At this year's Tour de Italy, legendary Italian rider Vincenzo Nibali announced that he would retire at the end of the 2022 season after the fifth stage. The Tour de Italy, Tour de France and Tour de France triple crown winner has had a fruitful career, not only winning the 2010 Tour de L'Or, 2013/2016 and the 2014 Tour de France, but also being one of the 7 drivers who have won the three major Tour de France in history. In addition to the Grand Tour, Nibali's classical ability is also outstanding, having won the 2015/2017 Tour de Lombardy and the 2018 Milan-Sanremo championship.
This is one of the senior technicians from the Astana team, he brought us the configuration and some details of the Nibali chariot selection, and let's follow the editor to watch how the great professional driver set up his chariot.
Nibali, who plays for astana, used two road models from the Italian brand Wilier, the Pilot SLR and 0 SLR, to provide Nibali with better aerodynamic performance in the flat road stage, and the other to lighten the weight, allowing Niba to conquer the alpine stage.
Vincenzo Nibali is 181 cm tall and uses both road frames with L-sizes. The seat cushion height, width and length of the two road bikes are the same, and the length and width of the handlebar are 110 mm and 420 mm respectively.
Not all professional drivers like to change models during races, but Nibali and the team's other drivers can easily do this because the Ferrante SRL and 0 SLR are almost identical in geometry.
Wilier is designed to make it easier for professional riders to switch from one car to another and adapt quickly.
The Astana team's transmission kit is provided by Shimano, they are all equipped with Dura Ace transmission kits, and they also use the new 9200 series transmission system with 9100p gear plate like most teams.
This is not a special technical setting, but because the current scarcity of parts in the bicycle industry also affects professional riders. "The compatibility of this setting is not perfect, but excellent performance can also be guaranteed by frequent chain changes, and drivers usually need to change the chain once every 7-10 days," said the team technician. ”
Nibali used a standard disc with a size of 53-39T, and the length of the crank was 172.5 mm.
Nibali used an 11-30T flywheel in most stages, but in the alpine stage, Nibali did not want to change the specifications of the tooth disc, but chose the 11-34T flywheel.
Speaking of flywheels, Astana bikes are still equipped with the CerramicSpeed large guide wheel system and the CerramicSpeed five-way center shaft.
In terms of wheels, Nibali also alternates two types of wheels according to different stages, namely Corima WS47 (1530 grams), which is used for road stages, and WS32 (1420 grams), which is used in alpine stages.
In terms of tires, he, like the rest of the team, used 26 mm Vittoria Corsa graphene tube tires, and the tire pressure was basically set between 100-120 psi.
As is customary, road bikes usually use discs of two sizes, with a 160 mm size on the front and 140 mm on the rear. This is also a specification used by almost all teams and drivers, which makes it easy to change wheels with teammates in the event of an emergency.
For other accessories, the Nibali car is fitted with two Tacx water bottle holders, Prologo Scratch M5 seat cushions, Look Keo Blade carbon ceramic lock pedals and K-Edge chronograph brackets.
The Wilier 0 SLR road car weighs 7.09 kg with Corima WS 47 wheels. If you use the WS32 with a 32 mm frame height, you can reduce the weight to less than 7 kg.
The Filante SLR road bike with Corima WS 47 wheels weighs about 7.2 kg.
The rubber sleeve used to fix the timing chip is likely to be a Michelin latex inner tube.
With all the options for the Nebali chariot, the 37-year-old veteran used messina (Nibali's hometown), the finish line of Stage 5 of the Tour of Italy, to announce his farewell to cycling with all his fans and fathers, which is where he began and where he declared his end.
Edit: Yao