With the Ironman world champs less than a week away, BMC has presented its new, completely redesigned Timemachine in Hawaii. The big sell is that this new bike puts triathletes first, but the thing we’ve noticed is that it resists the current vogue for radical tri bike designs that stick fairings and side panels on every surface.
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There are two new bikes here, the Timemachine 01 and Timemachine 02, with the former getting a tri-specific “V-Cockpit”, while the latter has a more traditional cockpit.
What is a V-Cockpit, you ask? Well BMC says it offers optimal aero performance for taller pad stack dimensions, and the forward-offset “promotes vertical compliance”, to deliver both performance and comfort on the bike leg of a triathlon.
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BMC’s Mart Otten says that for the new Timemachine, the bike brand “gave priority to triathletes”. He adds: “We are looking forward to seeing this new aero machine break some Ironman and middle distance triathlon records!”.
Time triallists aren’t forgotten, though: the ‘Flat-Cockpit’ available on the Timemachine 01 lets riders set the lowest possible pad stack configurations, and it can be made UCI-legal simply by changing the seat post to the rear-mount option. The Timemachine 02 is UCI-legal as standard.
BMC Timemachine 01 and 02: spec and pricing
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