The Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Cube Litenings almost look black, but in the right light you can see they are a special TE team edition with a translucent blue finish that reveals the C:68X carbon layup underneath.Īfter earning the white Maglia Bianca jersey behind MvdP in pink, Girmaye raced the Stage 2 time trial on his CUBE Aerium TT C:68. The team bikes are all fitted with Cube’s own one-piece carbon bar+stem cockpit with fully internal cable routing, and a direct out-front mount for their Bryton GPS computers. Wheels are wrapped with Continental GP 500 S TR tubeless tires.īut the easiest way to pick out Girmaye’s bike is always the stealth black logos on the lightly deeper Newmen Streem Advanced SL R.65 wheels. The Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert team all run Newmen Streem deep aero carbon wheels – mostly the upcoming 50mm deep Advanced SL R.50 with giant white logos. Girmaye’s Cube Litening is built up with a full new Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 groupset with the new 140mm rotors, but sticks with the previous generation integrated powermeter cranks. In a surely wild rollercoaster of fortunes & emotions, Girmay was accidentally struck in the eye by his own champagne cork at the podium celebration, needing medical attention and forced to withdraw from the race after becoming the first-ever Black African to win a Grand Tour stage. Update: A couple of weeks later, Girmay beat van der Poel in the head-to-head sprint for the Stage 10 win, with MvdP conceding with a thumbs up with a thumbs up once he realized he just couldn’t catch Girmay. (Somewhat confusingly to me at least, official results & his team also refer to him as Girmay, without the extra E he adds to his name.) This prototype CeramicSpeed Aero OSPW derailleur pulley cage upgrade was what first caught our eyes, after Eritrean pro rider Biniam Girmay Hailu went head-to-head with Mathieu van der Poel in the Stage 1 sprint of the Giro, his first-ever Grand Tour. Compare that to more than 10k€ for many of the bikes in the pro peloton. When it launched, a complete build with Dura-Ace Di2 & deep DT ARC aero carbon wheels sold for just 6500€. Developed by the German bike maker, specifically to give the then Wanty Group team a versatile race bike, it has much of the sleek aerodynamic tech we see in newer bikes now, yet is still surprisingly affordable relatively speaking. The CUBE Litening C:68X of the Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert team at the 2022 Giro d’Italia is the same integrated aero road bike we got an early look at almost three years ago now. CUBE, all photos by Alessandro Volders – CyclingMediaAgency But we wanted to dive more deeply into the bikes themselves, so we reached out to Girmay’s team and sponsors for a full Pro Bike Check… CUBE Litening C:68X SLT TE c. We got an up-close look at the CUBE road bikes of Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert’s Biniam Girmay(e) earlier this week from the Giro d’Italia as they gave us a first detailed look at a prototype CeramicSpeed Aero OSPW derailleur upgrade.
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