Is BMC’s new Teammachine R “the ultimate race bike”?
Swiss brand has worked with Red Bull Advanced Technologies on design that’s intended to balance weight, aerodynamics and power transfer – BMC’s entry in the “one bike to rule them all” genreBMC has officially launched the new Teammachine R “all-purpose race weapon”, developed with Red Bull Advanced Technologies and intended to balance weight, aerodynamics and power transfer.
“The ultra-wide parallel fork legs are unlike anything else in the peloton,” says BMC. That’s true. The width isn’t up there with that of the fork on the“When rotating at speed, the front wheel produces a significant amount of turbulent air,” says BMC. “We increased the inner fork spacing to allow that turbulent air to be shuttered away from the frame and reduce aero stall. The result is cleaner air that hugs the frame longer resulting in a significant drag reduction.
“Borrowing lessons we learned from the Speedmachine, we expanded the horizontal profile in key locations like the head tube, bottom bracket, and seatstay junction. The resulting shapes not only look fast but enable the Teammachine R to respond more effectively across a wider range of yaw angles.”The bike features proprietary bottle cages – something we’ve seen on Giant’s latest Propel aero road bikes, for example, as well as on BMC’s existing Timemachine Road, for a claimed aero benefit.
“We took feedback from our professional riders and team mechanics and engineered an entirely new seatpost clamp mechanism that is more accessible, easier to adjust, and a breeze to maintain,” says BMC. One other area that BMC is keen to talk about is rider feel, by which it means “a connection between rider and bike leads to better predictability and handling, and more confidence when racing”.
Whereas the seat tube angle is 73.5° across the board on the Teammachine SLR, it’s from 73° to 74° on the Teammachine R, depending on the frame size. Apart from that, the stack height is 2mm lower on the Teammachine R and the reach is 1mm longer on most sizes – so minor differences. “When aerodynamics becomes the focus, this is where Teammachine R comes in. The Teammachine R took race proven geometry formula and added an aerodynamic revolution, adapting it to modern racing, for a huge variety of racing parcours and rider types; making it the fastest race bike we have ever created.”
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