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<p> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Lora;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-transform:none;float:none;font-weight:400;color:#202020;font-style:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;display:inline !important;letter-spacing:normal;background-color:#ffffff;text-indent:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Lora;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-transform:none;float:none;font-weight:400;color:#202020;font-style:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;display:inline !important;letter-spacing:normal;background-color:#ffffff;text-indent:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;font-family:Lora;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-transform:none;font-weight:400;color:#202020;font-style:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;letter-spacing:normal;background-color:#ffffff;text-indent:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">&nbsp; </p> <img alt="" src="http://www.bearing.com.cn/membcentre/editor/attached/image/20190128/20190128143720_88804.jpg" /> <p> <span style="font-family:Arial;">This is the bike Tom Pidcock rode to his first British elite men’s cyclocross title at Kent’s Cyclopark earlier this month.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">To be more specific, this is the bike on which Pidcock, 19, started his medal-winning ride. His TP Racing team whisked away the one he crossed the line on, probably because it was fitted with the as-yet-unlaunched 12-speed SRAM Red eTap 1x groupset. According to the mechanics, the bike had “prototype bits” on it that couldn’t be photographed.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">Pidcock’s custom paintjob celebrates his Under-23 European Championship win: on January 13, he was awarded the British under-23 title in addition to the elite crown.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">The conditions around the Cyclopark lap were very mixed. Pidcock started on the Challenge Chicane tyres fitted to this bike, which have a file tread in the centre for straight-line speed and knobbles at the shoulder for cornering and climbing. He used a relatively low pressure for extra grip.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">However, noticing that riders were puncturing on the rocks and stones that were starting to protrude through the mud, he ran a grippier Grifo tyre with a high pressure when he changed to the eTap bike. It was a tactic that paid dividends: he crossed the line over a minute clear.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">Nikki Brammeier won the elite women’s title on the same day, also riding a Specialized S-Works Crux.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">Spec</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">Tyres: Pidcock started on Challenge Chicane Pro tubular tyres on Vision wheels, withthe ‘Seta Extra’ legend on the sidewall indicating that these top-quality handmade tyres have a silk casing.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">Ceramic bearings: Although Pidcock’s groupset and FSA/Vision finishing kit were all bog-standard components, all the steel bearings in the bike had been upgraded to super-smooth, lighter CeramicSpeed ones.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">Chainset: Pidcock ran a 44-tooth chainring on this SRAM Force 1 chainset. He was climbing in a high gear, though making it look very easy, and the numbers added up: he was lapping the fastest of any rider all weekend. The pedals are top-of-the-range Ritchey WCS XC with a polish satin Ti finish.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">Paintjob marks the birth of a new cycling star.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">Ceramic bearings cut friction to the bare minimum.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">SRAM Force 1 chainset with 44-tooth chainring.</span><br /> <span style="font-family:Arial;">Challenge Chicane Pro tubs are the silk-casing variety.</span> </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> <p> <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;">&nbsp;</span> </p> </span></span> <p> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Lora;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-transform:none;float:none;font-weight:400;color:#202020;font-style:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;display:inline !important;letter-spacing:normal;background-color:#ffffff;text-indent:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;font-family:Lora;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-transform:none;font-weight:400;color:#202020;font-style:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;letter-spacing:normal;background-color:#ffffff;text-indent:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">&nbsp; </p> <p> <br /> </p> </span>