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Pinarello Bolide F TT Bike Gets Faster with “Whale” Tech

2025 pinarello bolide F TT time trial bike.
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Made to give Michał Kwiatkowski (Poland), Magnus Sheffield (USA), reigning European Time Trial Champion Josh Tarling (Great Britain) and former World Time Trial Champions Tobias Foss (Norway) and Filippo Ganna (Italy) every advantage at the Paris Olympics’ Individual Time Trial, Pinarello has unveiled a new version of the Bolide F TT bike reduces drag by 2.28% over its predecessor.

closeup details of 2025 pinarello bolide F TT time trial bike.

The drag reduction comes from two design features – AirStream AeroNodes and AirFoil sections.

closeup details of 2025 pinarello bolide F TT time trial bike.

The AirStream AeroNodes were inspired by the tubercules found on humpback whale flippers. They’re integrated onto the seat tube and seat post to reduce the complex vortexes generated by riders’ leg movements to improve airflow.

closeup details of 2025 pinarello bolide F TT time trial bike.

AirFoil sections on the bottom bracket and wheel hubs are longer and slimmer to reduce the frontal area.

closeup details of 2025 pinarello bolide F TT time trial bike.

Pinarello says they found, counter to trends, adding space between the fork and tire didn’t improve aerodynamics more than keeping the total frontal area as slim as possible. So, they did increase fork crown width slightly, but only to increase tire clearance to fit 32mm tires, up from 28mm.

It also gets the small “fork flap chip” from the Dogma F, giving it little trailing edges behind the front axles for more incremental gains.

closeup details of 2025 pinarello bolide F TT time trial bike.

They made the fork legs and seatstays slimmer, too, reinforcing those sections to maintain stiffness for maximum power transfer.

closeup details of 2025 pinarello bolide F TT time trial bike.

The cockpit was optimized not just for its own aerodynamics, but for how it maximized rider-plus-bike aerodynamics.

closeup details of 2025 pinarello bolide F TT time trial bike.
closeup details of 2025 pinarello bolide F TT time trial bike.

Lastly, they revised the aero bottle, cage, and position to eke out a few more gains.

2025 pinarello bolide F TT time trial bike shown from drive side.

Each athlete will be riding a Bolide F TT in this special Luxter Red Gold and Luxter Blue colorway, with their nationalities on the seat tube. For everyone else, it’s available in four frame sizes and it should be available later this year with the “Games” spec of full Dura-Ace Di2. Price TBA.

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Jason DW
Jason DW
3 months ago

Well, its certainly weird looking.

Andreas
Andreas
3 months ago

“bolide”

Veganpotter
Veganpotter
3 months ago

Since Ganna’s hour, I’ve been wondering how you deal with small seat height adjustments(not a big deal for his bike since it was custom).

Grillis
Grillis
3 months ago
Reply to  Veganpotter

The seatpost on his hour bike was identical (for all intents and purposes) to this one. There was no ISP or anything. The same concealed pinch-bolts in back.

blahblahblah
blahblahblah
3 months ago

SR 71 blackbirds are fast, whales are very slow in comparison, i’d make it look like an sr 71 not a whale

Czechmate
Czechmate
3 months ago
Reply to  blahblahblah

There is a great difference between making things fast, and making them look fast.
Speed is relative, and the aerodynamic shapes of objects take into account their intended design velocity. The target here is 50-55km/h, not Mach 3.2 like an SR-71.

Angstrom
Angstrom
3 months ago
Reply to  blahblahblah

Very different Reynolds numbers. 😉

Pathlesstraveled
3 months ago
Reply to  blahblahblah

Efficiency is just as important, no?

Phillips
Phillips
3 months ago

I wonder if there will ever be an innovation in aerodynamics that doesn’t make the bike or rider look more dorky than before. Nice paint on this one to be fair.

Evan
Evan
3 months ago
Reply to  Phillips

to be fair, if you roll up to a local crit in a baggy jersey in 2024, that would look dorky

Tri3Z71
Tri3Z71
3 months ago

Ha Ha Ha!! What a gimmick!

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