the open Corsa tubular versions
in a 25 millimetre width.
And you can see down here, the mechanics
have wrapped some tape around the valve.
You'll see that quite often here on the pro bikes,
to stop the valves rattling along
when they're going along in the race.
So if you've got a rattle on your bike,
and you're wondering what it is,
if you've got deep-section carbon wheels,
it might well be the valve stem rattling about,
so put some tape on it, and that might solve the problem.
Now he's a fairly compact sprinter, Groenewegen,
so he's got quite a small frame, as you can see.
75 centimetres from the centre to the top
of the saddle, centre of the cranks,
and his reach is just 53 centimetres.
Yet to weigh it, though, so I should do that now.
So that is coming in at 7.4 kilogrammes.
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