Team Ineos And Mercedes AMG


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Just the start dipping their toes into cycling.Nothing innovative on this model, but what is going on behind the scenes is what interests me.

Mercedes AMG Formula One is not just a team that builds and develops racing cars but has a hand in many other side line ventures today. They have the cream of the crop when it comes to engineers and they have the machinery to back them up.

Team Ineos has become a major sponsor to the Formula One team and it is more than just that though. I have mentioned before how Mercedes has helped with the cycling and sailing team. They have so much to offer plus the sports scientists who do the planning required to achieve success.


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The knowledge they have regarding various metals and composites will make them develop something that has never been thought of before.

A specialist team like Mercedes AMG will no doubt be the bike provider in the years to come and this bike introduced this week is just the starting point. This is a low budget bike compared to what the team uses but this is the starting point and I am almost certain they are already months down the line developing bikes for Team Ineos.

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The Dogma is their current Pinarello bike.

We all saw what the engineers were able to achieve with the ventilators over a short period of time for the NHS so developing a high end sports bicycle designed for making a difference will be right up their alley.

The Formula One teams will be using materials that the bike manufacturers will not be using and this will create the advantages out on the road that Ineos require. The owner of Ineos is a multi billionaire and innovation is in his blood. This was the reason for Ineos to partner with Mercedes all along and develop an advantage that the other teams don't have.


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I think what is interesting about this bike is it shows disc breaks and not the latest innovations. This is where Mercedes and Ineos will revolutionize what we know now. I expect them to be looking at the Shimano gears and adapting the steel to something lighter and stronger.

If you are a professional racing team having the best of what you can is what you should be striving for. Mercedes have shown with the people they have what they can do on the race track with a car so I expect the same with their bicycles. The other professional teams will not have what Ineos has and that is a dedicated tam that is better than everyone else working for them. The $20 Million that they pay for sponsorship on the racing car looks like a bargain for what they are getting now.

Ineos will get to sit with the elite brains regarding aero design,composite materials and what comes out the other end will be better,stronger and more reliable than anything we have seen yet. This is going to take bicycle racing to a whole new level and all the other teams can do is sit back and watch. In all fairness they are helpless as not knowing what materials are being used from the outset they will be way behind.

I don't expect the current Pinarello sponsorship to go much further into the future and is only a matter of time before Ineos are producing their own bike in house with Mercedes AMG Formula One.If I was a bike manufacturer I would be seriously worried what is going to come out of this partnership.



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i wonder how many thousands and thousands of dollars one of these will cost? likely as much as i am prepared to spend on a 2nd hand car.

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The cheap model is $6000 and expect by the time they finish the teams new bike it will be 10 x more expensive. I don't see them ever being sold though as competitors would love to get their hands on one of those bikes.

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that's kind of exactly what i just speculated about. haha. it's for people much richer than me!

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I find it mind boggling that people are riding around on something that could be the price of a car. In some countries you could probably even buy a house. Maybe a crappy one but still something though.

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