Stannard’s Sky ride for the Classics,
Team Sky’s Classics specialist has a wheel-change friendly machine for 2018
At the Challenge Majorca in January we photographed what looked to be a new rim-brake version of the Pinarello Dogma K10S, ridden by Sky’s Ian Stannard.
When it was unveiled last summer, the big news about the updated version of Pinarello’s endurance race bike was that the formerly ‘dumb’ elastomer suspension spring in the seatstay wishbone — DDS 1.0 — had now become EDDS 2.0, the first smart suspension for road bikes. And it was launched as a disconly frameset.
But with disc brakes still not used by the majority of the pro peloton, Pinarello has now added a direct-mount rimbrake version of the K10S which will make wheel changes — a fact of life in the cobbled Classics — much faster. Indeed, a puncture scuppered Stannard’s chances in last year’s Paris-roubaix.
Pinarello collaborated with Hiride on a sophisticated system that uses gyroscopes and accelerometers mounted in the seat tube to lock and unlock the suspension automatically according to road surface. It can be manually overridden via an HMI (human machine interface) on the down tube, part of Pinarello’s E-link port which also includes the Di2 junction box. And it also pairs with the rider’s Garmin head unit.
Stannard, 30, was one of the original test pilots of the new EDDS 2.0 suspension system, having first trialled it at the Scheldeprijs last April fitted to the earlier version of Pinarello’s endurance race bike, the K8-S.