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Pinarello Dogma F10 - Sram eTap

Pinarello Dogma F10 - Sram eTap
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The launch of Pinarello's new Dogma F10 sends Team Sky's venerable F8 to the bench and sets an even lighter and stiffer bar for our road machine aspirations. While those baby-blue striped power to weight ratios may not be in the cards for us mere mortals, international governing bodies' commercial availability rules mean that prized ride quality and precise Sram etap wireless electronic shifting is available to everyone with the Dogma F10 Complete Road Bike.

Though the frame angles remain unchanged between model generations, the classic Dogma asymmetry returns in the F10 with a few subtle alterations that produce disproportionate changes. Asymmetry has been a staple tool in Pinarello's arsenal since 2009, and it's a surprisingly simple solution to one of cycling's most essential conundrums. Since the drivetrain is located on one side of the bike, the load created by pedaling isn't uniform across the frameset's left and right hemispheres. The drive side sees the majority of power transfer duties, so by building it up, Pinarello is able to maintain drive stiffness while cutting material on the non-drive side, so lost grams don't translate to lost watts.

Compared to the F8, the F10's asymmetry is technically more pronounced on the top tube, which cheats a bit more to the right, and the seat junction, which sees a slight tweak. Pinarello's tests indicate that these minor adjustments make the frame stiffer and lighter. If they're not solely responsible for the 7% and 6.3% improvements listed above, they're certainly key contributors. Despite those remarkable claims, the changes are hard to detect with the naked eye (hence "technically" above), and the frame's asymmetry is much more apparent in places like the seat stay/seat tube junction.

The F10's enhanced asymmetry give it one of the most immediately recognizable silhouettes in the industry, but those lines aren't just artistry; they're inspired by the Dogma F10's Bolide TT DNA, which surfaces both in its sinuous lines and in myriad, cumulative gains in aerodynamics. These gains start where drag starts: at the front dropout. While designing the Bolide TT, Pinarello's wind tunnel tests indicated that the introduction of a quick-release lever causes a disproportionate gain in drag. This is addressed through the addition of a ForkFlap, which is a somewhat inelegant term for the extra fin of material Pinarello tucks behind the quick-release lever.

Naming convention aside, Pinarello's subsequent testing found that the fork flap reduced drag on the Bolide fork by 10%, and the brand reasons that adding it to the less-aerodynamic Dogma makes for even greater drag reduction. That's not to say that the original fork design is slow, but is an indication of Pinarello's R&D ethos. It's an obsessively minute detail to focus on, but the Italian brand's reputation is built on obsessing over minute details in order to exploit every possible marginal gain.

This focus extends to the F10's down tube, which was designed to reduce drag on its own and to serve as a shield for the trailing bottles and seat tube, reducing the net drag of the frame's entire main triangle by 12.6% when compared with the already impressive gains made by the F8. Securing these gains involved a complete reimagining of the down tube, but the key contributor is a newly introduced concavity in the back of the down tube under below the bottle cage bosses. By scooping this section out, Pinarello found that the frame better controls airflow, reducing the turbulent wake that results in drag. Like the F8, the F10 also boosts bidon aerodynamics by lowering the rear cage, which the brand credits with part of the F8's overall 47% reduction in drag when compared with the Dogma 65.1.

These reductions come in addition to the aerodynamic gains already enjoyed by the Dogma F8, which is itself more aerodynamic than the 65.1 that Wiggins and Froome both rode to Tour victories. The key to these gains lies in the tubes' FlatBack profile. As we've laboriously detailed elsewhere, this shape is the brainchild of another Italian/British collaboration: Pinarello and Jaguar. FlatBack is an apt description, as a cross-section reveals an ovalized face paired with an abruptly truncated back half. This manages the detachment of turbulent lamina at multiple yaw angles, reducing the drag effect of dead air in the tubes' wake.

Given that the F8's material composition essentially defines the current zenith of carbon fiber technology, it's no surprise that Pinarello sticks with the same materials for the F10. The carbon itself is provided by another proven industry partner, the renowned carbon geniuses at Toray, whose Japanese factory produces arguably the most consistent, highest quality, and most reliable carbon composite in the world. By taking advantage of Toray's composite expertise, the Dogma F10 builds on its predecessor's reputation as one of the stiffest and lightest all-purpose race bikes we've ever ridden. It owes its superlative quality to a combination of a super-stiff base carbon, T1100G Dream Carbon reinforcement, and NanoFlex impact-diffusion technology.

Lower weight and higher stiffness often mean an unfortunate amount of road noise and bumps travel straight up the seat stays and into the saddle; however, the F10—as the F8 before it—addresses this tendency by rerouting the seatstays to connect below the seat junction and incorporating the traditional Pinarello wave. The repositioning sends road noise and bumps into the main triangle, and that slight curve adds engineered flex to further diffuse fatiguing chatter.

Specs

Frame Toray T1100 1K Dream Carbon Fiber
Fork Onda - Toray T1100 1K Dream Carbon Fiber
Rims/Wheels Zipp 404 Tubular
Tires Schwalbe one 700 x 25 Tubular Tire
Crankset Sram Red
Chainwheel 53/39
Front Derailleur Sram Red eTap
Rear Derailleur Sram Red eTap
Rear Cogs Sram Red 11-26
Shifters Sram Red eTap
Handlebars Zipp SL70 Aero
Brakes Sram Red
Saddle Fizik Arione

* Subject to change without notice.

Part Numbers

Option MPN Store SKU
Red Magma / 53cm PIN33895091M PIN33895091M

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